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Paper: f4b2
Paper title: MATERIAL PRESENCE: SPATIAL POTENTIAL [PRESENCIA MATERIAL: POTENCIAL ESPACIAL]
Authors: Guzman Dumont, Guillermo and Hughes, Thomas
Summary: This paper describes two design studio projects with first year architecture students at the University of Nottingham. Originally, this exercise was aimed to introduce them to CAD drawing tools, but due to some particular characteristics of the brief, some unexpected results came to add an interesting value to their design learning process. From the exploration of a functional building typology through the digital construction of an iconic case study, it was developed a creative fabrication of absent architecture based on research, analysis and imagination. Then there was identified the most appropriate medium for communication of these defining characteristics. Unexpected focus on material considerations over spatial analysis, motivated a second exercise which used image manipulation, based on graphic source material and digital imaging of physical models.
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Year of publication: 2001
Series: CUMINCADes:SIGRADI
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Citation: Guzman Dumont, Guillermo and Hughes, Thomas (2001). MATERIAL PRESENCE: SPATIAL POTENTIAL [PRESENCIA MATERIAL: POTENCIAL ESPACIAL]. SIGraDi biobio2001 - [Proceedings of the 5th Iberoamerican Congress of Digital Graphics / ISBN 956-7813-12-4] Concepcion (Chile) 21-23 september 2001, pp. 186-188, http://itc.scix.net/paper/f4b2
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