ARC 327R / ARC 386M Seminar
Wed 10:00am – 1:00pm, SUT 3.112
Open to all SOA and non-SOA students
Patrick Danahy: patrick.danahy@austin.utexas.edu
In this seminar course, we will look at advanced digital tools for surveying, documenting, analyzing, representing, and modeling the things around us. This course is composed of three assignments, one for analysis, one for design, and one for fabrication. The projects will start out individually and then students will be asked to work in larger groups as the course goes on to deal with workload distribution and increase in scale. This course works to develop a theoretical vocabulary of architecture in parallel to a design oriented one. Larger themes of the discourse of architecture will be discussed, focusing on how we should design and integrate technology into our fabrication strategies. Speculation and curiosity are integral to the successful delivery of this course material. All required software methods will be taught through a series of technical tutorials held throughout the semester. The contents will include 3D scanning with Reality Capture, advanced mesh modeling and digital sculpting with ZBrush, Rhino NURBs modeling, Keyshot for rendering, and various machine learning methods including ComfyUI's web interface and custom-built Python scripts.