4.511 | Spring 2006 | Graduate

Digital Mock-Up Workshop

Course Description

This is an advanced subject in computer modeling and CAD CAM fabrication, with a focus on building large-scale prototypes and digital mock-ups within a classroom setting. Prototypes and mock-ups are developed with the aid of outside designers, consultants, and fabricators. Field trips and in-depth relationships with …
This is an advanced subject in computer modeling and CAD CAM fabrication, with a focus on building large-scale prototypes and digital mock-ups within a classroom setting. Prototypes and mock-ups are developed with the aid of outside designers, consultants, and fabricators. Field trips and in-depth relationships with building fabricators demonstrate new methods for building design. The class analyzes complex shapes, shape relationships, and curved surfaces fabrication at a macro scale leading to new architectural languages, based on methods of construction.
Learning Resource Types
Design Assignments
Presentation Assignments
Illustration showing the skin of a skyscraper.
The skin of a skyscraper designed through relational modeling. (Image courtesy of Taro Narahara and Kenfield Griffith. Used with permission.)