Bucky Lab Design

The focus of the semester is an innovative building construction/product or façade design/product for the built environment, this may be a part of a building, a pavillion or a facade. The task is a building component or a facade product in which all the important technical and architectural aspects of a building are integrated.

The course is hosted by the chair of Building Product Innovation - therefore the focus will be on architectural Product Design - this is not a general Building Construction course.

The first three weeks students individually research and analyse the assignment in order to come up with an innovative concept. The remaining weeks of the semester are dedicated to a design by research process in which all the main aspects of the design, from applied mechanics, material properties to production techniques are researched ending in an integrated final design.

After the concept and design and engineering phase we will set up our mobile workshop and will build the concepts in a full scale prototype.

The course will be finalised by a review of the prototype - possible improvements and changes will be summarised in the report as also the overall process of the semester. The final product will be presented in a public presentation.