The “META-Fluid Studio” jury day recordings are now available to watch. The Amazing “META-Fluid Studio”, led by the Portuguese architect and urban designer Mariana Cabugueira formerly worked as a senior architectural designer at Zaha Hadid Architects, was hosted by PAACADEMY on ZOOM between May 15-July 15, 2022. Meta-Fluid is one of the High-demand workshops at the PAACADEMY that focuses on exploring the quality and power of Fluid Design to conceive cyber-urban environments in virtual cities. The goal of the workshop is to create a free-standing virtual city designed by 30 different designers teamed up in 3s. Some teams create meta-archi typologies for this studio, and some designers will join skills to develop a ‘Meta-Urban’ base. Combined, they make a free-standing, fluid virtual urban field and prove the Multi-Author Urban Design to be the directionality for the future of virtual cities. You can register and watch the recordings for the workshop from this link.
During the studio, the students had acquainted with the 3d modeling software Autodesk Maya – the number one software for Fluid Architecture in the current real-life scenario – and Unreal Engine for the immersive experience of their designs. At the end, they were able to produce amazing designs from different typologies and approaches. We have published these works on our website, you can check this selected project called “ELEMENTAL,” developed by: Jennifer Durand and Daniel Escobar, during the studio.
The “META-Fluid Studio” jury day and final presentation were on July 15. We invited Ping-Hsiang, Cherylene M. Shangpliang, and Irfan Bhakrani from Zaha Hadid Architects to be the jury for the event. At the open session, the students presented the projects they designed and created using Maya Autodesk and Unreal Engine during the studio. The studio duration was nine weeks, and the students were able to learn and digest a good amount of knowledge about Maya and Unreal Engine. After this, they had two weeks to prepare for their final presentation.
