BS724 NATURE-INFORMED COMPUTATIONAL DESIGN IN ARCHITECTURE

Course Objectives

the students are expected to acquire

- the knowledge on nature-informed architectural design methodology

- the understanding of newly developing multi/inter/transdisciplinary research studies

- the skills to develop their own critical point of view on nature-informed design

- the perspective on the relationship between architecture and the other rapidly developing areas such as computational design, fabrication technologies, biomimetics, and even artificial intelligence

Course Content

This is an experimental computational design research couese. This course outlines the basic knowledge on nature-informed computational design which is a rapidly developing approach not only in architecture but in many disciplines. In this course along with many well-known approaches, some of the significant examples will be studied in the context of data and act of modelling which are the state-of-art discussions of the computational design today. By conducting a hands-on project and providing a research paper on project, it is aimed to enable students to obtain not only the targeted knowledge and skills, but also the critical point of view to the field.

Course Learning Outcomes

at the end of the course students will be able to:

- follow up state of art innovative design research focusing on the information retrieved from nature.

- develop their own approach to transfer information from a natural being into a portion of architecture

- use computational thinking approach on understanding and modeling various data in nature

- conduct modeling process via the computational design tools supports the act of information transfer

- design the process of a nature-informed research

- present their own approach visually and verbally.