Intro

MAG LAB, Syria – Spain – Italy (Materials- Advanced Architecture – Generative Laboratory) as a part of Maksoud Architectural Group, authorized training center of McNeel in Syria and the Middle East through its affiliate offices, is pleased to announce TopoLogic Workshop  that will take place in Beirut – Lebanon on May 11^th 2012.

TopLogic is a intensive 4 days full time Workshop focusing exclusively on introducing Digital Morphogenesis, evolving architecture through computation, Form finding and optimizing complex geometry with parametric design tools in conjunction with economic efficiency, structural performance, environmental impact, and programmatic progress.

This workshop will serve as an introduction to the syntax and tools of evolutionary computation as well as an exploration of its influence on parametric architectural design.

This workshop focuses on impacts of digital technologies on professional practice and services. It explores issues such as emerging forms of professional practice, status of professional knowledge and skills, use and value of digital information in design.

Introducing changing variables, either specified or random and through repetitive or iterative processing, design problems are created (scripted) explored and adjusted based on either internal or external logics or criteria.

Throughout the workshop, students will be given the opportunity to:

1. Explore computational techniques in the context of architectural design
2. To explore and experiment with scripting in 3d studio MAX and Rhino To investigate emergent properties and characteristics in computationally defined systems
3. To explore the computational formations in the context of architectural design:  Fields and Spirals, Subdivisions and Differential systems, Fractals and Branching Systems,
4. In this workshop the student will concentrate on design processes in order to explore architectonical potentials seen and done by digital tools. The student will finish the workshop knowing how to generate design processes through digital tools and how to apply this knowledge in order to create architectonical proposals and physical prototypes.

At the end of the workshop each participant will receive an official certificate of participation signed officially by the related workshop collaborators universities and associations.

The Workshop applications are online and close on 11^th  May 2012.