COMPONENT SYSTEMS I, Seminar in Technology and Special Topics in Construction,
Cornell University, AAP
Spring 2008, Department of Architecture
Instructor: Dana Čupková; Digital Support: Kyle Steinfeld
Component Systems was a building technology seminar that focused on the current state of prefabrication concepts and techniques as they transition from an industrial to a digital paradigm of material culture. The focus of the critique was on the relationships between manufacturing technology and the production of living environments which started with the automated assembly line. Just as in the early 20th century Le Corbusier’s Maison Domino prototype paved the way for the separation of skin and structure, new concepts of building systematization based on digital technologies have resulted in the proliferation of over-optimistic productions, translating the variable of economic benefit into the repetition of the same. The goal of the seminar was to engage the notion of repetition and modularity as an underlying concept with potential to produce singular moments of differentiated organization to create specific spatial effects. The ambition was to have systemic control over the distribution of performative elements with customizable variations and test them in built form.
Spring 2008, Department of Architecture
Instructor: Dana Čupková; Digital Support: Kyle Steinfeld
Component Systems was a building technology seminar that focused on the current state of prefabrication concepts and techniques as they transition from an industrial to a digital paradigm of material culture. The focus of the critique was on the relationships between manufacturing technology and the production of living environments which started with the automated assembly line. Just as in the early 20th century Le Corbusier’s Maison Domino prototype paved the way for the separation of skin and structure, new concepts of building systematization based on digital technologies have resulted in the proliferation of over-optimistic productions, translating the variable of economic benefit into the repetition of the same. The goal of the seminar was to engage the notion of repetition and modularity as an underlying concept with potential to produce singular moments of differentiated organization to create specific spatial effects. The ambition was to have systemic control over the distribution of performative elements with customizable variations and test them in built form.