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The assignment is to create a new "pendant" (hanging) type lighting fixture.

Each of the lights is intended to hang and illuminate the ceiling immediately around it. The design for the light shade should find its language in a specific pattern MODE and STYLE of ornament, and should make immediate reference to the individual characteristics, rules and logic of that style.

Ornamental Styles
- Religious or mythological
- Representational
- Ceremonial
- Cultural
- Historical
- Regional

This fast introduction assignment has two goals:

- First - to promote the research of ornamental styles and give the student a "style guideline" for the rest of the project,

- Second - to give the student their first piece of the design puzzle that will be the main work for the diplomwahlfacharbiet.

Each student will be provided with:

- a socket,
- a lightbulb,
- and electrical cable.
Other materials are to be used at the discretion and cost of the student.
All materials in the milling lab are available subject to approval.

The lights and the patterns of light and shade that they reflect will be used to illuminate designed ornamental ceiling surfaces in the main work of the diplomwahlfach arbeit.

Consideration should be taken upon issues of reflection, shadows, spacing, geometry, position, pattern, direct and indirect lighting.

Deliverables:
1 short presentation
1 functioning "pendant" light.

Presentation Wednesday Feb 09, 1400

Assignment 2 will make a presentation screen for the ornament blocks from the first assignment.
For this project we will attempt to use the Laser cutter at Technopark.
It can cut thin metal sheet, plastic sheet, and thin wood or cardboard.

The final product should display the blocks in a novel, interesting, and appropriate way. The mounting system can take advantage of the windows in the PC lab (143x264 cm) but this is not specifically required.

The goal of this assignment is to demonstrate the possibilities and limitations of this second form of CNC production, and to get you thinking about the act of making 3d strucures out of 2d cuttings. Concepts to explore are folding, bending, perforation, intersections, and of course the final ornamented aesthetic of the project.

Deliverables for Wednesday Dec 8th are drawings, sketches, 3d models, or digital files,... whatever you need to communicate your idea.

The final project will be a group work, and should be able to be produced in one day.

Groups
Design:
Vanessa Borkmann, Christina Ritigelman, Caroline Ting, Jörg Hillesheim

Fabrication:
Felix Siegrist, Johann Reble, Carolina Mojto, Dominique Meier, Jonas Grob

Organization:
Mathias Bernhard, Ingmar Kurtz, Simone Renfer, Anna Flueckiger

The third part of assignment 1 is to begin programming with MEL to create surfaces.

1. Examine the 3 surfaces you have already milled.
2. Identify a “unique characteristic” from the surface:
- a pattern in the layers of plywood
- look for a motif, pattern, or ornamental feature
- a pattern that is a result of the geometry & the material
- some unique identifying aesthetic characteristic that can be used as part of a overall design
3. Analyze the feature and determine how to recreate its geometry or features
4. Experiment with MEL and MAYA to determine how to PROGRAM the characteristics onto a surface
5. Refine your program using logical statements and variables.
6. Turn your script into a PROCEDURE
7. Execute the procedure a number of times to create the final set of surfaces to be milled.
8 Process the surfaces using SurfCAM^?
9 Mill the surfaces.

The goal for this assignment is to make the translation of a modeled surface, into a programmed surface and get you familiar with making a MEL – Procedure.
The final product of the complete assignment 1 (a, b, & c) should be a set 12 milled surfaces. With 9 of the surfaces being generated from a single MEL code.
The surfaces and scripts are DUE for presentation on Dec 1 in the milling lab. At this time each student will also present their MEL script and demonstrate how it works to create the ornamented-milled surfaces.

The second assignment is to process one of your MAYA surfaces and get it ready for the CNC mill.

1. Choose a surface that doesn't have any UNDERCUTS

2. Subdivide the surface IN MAYA using the detach surfaces tool

2. Export the surface to surfCAM

3. Process the surface with both Rough and fine cuts.

3. Post and save the G-code

The goal for this assignment is to get familiar with SurfCAM^? and preparing surface forms for output to the mill.

The final product of the assignment should be a set opf G-code files for the Precix 3 axis CNC mill.

The results from this assignment are DUE for the morning workshop on Nov 3, and are required to proceed on to the third part of the assignment.

The first assignment is to simply get on the MAYA software and try to make some surfaces.
There are 3 specific ways to create a NURBS surface:

1. Create > NURBS Primitives > Plane

2. Create a series of lines or splines, then use the "LOFT" tool to generate a surface


3. Create a set of parallel and connected lines (splines / rails) and use the "BI-RAIL" tool to generate a surface

The goal for this assignment is to get familiar with MAYA and creating surface forms.

The final product of the assignment should be at minimum 3 different surface geometries that have been create using one of each of the above methods.

The results from this assignment are DUE for the morning workshop on Oct 29, and are required to proceed on to the second assignment 1b).

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Assignment 2 : Make_it!

The second assignment is intended to give you the opportunity to develop and execute a mini fabrication project using CAAD and CAM technology.

This assignment is set up as a mini-thesis, where each participant is expected to propose an idea for a design that can be manufactured using the CNC Mill. Each project should address the ideas of programmed design, mass customization, or generative design. The final physically manufactured piece is to be considered a version of the programmed design, and a basic "proof of concept".

The idea for the project should come from an area of design that is conceptually associated with the acts of architecture. such as:
- Industrial Design
- Furniture Design
- Architecture component design
- Art piece

The project should address the technologies of CAAD and CAM and should be seen as a way of "showcasing" these technologies:
- The conceptual object should be "customizable"
- The object should take advantage of the cutting nature of the mill
o Curvilinear
o Non-standard
o Three dimensional
o Solid
o Cutting paths or patterns
- The object should be simple enough to be programmed
- There should be a logical reason WHY one would want to program it

1. 1. Concept proposal
      
   2. Project development
      
   3. Manufacturing
      
   4. Documentation
      
   5. Presentation

The individual proposals should also outline the scope of the deliverables:
- What will the scope of the concept be?
- What will be created digitally?
- What will be manufactured?
- What will be included in the documentation?
- How will the SUCCESS of the project be evaluated?

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Final Presentation
The final presentation (not a critique session) will take place in the ASL-RedHell, Friday July 29 at 14:00

The presentations should be short and should cover the following:
- Your intentions for the piece
- How you fabricated and textured the piece to affect the flow dynamic
- Any issues of connection from the piece before and the piece after yours
- A conclusion statement.

The presentations will occur in the order of the pieces:
1. Michi
2. Stephan
3. Jenny
4. Sylvan
5. Till
6. Lukas
7. Roman
8. Katrin
9. Sabine
10. Mirjam

After the final presentation we will go outside to the installation, and turn on the water.
This will follow with discussions and critique of the pieces under the real flow conditions.

Once the discussions are over there will be a small apero.



Finishing up:

Wednesday
- posting all images onto the server,
- downloading the video to digital files,
- posting the final MAYA surfaces to the server
- work on final presentations

Thursday:
- construction of installation set-up
- construction of sluice box
- final preparation of presentations

- Retrieval trip to Chur for piece pickup.

- De-forming the pieces and piece touchup.

- Installation setup tests
- Testing of sluice box
- Testing of waterflow

Friday:
- setup and installation of FLOWchannel on-site in front of the HIL building.
- Preparation for presentations
- Presentations begin at 14:00


Final Deliverables:
- Complete documentation in the form of a CD case sized booklet, with text, pictures, and credits.
- Complete DATA CD of all work done in the course:
- projects, scripts, MB, MEL, animations, SurfCAM, presentations, images, and any other media.
NOTE: the CD must be well organized for ease of finding data.

The final project for the diplomwhalfacharbeit is to assemble the skills and knowledge to this point and cast a flow channel.

For this assignment the individuals in the course will need to work as a project team, with each person responsible for an inclusive role in the team work, as well as for an individual portion of the project design, fabrication, and installation.

The project is to create a FLOWchannel, as an experimental installation, and example for potential follow on work. The FLOWchannel will be fabricated by casting concrete blocks around milled foam blocks to create the individual components of the courseway. The FLOWchannel will represent a series of building blocks, allowing for the individual design of a FLOWsurface, while bringing together the elements at the end to create a specific, and unified installation.

The FLOWchannel will be 10m long, 38cm wide, and will consist of 10 individually cast concrete elements. There will be a gravity-slope for the flow of water, and drainage at the end. The project will be installed at the ETH Hoenggerberg, with the exact location yet to be determined and approved.


Work Methodology:

1: Analysis
- Collect all of the images and video of your piece from the last experiment.
- Compile the video into presentation format. (400x600px)
- Compare the digital analysis to the actual resultants.
- Analyse the images and video and isolate one or two specific "FLOWdynamics". These will be the basic building blocks for your individual work.

2. Implementation
- The team will be given the basic data for the construction, as well as the casting boxes.
- The ends of each section will be predefined so as to ensure the path flows directly from one section to the next smoothly.
- The path between the end-sections is subject to the design interpretation of the individual.
- The size of the blocks has specifically been chosen to promote further testing if required.

3. Design
- Each participant is responsible for the design of one section.
- Participants may work in groups so as to distribute their "FLOWdynamics" to numerous different pieces along the "FLOWchannel"
- Care should be taken to remember that this will be a "NEGATIVE CASTING" of the milled form, and therefore all the surface texturing will be INVERTED!
- Each surface may be made up of component parts, it is NOT required that each block has a unified surface.
- Each block will have flat-square ends, so as to ensure a flat connection to the next block.

4. Fabrication
- Each student will be given the raw material to assemble a casting box.
- The casting boxes will be 12cm deep, within which the milled form will be inserted, reinforcing mesh will be added, and then concrete cast into the box.
- Casting and curing should take ~3 days.
- There will be a demonstration and more information on the casting process.


Schedule:
Analysis - July 19, 20
Design & Fabrication- July 21- 25
Concrete casting Tuesday July 26
Installation July 28,29(am)
The final review will take place Friday July 29th at 14:00

In each case the resulting pattern is a resultant of a fluid flow and the manipulation of a static geometry. This approach to the creation of the FLOW DYNAMIC isolates a single dynamic within a LAMINAR stream.

For the next assignment we are going to increase the level of complexity in 3 ways.
1. Combine different FLOW DYNAMICS so as so increase the complexity of the FLOW
2. Change the scales and rhythms of FLOW DYNAMICS to create different scales of FLOW
3. Use surface texturing to manipulate the FLOW DYNAMICS in terms of speed, friction, turbulence, and scale.


For this assignment you will be required to develop a FLOW DYNAMICS surface to be tested in the Hydrodynamics Channel. The piece is to be modeled in MAYA, milled using Regisol foam, and then installed into the channel for testing.


The design should be based on the learning acquired in the first assignment of the DWA.
The design of all of the channel piece will have a common starting and ending profile.
This profile ensures that all of the blocks can be added linearly to create a longer channel bed.


The block will be 38cm x 1000cm x 10 cm
The starting and ending profiles for the block are given, and are located on the server as:
deepspace/00_Daten_SS05/CHANNEL/c-template.mb
The sides of the block must be maintained at 5cm on either side so as to allow for proper weighting of the material in the hydrodynamics channel.

This assignment is due July 18, 10:00 in the HIF building by the hydrodynamics channel.

The following assignment will build upon this one..

To start the FLOW Diplomwahlfacharbiet, there will be a fast primer assignment.
The goal of this assignment is to get us back to working in Maya, with the mill, and thinking about the concepts of FLOW.

This assignment asks you to identify, examine, and generate a specific "pictoral" version of a FLOW dynamic.

For this assignment you are asked to identify a specific FLOW DYNAMIC by finding 3 images that depict the same physical force reaction couple, in different mediums, different scales, or different environments.
Then you are required to EXAMINE and MODEL the dynamic using MAYA
Then you should apply dynamics to the modelled object to TEST and REFINE your model.

The basic workflow should look something like this:
1. Identify your FLOW DYNAMIC SITUATION in 3 different images
2. Determine the forces and logic of the FLOW DYNAMIC
3. Determine what forces and geometry are at play
4. Model your interpretation of the geometry in MAYA
5. Apply DYNAMICs either through the use of particles or fluids using MAYA ANimations
6. Test the model using the dynamics undere different conditions and intensities of FLOW
7. Compare the final animation with the images from step 1.
8. Preapare a short presentation of 4 powerpoint slides / images / panels, and prepare the animation for presentation

This assignment is due July 13 at 14:00. The following assignment will build upon this one..

The goal of this assignment is to show the relation between simple parametric programming and architectural design..

On of the most tedious parts of being an architect is to produce the drawings for repetitive elements that are similar but not identical. Examples of this are staircase detailing, structural column layout, structural slab details, window details,… If an architect can “map” the logical relationships between each INSTANCE of an element and the position of the individual elements then the concept for the design can be programmed.

For this assignment you are asked to identify and create a simple SKETCH SITUATION in architecture, where the use of the computer and parametric programming will greatly assist in the ability to design and modify the situation.

The basic workflow should look something like this:
1. Identify your SKETCH SITUATION
2. Determine the logic of the spatial layout
3. Determine the average geometry of the INSTANCES
4. Program in MEL a simple looping structure that will create the layout
5. Determine the logic for changes in the INSTANCES
6. Modify your code so that the INSTANCES also change for each insertion
7. modify the overall code to include variables that allow for more repetition, greater size, or greater change in the INSTANCES.
8. Finally package the entire code as a PROCEDURE.

This assignment is due May 18, in class. The following assignment will build upon this one..

The third part of assignment 1 is to mill your digital surface into a physical block of material.

For this third assignment there will be an additional step.
The participant should choose one of thier DETATCHED surfaces, and go back to MAYA and make changes to it.
The surface should be re-worked so that it has a significant aditional zonje of DETAIL added to the topology.
To do this the surface may be REBUILT and re-manipulated or there may be a new surface created. The surface should also be processed in SurfCAM and milled at a higher degree of detail.

1. Save the surfaces out of Maya according to the previous instructions.
2. Process the surfaces in SurfCAM:
- create a rough cut for all the surfaces together.
- create a series of fine cuts that use the different tooling parameters to create textures.
- create line cuts as desired (if set up in Maya).
3. Save the DSN file.
4. POST the G-code, and save it with an appropriate name.
5. Turn the mill & controller computer power on.
6. Find the PRECIX computer, and save your G-code files onto it.
7. Mill your surface.

The goal for this assignment is to start thinking about both the issues of representation of Geography, as well as the issues involoving differnt scales of detail. The assignment is set up to provide some additional skills that will be required for the milling of landscape models, however, the product at this stage should still remain abstract and experimental.

Good Milling!.

The second assignment is to process one of your MAYA surfaces and get it ready for the CNC mill.

1. Choose a surface that doesn't have any UNDERCUTS

2. Subdivide the surface IN MAYA using the detach surfaces tool

2. Export the surface to surfCAM

3. Process the surface with both Rough and fine cuts.

3. Post and save the G-code

The goal for this assignment is to get familiar with SurfCAM^? and preparing surface forms for output to the mill.

The final product of the assignment should be a set opf G-code files for the Precix 3 axis CNC mill.

The results from this assignment are DUE for the morning workshop on Nov 3, and are required to proceed on to the third part of the assignment.

The second assignment is to process one of your MAYA surfaces and get it ready for the CNC mill.

1. Choose a surface that doesn't have any UNDERCUTS, size 500 x 300 x 50mm max

2. Subdivide the surface IN MAYA using the "detach surfaces" tool

3. Freez the transformation on the surface.

4. Export the surface to surfCAM using .iges export.

5. Process the surface with both Rough and fine cuts.

6. Post and save the G-code

The goal for this assignment is to get familiar with SurfCAM and preparing surface forms for output to the mill.

The final product of the assignment should be a set opf G-code files for the Precix 3 axis CNC mill.

The results from this assignment are DUE for the morning workshop on April 20th, and are required to proceed on to the third part of assignment 1.

The first assignment is to simply get on the MAYA software and try to make some surfaces.
There are 3 specific ways to create a NURBS surface:

1. Create > NURBS Primitives > Plane

2. Create a series of lines or splines, then use the "LOFT" tool to generate a surface


3. Create a set of parallel and connected lines (splines / rails) and use the "BI-RAIL" tool to generate a surface

The goal for this assignment is to get familiar with MAYA and creating surface forms.

The final product of the assignment should be at minimum 3 different surface geometries that have been create using one of each of the above methods.

The results from this assignment are DUE for the morning workshop on April 13, and are required to proceed on to the second assignment 1b).

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Amorphous Ornament is an introduction to the design and fabrication of complex parametric forms using the computer as the main design medium. The course will question how these new techniques of design fit into the greater concept of architecture, and how they also relate to the past.

Ornament once held a significant role in the creation of architecture. Its decline is often attributed to the arrival and incorporation of technology in the modernist approach to architecture. The possibilities being realized with computer controlled fabrication have the potential to efficiently reinvigorate the role of ornament within architecture.

The primary skills to be developed are parametric digital modeling and CNC manufacturing. The semester work will examine the possibilities of computer generated form, and its fabrication using CNC machines. The Diplomwahlfach arbiet topic of ornament allows us to work at the 1:1 scale for production, but will be treated as a metaphor to allow the learning to be applied to a greater understanding of architecture.

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New concepts for the manipulation of "digital" geometry are changing the process of architectural design. New methods of fabrication and construction are changing the practice of architectural production. In both of these cases, the use of the computer as a COMPUTATION machine is altering the fundamental approach to the architectural process.

"flow" will examine how concepts of dynamic forces, movement, & time can be analyzed and exploited in the design process. The course will explore the iconic role of speed & machines in architectural history, discuss the abstraction and technology of dynamic and performative based design, and discuss how CAAD and CAAM processes have changed the complexity & production of contemporary architecture.

The wahlfach course will be an introduction to the design and fabrication of complex topologic forms using the computer as the main design medium. The course will explore new concepts & techniques of digital design, and how they fit into a greater concept of topology, landscape, & architecture. The primary skills to be developed are parametric digital modeling and CNC manufacturing.

The optional Diplomwahlfach Arbeit, will be a group work in the form of a design/build project. The topic of the project will be derived directly from the research activities of the semester course, and will be a real construction and installation project conducted at the 1:1 scale.

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