Course overview
This course equips learners with essential knowledge and skills for developing and communicating architectural ideas through contemporary digital tools. It will introduce software for digital modelling, visualisation, and rendering, and explain relationship with computer aided manufacturing and fabrication. Learners will develop workflows between 2D and 3D data using a variety of techniques including drawing, photography, 3D scanning, data-modelling, and generative technologies. They will communicate this iterative and reflective process using disciplinary conventions and professional standards of verbal and graphic presentation. This course aligns with the program intent to develop disciplinary knowledge about analogue and digital graphic communication and creative-practice methods.
- Digital Modelling Parametric And Generative Modelling
- Building Information Modelling, Optimisation & Inter-Operability
- Digital Fabrication, Design And Manufacture
Course learning outcomes
- Utilise geometric and spatial concepts effectively to visualise architectural design in digital environments
- Employ a variety of digital modelling, visualisation, and rendering software to communicate design ideas
- Develop a cohesive workflow between 2D and 3D data using conventional and new digital techniques
- Analyse the impact of computer aided design and manufacturing on contemporary architectural practice (illustrating the relationship between digital tools and evolution of new design methodologies)
- Communicate design process through verbal and graphic means using disciplinary conventions and professional standards
Availability
Class details
Adelaide City Campus East
Class number 29016
Section CW01
Size 37
Available 37
Class number 29015
Section CW02
Size 37
Available 37
Class number 29014
Section CW03
Size 37
Available 37
Class number 29013
Section CW04
Size 37
Available 37
Class number 29012
Section CW05
Size 37
Available 36
Class number 27990
Section WS01
Size 20
Available 19
Class number 27989
Section WS02
Size 20
Available 20
Class number 27988
Section WS03
Size 20
Available 20
Class number 29019
Section WS04
Size 6
Available 6
Class number 29018
Section WS05
Size 6
Available 6
Class number 29017
Section WS06
Size 6
Available 6
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