Beta versions. Protoyping as a learning tool
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5821/jida.2019.8368Abstract
The goal of this paper is the formulation of a methodological proposal for the teaching of architectural design focused on the combination of work with the model and the manufacture of prototypes. For this, the specific competencies that this practice mobilizes will be discussed in contrast to other apparently similar ones such as the production of maquettes. While the digital model is a technical system that processes, according to internal standards and external conditions, certain information for the preparation of another, the prototype is a partial physical model of a specific part of the project whose operation states a technical or material resolution of the model. The objective of dealing with prototypes is not the creation of models that "work", but to shape an idea in order to know its strengths and weaknesses, therefore identifying new directions for the next generation of more detailed and refined prototypes. In this dynamic of successive approximations, failure is taken for granted. What the prototype teaches us is to learn from error.
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