Summer school STRUCTURAL INTEGRITY

Summer school

STRUCTURAL INTEGRITY – A Computational Design Investigation

BELGIUM/GHENT

https://arch.kuleuven.be/english/studying/going-abroad/summer-schools

Construction is notoriously intense in its use of materials, and architecture holds a key responsibility in its rethinking of material and structural practice.*

The aims of this summer school are to explore the structural behaviour of complex structural systems and integrate this exploration into creative architectural design processes. Firstly, basic concepts of structural systems will be covered through explanations, exercises and experiments. Secondly, an architectural design task will be developed during the course. Students will need to bring a conceptual design and an abstract replicate of their concepts as a Grasshopper model to work further with. A design task will be provided prior to the summerschool. This conceptual
design and its parametric model will be used to anlayze and develop the design further. Karamba plug-in will be used for the analysis. A final conceptual design task will be asked from the students as a follow-up activity. The learning goals are (1) gaining a basic insight in structural systems and (2) integrating the structural knowledge into creative architectural design tasks.

IMPORTANT DATES:

Deadline for application is June, 30

2022-09-04  |  12/09/2022
2024-09-26  |