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Mediating Place at the time of the Pandemic: Workshop at Mcgill University, Architecture Departement Life under the COVID quarantine has spotlighted an age-old challenge of representation – mediating remote presence, communicating the conditions of a place, and allowing others to experience through design. The workshop ‘Mediating Place’ is designed to open a discussion on the… Continue Reading Mediating Place at the time of the Pandemic

In accordance with the semester’s core theme- ‘Moon Village’, the workshop will explore the potential for ground-scaping of the lunar surface as a foundation for extraterrestrial architecture. The notion of ‘digital scaping’- using robotic tools and simulated moon grounds will guide the workshop. Advancements in robotic fabrication are bringing about new ways to craft materials-… Continue Reading Robotic Moon-Scaping: Extraterrestrial Architecture

With the acceleration of the development of robotic production tools, the ability to manufacture on-site, outside the walls of factories and closed laboratories, has also evolved. This capability makes it possible to tailor digital fabrication to a specific site, location and material. In light of this, capabilities such as 3D Printing can now be expanded… Continue Reading Robotics, Architecture, Environment: Seminar in Advanced Digital Fabrication

Advanced fabrication brings about the ability to perform architectural scale construction on site. This challenges the use of pre-fabricated materials in architecture, and calls to rethink construction practices at large. Robotic tools offer a sustainable construction alternative – reconstituting onsite soil into an architectural grounds and structures. This brings back to relevance locally resourced materials,… Continue Reading Digital Studio: Locally Sourced, Purpose-oriented

The aim of the course is to provide students with basic understanding, knowledge and abilities in the design and operation of robotic production cells for architectural purposes. The course will focus on the analysis of manufacturing practices and their transfer into robotic arms, with emphasis on designing tools, toolpath planning and physical production of architectural… Continue Reading Robotic Fabrication in Architecture

The course considers the multiple design strategies, representation methods, architectural media (including textual methods), to express the quality of an architectural proposal. The course considers three fundamental aspects that stand at the core the architectural research, namely the notions of form, forces, and material. Based on these three notions, each weekly session will be dedicated… Continue Reading Evaluative Tools in Architecture

This studio is organized in the context of the Azrieli Global Studio program, a new collaborative initiative between McGill University in Montreal, Tel Aviv University and the Technion. The common theme for the thematic studio at the three schools concerns the architecture of extreme environments. Canadian students from McGill University will work on a site… Continue Reading The Global Studio

This course proposes to address the contemporary nature of the relation between design, technology, and the sciences across a series of seminal essays and manifestos that have influenced architecture since the postwar period to today. The structure of the course follows a series of topics that will be developed on a weekly basis. Thus, the… Continue Reading Architecture in Formation: Selected Theories of a Digital Culture in Architecture

The workshop will focus on the creation of crafted architectural elements based on the analysis of manual processes and their translation to robotic fabrication methods. The topic comes from a recent research project at the Material Topology Research Laboratory (MTRL) at the Technion IIT. As part of the workshop, students will be exposed to the… Continue Reading Made by Robots Workshop: Crafted and Advanced