48-589 Innovative Product Development: Sustainable Design & Integrated Systems

Units: 9.0 Department: Architecture Related URLs: http://www.arc.cmu.edu The distinctions between architecture, industrial design, and manufacturing are beginning to fade, leading to opportunities to create innovative integrated systems that meet emerging sustainability, technological and organizational challenges. The creation of service cores, stairs, vertical transport, kitchen and copy centers, conference rooms, atrium roofs, even mechanical cores can become manufactured products or product assemblies with superior performance and aesthetic detailing. Moreover, the design of the integrated systems can contribute to enhanced sustainability through material, energy and water conservation, enhanced environmental quality and even energy generation. In this course, students will identify, design, develop and mock-up robust, integrated, solutions for external modular service cores that address persistent demands in existing and new construction. After conducting product reviews and field studies, students will develop performance specifications and design variations for components and integrated assemblies. The students will take the best design solutions for modular, plug and play, and sustainable stacking infrastructures into final documentation. The integrated kit-of-parts will be based on specification, visualization and mock-ups capable of inspiring the manufacturing community to market new high performance integrated solutions. This course is intended for upper level undergraduate and graduate students with strong understanding of systems and 3D visualizing capabilities.

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