4.173 Design Fabrication Workshop

1. 4.173 Design Fabrication Workshop Design Systems Prof. Larry Sass Department of Architecture and Planning MIT

2. Systems of Design, Computation& Fabrication Create a build-able system Design System – Construction System

3. Why are design systems important? Work Flow Design is process of explorations (Multiple Representations) Can be a Computational Program Parametric Modeling Generative Algorithms Shape Grammars

4. Can systematic a approach be used in design? Designers create representations of an idea one idea at a time with slight differences between systems? Each statement leads to another statement or will each statement lead to a conclusion in the design process?

5. Pre Rational Norman Foster Andrea Palladio A pre-rational system in design is a design system mapped to a shape or an organized plan.

6. Post RationalGehry GaudiA post rational system is a shape that has been chopped into build-able sections. Each section is its own element in a larger whole.

7. Design Systems Pre Rational Post Rational Computational Design Kit

8. Atomic Systems

9. Fixed Shape Systems

10. Computational Design SystemsSpecific PartsGeneral Parts

11. Evolution of a Pre Rational SystemNorman Foster AssociateSwiss Re Tower 2005 - LondonGLA 2000 – London