Section 01: Formworks
Formworks will explore techniques and develop research in moldmaking and dynamic formwork. By using the casting facilities of GSAPP's Fabrication Lab and Printshop, students will develop robust casting mechanisms capable of producing small runs of cast parts. The course will focus on repetitive and system-based castings. Students will produce multiple castings that work together as a system. An emphasis will be placed on the tectonics of the system and students will be expected to develop a flexible system that can recombine in multiple ways.

Formworks hybridizes methods of casting with digital fabrication. The ambition is to challenge the repetitive nature of casting and formwork by developing a parametric, dynamic formworks system and produce a series of precast elements using that system. Organized around a series of short but intense assignments, students are introduced to 1 and 2 part molds, silicone casting, vacuforming, rotational molding and a variety of casting materials. Students respond with their own system which takes these techniques and systems of organization, assembly and fabrication further.