Hybrid design approach in education using a progressive rule-based digital design development. sopot college experiences

Architecture itself could be considered as a hybrid of engineering and beaux-arts. Nowadays there are many tools that can help architects develop and optimize their innovative concepts. This paper describes a hybrid design approach based on combination of traditional architectural design and computational design (Fig. 3) based on study program in Sopot College, Faculty of Architecture. The paper explores the field of cooperation and hybrid interaction between manual and automated methods of developing architectural concepts. The results show that student are eager to experiment with new methods of design. Moreover, the results they achieve in this way are far more innovative and complex. Knowledge of hybrid design methods may contribute to expansions of avant-garde architecture and research-based design methodology.