MAGLAB

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Barcelona-Damascus

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MAG LAB focuses on optimizing complex geometry with parametric design tools in conjunction with economic efficiency, structural performance, environmental impact, and programmatic progress. MAG LAB aims to create adaptable spatial organization by integrating architecture, landscape, infrastructure and urban planning, of which the formal consequences are generated through a variety of information in order to accommodate more possibilities of future.

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15JUL 2012

EleMental Workshop / MAGLAB / Arab International University

Posted in Design - Installations by MAGLAB

Elemental is an exploration around Elements ”objects” as an expression of a multiplicity of conditions (structural, material, formal, cultural, spatial) and the mean by which multiple issues (such as modulation, differentiation and cultural expression) are deployed.

The workshop was structured in theoretical lectures, seminars on digital tools and practical work during which students will explore around and apply the concepts and strategies explained throughout physical real scale Element.

Synopsis The aim of the workshop was to give an introductory understanding of key concepts such as topology, information (in morphogenesis), redundancy and pluripotency as a mean to undisclose performative potential through morphology, from biological and digital development to architectural design, within a general framework of an ecology of design ”ECO Form”.

Participants investigated specific geometric strategies such as those of lightweight and voluptuous bodies: folds, frazzles and plications as a mean for efficiency and performance (structural, movement, thermal).

Animation and other techniques was used to tease out differentiations and gradients between key configurations (attractors), as well as exploring the emergence of complexity and effects out of simple starting Elements.

Task The workshop task was: Design and fabricate an open-air Element “Object” for Tishreen Park, a park facility “lighting objects, canopy, and installations”.

Participants generated and represented the Elements inside the park.

Topics to be covered Idea explorations: Creative and generative process Elegance Performance Emergent design Trial and errors Geometry lessons: Geometry of continuity Folding, Bending – twisting…Origami, ornaments and tessellations Systems of spatial representation The general theories of the form Art and Architecture: Fashion and architecture Craft – Manufacturing – Tools Materials explorations Light and architecture Fractals Site adaptation and analysis.

City:
damascus

Design team:
Workshop Organization:
MAGLAB, Authorized Training Center of McNeel (Robert McNeel & Associates– United States) in Middle East,
Visitor LAB of architecture, College of architecture, fine arts and design AIU "Arab International University", Syria
Assistant LAB of Biodigital Master and PHD program, EsArq - UiC (Universitat Internacional de Catalunya), Spain.

Supported by:
McNeel (Robert McNeel& Associates– United States) in Middle East and Europe www.rhino3d.com
McNeel (Robert McNeel & Associates– United States)
Workshop Media Partner:
RECity Magazine / Italy www.recitymagazine.com
Ibdaat Magazine / Damascus – Syria www.ibdaat-sy.com

. Workshop director
. MArch.Aref Maksoud
MAGLAB Director, Visitor professor of architecture, College of architecture, fine arts and design, AIU "Arab International University", Syria.
Assistant professor of Biodigital Master and PHD program, EsArq - UiC (Universitat Internacional de Catalunya), Spain.

. Workshop Tutors and guests
Main Tutor:
M.Arch.Jawad Al Asaad
Faculty of architecture at Damascus university / Assistant professor in architectural design.
Guest lecturers and professors within the workshop
Dr Prof.MHD Yasser Al Ayoubi / University of Birmingham, and Oxford, UK
PhD. (Advanced Engineering in Automated production Systems)
MSc. in Intelligent Manufacturing Systems

Makeup Art By: Makeup Artist Sarab Rikabi”Art and stage makeup artist / Milano, Italy.
Photography: Tony Wahby
Tony Wahby Studio
Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/TonyWahbyStudio?ref=ts

Workshop Participants
Dina Bag
Sally Knaifed
Nour al Makkawi
Saeed Karakandy
Salma Abd-al Razak
Samar Al Masri
Rafah Trad
Dima al Kassas
Elbrous Hamash
Dana Abed
Monther Al Sayed
Mhd Rashed al Tinawi
Tarek al Deeb
Modar Obaid
Baraa Salloum
Nouhad al Saoub
Rebal Jber
Modar Solieman
Majd Aizouki
M.Hazem al Saman

MAGLAB Trainees
Ahmad Kattan
Hassan Youssef
Katia Saade
Majd Murad
Radwan Malakani
Rama Shehade

Status:
Completed

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