The idea is to expose the results of a 10-day design and research workshop in Teheran exploring the
new computational design methods and techniques as tools for creative expression and design intelligence.
The workshop immerses students into computational design thinking and the exploration of the new design possibilities associated with it and it seeks to create an inventive and collaborative environment in which investigate the overlap between architecture and fashion. The students will appropriate themselves with the design tools and software needed to design and fabricate complex geometry in computational fashion design; with a specific focus on the use of generative systems and parametric modelling they will create a ‘code-structed garment’. By employing computer-aided manufacturing tools and processes they will materialized their ideas and test the design performance (geometrical, ergonomical, material, etc.) in real time.
It has been always precedent that design methodologies in each field flows over others. As so, appearing of Parametricism in architecture proposed tools and methods along with a distinctive aesthetic sense which can be implemented in other design disciplines. The research nature of workshop provides a laboratory atmosphere to test, study and observe material behavior, fabrication techniques and digital tools as inspiration to devise novel designs in fashion. In this way there are additional challenges such as body dynamism that Parametricism has less chance to face with them in architectural discourses and they open a new field of possibilities.
Research in architecture and the design discipline must involve experimental and prototyping (including prototype testing). In graphic design and in fashion design there are no obstacles in enfolding experimentation and prototyping within the design process itself. In industrial design the design research is also enfolded within the design process, or it becomes part of a differentiated, dedicated R&D process that integrates design with engineering. However, research and design are nearly indistinguishable here.

WHY FASHION?
Fashion and Architecture are both based on basic life necessities – clothing and shelter. However, they are also forms of self-expression – for both creators and consumers. Fashion and architecture express ideas of personal, social and cultural identity, reflecting the concerns of the user and the ambition of the age. Their relationship is a symbiotic one and throughout history, clothing and buildings have echoed each other in form and appearance. This only seems natural as they not only share the primary function of providing shelter and protection for the body, but also because they both create space and volume out of flat, two-dimensional materials.While they have much in common, they are also intrinsically different – address the human scale, but the proportions, sizes and shapes differ enormously.
In this regard the main workshop focus is placed on two parts, the physical and the digital experiments working in a reciprocal process to benefit the most of each other. In the physical part, fabrication techniques and material behaviour will be investigated while in the digital part, simulation of physical experiments as well as computational concepts will be studied.

TECHNICAL BRIEF
In the early stages physical models and low-tech strategies will be used, allowing the participants to gain a greater understanding of materials, fabrication and assembly methods as well as simple, yet pragmatic structural solutions. Later these strategies will be digitalized and elaborated using software visualization tools such as Rhinoceros, T-Spline and the algorithmic plug-in Grasshopper. Finally, each projects will move to the fabrication part, using 3D printing or laser cutting and any other adequate and available CAM tool.