Courses:

Course Info

• Course Number / Code:
• 4.491 (Fall 2004) 
• Course Title:
• Form-Finding and Structural Optimization: Gaudi Workshop 
• Course Level:
• Graduate 
• Offered by :
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
  Massachusetts, United States  
• Department:
• Architecture 
• Course Instructor(s):
• Prof. Erik Demaine
  Prof. John Ochsendorf
  Barbara Cutler
  Martin Demaine
  Simon Greenwold
  Axel Kilian 
• Course Introduction:
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  4.491 Form-Finding and Structural Optimization: Gaudi Workshop
  
  
  
  

  Fall 2004

  
  
  

  
  
  

  Course Highlights

  
  
  

  This course features the full set of assignments from the semester, and a set of lecture notes on modeling software.

  
  
  

  Course Description

  
  
  

  Inspired by the work of the architect Antoni Gaudi, this research workshop will explore three-dimensional problems in the static equilibrium of structural systems. Through an interdisciplinary collaboration between computer science and architecture, we will develop design tools for determining the form of three-dimensional structural systems under a variety of loads. The goal of the workshop is to develop real-time design and analysis tools which will be useful to architects and engineers in the form-finding of efficient three-dimensional structural systems.