Along with Hewlett Packard, AutoDesk University has launched a fresh online initiative called ‘Design By Many’. DesignByMany is a challenge based design technology community. Users post challenges to the community along with their design source files. The community can then post responses with their own source files to solve the challenge. They can also comment on the challenge and interact with other designers throughout the process.
DesignByMany is an extension of DesignReform and is hosted and maintained by CASE. DesignByMany has partnered with Hewlett Packard as an exclusive sponsor for the first year.
HP will be sponsoring monthly challenges and providing prizes such as plotters and printers. Sponsored challenges will be judged by designers, architects, engineers, contractors and others involved in the process of making buildings.
The first (sponsored) challenge regards the modeling of a parametric version of Buckminster Fuller’s famous Dymaxion House.
Buckminster Fullers Dymaxion House
The Dymaxion House was developed by inventor and architect Buckminster Fuller to address several perceived shortcomings with existing homebuilding techniques. Fuller designed several versions of the house at different times, but they were all factory manufactured kits, assembled on site, intended to be suitable for any site or environment and to use resources efficiently. One important design consideration was ease of shipment and assembly. Wikipedia
Judges for this Challenge will be:
Shane Burger from Grimshaw Architects
Nicholas Rader from Snøhetta
Robert Yori from Skidmore, Ownings & Merrill LLP
The winner will receive an HP Designjet 111 Printer
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