AR3016: Digital Fabrication and Architecture syllabus for B.Arch 2021 regulation (Professional Elective-IV)

Digital Fabrication and Architecture detailed syllabus for Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the B.Arch students. For course code, course name, number of credits for a course and other scheme related information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.

For Bachelor of Architecture 7th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit B.Arch 7th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. For Professional Elective-IV scheme and its subjects refer to B.Arch Professional Elective-IV syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of digital fabrication and architecture is as follows.

Course Objectives:

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Unit I

INTRODUCTION TO DIGITAL FABRICATION 9 Introduction to Digital Fabrication; Advantages of Digital Fabrication; Evolution of digital fabrication in architecture, overview of the impact the technology, new realm of possibilities for architectural expression, Etc.,

Unit II

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Unit III

SUBTRACTIVE FABRICATION 9 Laser Cut, CNC Milling, Water Jet Cutting, Etc., its Possible Materials Etc., Case studies of Application of Subtractive Fabrication in practice at different scales;

Unit IV

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Unit V

FILE TO FACTORY PROCESS 9 Preparation of File to Factory Process, Optimization of meshes/files, STL Formats, Etc.,

Course Outcomes:

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Reference Books:

1. Branko Kolarevic and Kevin Klinger, Manufacturing Material Effects: Rethinking Design and Making in Architecture, 2014
2. Digital Fabrication, Paul Andersen, David Salomon, Sanford Kwinter, David Carson, Architecture of Patterns, W. W. Norton & Co, 2010
3. Heino Engel, Structure Systems, 1997
4. Lisa Iwamoto, Digital Fabrications: Architectural and Material Techniques, Princeton: Princeton Architectural Press, 2009
5. Branko Kolarevic, Architecture in the Digital Age: Design and Manufacturing, London: Taylor & Francis 2005
6. Bob Shiel, Ruairi Glynn, Fabricate: Making Digital Architecture, Toronto: Riverside Architectural Press, 2011
7. Emergent Design Group, Morphogenetic Design Strategies AD, 2004
8. Farshid Moussavi, Daniel Lopez, Garrick Ambrose, Ben Fortunato, Ryan R. Ludwig and Ahmadreza Schricker, The Function of Form
9. Rivka Oxman and Robert Oxman, The New Structuralism: Design, Engineering and Architectural Technologies
10. Michael Weinstock, Michael Hensel, Achim Menges (eds.), Emergence: Morphogenetic Design Strategies, AD, Vol 74, No. 3, May/June 2004

For detailed syllabus of all the other subjects of Bachelor of Architecture 7th Sem, visit B.Arch 7th Sem subject syllabuses for 2021 regulation.

For all Bachelor of Architecture results, visit Anna University B.Arch all semester results direct link.