Master's Degree in Advanced Design and Digital Architecture

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1 MASTER AND POSTGRADUATE PROGRAMMES Master's Degree in Advanced Design and Digital Architecture Structure SPACE DESIGN AND ARCHITECTURE Systems Environment Materials Interaction PARA-Site // Andrés Dejanon and Francisco Tabanera

2 MASTER'S DEGREE IN ADVANCED DESIGN AND DIGITAL ARCHITECTURE Bio Design Laboratory Start date: September ECTS Credits: 60 Language: English Qualification: Master's Degree in Advanced Design and Digital Architecture. Bio Design Laboratory, degree awarded by Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) and ELISAVA Barcelona School of Design and Engineering. Schedule: Magistral classes: Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, from 5 to 9.15 p.m. Optional class digital interfaces: Wednesday, from 5 to 9.15 p.m. Use of facilities and workshop: all week from 9:00 a.m. to 9:15 p.m. Course leader JORDI TRUCO Jordi Truco is a graduate architect from Escola Tecnica Superior d Arquitectura de Barcelona ETSAB, and Partner at HYBRIDa. In 2003 he received the MAarch Distinction in Emergent Technologies and Design at The Architectural Association of London AA. UK. He is also the recipient of the first price of the Royal Academy of the Arts of London in Architecture, students category, From 2004 to 2007 he has been teaching at the Master s Degree of Biodigital Architecture at ESARQ, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya. During 2006, he has been visiting instructor of the Advanced Design Studio at PRATT School of Architecture in New York. USA. In 2007, he has directed the Simposium Internacional d Arquitectura Emergent SIMAE. From 2009 to 2011 he has been lecturing and giving workshops at Hyperbody Research Group, TU Delft. In 2011, he held the Esherick Visiting Professor Chare at the College for Environmental Design of the University of Berkeley, California. Since 2011 he has been contributing regularly at Emergent Technologies and Design MAarch, at the Architectural Association as a lecturer, assisting to Thesis Final Reviews and giving desk critiques. In 2012, he has been hired at CIMNE, International Center for Numerical Methods in Engineering to coordinate (along with Sylvia Felipe, Partner at HYBRIDa) the seventh European programme, Capacities HYPERMEMBRANE. Since 2008 he is the director of ADDA, Master s Degree in Advanced Design and Digital Architecture at ELISAVA Barcelona School of Design and Engineering, Pompeu Fabra University. Aimed at Graduates in architecture, engineering, industrial design, interior design, and product design, artists working in various media, landscapers. Net Presentation There is growing interest in finding guidelines in living systems to help us understand new forms of designing. On occasion, this interest makes the mistake of wishing to imbue designs with a veneer of new organic ways, imitating natural forms, perhaps unconsciously aided by the incredible digital modeling resources we are increasingly able to master. This could not be further from our intentions at the BioDesign laboratory (ADDA). We focus our interest on observing how biological organisms achieve complex emergent structures from simple components. The structures and forms generated by natural systems are analyzed and understood as hierarchical organizations of very simple components (from the smallest to the largest), in which the properties arising in an emergent manner are rather more than the sum of the parts. In our constantly developing society, with its demanding market, the use of new production technologies in fields such as engineering is becoming more frequent, and research is conducted to create state-of-the-art materials, such as composites, which open up new possibilities of use and performance, and contain the logic of living materials. In the field of architecture, even more rightly, we are forced to regain this sensitivity in observation and research, and learn the lesson of nature on the act of formalizing and metabolizing. Our objective is to learn and explore this knowledge to then transfer it and apply it to the design process of architecture and spaces. Perhaps all this leads us to reflect on the issues to be addressed by contemporary architecture. Should a building be a static object - rigid and airtight - with var ious gadgets for controlling light, sound and tempera ture? Or should it rather be an articulated system, ca pable of constantly interacting with its environment and somehow receiving information which it then reprocesses to respond to this stimulus in a process of self-adjustment? In other words, should a building be an open, dynamic, living system instead? And also, should the act of design be based on a static idea or rather should be a iterative computational process that by inductive method can measure and produce many different formal and programmatic answers to the same problem, selecting at the end the best of the multiple variations. We will plunge into all these issues to learn, develop and innovate in a new way of doing architecture. Syllabus MODULE_1. MATERIAL TECHNOLOGIES Unit 1.1 Seminar: BIG FABRICATION/ Manufacturing diversity As we already have pointed above, in our constantly developing society, with its demanding market, the use of new production technologies in fields such as engineering is becoming more frequent, and research is conducted to create state-of-the-art materials, such as composites, which open up new possibilities of use and performance, and contain the logic of living materials. On the other hand in the field of the product design, automation industry, and aircraft industry it is common designing and producing complex geometries, and products totally reliable for market uses. Nowadays the digital fabrication processes allow us producing a remarkable amount of assembling differentiated pieces without the need of mass production to achieve a reasonable cost. 2 - ELISAVA - Master in Advanced Design and Digital Architecture

3 Unit 1.2 Seminar: BIOMIMETICS/Emergence in natural systems With a series of lectures by relevant designers, researchers and theoreticians the seminar will focus its interest on observing how biological organisms achieve complex emergent structures from simple components. The structures and forms generated by natural systems are analyzed and understood as hierarchical organizations of very simple components (from the smallest to the largest), in which the properties arising in an emergent manner are rather more than the sum of the parts. MODULE_2. GENETIC VERSUS GENERATIVE Unit 2.1Seminar: DESIGN AND COMPUTATION Since the Modern Movement began to fade away, which happened at the same time as markedly stylistic historicist revisions, architectural theory has shown great interest in positivist design methodologies. Studies of architectural complexity and dynamic systems have stirred renewed interest in networks, bottom-up methods, adaptive systems, genetics and the automatic creation of form as the fundamentals of a new generation of design techniques. Furthermore, the universalization of digital technologies in the last decade has made it possible, once and for all, to make the necessary verifications and produce clear results of all this research. MODULE_3. BIODESIGN LAB Unit 3.1 Workshop: INTEGRAL ENVELOPES The aim of the studio is to explore an integral design approach towards multi-performative material system. The current practice of architecture typically tends to address different performance criteria with the articulation of mono-functional systems and subsystems in hierarchical orders, such as a primary structural system, a secondary skin as a climatic threshold, a tertiary system as a light filter, etc. In this research process, we work by experimenting and learning from the material, applying the various techniques of form finding. This new approach to the creation spaces through knowledge of material, and of its intelligent behavior, complemented by the use of parametric software and advanced modeling, will enable us to produce designs that are not only totally innovative in material, form and behavior, but also able to adapt to their environment. In short, we will learn that the limit between natural and artificial (or man-made) has been reconsidered from the perspective of biomimetic. Unit 3.2 Workshop: RESPONSIVE ENVIRONEMENTS The goal of that workshop is learning to think designs we're going to produce as a live systems able to react to an alive environment, adapting to it. In that way it will be possible to imagine and design systems that feel, observe, listen, react, learn or interact. That design process implies to learn to communicate physical systems. Students will be taught to use sensors, to take data on the environment, how to process the data using microcontrollers and how to translate the processed data to the actuators that take part of the active system. This course will introduce basics of electronics and programming, learning to work with sensors and actuators, and will finish with the construction of a prototype. MODULE_4. ADVANCED GEOMETRY STUDIES Unit 4.1 PARAMETRIC SOFTWARE AND PROGRAMMING For designers who are exploring new shapes using generative algorithms, Grasshopper is a graphical algorithm editor tightly integrated with Rhino s 3-D modeling tools. Unlike Rhino Script, Grasshopper requires no knowledge of programming or scripting, but still allows designers to build form generators from the simple to the awe-inspiring. The program presents the creation of complex morphologies by the manipulation of the material properties (design of shapes and spaces) therefore to define this material constrains we will use a parametric software, and we will operate a little programming our routines. Using these digital tools, we will establish our own language for creating shape systems that become architectural and habitable spaces. MODULE_5. TOOLING Unit 5.1 Workshop: DIGITAL FABRICATION LABORATORY The objective of the workshop CADCAM and Rapid Tools is to provide the students with the knowledge to be able to fabricate some of the material produced during the course with digital manufacturing tools. With mentioned tools we want to explore CADCAM properties and results, both visual and tectonic. We know that what is produced today by CADCAM is certainly impressive, but we do not want to lose some critical approach about some of these productions, which are sometimes, from our point of view, too partial and superficial. It is not about producing definitive objects, but the tool CADCAM constantly inform us during the design process. The CADCAM manufacturing should help us to rethink the design process. As a result, we will see what it means mass production of differentiated non standard objects. The course, theoretical and practical, is to introduce students to digital production and the possibilities it offers to designers, both as a platform for testing ideas such as production of final objects. MODULE _6. FINAL PROJECT Unit 6.1 ABIOTIC ARCHITECTURE Based on this line of research and investigation the aim of the course is developing a Radical Innovative Architectonical proposal that will consist on a building or a properly justified and advanced part of it. The program will be a interactive house that dialogues permanently with the environment during its life, therefore reset all transformable elements to compensate and readjust environmental conditions to comfort habitable pre set up conditions. The proposal can be an hybrid system with 90, 80, 70 per cent of adaptable structural membrane and a secondary structure that can focus on other necessities of the building. To sum up, we can say that we are learning to view the architecture that we design as a living system, with the ability to react to an also living environment and adapt to it. Consequently, we can think about designs that feel, observe, listen, react, propose, learn and interact. 3

4 Lecturers Jordi Truco. Architect licensed by ETSAB, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya. MArch Emergent Technologies and Design at Architectural Association. Visiting professor MArch advanced design studio at PRATT. Visiting associate professor MArch at CED UC Berkeley. Marco Verde. Licensed engineer per Universidad de Cagliari. MArch Biodigital Architecture, Esarq UIC. Researcher at Hyperbody Research Group a TUDelft Marcel Bilurbina. Architect licensed by ETSAB, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya. Master en Arts digitals per la Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Roger Paez. Architect licensed by ETSAB, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya. MArch GSAPP, Columbia University. Associate Professor at La Salle school of architecture. Pau de Sola Morales. Architect licensed by ETSAB, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya. PhD Harvard Design School. Associate Professor at Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV). David Lorente Graphic designer. ACTAR-Birkhauser. Gorka de Lecea Architect licensed by ETSAUN/ Universidad de Navarra MArch in Advanced Design and Digital Architecture. ELISAVA / Pompeu Fabra. Marilena Christodoulou Architect livenced by Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. MArch in Advanced Design and Digital Architecture. ELISAVA / Pompeu Fabra. Seminar Lecturers since Today Lluis Ortega. Architect licensed by ETSAB, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya. MArch GSAPP, Columbia University. Profesor Harvard Design School. Neil Leach. Architect and theorist. Professor Brighton University, Regne Unit. Professor at South California School of Architecture. Andrew Kudless. Architect. MArch Emergent Technologies and Design at Architectural Association. Assistant Professor at California College of the Arts CCA. Mike Weinstock. Architect. Head of studies Architectural Association. Director emergent technologies and design Architectural Association, UK. Director technical studies AA. George Geronimides Mechanical Engeneer, Director at center for biomimmetics. Mechanical Engineering school - University of Reading. Mireia Ferrate Architect licensed by ETSAB, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya. Philosopher licensed by UB. Directora RO-Botica. Luis Fraguada. Arquitecte. MArch AA DRL. MArch Iaac Digital Tectonics Achim Menges. Germany. Architect from Technical Universisty of Darmstadt and Architectural Association. Professor at HfG Offenbach University for Art and Design. Professor at Institute of Computational Design. Stuttgart University. Partner at OCEAN NORTH. Sylvia Felipe. Architect from Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya. MArch Emergent technologies and design.architectural Association, UK. Partner and Founder of HYBRIDa. Jérôme Noailly. France. PhD Biomechanics & Mechanobiology. Senior Research Associate. Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia Javier Peña. PhDP, rofessor and head of science and technology at Elisava. Professor at Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña (UPC). Scientific Director of Mater at FAD. Barcelona. Ferran Vizoso. Architect from Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya. Sergi Valverde. Computer Scientist, PhD in Applied Physics Complex Systems Lab. Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Marc Burry. Architect. Professor of innovation at RMIT. Nuria Coll. Product Designer Degree Elisava. Design Academy of Eindhoven, BA in Design University of Southampton. Wolf Mangelsdorf. Germany. Civil Engineer Professor Architectural Association. Director Structural Engineering Buro Happold. 4 - ELISAVA - Master in Advanced Design and Digital Architecture

5 Master s Degree Advanced Design and Digital Architecture Retail Space: Retail Design Interior Design Ephemeral Architecture and Temporary Spaces Set Design Postgraduate Diploma Retail Design. Design and Space: Shopping Retail Design. Design and Concept: Branding Interior Space. Private Perimeters Design of Work Space Set Design Design, Image and Architecture Design of Bars and Restaurants Interior Design for Hotels and New Hostelling Bold category members of Elisava Alumni Association enjoy a 15% reduction. The teaching staff is likely to change according to reasons beyond the course programme. ELISAVA reserves the right to make changes in programming as well as the right to suspend the course two weeks before it starts if not reached the minimum number of participants, without further obligation of the amounts paid by each participant. Master s and Postgraduate Degree programmes schedules can be expanded according to the selected course activities (weekends included). 5

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