2013F_CASE_Comodromos Studio
ARCH 4240/4250/4260/4360 (CASE) | Demetrios Comodromos, Lecturer
CASE Center for Architecture, Science, and Ecology
Selected Student Work:
Elias Jackson Darham
Katelyn Rauth
The design studio at the Center for Architecture Science and Ecology seeks to develop design techniques in which environmental research; innovation, analysis and performance, is synthesized with what might be considered traditional design techniques to holistically engage the design problem as a design research. The intention is to use the environmental factors as embedded design constraints so that they have a continual and immediate presence; not driving the design intentions overtly but always being present as a primary factor. In this studio, construction systems, overall function and environmental performance take precedence; however, the primary challenge of the studio is to develop a project with a design thesis that meets a multitude performance criteria. As with most academic studios there is a given program, in this studio that program is a tall building; however, unlike most studios there are multiple sites/climates for the individual projects. The students are required to identify the governing ecological factors for their particular site and generate a digital simulation of those forces. Traditional design concerns are then parametrically linked to the site simulations provideing immediate analysis ensuring desired performance while evaluating for other design criteria.
Allison Clark
Elias Jackson Darham
Michael Everett
Katelyn Rauth
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