Digital Craft Exercise - 2002

Modelling an Art Gallery

And documenting its design and lighting

This course explores the Craft of the Digital in Architecture and Building. It uses the internet to document and assist the collaboration of two people collaborating in the construction of a 3D model of a significant recent daylit Art Gallery. It explores the role of global illumination (photon mapping) in the development of a design understanding of the interplay of light and shade under daylight as well as electric light. It uses the Art Gallery/Museum, "the modern day cathedral" (Mario Botta in the San Francisco Chronicle 1994) as a vehicle to develop this understanding.

The course is run by Michael Donn at the Victoria University School of Architecture