Digital Design & Research team in Oulu University held, together with the steel studio 2011 competition, an excursion to Teräselementti Oy’s factory premises in Lempäälä, Finland. Teräselementti is one of the biggest makers of steel structures in Finland. The purpose of this visit was to familiarize students with the current possibilities large-scale steel construction.
Teräselementti Oy will provide their machinery to the use of the workshop students of Digital Design & Research – workshop11, where the student will learn about the new digital design possibilities that algorithm aided design methods and parametric modeling can offer. The workshop has been held since 2008 and this year it focuses on the use of Grasshopper in ecological architectural concept designs, where external environmental forces are used in the creation of architectural concept. The workshop will also study the digital design of complex steel structures and facades, and the manufacturing process of them.
