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Designing Creatively with Curves

Our Designing Creatively with Curves Course makes designing sculptural buildings with straights and curves possible!

During 6 weekly Zoom sessions we’ll keep you mentally, emotionally & creatively engaged. We’ll connect as fellow designers in large and small groups, and one-to-one: sharing ideas, insights and stories! This course is challenging, varied, detailed and we’ll be with you all the way.

All you’ll need a stable Internet connection to join our Zoom classroom! Join us now!

The Cape Institute for Architecture has assessed and validated this Category One CPD Activity. This course carries 4.0 CPD credits.

COURSE DATES

8th May 2025 -
12th Jun 2025

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)

Designing Creatively with Curves

R 3300

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We inform CIFA (Cape Institute for Architecture) after full attendance of the course, and they prepare and email your CPD certificate directly to you. Immediately upload this info onto your SACAP profile. All CPD questions must be directed to CIFA (cpd@cifa.org.za).

You will be redirected to the payment portal to complete your purchase. You will then be charged R3300.

Designing Creatively with Curves

R 1650 / Month x 2

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Agree with our Privacy Policy?* Yes

Agree to Cancellation?* Yes

Sharing* Yes

Shining* Yes

I agree to bring the best part of myself to the course, to have an amazing time, and enjoy a meaningful experience.

Do you need CPD Credits?* Yes No

You will be redirected to the payment portal to complete your purchase. You will then be charged R1650.

Course Themes

Week 1 - Design Method

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.

Week 2 - Vocabulary of Surfaces

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.

Week 3 - Documenting (2D) & (3D)

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.

Week 4 - Form follows Feeling

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.

Week 5 - Your way of Designing

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.

Week 6 - Over the Edge

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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CATEGORY 1 | 4 CPD POINTS

Designing Creatively with Curves

Our Designing Creatively with Curves Course makes designing sculptural buildings with straights and curves possible!

The Cape Institute for Architecture has assessed and validated this Category One CPD Activity. This course carries 4.0 CPD credits.

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Designing Creatively with Curves

R 3300

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Designing Creatively with Curves

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