CATEGORY 1 | 4 CPD POINTS

Designing Creatively with Curves

Designing Creatively with Curves Course shows you how to design, document, and construct buildings with curves

We will show you how to include curves in regular architecture, in a refined way. We compare flat, singly-curved, and doubly-curved surfaces: how to identify them, understand their geometry, and detail them. Your clients will love your curved aesthetic and contractors will know exactly what to do.

6 Weekly Zoom sessions + some exercises to sharpen your skills: it’s a heads-on, hands-on, cameras-on chatty course. All you need, while sitting in the comfort of your home, is an open mind and stable internet. When you’re done, you’ll be going around the bend with ease.

Book now because your next big client might ask for curves. 

You want to be able to talk the talk, think the think, and do the do…dobe dobe doo.

The Cape Institute for Architecture has assessed and validated this Category One CPD Activity. This course carries 4.0 CPD credits.
COURSE DATES
17th Sep 2026 -
29th Oct 2026
COURSE TIMES
Thursdays
4pm - 6:30pm
COURSE Dates
5th Feb 2024 -
26th Feb 2024
5th Jun 2024 -
26th Jun 2024
5th Nov 2024 -
26th Nov 2024
COURSE times
Wednesdays
16:00 - 18:30 (GMT +2)
Wednesdays
16:00 - 18:30 (GMT +2)
Wednesdays
16:00 - 18:30 (GMT +2)

Designing Creatively with Curves

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R 3600

Designing Creatively with Curves

In Stock

R 1800 / Month x 2

Course Themes

When designing we conventionally outline surfaces, so our design method is primarily conceptual not perceptual, ideas not visual experience. This is fine for buildings composed of flat surfaces arranged orthogonally, but is it adequate for sculptural architecture? Answering this question is fundamental to our design methodology. In this session we re-exam the limits of current design methodology, in the light of sculptural forms.
Becoming surface literate is essential to understanding and design sculptural forms. We’ll be bringing the flat slab to life by presenting a full lexicon of singly and doubly curved surfaces – an essential understanding to documenting and construction.
How to clearly document irregular plans for the contractor? Your builder won’t go around the bend when your drawings are around the bend. Techniques to document irregular shapes: one of the limits preventing architects from designing organic forms. We want you to be able to translate your creative design in an understandable and buildable way for the contractor to construct accurately. We take the guessing work out of building dynamic and irregular shapes.
The challenging task of experiencing how the form affects feelings. The idea that “Form follows function” is pragmatic and widespread but omits the most important quality of architecture: humanness. Comprehending the psychological experience of forms in relation to feelings, including the experiential distinction between rectilinear and curvilinear forms, which is equivalent to the difference between a major and minor scale in music.
Final project begins: Humanizing the building by treating it as a personality. Spontaneously designing in 3D before documenting takes your creativity to the next level.
Time to wrap up. Let’s revise the whole content learned so far, share impressions, insights and think about ways to move forward and together. With this range of tools and a clear sense of direction the architectural world is your creative oyster!

Our architectural courses are open to anyone who wants to be inspired and creative. However, for those seeking to integrate meaningful learning and CPD’s credits, we are SACAP accredited as Category 1 activities providers. 

 

For foreign countries, participants can get  the equivalent UIA CPD credit value or the respective credits according to the institution responsible for Continuing Professional Development system in the country.

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