graduation installation workshop
parametric design and digital fabrication
Izmir, Turkey | 2011
The Erasmus experience was, for me, the occasion on which I realized the importance of teamwork and that architecture transcends cultural differences and is an universal way of expressing artistic creativity. Of course, there are different ways. However, one cannot deny the importance of architecture as a channel, a means of communication and a language, nor its psychological effect on each user. The academic environment of the Faculty of Architecture at Izmir University of Economics struck me by the high level of openness of teachers to students and vice versa and that the focus was very much on the process behind the final architecture product, and not the latter . The level of creativity and freedom of expression of students were thus encouraged .
Here I took the first contact with the concept of parametric and experimental architecture that derives from computational design tools. I had to reconsider all my previous ideas about architecture in order to understand new principles of creating an architectural object, starting from abstract studies of various mechanisms and behavioral scenarios in nature, for example. During the Digital Design course, held by Gudjon Thor Erlendsson , I learned how to use computational design tools - Rhino, Grasshopper and other similar plugins. The efforts during the course took the form of parametric furniture based on waffle structure, and they also implied the design , manufacture and assembly of a large-scale installation that illustrates the static equilibrium of a parametric structure. The pieces were exhibited in the annual graduation projects exhibition of the Department of Fine Arts and Design, alongside with the creations of graduates from Fashion Design, Product Design or Interior Design.
