AA DLAB 2012 | Green02

Green|02 is the continuation and augmentation of the color-based agenda that is initialized in DLAB with Green|01. Following the main research emphasis of DLAB, Green|02 carries on to be an intensive computation and fabrication oriented workshop experimenting on the workflow created by generative digital tools and rapid prototyping techniques. Associated with the concepts of regeneration, emergence, and growth through its broad existence in nature, Green will serve as the inspiration for observing natural and biological structures, followed by their abstraction and interpretation into elaborated design proposals. In this manner, Green|02 will take on the design approaches and outcomes of Green|01 and continue to elaborate on them through the emphasis on precise scale, performance, and form related criteria. This phase will be highlighted with the extensive use of digital design and analysis tools towards the generation of a working one-to-one scale prototype. During the second phase, participants and tutors will be located at the AA Hooke Park facilities for the remainder of the workshop, working on the fabrication and assembly strategies of the prototype, finalizing with the assembled piece. Being an independent workshop as well as the second part of DLAB’s two-fold agenda, Green|02 will give the participants an opportunity to test in real life the profound formal, structural and performative attributes of the design outcome by accentuating the qualities of delicacy, detail, and elegance in the architectural realm. Participants have full access to the AA Digital Prototyping Lab (DPL) for the fabrication of prototypes/models in various mediums and materials, including laser-cutting, CNC milling, 3d-printing, and other forms of physical outputs. The main fabrication phase of Green|02 will take place at the AA facilities in Hooke Park, AA’s rural campus in Dorset in the South West UK. For more information: http://dlab.aaschool.ac.uk/