schedule
Soft Surface Operations | Fall 2012 | wild energies in a continuous urban landscape | ARCH 5380 | Instructor: L. Phinney | phinney@virginia.edu | Schedule: class Tu+Th 2-3:15 PM Rm 425 | lab support Mo,Tu+Th 10 AM-6PM Rm 312
asclepias from sketch to code
Nathan Burgess 2011
23 August 2011
guided tour: a brave new world of living geometry
23 August – 25 August
trees: a speculative look at bark and pod
parametric thinking through analysis, sketching, and pseudo-code
August 30 – September 1
pod and bark definitions and a challenge: data structures, hoop snake, kangaroo and/or mesh edit in Grasshopper
September 6 – September 8
animated bark and pod: mechanisms for grasshopper
September 13 – September 15
physical models: fabricating with grasshopper
September 20 – September 22
the arduino microcontroller
sensors, motors + circuits via bionic arduino tutorials
September 27 – September 29
arduino 2: DIY sensors | fritzing and toolduino
robots in action: a field trip
October 4 – October 6
firefly’s physical/virtual connections
October 13
wireless sensor networks
October 22nd – 23rd (weekend)
robotic surfaces with firefly: bark + pod weekend workshop
October 25 – October 27
project proposals: interactive bark and pod arrays
November 1 (C-I-W) November 3
soft surface structures: scaffolds, armatures, and lattices
November 8 – November 10
technical fabrics and industrial embroidery
November 15 – November 17
model arrays and full scale mock-ups
November 22
wild energies in a continuous urban landscape
November 29 – December 1
a surface circus of bark + pod
(I will bring the cookies)
December 6
what’s next?
