Student Portfolio
A R C H 4 7 3 / 3 5 2 2 - D I G I TA L D E S I G N S T U D I O A N D W O R K S H O P Noor Al Asadi Fall 2020
The American University in Cairo (AUC) School of Sciences and Engineering - Department of Architecture ARCH 473/3522 - Digital Design Studio and Workshop (Spring 2019) Student portfolio documenting samples of work submitted along the course, including research, experimentation, 3D modeling, digital fabrication, parametric design and modeling, physical model realisation and analysis. Student name: Noor Al Asadi Student ID: 900150233
Š The American University in Cairo (AUC), May 2019
Noor Al Asadi Architecture Student
beauty of architecture is to get the best of both worlds. To give the pencil the freedom to guide your ideas, yet to allow the digital program to guide the logic. This storybook is a methodical journey through a digital design studio course, which involved both physical and digital exploration simultaeously, as well as developing algorithms, discovering parameters and speaking the language of Rhino and Grasshopper.
In the era of fast-growing technology, I believe in the power of hand sketches. I’ve always felt as though a hand drawn line has more emotion than a CAD line, and it resembles the start of an idea. I also believe that physical model making allows the exploration of more ideas. In this generation, sometimes translating this physicality in the digital world can be difficult. This course, however, allowed me to see a new dimension in the digital realm. Being able to manipulate materials, and engage with parametric programs triggered new ideas, and allowed for flexibility that could not have been achieved otherwise. Throughout this course, I have come to realise that the
Designing a mobile shelter given a context in Egypt - El Minya. The idea was to take inspiration from a natural phenomena (organism or microorganism), and use it’s growth process as inspiration for design. The chosen natural phenomena was a tortoise, and the direction headed was towards the anatomy of the tortoise, and how as the tortoise evolved, it’s ribcage became attached to its shell.
01 Chapter 1: Designing a shelter
Experimenting with one of these 2 fabrication techniques using gypsum or cement: -Moulding -Fabric folding
02 Chapter 2: Research and material exploration
The third project involved rerofitting the facade of an existing building in 90 street using parametric tools, keeping in mind the ideas extracted from project 2, and the parameters that came with these experimentations.
03 Chapter 3: The parametric facelift
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