Rodrigo Scheeren
University of Sao Paulo, Institute of Architecture and Urbanism, Graduate Student
- Tecnology of Architecture and Urbanism, Social Sciences, Architecture, Engineering, Technology, Parametric Design, and 10 moreDesign Computation (Architecture), Theory Of Architecture, Architectural Theory and Design, Contemporary Art, Philosophy of Art, Philosophy, Aesthetics, Structuralism/Post-Structuralism, Digital Architecture, and Computational Designedit
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Diante das novas possibilidades de insercao dos avancos tecnologicos no processo de ensino e aprendizagem contemporânea de educacao em nivel superior, reflexo de uma sociedade dinâmica e virtualmente conectada, mostra-se necessario... more
Diante das novas possibilidades de insercao dos avancos tecnologicos no processo de ensino e aprendizagem contemporânea de educacao em nivel superior, reflexo de uma sociedade dinâmica e virtualmente conectada, mostra-se necessario replanejar a abordagem didatico-pedagogica. Por meio de uma analise informal em desenvolvimento, mostra-se a fase de implantacao das disciplinas que utilizam recursos digitais no ensino-aprendizagem de processos de projetos arquitetonicos do curso de Arquitetura e Urbanismo da UNIFEOB ao longo dos ultimos tres anos, fazendo parte de um estudo mais amplo que e a implementacao de conceitos BIM em matriz curricular de cursos de ensino superior. De acordo como o modelo conceitual do campo BIM e os seus estagios de capacidade, este trabalho se insere nas areas de processo e politicas com integracao e colaboracao, 2PR e 2PQ, respectivamente. Dentro destas perspectivas e possibilidades de reorganizacao do curso em andamento, foram inseridas disciplinas relaciona...
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The article presents the pedagogical experience of the elective course “Feel the space: design with tactile models” held at the Institute of Architecture and Urbanism of USP / S?o Carlos in 2014. From the critique of the primacy of... more
The article presents the pedagogical experience of the elective course “Feel the space: design with tactile models” held at the Institute of Architecture and Urbanism of USP / S?o Carlos in 2014. From the critique of the primacy of seeing, the experimental activity proposed a housing design process with a visually impaired person, using models, plants and tactile maps. Were investigated and compared the free use of materials and processes with the use of digital fabrication - MDF plates manufactured with a laser cutting machine. As a result, it is presented the tactile representation system developed in the activity.
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The article presents and discusses the experience of a workshop held online in 2020 as part of the DigitalFUTURES event. The proposal found its starting point in the register of a world in the midst of a pandemic crisis. The general... more
The article presents and discusses the experience of a workshop held online in 2020 as part of the DigitalFUTURES event. The proposal found its starting point in the register of a world in the midst of a pandemic crisis. The general objective of the workshop was the construction of a design thinking capable of acting on the domestic by means of a disobedience projected towards a possible future. In this framework, digital disobedience became an exercise in critically questioning certain ambiguities of digital interfaces in their everyday omnipresence. By adopting a decolonial sight on design through an epistemology from the South, it was possible to achieve at alternative figurations of futures. These figurations led to the design of a series of futuristic domestic devices capable of exploring disobedient scenarios of domestic dwelling.
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The article presents a taxonomy of projects related to the application of digital fabrication technologies in architecture, design, and construction, developed in the context of South America. As part of ongoing research, the material... more
The article presents a taxonomy of projects related to the application of digital fabrication technologies in architecture, design, and construction, developed in the context of South America. As part of ongoing research, the material refers to the themes of technological appropriation, socio-technical adequacy, and social innovation. The objective is to categorize part of the design experiments identified during the investigation, showing a local perspective of the production strategies. The methods include a literature review and systematic review, mapping, questionnaire and case studies. The recent context of the installation of digital fabrication laboratories started in 2007 and has been expanded in institutions through teaching and research, in addition to the consolidation of the Fab Lab model. The practical results are very heterogeneous, still limited in scale and strongly based on the hybrid articulation between analog and digital, due to the available materials, the type ...
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The introduction of digital fabrication technologies in Latin America faces diverse, heterogeneous and decentralized conditions. After several years, there was not a comprehensive perspective on the situation in the region. The goal of... more
The introduction of digital fabrication technologies in Latin America faces diverse, heterogeneous and decentralized conditions. After several years, there was not a comprehensive perspective on the situation in the region. The goal of this paper is to present a project called ``Homo Faber: Digital Fabrication in Latin America'' and some of its results. The project comprehends the creation of a database that led to researches and exhibitions about digital fabrication in design, architecture and building construction in Latin America. The questions that guide the investigation try to understand which factors contribute and limit the potential of automation in material processes towards 4.0 industry.
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This paper introduces and examines the latest and current background of digital fabrication in the context of Latin American architecture and presents updated information from the Homo Faber: Digital Fabrication in Latin America Project,... more
This paper introduces and examines the latest and current background of digital fabrication in the context of Latin American architecture and presents updated information from the Homo Faber: Digital Fabrication in Latin America Project, which focuses on laboratories exploring the application of manufacturing technologies in architectural experiments and design objects. The results point to a context including several dynamics involving the emergence of digital craft in communities, the redesign of standard building components, the creation of mobile laboratories , experiments connecting low and high technologies, hacking practices, as well as bottom-up strategies to implement these technologies in the industry. The overall conclusion is that technology transfer and technological appropriation processes are still being carried out in the region. Resumen Este documento presenta y examina los antecedentes más recientes y actuales de la fabricación digital en el contexto de la arquitectura latinoamericana y presenta información actualizada del Proyecto Homo Faber: Fabricación Digital en América Latina. Este proyecto se centra en los labo-ratorios que exploran la aplicación de las tecnologías de fabricación en experimentos arquitectó-nicos y objetos de diseño. Los resultados apuntan a un contexto que incluye varias dinámicas que implican el surgimiento de la artesanía digital en las comunidades, el rediseño de componentes de construcción estándar, la creación de laboratorios móviles, experimentos que conectan tecno-logías bajas y altas, prácticas de hackeo informático, así como estrategias ascendentes para apli-car estas tecnologías en la industria. La conclusión general es que los procesos de transferencia y apropiación de tecnología se siguen realizando en la región.
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This paper introduces and examines the latest and current background of digital fabrication in the context of Latin American architecture and presents updated information from the Homo Faber: Digital Fabrication in Latin America Project,... more
This paper introduces and examines the latest and current background of digital fabrication in the context of Latin American architecture and presents updated information from the Homo Faber: Digital Fabrication in Latin America Project, which focuses on laboratories exploring the application of manufacturing technologies in architectural experiments and design objects. The results point to a context including several dynamics involving the emergence of digital craft in communities, the redesign of standard building components, the creation of mobile laboratories , experiments connecting low and high technologies, hacking practices, as well as bottom-up strategies to implement these technologies in the industry. The overall conclusion is that technology transfer and technological appropriation processes are still being carried out in the region. Resumen Este documento presenta y examina los antecedentes más recientes y actuales de la fabricación digital en el contexto de la arquitectura latinoamericana y presenta información actualizada del Proyecto Homo Faber: Fabricación Digital en América Latina. Este proyecto se centra en los labo-ratorios que exploran la aplicación de las tecnologías de fabricación en experimentos arquitectó-nicos y objetos de diseño. Los resultados apuntan a un contexto que incluye varias dinámicas que implican el surgimiento de la artesanía digital en las comunidades, el rediseño de componentes de construcción estándar, la creación de laboratorios móviles, experimentos que conectan tecno-logías bajas y altas, prácticas de hackeo informático, así como estrategias ascendentes para apli-car estas tecnologías en la industria. La conclusión general es que los procesos de transferencia y apropiación de tecnología se siguen realizando en la región.
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The article presents the pedagogical experience of the elective course “Feel the space: design with tactile models” held at the Institute of Architecture and Urbanism of USP / São Carlos in 2014. From the critique of the primacy of... more
The article presents the pedagogical experience of the elective course “Feel the space: design with tactile models” held at the Institute of Architecture and Urbanism of USP / São Carlos in 2014. From the critique of the primacy of seeing, the experimental activity proposed a housing design process with a visually impaired person, using models, plants and tactile maps. Were investigated and compared the free use of materials and processes with the use of digital fabrication - MDF plates manufactured with a laser cutting machine. As a result, it is presented the tactile representation system developed in the activity.
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The article is part of an ongoing theoretical research about the emergence of parametric architecture. It discusses some of the last developments in digital design from the transition of the discourse and operativity by “diagrams” to the... more
The article is part of an ongoing theoretical research about the emergence of parametric architecture. It discusses some of the last developments in digital design from the transition of the discourse and operativity by “diagrams” to the theories and processes derived from “parameters”. Centered in Peter Eisenman’s and Patrik Schumacher’s propositions, it is in its horizon to comprehend what relations are established between “diagram” and “parameter” - similarities, complementarities and differences -, contributing for the critical contextualization of theoretical movements and design processes in contemporary architecture.
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The article presents a mapping of digital fabrication laboratories in South America from the architecture and urbanism field. First, it draws a brief context of implementation of facilities and growing of expertise highlighting economic,... more
The article presents a mapping of digital fabrication laboratories in South America from the architecture and urbanism field. First, it draws a brief context of implementation of facilities and growing of expertise highlighting economic, academic and cultural aspects. Second, it presents some data mapped from 31 laboratories of the region, as infrastructure, and correlations between uses and applications. Third, it organizes the mapped laboratories in two significant approaches for the region’s context: works focused on technological development and actions directed to the social and environmental development. Fourth, it infers some possible steps of the field in the region in the near future.
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The article is part of an ongoing theoretical research about the emergence of parametric architecture. It discusses some of the last developments in digital design from the transition of the discourse and operativity by “diagrams” to the... more
The article is part of an ongoing theoretical research about the emergence of parametric architecture. It discusses some of the last developments in digital design from the transition of the discourse and operativity by “diagrams” to the theories and processes derived from “parameters”. Centered in Peter Eisenman’s and Patrik Schumacher’s propositions, it is in its horizon to comprehend what relations are established between “diagram” and “parameter” - similarities, complementarities and differences -, contributing for the critical contextualization of theoretical movements and design processes in contemporary architecture.
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Este documento presenta y examina los antecedentes más recientes y actuales de la fabricación digital en el contexto de la arquitectura latinoamericana y presenta información actualizada del Proyecto Homo Faber: Fabricación Digital en... more
Este documento presenta y examina los antecedentes más recientes y actuales de la fabricación digital en el contexto de la arquitectura latinoamericana y presenta información actualizada del Proyecto Homo Faber: Fabricación Digital en América Latina. Este proyecto se centra en los laboratorios que exploran la aplicación de las tecnologías de fabricación en experimentos arquitectónicos y objetos de diseño. Los resultados apuntan a un contexto que incluye varias dinámicas que
implican el surgimiento de la artesanía digital en las comunidades, el rediseño de componentes de construcción estándar, la creación de laboratorios móviles, experimentos que conectan tecnologías
bajas y altas, prácticas de hackeo informático, así como estrategias ascendentes para aplicar estas tecnologías en la industria. La conclusión general es que los procesos de transferencia y apropiación de tecnología se siguen realizando en la región.
implican el surgimiento de la artesanía digital en las comunidades, el rediseño de componentes de construcción estándar, la creación de laboratorios móviles, experimentos que conectan tecnologías
bajas y altas, prácticas de hackeo informático, así como estrategias ascendentes para aplicar estas tecnologías en la industria. La conclusión general es que los procesos de transferencia y apropiación de tecnología se siguen realizando en la región.