DIGITAL DESIGN: DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION
| Title | ΨΗΦΙΑΚΑ ΜΕΣΑ: ΣΧΕΔΙΑΣΜΟΣ ΚΑΙ ΚΑΤΑΣΚΕΥΗ / DIGITAL DESIGN: DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION |
| Code | 05TT12 |
| Faculty | Engineering |
| School | Architecture |
| Cycle / Level | 1st / Undergraduate |
| Teaching Period | Winter |
| Common | Yes |
| Status | Active |
| Course ID | 600021617 |
Programme of Study: PROGRAMMA SPOUDŌN 2020-21 EŌS SĪMERA
Registered students: 111
| Orientation | Attendance Type | Semester | Year | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KORMOS | Elective Courses belonging to the selected specialization | 5 | 3 | 3 |
| Academic Year | 2024 – 2025 |
| Class Period | Winter |
| Faculty Instructors |
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| Weekly Hours | 3 |
| Class ID | 600258348
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Digital Course Content
- e-Study Guide https://qa.auth.gr/en/class/1/600258348
Learning Outcomes
- To be able to investigate into different disciplines to identify a design initiative.
- To specify a design using complex geometry and detailed modelling and editing techniques.
- To apply transformation procedures to enhance and evaluate the performance of a designed artefact.
- To articulate a form into sub-parts and analyse it in order to instruct construction.
- To employ high-level presentation techniques to exhibit and demonstrate the appearance of an object and the stages of the design process.
General Competences
- Apply knowledge in practice
- Retrieve, analyse and synthesise data and information, with the use of necessary technologies
- Work autonomously
- Work in teams
- Be critical and self-critical
- Advance free, creative and causative thinking
Course Content (Syllabus)
Digital design tools have been considered for a long time as an extra skill for architects. ‘Extra’ in relation to what was understood as ‘traditional’ design means. However, during the last 15 years digital tools have become the main - if not the only - design tools. Unfortunately, that doesn’t translate into a deeper change of the ways we follow in order to design. In fact, most digital tools have been created as a direct analogy to the older tools. Consequently, the transition into the digital worlds remains for architecture and design on the surface, and entails the danger for the discipline to become irrelevant.
At the same time the omnipresence of the digital tools changed the focus of the architectural discussion and transferred it towards more technical directions. That inevitably led to a self-referential approach which more and more distances itself form the general aim: architectural design itself.
The aim of the course therefore is twofold: On the one hand to familiarize the students with processes and ways of thinking imposed by digital tools instead of focusing on software. At the same time however, the course will explore the ways in which the students can engage digital tools in order to create narratives that relate to design instead of relating to the tools themselves. The students will be asked to design, through specific exercises, in order to produce architectural narratives and mythologies.
Keywords
Design, digital tools, narratives, architectural mythologies
Use of Information and Communication Technologies
Use of ICT
- Use of ICT in Course Teaching
- Use of ICT in Laboratory Teaching
Course Organization
| Activities | Workload | ECTS | Individual | Teamwork | Erasmus |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lectures | 13 | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Laboratory Work | 13 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Interactive Teaching in Information Center | 13 | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Project | 36 | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Total | 75 |
Student Assessment
Student Assessment methods
- Oral Exams (Summative)
- Performance / Staging (Summative)
- Labortatory Assignment (Summative)
Last Update
22-07-2022
