The future is unknowable. So how can we design buildings for the future? Agile Prototyping is a methodology for designing building systems in the future.
Design in the future requires the synthesis of meta disciplinary systems from diverse disciplinary needs with [uncertain]ty. This requires an agile, fast and robust approach to; model, adapt and redesign building systems and products.
This course provides the ‘future tools’ to enable participants to design ‘in the future’. The focus of the course is to support participants to model, design and analyse building systems, fast, in the near, mid and far future scenario that they define. In the course, students extend their perspective of the present towards Elise Boulding’s idea of a 200 year present. Working in groups, they:
- forecast a near, mid and far future
- identify the requirements of this future on our building systems.
- Reverse engineer existing building systems
- Re engineer those systems to their proposed futures.
The Agile Prototyping methodology synthesises:
- agile design processes
- computational design
- biomimetics / Morphogenetic Prototyping
- future forecasting
The course provides participants with a future focused design, analysis and modelling skills in architectural engineering. Agile Prototyping applies a biological science lens to the built environment to extract and modify the ‘genes’ of the built environment. This enable future architectural engineers to hack the pseudo genetic code of our built environment for the fast (re)design and analysis of our built environment. This year we have four exciting projects that you can contribute to this semester.