Description
This seminar will investigate three fundamental paradigms in architecture: surface, structure, and
volume through a specific lens of thickened figures. Historically, ornament has been understood as flat
or nearly flat ornaments adored to forms to create detail. In todays world with the rapid ability of 3D
printed to blend the gap between ornament and form, patterns have become the structure that they
once adorned, in that it is possible for it to possesses an amazing balance of structural exuberance with
detailed ornamentation. We will begin by studying surface and its relationship to volume, as its integral
element of this specific architectural construction. We will study its geometry and proportions in order to
model it parametrically. The seminar is less interested in a 2-D graphic patterning of the skin but more
interested in a ?external? skin, one that incorporates three-dimensional patterns, as well as structure that
moves from being purely indexical of its load paths t