Design of Complex Buildings with Digital Fab Tools

1. Design of ComplexBuildings withDigital Fab Tools Design Studio, Rapid Prototyping & New Design Languages Prof. Larry Sass Jennifer Seely Department of Architecture and Planning MIT

2. Lever House – NYC 1952 • Mass manufacturing parts • Multiple components of the same size or geometry • Relationship of drawings to manual construction 20 Century Standard Design

3. Frank Gehry • Stata Center • Increased Building Complexity • High Cost to Build and Design • No Rapid Prototyping tools were used in the design process 21 Century Non Standard Design; Complexity

4. Rapid Prototyping + Creative Design MIT Studios NC CAD COMPUTER

5. Two Transformations in the Design Process 1) Creative design with RP devices in studio – Teaching Design for complexity through generative methods in computing 2) Embedded knowledge into building components Function, behavior and structure into each component

6. Background George Stiny – Shape Grammars & Rule Based Design 1975 John Gero – Agent Based Design 1980 Branko Kolaveric – Digital Fabrication 1995

7. 1 • [ Generative Methods of Design ] • CBA Student • Yanni Loukissas

11. Generative Design Process The creative process is a generative process

13. 2 • [ Embedded knowledge or rule into building components ] • CBA – Jen Seely • UROP – Sarah Hudson

19. Eif Form Kristi Shea – Cambridge University [ All Nodes are different ]

21. Modella Milling

23. 21 Century of Architecture Design Creativity using Rapid Prototyping Devices in Studio [Studio] [Rapid Prototyping ] [Embedded Knowledge]