Evolving Computational Approaches to Pedagogy & Practice - Seeks to explore innovative responses by both practice and academia to the question of how digital technology can be utilized in processes of design, collaboration, fabrication, and construction.
12-14 April 2012
University of Minnesota College of Design, School of Architecture
MEASURING URBANITY: densities, networks and urban fabrics
& City Induction: urban design with patterns and rules
The seminar aims at re-centering the debate of measuring urban form on the contemporary issues of designing, planning and regulating the extensive city. The workshop will address a specific urban issue using models for automatic measurement of urban indicators.
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM COOPERATIVE DESIGN AND VISUALIZATION
This symposium will present current results emerging in the international field from research and praxis such as cooperative visualization, interactive exploration, and instant cooperation
This symposium aims to gather the diverse components of the contemporary architectural tendencies which push the building envelope towards free form and respond to the multiple current design challenges with a renewed mathematical rigor.
The conference will highlight experimental research and projects that explore the reciprocity and synergy between bits and atoms, the digital and the physical, and between digital code and material logic.
4TH INTERNATIONAL EURO-MEDITERRANEAN CONFERENCE (EUROMED 2012)
This conference will focus on the use of cutting edge technologies for the protection, preservation, conservation, massive digitalization and visualization/presentation of the Cultural Heritage content such as archeological sites, artifacts, monuments, libraries, archives, and museums.
A rather beautiful light-capture object has been inserted into an atrium space on the San Francisco campus of the California College of the Arts. The object can be viewed from underneath at the first floor and above from the 2nd floor of the School of Architecture.
The Aortic Arc is a sensual experience work that allows one a glimpse into spaces that might be shaped by computational design whereby geometry and panels work together structurally in the spirit of Frei Otto’s pioneering work in form finding techniques and material systems. The canopy structure as shown in the images takes advantage of its definition and condition through the system of compressive rings and tension cables within a tapestry of lightweight plastic and riveted pin connections to comprise a minimum surface structure.
Mark L. Donohue, Principle of Visible Research Office, states that Buro Happold Consulting Engineers was instrumental in developing the project and helping to give the work its definitive shape and performative structural expression. Buro Happold’s design intention is a process that is in essence an innovation on Frei Otto’s work to bring this kind of investigation into the age of digital fabrication.
The form finding, finite element analysis, and structural design work is by Buro Happold Consulting Engineers, PC.
Visible Research Office
Principal: Mark L. Donohue
Project Architect: Americo A Diaz-O
Project Designer: Charles Lee
Project Designer: Chris Chalmers
Component Design & Scripting: Jason Chang
Renderings: Charles Lee
Buro Happold
Principal: Greg Otto
Associate Principal: Gary Lau
Project Engineer, Non-linear Analysis: Tom Reiner
Project Engineer, Non-linear Analysis: Ian Carter
Project Cordinator: Ron Elad
Complex Geometry Modeling: Yukie Hirashima
Technical Designer: Krista Flascha
Software Bentley Microstation Generative Components (Bios – Chris Chalmers & Charles Lee)
Fabrication: CNC Milling @ TechShop in Menlo Park, CA.
Materials: HDPE sheets, pop riveter, aircraft cable, rivets, stainless steel rings
design expression: upended exogenic tectonic expression
A set translation of field notation whereby the structural configuration is expressed as a time based computation augment of parametric unit geometry propagation and aggregation.
Flood Structure
A new placement of an architectural object flooded. Click image for full scale image. The object construction is as follows:
Field Notation
a time based computation augment of parametric geometry propagation
A language of form in adaptation and performance in rhythm to express a mathematical
sequence that acts through a continuous movement of light, shade, and shape to
inscribe a spatial condition.
Fabio Gramazio and Matthias Kohler present their work in a continuing development of mass customization utilizing digital processes in physical constructs assisted by construction mechanization. Both are partners in the Zurich architecture and urbanism practice Gramazio & Kohler.
Digital Materiality in Architecture
Nov 20 2008
6.30pm
Book launch at Storefront Gallery
97 Kenmare Street, New York, NY 10012
Fabio Gramazio and Matthias Kohler (eds.)
Baden: Lars Müller Publishers, English text, 112 pages, 140 color illustrations
Gramazio and Kohler hold the Chair for Architecture and Digital Fabrication DFAB at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH). Their research focuses on the exploration of highly informed architectural elements and processes and produces design strategies for full-scale automated fabrication by the department’s robotic construction facility. (core.form.ula)
A video below showcases their Gantenbein winery façade which speaks to the process that they engage upon.
Field Notation a time based computation augment of parametric geometry propagation
A language of form in adaptation and performance in rhythm to express a mathematical
sequence that acts through a continuous movement of light, shade, and shape to
inscribe a spatial condition.
