Duration
64h Pr
Number of credits
| Master in architecture, professional focus in architecture and urban planning | 5 crédits |
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the first semester, review in January
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
The "digital continuum" workshop is an intensive 4-week course during which students are led to experience some of the challenges of digital in a studio-oriented pedagogy. In particular, the "digital continuum" is approached from the site analysis and its acquisition in 3D scanning, then via the computational exploration of the design of an urban furniture project until its manufacture using machines. digitally controlled.
This workshop is developed in partnership with the consortium of the European CirMAP project, with which students will be able to question the possibility of using recycled concrete for additive manufacturing (commonly called 3D printing). The manufacture in printed recycled concrete allows the production of non-standard shapes freed from the constraints of traditional implementation, but with limits to be taken into account, such as structural resistance only in compression, reduced overhangs, etc. .
During the workshop, the students can appropriate these different technologies and implement them in a concrete project. Over the time of a short and small-scale project (of street furniture), they are led to experiment with digital issues, from the design of the project to its manufacture.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
- Interpret and experiment with contemporary digital issues, in particular from the perspective of design-manufacturing continuity enabled by large scale 3D printing;
- Understand the challenges and potential of computational design and implement them in a small-scale project;
- Organize a collective project and collaborate within an inclusive team, with mixed and varied expertise;
- Anticipate the challenges of additive manufacturing of concrete, integrate the specificities of this material and its implementation in a small-scale project.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
None.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
The workshop is organised like a Studio. The concrete 3D printers used for the experiments will be those of the CirMAP consortium.
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Blended learning
Additional information:
This workshop is organised as a studio. Short lectures will be given occasionally throughout the course to nourish reflections and support learning.
Course materials and recommended or required readings
Menges, A. 2015. Material Synthesis: Fusing the Physical and the Computational. AD Reader.
https://www.uee.uliege.be/cms/c_4843025/en/cirmap
Anton, A. Reiter, L. Wangler, T. Franggez, V. Flatt, R. Dillenburger, B. 2021."A 3D concrete printing prefabrication platform for bespoke columns" in Automation in Construction 122.
Written work / report
Additional information:
A jury will be held at the end of the workshop. The work carried out by the students' groups will be presented and evaluated with regard to its relevance to the educational objectives mentioned above.
Work placement(s)
Organisational remarks and main changes to the course
Contacts
Aurelie de Boissieu, PhD
Batiment 52, Bureau: (0/541)
Quartier Polytech 1, Allée de la Découverte 9
4000 Liège, Belgique
email: aurelie.deboissieu@uliege.be
Sylvie Jancart, PhD
Batiment E1 Faculté d'Architecture
Boulevard de la Constitution 41
4020 Liège, Belgique
email: sylvie.jancart@uliege.be
Thomas Dissaux
email: tdissaux@uliege.be