Tuesday was the first official studio meeting. It's always best to jump right in, so after briefly discussing the syllabus and first assignment I did a Digital Project demo on the interface and 2D sketches. The first project (3 weeks) asks the students to take a case study tower project and uncover a series of rules that inform the massing, organization, or space. This will drive the skill building from the technology side, introduce the concepts of formal rules, and introduce some of the basics for the design of a tower.
Once the demo was complete we headed over to the CAVE to get an orientation on the use and set-up for the virtual reality component of the studio. Ted did a great job of welcoming us and giving us the run down. We were also able to try out two of the demos that they use to explain the capabilities of the technology. One at a time we put on the motion tracking glasses and over sized slippers and shuffled our way through the immersive environments.
The list of the case study projects are:
Bundle Towers - FOA - NYC
World Trade Center - United Architects - NYC
Sears Tower - SOM - Chicago
Hancock Tower - SOM - Chicago
NY Times - Piano - NYC
Swiss Re - Foster - London
Commerzbank Tower - Foster - Frankfurt
CCTV - OMA - Beijing
Segrams Building - Mies - NYC
Spire - Calatrava - Chicago
Aqua - Studio Gang - Chicago
Federal Building - Morphosis - San Francisco
Burj Khalifa - SOM - Dubai
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