Embedded Intelligence Studio

Embedded Intelligence Studio is an Advance Digital Fabrication Studio at California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Al Borhani and Negar kalantar offer this studio.

In architecture, the relationship between conception and production has evolved considerably. Despite the advances in digital fabrication, there is still a considerable gap between what we can draw and what we can make. At this point, the process of making a complex form is relatively expensive, time-consuming, and more importantly, often wasteful.

EMBEDDED INTELLIGENCE

This course is based on the notion of the intelligence embedded in tools and materials. Here, we attempt to establish a design system founded on the intrinsic capabilities embedded in tools that relies upon the inherent properties of materials. This semester, our design strategy is to explore ways to exploit these characteristics in the nested fabrication method.

NESTED FABRICATION

The studio will challenge you to expand your tectonic proficiencies in developing the design principles for nested fabrication. Here, you will explore the main parameters involved in dividing the global geometry of a complex volume into stackable components. By converting different formal, material, and technical restrictions into geometric constraints, the stacked components are divided in a way that the first component gives shape to the second.