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Massing and Skin: A Pedagogical Experiment with Physical and Digital Design Media

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The chapter describes a studio-based project for first-year architecture students that took place at the University of Thessaly in Greece as part of the curriculum for introduction to digital media. The project is part of a foundation course for computer-aided design courses that follow in consequent semesters and aims to prepare students for understanding 3D space, geometric and mathematical rules, representation techniques, while introducing them to digital tools for image editing and desktop publishing. The brief is based on the doctrines of constructionism requiring the students’ active involvement with physical models and digital tools for image processing. The students embark on a hands-on activity creating physical massing models with extruded polystyrene which they later photograph and digitally edit, by applying textures and building skin to create architectural representations.

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  1. Department of Architecture, University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece

    Ioanna Symeonidou, Giorgos Kalaouzis & Alexandros Efstathiadis

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Symeonidou, I., Kalaouzis, G., Efstathiadis, A. (2023). Massing and Skin: A Pedagogical Experiment with Physical and Digital Design Media. In: Mora, P.L., Viana, D.L., Morais, F., Vieira Vaz, J. (eds) Formal Methods in Architecture. FMA 2022. Digital Innovations in Architecture, Engineering and Construction. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-2217-8_21

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