Project Example by Teaching Assistant, Mitchell Foo
This repository houses the final projects of student groups in Fundamentals of Computational Design— a course taught at the School of Architecture, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). The Spring 2022 class has been responding to a prompt that began with the design of a spaceframe that is parametrically driven.
One of the requirements of the spaceframe is that it be sited somewhere in the immediate surrounds of the College of Fine Arts on CMU's campus. It must follow the description of a "spaceframe" structure. Students should consider at least one functional program to their pavilion— this could be as simple as an area to read or rest.
Students have begun to think very carefully about the assembly of their spaceframe structure. They are using detail drawings and advanced line-drawing techniques to produce a rigorous set of documents that careful describe the composition and assembly of their structure.
Students are preparing their drawings sets for publication. They have carefully documented their pavilion in its entirety and have begun to also document their digital workflow and files. Finally, students have compiled all the artifacts of their digital workflow— their Grasshopper scripts, 3D models, simulations and digital drawings— into an organized database.
This is a final exercise in computational design to understand contemporary modes of versioning information as well as ways that it can be productively studied and shared.