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Design Transactions

Rethinking Information Modelling for a New Material Age

Edited by Bob Sheil, Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen, Martin Tamke, and Sean Hanna

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ISBN: 9781787354890

Publication: April 06, 2020

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Design Transactions presents the outcome of new research to emerge from ‘Innochain’, a consortium of six leading European architectural and engineering-focused institutions and their industry partners. The book presents new advances in digital design tooling that challenge established building cultures and systems. It offers new sustainable and materially smart design solutions with a strong focus on changing the way the industry thinks, designs, and builds our physical environment.

Divided into sections exploring communication, simulation and materialisation, Design Transactions explores digital and physical prototyping and testing that challenges the traditional linear construction methods of incremental refinement. This novel research investigates ‘the digital chain’ between phases as an opportunity for extended interdisciplinary design collaboration. The highly illustrated book features work from 15 early-stage researchers alongside chapters from world-leading industry collaborators and academics.

Bob Sheil is Professor in Architecture and Design through Production at the Bartlett School of Architecture UCL, and has been Director of School since 2014. He is the author of multiple book chapters, refereed papers, and articles on design, making and technology. He has co-designed and built six artefacts/built works, and his work has been exhibited internationally on 11 occasions.

Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen is Professor of Digital Technologies and leads the Centre for Information Technology and Architecture (CITA), which she founded in 2005, at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation. Her research examines how computation is changing the material cultures of architecture.

Martin Tamke is Associate Professor at the Centre for Information Technology and Architecture (CITA) in Copenhagen. He is pursuing design-led research in the interface and implications of computational design and its materialisation.

Sean Hanna is Reader in Space and Adaptive Architectures at The Bartlett School of Architecture, and a member of the UCL Space Syntax Laboratory, recognised as one of the UK’s highest-performing research groups in the field of architecture and the built environment in consecutive UK Research Assessment Exercises.

INTRODUCTIONS

1.1 Design Transactions

Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen and Martin Tamke

1.2 Innochain: A Template for Innovative Collaboration

Jan Knippers, Bob Sheil and Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen

1.3 Design Methodologies: Rethinking Transactions Between the Drawn and the Made

Bob Sheil, Mathilde Marengo and Ulrika Karlsson

1.4 Perspectives: Transactions and Trajectories

Bob Sheil and Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen

MODELLING STRATEGIES AND NEW WORKFLOWS

2.1 New Paradigms for Digital Prefabrication in Architecture

Fabian Scheurer and Hanno Stehling

2.2 Information-Rich Exploration in the Early Design Phase

Zeynep Aksöz

2.3 Computational Extensibility and Mass Participation in Design

Paul Poinet and Al Fisher

2.4 Alternative Means of Digital Design Communication

Dimitrie Stefanescu

2.5 Negotiating Structured Building Information Data

Nathan Miller and David Stasiuk

Research Summary, Multiple Criteria Design Exploration in the Early Design Phase

Zeynep Aksöz

Research Summary, Morphogenetic Fluid Dynamics

Angelos Chronis

Research Summary, Multiple States of Equilibrium for Bending-Active Tensile Structures

Evy L. M. Slabbinck

Research Summary, Alternative Methods for Data Transaction

Dimitrie Stefanescu

Research Summary, Integrated Material Practice in Freeform Timber Structures

Tom Svilans

Further Perspectives, New Workflows and Collaborations

Kenn Clausen, Sean Lineham, Morten Norman Lund, Line Rahbek and Kåre Stokholm Poulsgaard

DESIGN INTEGRATION

3.1 Design Integration: Global Technological Advancement and Local Culture

In dialogue: Areti Markopoulou and Philip F. Yuan

3.2 Agency of Material Production Feedback in Architectural Practice

Tom Svilans, Jonas Runberger and Kai Strehlke

3.3 Acoustic Wall: Computational and Robotic Design Integration of Four Primary Generators

Isak Worre Foged, Anke Pasold and Mads Brath Jensen

3.4 Coreless Filament Winding: From Academia to Practice

James Solly, Jan Knippers and Moritz Dörstelmann

3.5 All That Is Porous: Practising Cross-Disciplinary Design Thinking

Vasily Sitnikov

Research Summary, Bend & Block: A Passive Form-Giving Strategy

Efilena Baseta

Research Summary, Adaptive Robotic Carving

Giulio Brugnaro

Research Summary, How to Effectively Collaborate at Scale in a Connected Digital Environment

Paul Poinet

Research Summary, Ice Formwork: Challenging the Sustainable Production of Non-Regular Geometry in Concrete

Vasily Sitnikov

Research Summary, Virtual Prototyping Tools for a Winding-Based Composite Fabrication Technique

James Solly

Further Perspectives, Data in Design Practice

Sean Hanna

NOVEL STRATEGIES FOR MATERIALISATION

4.1 Rewired Engineering: The Impact of Customisation and Interoperability on Design

Edoardo Tibuzzi

4.2 Drone Spraying on Light Formwork for Mud Shells

Stephanie Chaltiel, Maite Bravo, Diederik Veenendaal and Gavin Sayers

4.3 Industrialising Concrete 3D Printing: Three Case Studies

Nadja Gaudillière, Justin Dirrenberger, Romain Duballet, Charles Bouyssou, Alban Mallet, Philippe Roux and Mahriz Zakeri

4.4 Integration of Material and Fabrication Affordances within the Design Workflow

Giulio Brugnaro, Silvan Oesterle, Sean Hanna, Peter Scully and Bob Sheil

4.5 Making Timberdome

Christopher Robeller and Valentin Viezens

4.6 Robots for Skill Digitisation

Johannes Braumann

Research Summary, Building with Earth and Drones

Stephanie Chaltiel

Research Summary, Information Modelling for Assembly Planning, Sequencing and Optimisation

Ayoub Lharchi

Research Summary, Digital Clay: Hybrid Manufacturing for Automotive Design

Arthur Prior

Research Summary, Flectofold: From Academic Research to Architectural Application

Saman Saffarian

Research Summary, Concrete Deposition: Choreographing Flow

Helena Westerlind

Further Perspectives, Performative Materials and Systems, and Additive Manufacturing Futures

Johannes Braumann and Isak Worre Foged

REFLECTIONS

5.1 Innochain: External Perspectives

Mark Burry and Christoph Gengnagel in conversation with Anja Jonkhans

BIOGRAPHIES

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

COLOPHON

Format: Paperback

Size: 240 × 240 mm

224 Pages

ISBN: 9781787354890

Publication: April 06, 2020

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