MODULA

DIGITAL EXPLORATIONS IN FORM, ORGANIZATION AND ORNAMENT

An exhibition of six recent computation projects from graduate students at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, University of Toronto

June 13-27, 2009

UTAC - The University of Toronto Art Centre

15 King's College Circle, University College, University of Toronto

Hours: Tues- Fri 12-5pm;  Sat 12-4pm

Antlia - Christian Joakim

Packing - Gavin Berman, Holly Jordan, David Long

Responsive Array - Nathaniel Addison, Jonathan Cummings, Safora Khoylou, Mani Mani

Inside Outside - Fei Liang

Paired Surfaces - Emily Lin, Scott Ling, Neu-Wa O’Neill

Hex - James Dixon, Peter Odegaard, Valerie Tam

Curated by Tom Bessai

Presented by the University of Toronto Art Centre

Exhibition Design and Production by Vjosana Shkurti, Mae Shaban, Meng Tang

Special thanks to the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, University of Toronto

MODULA is a sampling of the ongoing experimental digital design work being conducted by graduate level architecture students at the University of Toronto’s John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design.  The six distinct projects exhibited in MODULA are iterative design explorations that extend current digital design practices of parametrics and simulation into real space through fabrication and construction.

The projects exhibited here are not finished works, nor are they strictly architectural in nature.  Rather each project represents a conclusive moment within an ongoing collaborative research investigation amongst students, student teams and design faculty. The following objectives are common to the project work presented in MODULA:

>To theorize and experiment with computation techniques in the context of architectural design.  Techniques include digital modeling, scripting, parametric modeling and time-based digital simulation

>To explore concepts and techniques for spatial subdivision and differentiation

>To investigate emergent properties and characteristics in computationally defined systems

>To create 2-dimnensional and 3-dimensional representations, diagrams and fabricated mock-ups of computationally generated design schema