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eCAADe proceedings

The paper describes and examines the implications of the recent developments in the architectural... more The paper describes and examines the implications of the recent developments in the architectural application of the latest digital design and fabrication technologies, which offer alternatives to the established understandings of architectural design and production processes and their material and economic constraints. It offers a possibility of a revised understanding of the historic relationship between architecture and its means of production.

Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe (eCAADe) [Volume 1]

The paper examines the interplay between simple and complex in contemporary architecture. It disc... more The paper examines the interplay between simple and complex in contemporary architecture. It discusses how complex-looking designs could arise out of simple design and production strategies (i.e. through "simplexity") and likewise, how simple-looking designs can be based on rather complex conceptual and tectonic solutions (i.e. "complicity"). The paper focuses on simplexity as a conceptual framework for architects to embrace complexity in design.

Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe (eCAADe)

ACADIA proceedings

The paper examines the newfound capacity to digitally design and manufacture highly crafted mater... more The paper examines the newfound capacity to digitally design and manufacture highly crafted material and surface effects. It traces an emerging trajectory in contemporary architecture aimed at the decorative effects of digitally crafted surface patterns and textures, as a potential return to ornamentation in architecture. It surveys practices whose approach to form and pattern varies from the "ornamented minimalism" of Herzog and de Meuron to the "expressive exuberance" of Greg Lynn. The paper also describes the different digital modes of material production aimed at particular surface effects, as in series of panels with repetitive, yet unique decorative relief or cutout patterns, striated surface configurations, etc.

Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe (eCAADe)

whereby teachers and students, obviously on three different continents and in three different tim... more whereby teachers and students, obviously on three different continents and in three different time zones, roughly eight hours apart, tried to "multiply time". Students were asked to design a house for a Chinese painter and a Swiss writer on a small island in Puget Sound near Seattle. In a short and intensive design charrette, students explored in five different phases various dualities associated with the given design problem. In each phase students were asked to select someone else's design, thus implicitly forming design teams. The paper describes the structure and goals of the studio exercise, the methodologies applied, the resulting design processes, and the lessons learned.

ACADIA proceedings

explores integrative trajectories and areas of overlap that have emerged through computation betw... more explores integrative trajectories and areas of overlap that have emerged through computation between design, its allied disciplines of engineering and construction, and other fields, such as computer science, material science, mathematics and biology. The conference highlights experimental projects in

eCAADe proceedings

The paper addresses performative architecture as an emerging design paradigm in which building pe... more The paper addresses performative architecture as an emerging design paradigm in which building performance, broadly understood, becomes a guiding design principle. It discusses the inadequacy of existing software for building performance simulation as usable tools in conceptual design, and proposes the development of software that can provide dynamic processes of formation based on specific performance objectives.

Proceedings of the 20th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA)

This paper surveys different approaches in contemporary architectural design in which digital med... more This paper surveys different approaches in contemporary architectural design in which digital media is used not as a representational tool for visualization but as a generative tool for the derivation of form and its transformation. Such approaches are referred to as digital architectures-the computationally based processes of form origination and transformations. The paper examines the digital generative processes based on concepts such as topological space, motion dynamics, parametric design and genetic algorithms. It emphasizes the possibilities for the "finding of form," which the emergence of various digitally based generative techniques seem to bring about.

In this paper, an alternative vision of integrated design is proposed that is more open, fluid, p... more In this paper, an alternative vision of integrated design is proposed that is more open, fluid, pliable, and opportunistic in its search of collaborative alliances and agendas. This alternative approach is referred to as integrative design, in which methods, processes, and techniques are discovered, appropriated, adapted, and altered from “elsewhere,” and often “digitally” pursued. The designers who engage design as a broadly integrative endeavor fluidly navigate across different disciplinary territories, and deploy algorithmic thinking, biomimicry, computation, digital fabrication, material exploration, and/or performance analyses to discover and create a process, technique, or a product that is qualitatively new.

Manufacturing Material Effects, 2013

The paper describes the use of a graphic system based on regulating lines and their geometric rel... more The paper describes the use of a graphic system based on regulating lines and their geometric relations as a qualitatively different medium for shape delineation and dynamic drawing manipulation. It demonstrates how the proposed relations-based approach to design can benefit designers by expanding their ability to speculate about possibilities through dynamic manipulation of the drawing's relational structure. The relational description of shapes is introduced as an explicit formulation of a strategy to form generation and creative discovery. Design begins by first laying out the interrelated regulating lines - its organizing framework. Shapes are then constructed by delineating underlying and intersecting regulating lines. By allowing some lines to control positions and orientations of other lines through geometric relations and dependencies, designers can structure the behavior of the object being designed under future transformations. As design evolves, shapes depicting an ev...

Manufacturing Material Effects, 2013

The paper describes an experiment in collective design authorship conducted within a semester-lon... more The paper describes an experiment in collective design authorship conducted within a semester-long virtual design studio. Students at two geographically distant institutions were asked to design a "Place2Meet on the Water," a small floating pavilion to be assembled from hollow-section steel components. The first part of the studio was devoted to a study of precedents, done in teams of five students from both institutions, who worked both synchronously and asynchronously over the Internet. The students' work was continuously reviewed through virtual crits conducted using web pages and video conferencing. The second part of the virtual design studio, devoted to the actual design of the pavilion, was divided into five closely related phases. After each phase students had to place their designs into a common database. They then had to browse through submitted designs and choose one to develop further; they were not allowed to continue with their own designs. That way, stud...

eCAADe proceedings

The paper describes and examines the implications of the recent developments in the architectural... more The paper describes and examines the implications of the recent developments in the architectural application of the latest digital design and fabrication technologies, which offer alternatives to the established understandings of architectural design and production processes and their material and economic constraints. It offers a possibility of a revised understanding of the historic relationship between architecture and its means of production.

Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe (eCAADe) [Volume 1]

The paper examines the interplay between simple and complex in contemporary architecture. It disc... more The paper examines the interplay between simple and complex in contemporary architecture. It discusses how complex-looking designs could arise out of simple design and production strategies (i.e. through "simplexity") and likewise, how simple-looking designs can be based on rather complex conceptual and tectonic solutions (i.e. "complicity"). The paper focuses on simplexity as a conceptual framework for architects to embrace complexity in design.

Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe (eCAADe)

ACADIA proceedings

The paper examines the newfound capacity to digitally design and manufacture highly crafted mater... more The paper examines the newfound capacity to digitally design and manufacture highly crafted material and surface effects. It traces an emerging trajectory in contemporary architecture aimed at the decorative effects of digitally crafted surface patterns and textures, as a potential return to ornamentation in architecture. It surveys practices whose approach to form and pattern varies from the "ornamented minimalism" of Herzog and de Meuron to the "expressive exuberance" of Greg Lynn. The paper also describes the different digital modes of material production aimed at particular surface effects, as in series of panels with repetitive, yet unique decorative relief or cutout patterns, striated surface configurations, etc.

Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe (eCAADe)

whereby teachers and students, obviously on three different continents and in three different tim... more whereby teachers and students, obviously on three different continents and in three different time zones, roughly eight hours apart, tried to "multiply time". Students were asked to design a house for a Chinese painter and a Swiss writer on a small island in Puget Sound near Seattle. In a short and intensive design charrette, students explored in five different phases various dualities associated with the given design problem. In each phase students were asked to select someone else's design, thus implicitly forming design teams. The paper describes the structure and goals of the studio exercise, the methodologies applied, the resulting design processes, and the lessons learned.

ACADIA proceedings

explores integrative trajectories and areas of overlap that have emerged through computation betw... more explores integrative trajectories and areas of overlap that have emerged through computation between design, its allied disciplines of engineering and construction, and other fields, such as computer science, material science, mathematics and biology. The conference highlights experimental projects in

eCAADe proceedings

The paper addresses performative architecture as an emerging design paradigm in which building pe... more The paper addresses performative architecture as an emerging design paradigm in which building performance, broadly understood, becomes a guiding design principle. It discusses the inadequacy of existing software for building performance simulation as usable tools in conceptual design, and proposes the development of software that can provide dynamic processes of formation based on specific performance objectives.

Proceedings of the 20th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA)

This paper surveys different approaches in contemporary architectural design in which digital med... more This paper surveys different approaches in contemporary architectural design in which digital media is used not as a representational tool for visualization but as a generative tool for the derivation of form and its transformation. Such approaches are referred to as digital architectures-the computationally based processes of form origination and transformations. The paper examines the digital generative processes based on concepts such as topological space, motion dynamics, parametric design and genetic algorithms. It emphasizes the possibilities for the "finding of form," which the emergence of various digitally based generative techniques seem to bring about.

In this paper, an alternative vision of integrated design is proposed that is more open, fluid, p... more In this paper, an alternative vision of integrated design is proposed that is more open, fluid, pliable, and opportunistic in its search of collaborative alliances and agendas. This alternative approach is referred to as integrative design, in which methods, processes, and techniques are discovered, appropriated, adapted, and altered from “elsewhere,” and often “digitally” pursued. The designers who engage design as a broadly integrative endeavor fluidly navigate across different disciplinary territories, and deploy algorithmic thinking, biomimicry, computation, digital fabrication, material exploration, and/or performance analyses to discover and create a process, technique, or a product that is qualitatively new.

Manufacturing Material Effects, 2013

The paper describes the use of a graphic system based on regulating lines and their geometric rel... more The paper describes the use of a graphic system based on regulating lines and their geometric relations as a qualitatively different medium for shape delineation and dynamic drawing manipulation. It demonstrates how the proposed relations-based approach to design can benefit designers by expanding their ability to speculate about possibilities through dynamic manipulation of the drawing's relational structure. The relational description of shapes is introduced as an explicit formulation of a strategy to form generation and creative discovery. Design begins by first laying out the interrelated regulating lines - its organizing framework. Shapes are then constructed by delineating underlying and intersecting regulating lines. By allowing some lines to control positions and orientations of other lines through geometric relations and dependencies, designers can structure the behavior of the object being designed under future transformations. As design evolves, shapes depicting an ev...

Manufacturing Material Effects, 2013

The paper describes an experiment in collective design authorship conducted within a semester-lon... more The paper describes an experiment in collective design authorship conducted within a semester-long virtual design studio. Students at two geographically distant institutions were asked to design a "Place2Meet on the Water," a small floating pavilion to be assembled from hollow-section steel components. The first part of the studio was devoted to a study of precedents, done in teams of five students from both institutions, who worked both synchronously and asynchronously over the Internet. The students' work was continuously reviewed through virtual crits conducted using web pages and video conferencing. The second part of the virtual design studio, devoted to the actual design of the pavilion, was divided into five closely related phases. After each phase students had to place their designs into a common database. They then had to browse through submitted designs and choose one to develop further; they were not allowed to continue with their own designs. That way, stud...