Computation and Learning Partnerships: Lessons from Wood Architecture, Engineering, and Construction Integration
Examining an interdisciplinary university course for architecture, wood science, and engineering students, this paper studies how the students’ ability to master digital workflows influenced their success in learning collaborative design skills. It highlights potential challenges and opportunities p...
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| description | Examining an interdisciplinary university course for architecture, wood science, and engineering students, this paper studies how the students’ ability to master digital workflows influenced their success in learning collaborative design skills. It highlights potential challenges and opportunities posed by the introduction of new digital tools to support emerging integrated building design in both education and professional practice. The particular course focuses on the wood industry, which is rapidly changing from a very traditional to a highly innovative sector and increasingly embracing the latest technological developments in computational design, simulation, and digital fabrication. This study explores the influence of parametric design on collaboration dynamics and workflow within an interdisciplinary group of students embodying the roles of manufacturer, engineer, and architect. Student-generated data of the first three years of the class is analyzed thematically to find correlations with productive collaborations. Focusing on a stage of an evolving teaching and learning process, this analysis allows identifications of common themes and patterns, suggesting implications for practice and future research. The course highlights the need to integrate data interoperability, collaboration skill-building, and material awareness in contemporary digitally enabled architecture, engineering, and construction education. The lessons learned in this course can be of value to academic programs and professional firms involved in incorporating digital design and interdisciplinary collaboration. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c8d44622dc524d0db98a8d7a3070711b2023-11-21T10:37:50ZengMDPI AGEducation Sciences2227-71022021-03-0111312410.3390/educsci11030124Computation and Learning Partnerships: Lessons from Wood Architecture, Engineering, and Construction IntegrationMariapaola Riggio0Nancy Yen-wen Cheng1Wood Science and Engineering, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USADepartment of Architecture, School of Architecture & Environment, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403, USAExamining an interdisciplinary university course for architecture, wood science, and engineering students, this paper studies how the students’ ability to master digital workflows influenced their success in learning collaborative design skills. It highlights potential challenges and opportunities posed by the introduction of new digital tools to support emerging integrated building design in both education and professional practice. The particular course focuses on the wood industry, which is rapidly changing from a very traditional to a highly innovative sector and increasingly embracing the latest technological developments in computational design, simulation, and digital fabrication. This study explores the influence of parametric design on collaboration dynamics and workflow within an interdisciplinary group of students embodying the roles of manufacturer, engineer, and architect. Student-generated data of the first three years of the class is analyzed thematically to find correlations with productive collaborations. Focusing on a stage of an evolving teaching and learning process, this analysis allows identifications of common themes and patterns, suggesting implications for practice and future research. The course highlights the need to integrate data interoperability, collaboration skill-building, and material awareness in contemporary digitally enabled architecture, engineering, and construction education. The lessons learned in this course can be of value to academic programs and professional firms involved in incorporating digital design and interdisciplinary collaboration.https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7102/11/3/124interdisciplinary collaborationintegrated designparametric designwood constructioninterdisciplinary education |
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| title | Computation and Learning Partnerships: Lessons from Wood Architecture, Engineering, and Construction Integration |
| title_full | Computation and Learning Partnerships: Lessons from Wood Architecture, Engineering, and Construction Integration |
| title_fullStr | Computation and Learning Partnerships: Lessons from Wood Architecture, Engineering, and Construction Integration |
| title_full_unstemmed | Computation and Learning Partnerships: Lessons from Wood Architecture, Engineering, and Construction Integration |
| title_short | Computation and Learning Partnerships: Lessons from Wood Architecture, Engineering, and Construction Integration |
| title_sort | computation and learning partnerships lessons from wood architecture engineering and construction integration |
| topic | interdisciplinary collaboration integrated design parametric design wood construction interdisciplinary education |
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