Self Assembly of Building Scale Elements Design Studio NC tools New Design Languages Prof Larry Sass Jennifer Seely Department of Architecture and Planning MIT 21 Century of Architecture Architects will design and build Non Euclidian Space Change the way architects are taught Studio Change Tools NC Embedded knowledge or rule into building components 20 Century Euclidian Design Lever House NYC 1952 1 Mass manufacturing 2 Multiple components of the same size or geometry 3 Relationship of drawings to manual construction 4 Adjustments can be made during construction 21 Century Frank Gehry Stata Center Non Euclidian Design 1 High Cost 2 Precise Machinery to Build Construct 3 Precise Machinery to Design A New Design Studio Computation and Precise Tools 90s William Mitchell B Numerically Controlled Machinery NC 00s MIT Servo Lab 1952 Computer Aided Design Project 1963 MIT Program Machine Control Unit Processing Equipment CAD COMPUTER NC C Embedded knowledge or rule into building components Self Assembling Building Components c cut sheet 10 9 b Relationship to reality division of surface and components b construction file assembly methods a design file a a b distance g g x real distance Eif Form Kristi Shea All Nodes are different 21 Century of Architecture Using Precise Tools Non Euclidian Design can happen in the Studio Studio NC Embedded Knowledge
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