Week 5: Iteration

Lecture: Discussion on how iteration can lead to better ideas and improved design, how a project can evolve vs. how iteration can lead to different threads of an idea. Examples of generative vs. iterative design processes.
Assignment: Produce 20 sketch models of your idea using one type of material: blue foam; paper; etc.

Design Development

• Iterative Design
• Spiral Development
• Funnel Development
• A/B Testing

Conceptual Iteration

• Part-to-whole (Metabolist Architecture)
  
• Bottom-up (Buckminster Fuller)
  
• Part-to-whole (Spherical Atlas)
  
• Top-down (Frank Gehry)
  
• Top-down (Frank Gehry)
  

Incremental Improvement

• Iphone
  
• OXO Good Grips
  
• Coca-cola
  
• In Praise of Incrementalism
  

Generative Design

• Evolved Virual Creatures by Karl Sims
• Soft Robot Evolution by Hod Lipson
• Autodesk on Generative Design
• Autodesk on Generative Design
• Nervous Stystem
• Arup
• Wall Drawings by Sol LeWitt

The Act of Making

• The Thinking Hand by Juhani Pallasmaa
• BMW Group
• Clay Models
• Blue Foam Models
• Craft Schools

Precedents

• Dyson
• Porous City by MVRDV
• Pixelated Architecture
• Nike
• Burke Ingels Group
• Siteless by François Blanciak
• UNBUILT