Instructor(s)
Prof. Erik Demaine
Prof. John Ochsendorf
Martin Demaine
Simon Greenwold
Axel Kilian
Prof. Barbara Cutler
MIT Course Number
4.491
As Taught In
Fall 2004
Level
Graduate
Course Description
Course Features
Course Description
Inspired by the work of the architect Antoni Gaudi, this research workshop will explore three-dimensional problems in the static equilibrium of structural systems. Through an interdisciplinary collaboration between computer science and architecture, we will develop design tools for determining the form of three-dimensional structural systems under a variety of loads. The goal of the workshop is to develop real-time design and analysis tools which will be useful to architects and engineers in the form-finding of efficient three-dimensional structural systems.