FLEXIBLE 3D MODELLING
for Design and Prototyping
University wide elective | Technology + Communications Seminar



SIAL Team:
    Jane Burry


Co-ordinator: Jane Burry

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The aim of this course is to give students from diverse disciplines expertise in creating flexible (associative geometric) computer models for design and linking these to physical modelling and prototyping. This will be achieved through skills-based instruction and hands-on project-based learning with an introduction to DIGITAL PROJECT parametric engineering design software. It will serve undergraduates in areas of study including but not exclusive to architecture, design, engineering, jewellery, textiles, new media as well as postgraduates starting study and design practitioners seeking professional development. It introduces an approach to modelling that can be applied in design studio, postgraduate project work and professional practice.

The course is divided into two component parts. In the first, each session will combine a relevant lecture/presentation with a hands-on exercise that demonstrates the main principles involved in associative geometrical modelling. The exercises are conceived progressively to expand participants’ mastery. The second component is dedicated to tutorial and seminar support for individual project-based work shared regularly within the class. There will be opportunities to generate physical prototypes using rapid prototyping and traditional modelling techniques. Projects will be reviewed in class as the principal basis for assessment.


Location: Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory *
Enrolment codes: INTE 2108 (undergraduates), INTE 2107 (postgraduates)



Dates + times: Wednesday mornings | 9.30am - 12.30pm first semester 2008
Introduction: Wednesday 5th JMarch

Lectures: Wednesday Mornings 9.30am SIAL space Building 9* 

Tutorial sessions: 10.30am- 12.30pm SIAL building 8 undergraduate lab,  level 8 room 44.



NOTES
*(Building 9, Level 2, Room 52. Up the stairs and follow the signs. There is secure entry- please ring the bell if the door is unattended.)

(images: Gaudí’s Sagrada Família Church + 2004 PARAmetric design course: Tatu Parsinnen, Mark Di Bartolo)