Tutors:
Prof. Arch. Shraga Kirshner | Head of the department | building & Environment Design
Des. Efrat Gilboa | Lecturer and digital workshops coordinator

Participants: Shimrit Cohen, Gashinov Dorina, Gavrielov Natali, Daniel Balin, Baron Sharon, Lawrence Perez, Guy Levy, Berman Tal, Timo Seegraber, Ralf Kruse

Faculty of Design at Shenkar, Ramat-Gan In collaboration with Faculty of Design, at HAW in Hamburg offered Summer-Workshop on Music as a media for generating architectural form in the city of Hamburg; Two complementary summer workshops were organized and led by Arch. S. Kirshner and Des. E. Gilboa;

Left side: General Information presented in the exhibition representing the sampling process with EyesWeb and converting sound parameters into surfaces with ParaCloud | Right side: German student’s work: Timo Seegraber, Ralf Kruse

The workshop’s agenda was located in an interdisciplinary field, between Music and Architecture, as two complementary fields that affect each other. The interaction between Sound and Architecture leans on the premise that sound is a design tool and not only a decoration that we add at the end of design process. As long as we assume that Sound affects the way we feel and behave in space, we can capture sound parameters from existing environment and implement its influence back into our built environment as form generator.

Left side: Gashinov Dorina | Right side: Gavrielov Natali

Left side: Guy Levy | Right side: Lawrence Perez

Left side: Daniel Balin | Right side: Shimrit Cohen

Those themes were discussed simultaneously, both in hands on classes and in outdoor tours in the city. Hands on classes included learning and implementation of three software: ParaCloud ™, Rhino ® and EyesWeb©, software that allows us to sample sound in real time from built environment and convert it into numeric data. During the workshop we discussed methods for integrating the above mentioned tools into design process.

The final exhibition took place at the foyer in School of Building & Environment Design at Shenkar College IL.

Final exhibition at Shenkar College IL

• Digital Design Workshop: Interaction of Music/Sound and Architecture, Hamburg, July 2008
• Generative Parametric Design Workshop (Tutor: Efrat Gilboa), Shenkar College, IL
• 3D Printing with ParaCloud Modeler (Tutor: Efrat Gilboa, Shenkar College)
• ParaCloud GEM at Work: A Pixelated Pavilion by Jacob Zolotovsky and Joseph Cory
• Architectural Knitted Surfaces – International Workshop - Israel :: 22-27 February 2009