Description
AS3201 Advanced Building Systems-M.Arch 2
This course introduces students to innovative methods of construction, fabrication, structuring and assembly enabled by the advent of new technologies. The class focuses on issues pertaining to structure and its relation to surface and building envelope-with an emphasis on the instrumental and conceptual shift from two-dimensional forms of representation and documentation-to three-dimensional systems based on material performance and force flow simulation and their consequent impact on architecture?s relation to the building industry. Current typologies and specific precedents of architectural realization?and their integration of geometry and ordering systems with systems of construction and assembly?are discussed through a series of lectures, group presentations and individual assignments.