Université de Montréal 2022
In this studio, students were asked to study the aesthetic potential of an anonymous storage building of their choosing. The central problem was the part-to-whole relationship, commonly seen in suburban warehouses and industrial parks, in which a dense, relatively small part of a building -- often located on a corner -- is asked to perform the majority of the work of creating an iconic and communicative architectural image. We started with case studies of instances of this type, from which students built parametric models to generate variations on the theme. Students used generative AI (at this time still relatively new) to visualize and generate the material effects of the surfaces of the larger generic elements of the building.