BRIEF:

The Architectural Media Workshop is an exploration and celebration of key buildings from a major international architecture practice using all the diverse creative and representational media available in the Fabrication Lab. This year we are collaborating with the influential architecture and engineering office, Skidmore, Owings and Merrill.
We will introduce you to some essential digital manufacturing processes using lasers and 3D printing (1st Years), and CNC machining (2nd Years). Working as part of a larger team focused on one of nine buildings, your role will be to work in pairs to create a physical representation of a specific element or aspect of the project, either structural (2nd Years) or architectural (1st Years). Through short building team meetings each day we will help you to both choose an appropriate element of the building to work on and to coordinate your contribution with those of the other members of your building team to produce a rich and coherent representation of the building.
While developing your competence and confidence working with the specific digital manufacturing tool, we will encourage you to understand the value of the technology in the context of specific materials, and to see its role in the creative development of new processes through which you can represent architectural ideas. We will work with you to innovate new ways of working with familiar machines and common materials to produce creative techniques and workflows that can be shared with others working with the same material.