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Mohammed S. Ibrahim
Alexandria University, Egypt
 Mohsobhy77@gmail.com

      Alan Bridges
 Strathclyde University, UK
  A.h.bridges@strath.ac.uk      Experiencing design with grammatical explorations in the
                                                beginning design studio
      Scott C. Chase
Aalborg University, Denmark           THE AFTER-RECOGNITION EXPERIMENT
    scha@create.aau.dk
                                      DESIGNING WITH
      Samir Bayoumi
 Alexandria University, Egypt
  Samir_hosni@hotmail.com
                                       CONSTRAINTS
        Dina S. Taha
 Alexandria University, Egypt
 Dina.taha@eng.alex.edu.eg
Precedent work
    The first year studio structure   The first year studio structure
    The recognition experiment
The introduction of grammar in        THE EARLY STAGE          THE MID STAGE              THE FINAL STAGE
the first year studio
                                      Theme                    Theme                      Theme
The Mid stage: Production
The experiment: “Doing Shapes”        Recognition              Production                 Evaluation
                                      Nurturing the Skill of   Reflecting /Designing in   Evaluating the acquisition
Observations                          Seeing                   response to a need         of three skills
Concluding remarks
                                      Complexity Level         Complexity Level           Complexity Level

                                      Abstract                 Goal-Driven                Experiencing
                                      Experimentation          Composition                Architecture

                                      Target Thinking Type     Target Thinking Type       Target Thinking Type

                                      Imaginative /Divergent   Induction to Reasoning     Balanced /Critical
                                      thinking                 /Convergent thinking       thinking


     THE AFTER-RECOGNITION
          EXPERIMENT
   DESIGNING WITH
    CONSTRAINTS
Precedent work
    The first year studio structure      The experiments
    The recognition experiment           The Workshop
The introduction of grammar in
the first year studio
The Mid stage: Production
    Designing with constraints /design
    generators
The experiment: “Doing Shapes”

    The experiment grammar
    (subdivision grammars)
    Introductions of Constraints /
    References                            Group A                         Group B
    The Workshop                          The Strathclyde University      The Alexandria University
Observations                              Students (UK)                   Students(EGY)
Concluding remarks                        •Vertical ( Project-based)      •Horizontal Studio
                                          Studio Curriculum               Curriculum
                                          •Familiar with Design for two   •Fair knowledge about
                                          months more than techniques     drawing techniques , design
     THE AFTER-RECOGNITION
          EXPERIMENT                      and theories                    principles with no design
   DESIGNING WITH                                                         experience after four months
    CONSTRAINTS
Precedent work
    The first year studio structure   The first experiment: Recognition
    The recognition experiment
The introduction of grammar in
the first year studio
The Mid stage: Production
The experiment: “Doing Shapes”

Observations
Concluding remarks




     THE AFTER-RECOGNITION
          EXPERIMENT
   DESIGNING WITH
    CONSTRAINTS
Precedent work
    The first year studio structure   The introduction of grammar in the first year studio
    The recognition experiment
The introduction of grammar in
the first year studio
The Mid stage: Production                   The grammar’sgrammars’ mainly about “making
                                            Some of shape concept is scenarios manage to
The experiment: “Doing Shapes”
                                            capture the layout of the a pedagogical
                                            tacit knowledge explicit”, design
Observations
                                            grammar could adjust students to it. simple
                                            SG examples shows thefrom manifesting this
                                            process and benefit power of a
Concluding remarks
                                            mechanism to inspire students in producing
                                            implicit knowledge with inexperienced students.
                                            large and complex designs.
                                            The methodology involves a playful
                                            The methodology more relevant for teaching
                                            “Making” process that is very significant to
                                            beginners composition and visual
                                            be used under the studio’s project based
                                            correlation (Knight, 1999; Economou, 2000)
                                            approach.
     THE AFTER-RECOGNITION
          EXPERIMENT
   DESIGNING WITH
    CONSTRAINTS
Precedent work
    The first year studio structure      The Mid Stage: Production
    The recognition experiment           Designing with constraints /design generators
The introduction of grammar in
the first year studio                                    “Having understood a problem we must take further steps
The Mid stage: Production
                                                         to solve it”
                                                         Guilford, J. P. 1956. The structure of intellect. Psychological Bulletin, 53,
    Designing with constraints /design                   267.
    generators
The experiment: “Doing Shapes”

Observations                                              Constraints act as filtration this stage
                                                         The real difficulty associated withfactors for
Concluding remarks
                                                         is not just solutions; they are also stimuli
                                                          the design the formal composition of a
                                                         solution itself; recognizing the nature of the
                                                          for the design generation (Lawson,
                                                         design problem, its constraints and most
                                                          2006).The diversity in its functions,
                                                         importantly and originators can with the
                                                          typologies to respond to it easily be
                                                         appropriate solution the the very of design
                                                          seen reflected in is range important
                                                         yet ill-defined skill to be learnt.
                                                          approaches being followed

     THE AFTER-RECOGNITION
          EXPERIMENT
   DESIGNING WITH
    CONSTRAINTS
Precedent work
    The first year studio structure      The experiment: “Doing Shapes”
    The recognition experiment           The experiment grammar (subdivision grammars)
The introduction of grammar in
the first year studio
The Mid stage: Production
    Designing with constraints /design
    generators
The experiment: “Doing Shapes”

    The experiment grammar
    (subdivision grammars)
    Introductions of Constraints /
    References
    The Workshop
Observations
Concluding remarks




     THE AFTER-RECOGNITION
          EXPERIMENT
   DESIGNING WITH
    CONSTRAINTS
Precedent work
    The first year studio structure      The experiment: “Doing Shapes”
    The recognition experiment           Introduction of Constraints/ References
The introduction of grammar in
the first year studio
The Mid stage: Production
    Designing with constraints /design
    generators
The experiment: “Doing Shapes”

    The experiment grammar
    (subdivision grammars)
    Introductions of Constraints /
    References
    The Workshop
Observations
Concluding remarks
                                          References are mainly groups of values, lines
                                          or codes that are marked on the original master
                                          layer as guidelines to snap the subdivision on it.
     THE AFTER-RECOGNITION                These guidelines represent some of the design’s
          EXPERIMENT
   DESIGNING WITH                         constraints and considerations
    CONSTRAINTS
Precedent work
    The first year studio structure      The experiment: “Doing Shapes”
    The recognition experiment           The Workshop
The introduction of grammar in
the first year studio
The Mid stage: Production
    Designing with constraints /design
    generators
The experiment: “Doing Shapes”

    The experiment grammar
    (subdivision grammars)
    Introductions of Constraints /
    References
    The Workshop
Observations
Concluding remarks




     THE AFTER-RECOGNITION
          EXPERIMENT
   DESIGNING WITH
    CONSTRAINTS
Precedent work
    The first year studio structure      The experiment: “Doing Shapes”
    The recognition experiment           The Workshop
The introduction of grammar in
the first year studio
The Mid stage: Production
    Designing with constraints /design
    generators
The experiment: “Doing Shapes”

    The experiment grammar
    (subdivision grammars)
    Introductions of Constraints /
    References
    The Workshop
Observations
Concluding remarks
                                                                   SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
                                                                   BEACH HOUSE FACADE


     THE AFTER-RECOGNITION
          EXPERIMENT
   DESIGNING WITH
    CONSTRAINTS
Precedent work
    The first year studio structure      The experiment: “Doing Shapes”
    The recognition experiment           The Workshop
The introduction of grammar in
the first year studio
The Mid stage: Production
    Designing with constraints /design
    generators
The experiment: “Doing Shapes”

    The experiment grammar
    (subdivision grammars)
    Introductions of Constraints /
    References
    The Workshop
Observations
Concluding remarks




     THE AFTER-RECOGNITION
          EXPERIMENT
   DESIGNING WITH
    CONSTRAINTS
Observations   Once the abstractness of the design problem fades away,
Precedent work
                                                        unveiling some concrete meanings, the students’ response
    The first year studio structure
                                                        becomes more significantly affected by their own
    The recognition experiment
                                                        perception of the problem.
The introduction of grammar in
the first year studio
The Mid stage: Production
    Designing with constraints /design
    generators
The experiment: “Doing Shapes”

    The experiment grammar
    (subdivision grammars)
    Introductions of Constraints /
    References
    The Workshop
Observations
Concluding remarks




     THE AFTER-RECOGNITION
          EXPERIMENT
   DESIGNING WITH
    CONSTRAINTS
Observations (Group A)
Precedent work
    The first year studio structure
    The recognition experiment
The introduction of grammar in
the first year studio
The Mid stage: Production
    Designing with constraints /design
    generators
The experiment: “Doing Shapes”

    The experiment grammar
    (subdivision grammars)
    Introductions of Constraints /
    References
    The Workshop
Observations
Concluding remarks




     THE AFTER-RECOGNITION
          EXPERIMENT
   DESIGNING WITH
    CONSTRAINTS
Observations (Group B)
Precedent work
    The first year studio structure
    The recognition experiment
The introduction of grammar in
the first year studio
The Mid stage: Production
    Designing with constraints /design
    generators
The experiment: “Doing Shapes”

    The experiment grammar
    (subdivision grammars)
    Introductions of Constraints /
    References
    The Workshop
Observations
Concluding remarks




     THE AFTER-RECOGNITION
          EXPERIMENT
   DESIGNING WITH
    CONSTRAINTS
Observations (Group B)
Precedent work
    The first year studio structure
    The recognition experiment
The introduction of grammar in
the first year studio
The Mid stage: Production
    Designing with constraints /design
    generators
The experiment: “Doing Shapes”

    The experiment grammar
    (subdivision grammars)
    Introductions of Constraints /
    References
    The Workshop
Observations
Concluding remarks




     THE AFTER-RECOGNITION
          EXPERIMENT
   DESIGNING WITH
    CONSTRAINTS
Concluding remarks
Precedent work
                                                 Giving time for proper preparation, the experiment was
    The first year studio structure
                                                 reintroduced with a new introductory exercise that trained
    The recognition experiment
                                                 students on the technique and the use of references before
The introduction of grammar in
the first year studio
                                                 proceeding to main design experiments

The Mid stage: Production
    Designing with constraints /design
    generators
The experiment: “Doing Shapes”

    The experiment grammar
    (subdivision grammars)
    Introductions of Constraints /
    References
    The Workshop
Observations
Concluding remarks




     THE AFTER-RECOGNITION
          EXPERIMENT
   DESIGNING WITH
    CONSTRAINTS
Concluding remarks
Precedent work
    The first year studio structure
    The recognition experiment
The introduction of grammar in
the first year studio
The Mid stage: Production
    Designing with constraints /design
    generators
The experiment: “Doing Shapes”

    The experiment grammar
    (subdivision grammars)
    Introductions of Constraints /
    References
    The Workshop
Observations
Concluding remarks




     THE AFTER-RECOGNITION
          EXPERIMENT
   DESIGNING WITH
    CONSTRAINTS
Concluding remarks
Precedent work
    The first year studio structure        •Another preconception highlighted in the feedback session
    The recognition experiment
                                           was the students’ perspective of the differences between
The introduction of grammar in
the first year studio
                                           mimicking and inspiring from a subject.
The Mid stage: Production
    Designing with constraints /design
                                           •The discussion on the results touched on the subject of
    generators                             creativity and the way rules and structure can enhance a
The experiment: “Doing Shapes”             design process.
    The experiment grammar
    (subdivision grammars)
    Introductions of Constraints /
    References
    The Workshop
Observations
Concluding remarks




     THE AFTER-RECOGNITION
          EXPERIMENT
   DESIGNING WITH
    CONSTRAINTS
Precedent work
    The first year studio structure      The Next Workshop: To do it his way (design language)
    The recognition experiment           The evaluation stage
The introduction of grammar in
the first year studio
The Mid stage: Production
    Designing with constraints /design          Language                                    Design
    generators
The experiment: “Doing Shapes”

    The experiment grammar
    (subdivision grammars)
    Introductions of Constraints /
    References
    The Workshop
Observations
Concluding remarks                                         The transformed            The original
                                                           language                   Language




     THE AFTER-RECOGNITION
          EXPERIMENT
   DESIGNING WITH
    CONSTRAINTS

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Experiencing design with grammatical explorations in the beginning design studio | The after-recognition experiment: designing with constraints

  • 1. Mohammed S. Ibrahim Alexandria University, Egypt Mohsobhy77@gmail.com Alan Bridges Strathclyde University, UK A.h.bridges@strath.ac.uk Experiencing design with grammatical explorations in the beginning design studio Scott C. Chase Aalborg University, Denmark THE AFTER-RECOGNITION EXPERIMENT scha@create.aau.dk DESIGNING WITH Samir Bayoumi Alexandria University, Egypt Samir_hosni@hotmail.com CONSTRAINTS Dina S. Taha Alexandria University, Egypt Dina.taha@eng.alex.edu.eg
  • 2. Precedent work The first year studio structure The first year studio structure The recognition experiment The introduction of grammar in THE EARLY STAGE THE MID STAGE THE FINAL STAGE the first year studio Theme Theme Theme The Mid stage: Production The experiment: “Doing Shapes” Recognition Production Evaluation Nurturing the Skill of Reflecting /Designing in Evaluating the acquisition Observations Seeing response to a need of three skills Concluding remarks Complexity Level Complexity Level Complexity Level Abstract Goal-Driven Experiencing Experimentation Composition Architecture Target Thinking Type Target Thinking Type Target Thinking Type Imaginative /Divergent Induction to Reasoning Balanced /Critical thinking /Convergent thinking thinking THE AFTER-RECOGNITION EXPERIMENT DESIGNING WITH CONSTRAINTS
  • 3. Precedent work The first year studio structure The experiments The recognition experiment The Workshop The introduction of grammar in the first year studio The Mid stage: Production Designing with constraints /design generators The experiment: “Doing Shapes” The experiment grammar (subdivision grammars) Introductions of Constraints / References Group A Group B The Workshop The Strathclyde University The Alexandria University Observations Students (UK) Students(EGY) Concluding remarks •Vertical ( Project-based) •Horizontal Studio Studio Curriculum Curriculum •Familiar with Design for two •Fair knowledge about months more than techniques drawing techniques , design THE AFTER-RECOGNITION EXPERIMENT and theories principles with no design DESIGNING WITH experience after four months CONSTRAINTS
  • 4. Precedent work The first year studio structure The first experiment: Recognition The recognition experiment The introduction of grammar in the first year studio The Mid stage: Production The experiment: “Doing Shapes” Observations Concluding remarks THE AFTER-RECOGNITION EXPERIMENT DESIGNING WITH CONSTRAINTS
  • 5. Precedent work The first year studio structure The introduction of grammar in the first year studio The recognition experiment The introduction of grammar in the first year studio The Mid stage: Production The grammar’sgrammars’ mainly about “making Some of shape concept is scenarios manage to The experiment: “Doing Shapes” capture the layout of the a pedagogical tacit knowledge explicit”, design Observations grammar could adjust students to it. simple SG examples shows thefrom manifesting this process and benefit power of a Concluding remarks mechanism to inspire students in producing implicit knowledge with inexperienced students. large and complex designs. The methodology involves a playful The methodology more relevant for teaching “Making” process that is very significant to beginners composition and visual be used under the studio’s project based correlation (Knight, 1999; Economou, 2000) approach. THE AFTER-RECOGNITION EXPERIMENT DESIGNING WITH CONSTRAINTS
  • 6. Precedent work The first year studio structure The Mid Stage: Production The recognition experiment Designing with constraints /design generators The introduction of grammar in the first year studio “Having understood a problem we must take further steps The Mid stage: Production to solve it” Guilford, J. P. 1956. The structure of intellect. Psychological Bulletin, 53, Designing with constraints /design 267. generators The experiment: “Doing Shapes” Observations Constraints act as filtration this stage The real difficulty associated withfactors for Concluding remarks is not just solutions; they are also stimuli the design the formal composition of a solution itself; recognizing the nature of the for the design generation (Lawson, design problem, its constraints and most 2006).The diversity in its functions, importantly and originators can with the typologies to respond to it easily be appropriate solution the the very of design seen reflected in is range important yet ill-defined skill to be learnt. approaches being followed THE AFTER-RECOGNITION EXPERIMENT DESIGNING WITH CONSTRAINTS
  • 7. Precedent work The first year studio structure The experiment: “Doing Shapes” The recognition experiment The experiment grammar (subdivision grammars) The introduction of grammar in the first year studio The Mid stage: Production Designing with constraints /design generators The experiment: “Doing Shapes” The experiment grammar (subdivision grammars) Introductions of Constraints / References The Workshop Observations Concluding remarks THE AFTER-RECOGNITION EXPERIMENT DESIGNING WITH CONSTRAINTS
  • 8. Precedent work The first year studio structure The experiment: “Doing Shapes” The recognition experiment Introduction of Constraints/ References The introduction of grammar in the first year studio The Mid stage: Production Designing with constraints /design generators The experiment: “Doing Shapes” The experiment grammar (subdivision grammars) Introductions of Constraints / References The Workshop Observations Concluding remarks References are mainly groups of values, lines or codes that are marked on the original master layer as guidelines to snap the subdivision on it. THE AFTER-RECOGNITION These guidelines represent some of the design’s EXPERIMENT DESIGNING WITH constraints and considerations CONSTRAINTS
  • 9. Precedent work The first year studio structure The experiment: “Doing Shapes” The recognition experiment The Workshop The introduction of grammar in the first year studio The Mid stage: Production Designing with constraints /design generators The experiment: “Doing Shapes” The experiment grammar (subdivision grammars) Introductions of Constraints / References The Workshop Observations Concluding remarks THE AFTER-RECOGNITION EXPERIMENT DESIGNING WITH CONSTRAINTS
  • 10. Precedent work The first year studio structure The experiment: “Doing Shapes” The recognition experiment The Workshop The introduction of grammar in the first year studio The Mid stage: Production Designing with constraints /design generators The experiment: “Doing Shapes” The experiment grammar (subdivision grammars) Introductions of Constraints / References The Workshop Observations Concluding remarks SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA BEACH HOUSE FACADE THE AFTER-RECOGNITION EXPERIMENT DESIGNING WITH CONSTRAINTS
  • 11. Precedent work The first year studio structure The experiment: “Doing Shapes” The recognition experiment The Workshop The introduction of grammar in the first year studio The Mid stage: Production Designing with constraints /design generators The experiment: “Doing Shapes” The experiment grammar (subdivision grammars) Introductions of Constraints / References The Workshop Observations Concluding remarks THE AFTER-RECOGNITION EXPERIMENT DESIGNING WITH CONSTRAINTS
  • 12. Observations Once the abstractness of the design problem fades away, Precedent work unveiling some concrete meanings, the students’ response The first year studio structure becomes more significantly affected by their own The recognition experiment perception of the problem. The introduction of grammar in the first year studio The Mid stage: Production Designing with constraints /design generators The experiment: “Doing Shapes” The experiment grammar (subdivision grammars) Introductions of Constraints / References The Workshop Observations Concluding remarks THE AFTER-RECOGNITION EXPERIMENT DESIGNING WITH CONSTRAINTS
  • 13. Observations (Group A) Precedent work The first year studio structure The recognition experiment The introduction of grammar in the first year studio The Mid stage: Production Designing with constraints /design generators The experiment: “Doing Shapes” The experiment grammar (subdivision grammars) Introductions of Constraints / References The Workshop Observations Concluding remarks THE AFTER-RECOGNITION EXPERIMENT DESIGNING WITH CONSTRAINTS
  • 14. Observations (Group B) Precedent work The first year studio structure The recognition experiment The introduction of grammar in the first year studio The Mid stage: Production Designing with constraints /design generators The experiment: “Doing Shapes” The experiment grammar (subdivision grammars) Introductions of Constraints / References The Workshop Observations Concluding remarks THE AFTER-RECOGNITION EXPERIMENT DESIGNING WITH CONSTRAINTS
  • 15. Observations (Group B) Precedent work The first year studio structure The recognition experiment The introduction of grammar in the first year studio The Mid stage: Production Designing with constraints /design generators The experiment: “Doing Shapes” The experiment grammar (subdivision grammars) Introductions of Constraints / References The Workshop Observations Concluding remarks THE AFTER-RECOGNITION EXPERIMENT DESIGNING WITH CONSTRAINTS
  • 16. Concluding remarks Precedent work Giving time for proper preparation, the experiment was The first year studio structure reintroduced with a new introductory exercise that trained The recognition experiment students on the technique and the use of references before The introduction of grammar in the first year studio proceeding to main design experiments The Mid stage: Production Designing with constraints /design generators The experiment: “Doing Shapes” The experiment grammar (subdivision grammars) Introductions of Constraints / References The Workshop Observations Concluding remarks THE AFTER-RECOGNITION EXPERIMENT DESIGNING WITH CONSTRAINTS
  • 17. Concluding remarks Precedent work The first year studio structure The recognition experiment The introduction of grammar in the first year studio The Mid stage: Production Designing with constraints /design generators The experiment: “Doing Shapes” The experiment grammar (subdivision grammars) Introductions of Constraints / References The Workshop Observations Concluding remarks THE AFTER-RECOGNITION EXPERIMENT DESIGNING WITH CONSTRAINTS
  • 18. Concluding remarks Precedent work The first year studio structure •Another preconception highlighted in the feedback session The recognition experiment was the students’ perspective of the differences between The introduction of grammar in the first year studio mimicking and inspiring from a subject. The Mid stage: Production Designing with constraints /design •The discussion on the results touched on the subject of generators creativity and the way rules and structure can enhance a The experiment: “Doing Shapes” design process. The experiment grammar (subdivision grammars) Introductions of Constraints / References The Workshop Observations Concluding remarks THE AFTER-RECOGNITION EXPERIMENT DESIGNING WITH CONSTRAINTS
  • 19. Precedent work The first year studio structure The Next Workshop: To do it his way (design language) The recognition experiment The evaluation stage The introduction of grammar in the first year studio The Mid stage: Production Designing with constraints /design Language Design generators The experiment: “Doing Shapes” The experiment grammar (subdivision grammars) Introductions of Constraints / References The Workshop Observations Concluding remarks The transformed The original language Language THE AFTER-RECOGNITION EXPERIMENT DESIGNING WITH CONSTRAINTS

Editor's Notes

  1. Thesistitle: STRUCTURING THE DESIGN STUDIO EDUCATION: CRAFTING THE PROJECTS OF THE BEGINNING STUDIO USING SHAPE GRAMMARSAbstract. This paper describes a teaching experience conducted and carried out as part of the coursework of first year students of architecture in two different countries. The workshop is the second of three workshops planned to take place during the course of the first year studio, aimed at introducing new ways of thinking and introducing students to a new pattern of architectural education.The experiment was planned under the theme of “Production” in the mid-stage that is considered the operational stage of the design process. It also succeeded a recognition stage in which the students’ visual reasoning skills were targeted with more open and less determined design tasks. A grammatical approach was chosen to deliver the methodology in the design studio, based on the shape grammar methodology.Keywords. Beginning/Novice students; shape grammar; pedagogical grammar; design education.
  2. The presented work is based on a pedagogical model of the beginning studio (Ibrahim et al., 2010) that structured the first year studio and divided it into three consequent stages: recognition, production then evaluation
  3. The workshop took place four months from the beginning of the year and was conducted with two groups of students:Group A, Strathclyde University students (UK): within a project based studio curriculum, stu­dents have some familiarity with “design” as they were confronted with designing and making from the beginning of the year.Group B, Alexandria University students (EGY): studio education here is mainly about funda­mentals and basic design. Students have not been subjected to any kind of designing or modelling activities, yet they have fair amount of knowledge about drawing techniques, design principles, etc.
  4. Three experiments were scheduled to take place accordingly over the course of each stage The early stage experiments were crafted with a main goal of nurturing the skill of seeingStudents were asked to draw different interpretations for the shape and its basic elements and to extend and modify the existing design with basic geometric operations.
  5. From its success in analysing and synthesizing design, shape grammar has been brought into design education in various forms(Stiny and Gips, 1972). In many instances it is introduced as a generative design methodology during design computation classes, and in other occasions it is highlighted as a design methodology in specific design projects through design studio workAlthoughthere is no comprehensive literature on the use of grammar systems for the beginning design studio education,the methodology is thought to be well-suited for teaching beginners from other different theoretical aspects......Accordingly,The applied model will be a more general interpretation of the theory that promises some degree of flexibility in its vocabularies and rules’ description to allow all these reinterpretation and changing situations to occur.
  6. Not grammar, but logical reasoning, rational thinkingTracing the conceptual change in the design reaction will most likely lead us to the search for the associated actions generated by the constraints themselves. Identifying and understanding the constraints at this stage is thought to be a key for the appropriate solution.The production stage is the making phase, the most playful and creative of the design process, in which architects form ideas and possible solutions that might address the goals, constraints, and opportunities established during the problem analysis phase of the process. For tutors, the act of making is most important in increasing the students’ understanding of the object or space being drawn; this understanding can therefore be translated into a “remembered experience” which subsequently forms the basis for a repository of memories and experiences that one draws upon in the design process. This is essential in order to develop the targeted expertise in beginning design students. The real difficulty associated with this stage is not just the formal composition of a solution itself; recognizing the nature of the design problem, its constraints and most importantly to respond to it with the appropriate solution is the very important yet ill-defined skill to be learnt.Constraints act as filtration factors for the design solutions; they are also stimuli for the design generation (Lawson, 2006).The diversity in its functions, typologies and originators can easily be seen reflected in the range of design approaches being followed. Tracing the conceptual change in the design reaction will most likely lead us to the search for the associated actions generated by the constraints themselves. Identifying and understanding the constraints at this stage is thought to be a key for the appropriate solution.
  7. The main idea behind the grammar is that each elevation can be analyzed as a parallelogram subdivided with two simple rules of subdivision: vertical and horizontal, into three different types of volumes: solid, glass and void. In the grammar, those volumes are labelled in yellow, blue and green Second slide : The grammar’s development occurs in three sequential steps :Subdivision: subdividing the rectangle and labelling the subdivided zones.Layering: merging similar zones with similar Z values, projecting and moving layers in order to give the 2D elevations a three dimensional perspective.Articulating (refinement): giving some of the language and refinement details ( this step was not introduced in the experiment)The students did somemerging of areasinstead of articulation
  8. Some of these references are mandatory like structural /floor levels and legislation; some concern design decisions like the respected module, human scale and the code of functions behind the facades; while others reflect design principles like rhythm, proportions, etc.Those “references” also prevent the process from proceeding aimlessly, causing the design to disconnect from its functional context or whatever logical purposes it stands for.
  9. Students were given a 20 minutes talk about design strategies, including subdivision. The concept of the subdivision grammar was demystified and demonstrated with some of examples.
  10. And some of Meier’s examples as well
  11. In groups of five, students were given a facade design assignment, in which they had to use the subdivision strategy in designing an abstract facade for a building in a historical context.They were asked to begin by selecting their own preferences for guidelines (constraints or idea generator) for the master layer, selecting from a range that includes internal (the building’s information, function and spaces) and external (guidelines from the surrounding context) constrains.Thesephotoswere all from Alexandria
  12. For some students, the effect of these mind-sets was strong enough to interfere and conflict with their understanding. Their conflicted perception misled them to clearly render versions of the surrounding context images in their work, overlooking any given instructions about the abstractness of the masses and the subdivision mechanism.the interaction between the beginners of both groups and their surrounding environment was shaped by:The image: the characteristic of the surrounding architectural context which accumulatively formed their architectural memory.The perception: the way in which students perceived and translated these contextual images, whether by inspiration or direct imitation of the surrounding architecture features in their designs.
  13. Even though students in group A missed the main concept of subdivision in the first instance, they captured and understood the use of references in their designs. They mostly used (and proposed )external references that link the facade to its neighbourhood rather than only following internal ones that respect the function and structure behind the designed facade. The strength of thisexercisewas it wastheirongoingproject
  14. While group B students managed to understand the use of references as well, their selections were limited to the ones proposed in the tutorial and more precisely to the internal references more than the externals.The same defect is believed to be caused either by the students’ continuous search to solve defined problems or their eagerness to design that disconnects the subject being designed from its contextual meaning.
  15. Despite being the first architectural design assignment for group B, and regardless of the naivety of some of their designs in addition to the unexpected outcomes, the results showed that the process is capable of producing interesting, viable and innovative designs .The richness of the students' work demonstrated that the application of rigid rules does not interfere in the creative process.
  16. Giving time for proper preparation, the experiment was reintroduced with a new introductory exercise that trained students on the technique and the use of references before proceeding to main design experiments Done with Strathclydeonly?
  17. The implemented shape grammars proved being an appropriate design method for delivering the goals of the mid stage. In the presented case, and especially in the remaking of the workshop, the selected methodology provided students with a simple, interesting and playful making mechanism that enabled them to start designing with constraints.Alexandria student work here
  18. It is also evident that the quantitative and qualitative introduction of constraints didn’t hamper the flow of the design process, nor did it prevent the generation of innovative designs.
  19. Introductorylecture on grammarsBring theirown design portfolios to workshopExtracttheirownlanguage from theirworkExchange with partner, whodevelops designs and transformslanguage