Sonntagszeitung 12-02-12

Learn 3D, can be counted as course elective too!
Keywords: Perspective Illusions, 3D Modeling / Rendering, Blender 3D, Percent for Art (Kunst am Bau), Baden Stadtfest, VFX, Urban Scale Interaction/Animations

In the course you will learn about the key concepts of projection mapping and the open source software “Blender 3D”. You will produce animations that intend to alter the perceiption of a building’s facade or  interact with the facade in a funny/graphical/informative way.

“Percent for art” / “Kunst am Bau” usually refers to art funded with a small percentage of large development projects.  In case you decide to elaborate the designs of this course as a thesis elective, you will have the unique opportunity to perform your projections to a large audience at Stadtfest Baden (+/-one million people in one week in August 2012).

Using Blender you can either dig in deeper in what you already know about 3D visualization or use this opportunity to learn how to model and render in 3D from an animation point of view. This should be easily adoptable to your own projects and/or favourite 3D render software.

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Supervision: Lukas Treyer

The elective course introduces the new area of Information Architecture. The underlying example is the Future Cities Laboratory in Singapore with its three scales small, medium, and large. Inspired by numerous built and virtual examples, the course discusses the consequences when information space and physical architecture merge. The first part of the lecture describes origins, state-of-the-art, and application in architecture. The second part focuses on simulation, a method and technology that rapidly gains importance in the design of buildings and cities. In the third part guest lecturers will demonstrate the development and application of Information Architecture in practice.

The course is coordinated with “New Methods in Urban Simulation and Modelling”.

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Time + Place: Mo, 12:45 – 13:30, HIT F22 (Value Lab)

Team:
Prof Dr G. Schmitt (gerhard.schmitt@eth.ch)
Anastasia Koltsova (koltsova@arch.ethz.ch)
Dong-Youn Shin (shin@arch.ethz.ch)

The weekly workshop “Articulating Urban Complexities” investigates the use of parametric design tools for urban design. The exercise addresses contemporary computational challenges in urban design in order to provide students with practical knowledge in the field of architecture.

Various parametric design and analysis tools as well as urban design proposals are developed during the workshop. The work on the design project is mainly performed using the Grasshopper plug-in for Rhino. Students learn how to build Grasshopper definitions from existing components. In order to meet specific urban design requirements, students also learn how to create custom Grasshopper components using the C# programming language.
For the production of images, the VRay rendering plug-in for Rhino is used in conjunction with Grasshopper in order to create rendered animations to emphasize the parametric nature of the designs.

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Time + Place: Mo, 14.00 – 17.00, HIT H12

Team:
Anastasia Koltsova (koltsova@arch.ethz.ch)
Luis Gisler (gislerl@student.ethz.ch)

The course is structured into nine lectures, including one guest lecture, nine exercises, individual coaching hours every Thursday and independent work. Working in groups is a core part of the didactic concept.
The course is coordinated with Simulating Urban Design Futures

Lecture, Mo 9:00-10:30, HIT F22 – Value Lab: Jan Halatsch, Antje Kunze, Lukas Treyer

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Exercises, Mo 10:45-13:00, HIT H12: Jan Halatsch, Julia Dyllong

Graded oral examination at the end of semester.
Successful participation in exercise course and semester project thesis

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Time + Place:
Mo, 13.45 – 17.45, HIT ValueLab/Meetingroom iA H31

Team:
Katerina Novakova (Novakova@arch.ethz.ch)
Henri Achten (Achten@fa.cvut.cz)

So how could that kind of consumption of power and fuel ever be sustainable?

Gerhard Schmitt said: “A sustainable city is a city able to survive over decades and centuries which really works well. It’s a city where different flows, flows of material, flows of goods, work well, and in which also immigration and emigration are sustainable.”