Course Number: IAT 337
Course Title: Spatial Design
Credit Hours: 3 Vector: 1-0-0-4 (lecture-tutorial-seminar-laboratory )
Course Description
Introduces computer-based tools for representing and fabricating designs. Covers the representation of work within a design process, the use of visualization techniques to communicate with clients, and the use of digital fabrication technology to build prototypes. Projects are chosen to highlight key representational issues in contemporary design practice.
Prerequisite:
IAT 233 Spatial Design.
Recommended: None.
Corequisite: None.
Special Instructions: None.
Course(s) to be dropped if this course is approved: None.
This course introduces students to advanced computer tools for representing designs and to the techniques needed to use such tools for accurate and precise specification. It teaches how to use data from such representations as input to computer numerical control fabrication equipment (such as laser cutters, 3D printers and n-axis mills) and combine representation and fabrication into an iterative design process. Application to designing a family of related artifacts provides a context in which issues of reuse, design rules and inter-design coherence are crucial. Such a course does not exist at SFU.
Will this be a required or elective course in the curriculum; probable enrolment when offered?
Required for all SIAT Design students; enrolment estimated at 50 per year.
Indicate Semester and Year this course would be first offered and planned frequency of offering thereafter.
2007-3 and annually thereafter.
Which of your present CFL faculty have the expertise to offer this course? Will the course be taught by sessional or limited term faculty?
Robert Woodbury, Halil Erhan.
Are there any proposed student fees associated with this course other than tuition fees?
Yes. Students will be required to pay for the physical materials used in this course.
Is this course considered a `duplicate' of any current or prior course under the University's duplicate course policy? Specify, as appropriate.
No.
Note: Senate has approved (S.93-11) that no new course should be approved by Senate until funding has been committed for necessary library materials. Each new course proposal must be accompanied by a library report and, if appropriate, confirmation that funding arrangements have been addressed.
Provide details on how existing instructional resources will be redistributed to accommodate this new course. For instance, will another course be eliminated or will the frequency of offering of other courses be reduced; are there changes in pedagogical style or class sizes that allow for this additional course offering.
This course is introduced as a part of the larger SIAT curriculum redesign. Several SIAT courses will be eliminated making resources available to accommodate this course.
Does the course require specialized space or equipment not readily available in the department or university, and if so, how will these resources be provided?
The course can be taught with a minimal increment of fabrication technology, for example, one laser cutter. This item is first on SIAT’s priority list, and a budget allocation exists for it. It is expected that SIAT (perhaps in cooperation with other units at Surrey) will develop more comprehensive fabrication capability.
Does this course require computing resources (e.g. hardware, software, network wiring, use of computer laboratory space) and if so, describe how they will be provided.
No.
After completing this course students will be able to:
Use computer tools to represent designs for digitally enabled objects.
Use computer-based representations as input to fabrication systems.
Understand issues involved in preparing representations within a professional design context, including dimensional conventions and tolerancing.
Understand concepts of coherence of design ideas across related artefacts, design rules and component and concept reuse.
Apply the above concepts to the problem of designing a family of related artefacts.
This course comprises three parts as follows.
The first part is instruction in advanced representations for designs, including solid modeling, parametric modeling, methods of representing object behaviour and design analysis using finite element techniques. This part includes an introduction to the use of physical fabrication tools such as laser cutters, 3D printers and n-axis milling machines.
The second part is an introduction to the reuse of design ideas across designs and design projects. Such reuse is often critical to a firm’s continuing success and can be realized through techniques of inter-design coherence, design rules and software reuse in design systems.
The third part is use of representation and fabrication with a design project that stresses the need for such capability. An example problem would be to create a family of related artifacts.
Delivery Method: Lectures and tutorials
30% Lab activities and programming assignments (multiple activities and assignments spread throughout the course)
40% One or two projects
30% Exam
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Bechtold, Martin, Kimo Griggs, Daniel L. Schodek, and Marco Steinberg, eds. New Technologies in Architecture: Computer-Aided Design and Manufacturing Techniques, Cambridge: Harvard University Graduate School of Design, 2000
Bechtold, Martin, Kimo Griggs, Daniel L. Schodek, and Marco Steinberg, eds. New Technologies in Architecture II & III: Computer- Aided Design and Manufacturing Techniques, Cambridge: Harvard University Graduate School of Design, 2003
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Callicott, Nick. Computer-Aided Manufacture in Architecture: The Pursuit of Novelty. Architectural Press, Jordan Hill, Oxford, 2001
Hansen, L. Scott. Applied solidWorks / L. Scott Hansen. New York : Industrial Press, c2006.
Hensel, Michael, Achiim Menges, Michael Weinstock eds. Emergence : Morphogenetic Design Strategies (Architectural Design). Academy Press, London, 2004.
Greg Jankowski, SolidWorks For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech)) (Paperback)
Kolarevic, Branko. Architecture in the Digital Age: Design and Manufacturing. Spon Press, New York, NY. 2004.
Kolarevic, Branko, Ali M. Malkawi eds. Performative Architecture: Beyond Instrumentality. Spon Press, New York, NY. 2004.
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Sham Tickoo, SolidWorks 2006 for Designers (Paperback)
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