ARC465H1 S2 LEC 0102
Instructor: Zachary Mollica

Designing for a lighter environmental impact demands a deeper knowledge of both site and material than is usual, and no single tool can supply this information on its own.

This hands on seminar is intended to cultivate careful observation using many measuring processes (from tape measures to photogrammetry) to enable a more resource aware and nimble approach to design. Students enrolling in the course will learn to apply these tools to buildings, trees and to raw materials.

Through lectures and project work, tools will be discussed, demonstrated and applied. By the end of the course, participants will be comfortable moving between analog and digital methods.

Images are shown on this page for each of the course’s three assignments:
–    (1) Analog Measures starts the term with students studying and employing archaic units to measure parts of the 1 Spadina building. Graph paper work by: Minah Bae and Chloe Lee.
–    (2) Digital Measures sees students apply photogrammetric 3D scanning to document and draw distinctive trees on the streets of Toronto. Tree drawing work by: Julia Song and Catriona Tian.
–    (3) Inventive Relations sees students design and produce readymades – sculptural artifacts whose form is derived from close observation of found materials. Physically crafted work by: Liam Cassano, Annie Song, Eva Macoretta and Ryan Stanislaus

PLEASE NOTE: The third project will take place largely in the wood workshop and digital fabrication spaces. While prior experience is not assumed, completion of the workshop’s safety orientation will be required outside scheduled class time and those students with prior experience will be able to leverage that experience