Icevectors exercise

Description: IceVectors, was an installation created by students from Architecture 272, an Architectural graphics communication class held Winter quarter 2008 at the Knowlton School of Architecture. IceVectors, shown in the Option Explicit Installation from March 10th to March 29th, was a scripting design experiment used to introduce students to generative computational design techniques. In this case students learned how to control 3D digital software programs that enabled them to control geometries within field potentials. The IceVector experiment succeeded in creating simulated ice formations often found in nature. Option Explicit: Scripting Design Experiments relates form-generating processes through a series of written codes to virtual models and physical objects. In the setting of the 272 graphic seminar parametric design and digital fabrication mutually reinforce each other; the first opening up a field of potentials, the second narrowing down possible solutions by real world constraints. By means numeric evaluation, vector computation and computer controlled fabrication students become editors of parameters, control complex geometries and, ultimately, work towards a non-standard understanding of design. - http://knowlton.osu.edu