David Jenny, Hannes Mayer, Petrus Aejmelaeus-Lindström, Fabio Gramazio, Matthias Kohler
{"title":"A Pedagogy of Digital Materiality: Integrated Design and Robotic Fabrication Projects of the Master of Advanced Studies in Architecture and Digital Fabrication","authors":"David Jenny, Hannes Mayer, Petrus Aejmelaeus-Lindström, Fabio Gramazio, Matthias Kohler","doi":"10.1007/s44150-022-00040-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s44150-022-00040-1","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h2>Abstract\u0000</h2><div><p>This paper illustrates the pedagogical approach to teaching computational design and digital fabrication in the Master of Advanced Studies in Architecture and Digital Fabrication. It demonstrates how the introduction of computational design and digital fabrication methods foster a holistic approach to integrate novel material and constructive systems into the design process. Such an integration allows the students to combine digital fabrication techniques with sustainable material processes, taking into account the questions of reversibility, recycling and reuse, and thus designing for a more sustainable construction. In the presented paper, the structure and the curriculum of the MAS programme is introduced and the pedagogical approach of the Integrated Design and Robotic Fabrication Project is demonstrated through four case studies, highlighting their respective teaching strategies in combination with the learning experiences of the students.</p></div></div>","PeriodicalId":100117,"journal":{"name":"Architecture, Structures and Construction","volume":"2 4","pages":"649 - 660"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s44150-022-00040-1.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50023325","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"2020 Skyscraper Collaboratory","authors":"T. Fowler, K. Dong","doi":"10.1007/s44150-022-00041-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s44150-022-00041-0","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h2>Abstract\u0000</h2><div><p>The 2020 Skyscraper Collaboratory was a partnership between the interdisciplinary design studio at Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo and design and structural engineering partners from Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, an internationally acclaimed firm that specializes in skyscrapers. The academic design studio set-up mirrored the advanced collaborative practice model of the partner firm by balancing nine teams with architecture and engineering students and co-taught by an architect and structural engineer. Over a twenty-week period, seven courses were synchronized and coordinated with the partner firm’s lectures, reviews, and workshops developed for the high-rise design studio. Topics such as structural prototyping and optimization, building energy modeling, performative envelopes, housing design and vertical communities, plus urban placemaking were addressed to aide in design development. Then, what started as an in-person collaborative design studio was upended by the pandemic. Workflows changed; hand-crafted physical study models were abandoned, and remote collaboration workflow strategies were implemented based on the expertise of the partner firm. Ultimately, the combination of tech savvy students, flexible instruction, and seasoned practitioners were key factors to a successful studio.\u0000</p></div></div>","PeriodicalId":100117,"journal":{"name":"Architecture, Structures and Construction","volume":"2 4","pages":"675 - 684"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50023324","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Principles of biological design as a model for biodesign and biofabrication in architecture","authors":"David Andréen, Ana Goidea","doi":"10.1007/s44150-022-00049-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s44150-022-00049-6","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Biomaterials represent a potential means for the construction industry to reduce its negative ecological impact. These materials require substantially different approaches from conventional construction materials to maximise their potential. In this paper we have outlined four principles of biological design that we argue are central for the successful implementation of a new construction paradigm through biodesign. These principles are: <i>Diversity</i>, <i>complexity and specificity</i> (of form), <i>durability through resilience</i>, and <i>feedback and adaptation</i>. <i>Diversity</i> of material is necessary to maintain the sustainability of biomaterials when scaled up to construction industry volumes. <i>Complexity and specificity</i> of form enable high performativity of the built environments when using low-impact materials. <i>Durability through resilience</i> allows designers to work with materials that would otherwise be considered too weak. Finally, <i>feedback and adaptation</i> are core principles of biological design that allow plants and animals to constantly evolve in response to changing conditions, across multiple time scales, and to manage design in complex systems. In conclusion we have argued that many of these principles are found in vernacular architectural traditions, but that emerging design and fabrication technologies can enable broader implementation that can combine the benefits of modern and vernacular buildings practice.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100117,"journal":{"name":"Architecture, Structures and Construction","volume":"2 4","pages":"481 - 491"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s44150-022-00049-6.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50019490","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Detail machines: generating design at full-scale","authors":"T. Boling","doi":"10.1007/s44150-022-00039-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s44150-022-00039-8","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The pedagogical position of this paper is that making at full-scale is not simply a means to an end, but is actually a powerful design tool that can provide specific feedback distinct from other modes of design inquiry. Particularly at the scale of the detail, the process of enabling the simultaneity of design and construction as a technique can illuminate and reveal the forces of mind and hand working together, embedding tectonic (The word <i>tectonic</i> used here refers to Eduard Sekler’s definition, as that which “…cannot be described by construction and structure alone. For these qualities, which are expressive of a relation of form to force, the term tectonic should be reserved.” This definition is distinguished from a Semperian understanding of tectonics, as pertaining exclusively to the frame and lightweight linear construction.) (Sekler, 1) qualities directly in the work itself. Instead of moving from general to particular; from abstract idea to physical manifestation, we begin with the physically constructed material joint as a generative origin. Detail Machines can facilitate an embodied and haptic mode of learning through making that connects students to materials and techniques of construction through active experimentation. This is in marked contrast to the highly abstract and codified representational tools and exceedingly scenographic techniques typically deployed in architectural design today.\u0000</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100117,"journal":{"name":"Architecture, Structures and Construction","volume":"2 4","pages":"637 - 648"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50038861","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tenna Doktor Olsen Tvedebrink, Andrea Jelić, Sarah Robinson
{"title":"Stories of structures, spaces and bodies: towards a tectonics of well-being","authors":"Tenna Doktor Olsen Tvedebrink, Andrea Jelić, Sarah Robinson","doi":"10.1007/s44150-022-00044-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s44150-022-00044-x","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Architect Jørn Utzon is known for his devotion to human well-being and his ability to integrate architectural and structural ideas. Yet, discussions in scholarly circles often emphasise his <i>tectonic genius</i> related to sublime formgiving and structural-material experiments. Less attention is given to how his sense of empathy and concern for the well-being of users influenced his design process. To address this absence, we explored how training students in a user empathic design process can be integrated in an architectural and engineering design approach.</p><p>First, we outline a theoretical framework grounded in the 1) scholarship on tectonic thinking by Jonathan Hale and Marco Frascari and 2) cognitive-neuroscientific understanding of how human beings interact with their surroundings in an embodied and emotional manner. Architectural experience is thus co-produced in an on-going meeting between structures, spaces, and human bodies. Secondly, we present a case study of an experiment with storyboarding as a technique to visualize the intangible aspects of designing for well-being and emotional experience. Placing the ‘body’ and ‘experience’ at the center of the design process calls for greater sensitivity to diversities within user groups. We argue for an adjusted tectonic design toolbox focused around <i>translating</i> experiences, emotions, and behaviors as a means of joining user-oriented, architectural, and engineering principles in the early design phases. This paper intends to spark a debate about <i>‘tectonics of well-being’</i> and to discuss whether storyboarding as a narrative design tool can help join structural-material genius with socio-cultural realms of human experience in tectonic design.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100117,"journal":{"name":"Architecture, Structures and Construction","volume":"2 4","pages":"661 - 674"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50006951","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Eszter Sántha, Marie Frier Hvejsel, Johanne Mose Krämer Entwistle
{"title":"Tectonics of human well-being: describing architecture in terms of constructed spatial gestures and their impact","authors":"Eszter Sántha, Marie Frier Hvejsel, Johanne Mose Krämer Entwistle","doi":"10.1007/s44150-022-00047-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s44150-022-00047-8","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Understanding the long-term consequences of architecture on human well-being is essential to inform the underexposed social dimension of sustainability. In this context, architects are generally required to maximize the spatial capacities of architecture towards enhanced social quality and value. Consequently, we need to improve our methods for describing the impact of architecture across disciplines. It is our hypothesis, that tectonic theory provides a potential framework towards such interdisciplinary description by implying a critical discussion of the interrelations between architecture’s impact on people’s well-being by means of spatial gestures and the detailed prioritisation of resources in construction. As part of a research project investigating the social and socio-economic value of architecture by juxtaposing architectural, anthropological, and economic analysis, this paper investigates the anthropological dimension of those gestures. Using anthropological analysis, the paper critically evaluates whether and how the key <i>intended spatial gestures</i> identified by the architects (in our previous analysis of the architectural dimension) are experienced by the occupants of the building in the form of <i>lived spatial gestures.</i> Data collection involved 8 semi-structured interviews with the occupants of a mixed-use building complex in Denmark. In conclusion, the paper contributes to the understanding of architecture’s role and impact on human well-being, through the discussion of a tectonic framework describing the interaction between architecture and people as a spatial dialogue, in the form of constructed ‘gestures’ across the disciplines of architecture and anthropology. Hereby paving the way for positioning the question of human well-being related to the economic prioritisation of resources in construction.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100117,"journal":{"name":"Architecture, Structures and Construction","volume":"2 4","pages":"599 - 612"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50103467","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A wood-textile thermal active architectural envelope","authors":"I. W. Foged","doi":"10.1007/s44150-022-00042-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s44150-022-00042-z","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The development of a thermal form-active composite, based on Oak-Paulownia-Flax materials is presented, including new knowledge and methods for material-driven responsive envelopes in an architectural scale. The study investigates, examines, and propose an experimental wood-textile structure that directly address questions on reducing embodied and operational energy in the built environment by a novel use of CO2 absorbing regenerative materials. Thermal-active wood bi-layers are combined with organic textiles to create a responsive and modular envelope element. This element is nested into a new lightweight load bearing BoxBeam-Zollinger structure, with flax textile surface connections. Both form active composite and load bearing structure is inspired by skin-on-frame material-structural concepts observed in vernacular boat cultures. The structure alone is measured to 1 kg/m<sup>2</sup>, with a combined weight of the entire responsive envelope of 4.3 kg/m<sup>2</sup>. The studies are based on experimental prototypes and computational simulation studies before a full-scale demonstrator project is constructed to test and disseminate the knowledge and methods for designing material efficient, thermally active architectural envelopes.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100117,"journal":{"name":"Architecture, Structures and Construction","volume":"2 4","pages":"553 - 563"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50038465","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Eloquent timber: Tacit qualities, telling materiality, and the inhabitants’ voice","authors":"Ute Christina Groba","doi":"10.1007/s44150-022-00029-w","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s44150-022-00029-w","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Global efforts are being made to reduce the climate impact of the building sector. The main focus tends to be on quantifiable achievements. This is also true for how benefits of wooden construction materials are generally communicated. In addition, the expert’s view tends to dominate the discussion, while the user’s perspective receives little attention. This paper argues for also attending to timber’s qualitative aspects, and the inhabitants’ desires, experiences and reference frameworks when designing urban housing. Focusing on wooden construction materials, the paper contrasts the architect’s conceptual design ambitions with the inhabitant’s lived experiences. Three dimensions of materiality turned out to be important to the interviewed architects and inhabitants, which relate to the material’s properties, experiences and values. The knowledge of the material’s properties informs the realisation of its affordances and reliability. How the materiality is experienced and appreciated depends on an interpretation of its atmospheres and what they are associated with. The values assigned to a material also inform which and how properties and experiences are valued and can become part of a corresponding narrative about a building and its materiality. These can be influenced by information, communication and community. Seemingly conflicting design consequences must be balanced when wanting the building’s materiality to simultaneously disclose possible uses, convey atmospheres and pass on narratives. The user should be involved in defining the relevant uses, atmospheres and narratives for each project. Drawing on Pérez-Gómez’ call for architecture to be “built upon love,” the paper delineates these design ambitions as “eloquent”.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100117,"journal":{"name":"Architecture, Structures and Construction","volume":"2 4","pages":"545 - 552"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50080622","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
G. Tyse, M. Tamke, M. Ramsgaard Thomsen, A. F. Mosse
{"title":"Bioluminescent micro-architectures: planning design in time, an eco-metabolistic approach to biodesign","authors":"G. Tyse, M. Tamke, M. Ramsgaard Thomsen, A. F. Mosse","doi":"10.1007/s44150-022-00038-9","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s44150-022-00038-9","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>By hybridising the principles of the living with the methods of design, the emerging field of biodesign is exploring how to radically transform the ecological imprint of contemporary material culture while questioning the creative opportunities induced by the appropriation of metabolic processes. This new bio-based foundation challenges architects and designers to rethink the way in which architecture is imagined, represented and materialised. This paper presents developments in the speculative collaborative project <i>Imprimer la lumière</i> examining living bioluminescent bacterial substrates as an architectural building material. In order to appropriate the light performance of these living organisms, the paper asks how to characterise and control these within an architectural design context and reports on efforts to develop computational models for simulating the behaviour, growth rates and life span of living materials and interface these with architectural representational framework. Within nature, bioluminescence is predominantly produced by marine organisms. In this context, the emitted light is a chemical reaction, part of a metabolic system that needs to be sustained. Working with bioluminescence therefore implies taking into consideration the ecosystem in which the light-emitting metabolisms take place as much as their limited lifespan. As a consequence, time must be understood as a key dimension of the architectural design process and wet lab tools and critically implemented into the palette of architectural design instruments and protocols.This paper reports on the examination of how living materials and their environment can be represented, simulated and predicted as part of an eco-metabolistic model developing mechanisms of functionalising and steering a living architectural material.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100117,"journal":{"name":"Architecture, Structures and Construction","volume":"2 4","pages":"471 - 479"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50014476","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}