HYTAC Elective - 2024

The HYTAC Elective Course offers the opportunity to explore alternative ways to approach Point Cloud and 3D Printing in a simple way. The students will learn the basic principles and workflows behind photogrammetry, 3d-modeling and 3D-printing, to produce digital and physical (3d-printed) models.

By the end of this course, the students will be capable of:

1. creating and processing point-cloud-generated context models
2. producing 3D-printed site-models in architectural scale
3. using the above digital tools to advance their personal design workflows

The goal of the course is to introduce digital technologies and facilitate common architectural workflows by skipping the time-consuming processes of 3D modeling.

The course includes:

Introduction to photogrammetry and 3D printing through lectures and tutorials.
Generation of a digital twin of the selected site through photogrammetry and production of a physical model (3D printed).
Use of Blender: basic skills can be acquired during the course.
A small design challenge using the newly learned skills.

Informations

When: Mondays, 11:45 until 13:30
Where: HIL E6
Start of course: 23.09.2024
No class: 21.10.2024 (seminarweek)
Helpdesk: Opening hours
Email: hytac@arch.ethz.ch

Basic Knowledge of 3D printing technology is not required.
The course has supplemental cost for Learning Material and Special equipment of around CHF 40.00 for the semester.

Ressources

3DJony: 3DJony
Delivery Miro Board: Delivery Miro Board

Course preparation

The first day of class, on Monday 30.09.24, we will do a small introduction to 3d-printing and discuss on the general course structure and communication platforms.
Your presence is important since you will be arranged in small teams and assigned to a 3d-Printer that you can use during the semester.

On the second lecture, the 4th of October, we will introduce you to the basic principles of Photogrammetry and transition from theory to practice through a 3d “scanning” exercise.
Using your personal devices (phones or tablets) to take pictures, you will generate a digital model from a physical object of your choice.
The application we are going to use is Qlone https://www.qlone.pro/.
In order to get prepared for the class, please, download the app on your device and create a free account. Additionally, feel free to bring any physical model or object that you would like to scan.