Design Pedagogy: Adaptive Reuse and the Digital Twin

With the increasing demands on integrated design, sustainability, and analysis, how can the core design studios be structured to address concerns related to context and materiality by employing a digital twin? What are some of the advantages of using LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) and photogrammetry to capture resources, and how might they facilitate our approach to design education? What are the benefits of using this technology to educate students to reuse buildings and critically and productively repurpose building materials? How considerable are the cost and time required to develop a digital twin, and what are the best practices to seamlessly interface its assets with other platforms? A LiDAR scan of St. Mary’s church (1843) in Troy, New York, was commissioned, along with a digital twin for the second-year undergraduate design studio. The twin was shared with an allied daylighting course to examine and modify the existing daylighting conditions inside the church. The scan captured the material and ornamentation of the walls and floors, notably the stone, masonry, and wood elements, as found in the field, and helped illustrate the tectonics associated with the composite nature of the church’s construction. The studio pedagogy promoted design proposals that critically engage context, adaptive reuse, daylighting, and heightened awareness of material finishes, selective demolition, and tectonics.

https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.AM.110.73

Volume Editors
Robert Gonzalez, Milton Curry & Monica Ponce de Leon

ISBN
978-1-944214-40-1