The concept of the digital chain has been widely revolutionizing design and production in the fie... more The concept of the digital chain has been widely revolutionizing design and production in the field of architecture. While this concept has been explored in a number of projects, only a few have investigated the specific generative design methods in such a process in an educational context. Different schools of thought have emerged in this regard. Some promote the rule-based approach, where specific rules and systems are more dominant than inspiration and intuition, and vice versa. In this paper, we argue that, throughout the digital chain, there exists a different set of dynamics that govern the implemented methods, that is neither fully rule-based nor intuition-based, but a hybrid of both. We present the process and outcomes of three consecutive semesters of a digital design studio and workshop course. The paper puts forward an inquiry into the digital chain process exercised in each class, and provides a thick description of the implemented generative design methods.
The concept of the digital chain has been widely revolutionizing design and production in the fie... more The concept of the digital chain has been widely revolutionizing design and production in the field of architecture. While this concept has been explored in a number of projects, only a few have investigated the specific generative design methods in such a process in an educational context. Different schools of thought have emerged in this regard. Some promote the rule-based approach, where specific rules and systems are more dominant than inspiration and intuition, and vice versa. In this paper, we argue that, throughout the digital chain, there exists a different set of dynamics that govern the implemented methods, that is neither fully rule-based nor intuition-based, but a hybrid of both. We present the process and outcomes of three consecutive semesters of a digital design studio and workshop course. The paper puts forward an inquiry into the digital chain process exercised in each class, and provides a thick description of the implemented generative design methods.
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