THINKING THE FOURTH DIMENSION The E4d Design Series and the Education of Digital Design Skills
The e4d design series is looking for new aspects of digital technology in the education of Digital Architecture approaches-overcoming the gap between the development of architectural and the necessary digital skills. Digital Design approaches using the full variety of multimedia technology, the parallelism and crossover of analogue and digital techniques, 3d-modelling, rapid-prototyping and visualization tools and finally the presentation in artistic movies or websites are characteristic for the e4d design method. This method was refined during several design projects within the last two years. A problem based design method was developed, that enabled students to learn digital and architectural skills simultaneously in an efficient manner. The educational concept of the design approach consisted generally of four steps, which are independent fro each other in an educational sense, but determined in questions of the ongoing design process. The first step consists of an abstract or subjective research phase for the students which gave all participants an atmospheric and/or conceptual idea of the project. Within the following phase, called Transformation, parts of the findings are transferred into spatial or dynamic structures. Later on the detected atmospheric and organizational qualities are used to develop a given building program towards a specific solution. In the last step the different traces are interconnected, when site specific parameters are blended with the found design traces. The implementations of digital and analogue mock-ups, as well as the evaluation in Virtual Reality environments and the creation of scenic animations were crucial for the projects aim to teach the students a new way of design with the help of digital techniques. The precise use of different kinds of media for the projects visualization, text and image oriented design approaches, as well as the way the architectural projects could be discussed have been examined. We like to share our insights concerning a competent monitoring of the digital architectural process, looking for innovative and efficient design strategies and wish to discuss the projects outcomes in architectural as well as pedagogical aspect.
Martin Tamke Olaf Kobiella
CITA-Centre for IT and Architecture Royal Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture Copenhagen ma Institute for Theory and Design in Architecture Technical University of Braunschweig
国际会议
南京
英文
128-138
2007-04-19（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）