The Shapes of Fiction will look into reading and writing as a stereoscopic phenomenon. It will look at fiction as a multi-dimensional entity, responding to its own laws. It won't be a writing course but a practice-based investigation of the underlying structure and movements that hold a fiction. On one side, students will read and watch, according to a specific perspective each session, a set of texts and films. On the other side and in parallel, they will produce a multi-dimensional fiction using text and images. By the end of the course, they shall be able to approach an architectural program not only as a built proposal but as a set of potential narratives. They shall also be able to access a fiction as they enter a physical space.

This course will continue the investigation into systemic production modes as both performative and sensual aspects of digital craft. In this term we will focus on the development of digital data sorting techniques and the possibilities of translating visible and invisible material properties into variables of colour, light and penetration patterns. Through the exploration of data driven material effects, we will experiment with different modes of manufacturing techniques in order to generate a series of fabricated data prototypes.

Going beyond the scale of the standard model, this course focuses on developing a working understanding of fabrication through designing on the CNC for an actual scale. Throughout the term, students will be developing projects that address the design of installation pieces within the school, examining the relationship of material structures and physical resolution. The ‘Pending Structure’ should be beautiful and consider ideas of independence while respecting forms of integration – a measured ratio of directionality and belonging. The course will culminate with the fabrication of a final project at Hooke Park.

This course will focus on the understanding of physically-correct lighting simulation with the development of the production of an image. We will start the course with concepts of material emulation, lighting conditions, camera setup, composition, and narration through studied precedence of a series of photography. Thereafter, students will be encouraged to carry on these initial concepts and appropriate their imaging techniques to their own projects.

This course will focus on the construction of two contrasting forms of representation: one drawing and one image - aiming to represent precisely one idea and one moment, dedicated to the notion of ‘exteriority’. An atmosphere somewhere between plan and space. In a series of workshops students will explore specific drafting and collaging techniques, develop a sensibility for the detail and learn to confront the precise abstraction of the drawing with the surreal reality of the collage. We will conclude the course with a collective publication.

Using the medium of digital painting we will be creating large scale narratives. We will hurl pixels at a virtual canvas, which will then be re-drawn, modelled and deconstructed as we navigate our way through it. Architectures and stories that exist within it will be surgically extracted and edited. Ideas will be siphoned through various software, techniques and projections - gradually aggregating into the final vision.

Modelled after the Matterhorn, a mountain in the Swiss Alps, the Matterhorn Bobsleds is an attraction at Disneyland in Anaheim, California. Located on the borderline between Tomorrowland and Fantasyland, it employs forced perspective. The course seeks to experiment with modes of representation between the artificial rendered beautification and the mechanic precise construction of the artificial mountain. We will use Rhinoceros, 3ds Max, Autocad and Photoshop to create an articulated set of documents of our own augmented natural imitation.

The course continues the conceptual computational framework set out in the autumn by looking at Augmented Reality (AR) as another potential site of spatial investigation using real-time video-based input. This term students would use the web-cam as the main hardware and Processing/Java as the main scripting software to implement the AR experiments (i.e. video-feeding, making & tracking 2D QR pattern and creating & importing 3D objects).

Based on results of the work from The Unseen I we will dissect, reconfigure and recompose the final results to come up withe a yet unseen composition of visual realities. "a crock". "brilliant". "indulgent"