Digital Practice: Shanghai Studio

For a successful architectural project, the efficiency of design communication and the control of information-flow cannot be less important than the creativity of ideas. In response to the concurrent digital evolution emerging in the architectural industry world-wide, the Faculty of Architecture at The University of Hong Kong will host a 9 day intensive summer program named Digital Practice at its Shanghai Study Center, which is located at the heart of Shanghai.

• Digital tools to be taught include Rhino Scripting, Grasshopper, Digital Project, Generative Components
• Design control through applications of Building Information Modelling
• Rapid prototyping to produce 1:5 CNC models
• Studio to design a series of crossing structures on The Bund at Shanghai

Time: 31 July - 8 August, 2010
Venue:Shanghai Study Center , 2/F, 298 North Suzhou Road, Hong Kou District, Shanghai