MID Computational Design, Burning Man Project, 2017, 'our studio'
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(IDS), offers a platform for re-evaluating existing tools, methods and design strategies and for examining new trends and solutions for sustainable development. We need to rethink values, policies and strategies and design new concepts that enable us to shape our living environment in harmony with nature and make our society inclusive, just and productive. Actors […]
Dienstagsvortrag // Tobias Nolte: “Machine Vision and Design”
06.12.2022 / 19:00 / Detmolder Schule für Architektur und Innenarchitektur / Room: Casino Tobias Nolte is Professor for Media in Architectural Design at Leibniz University Hanover, Germany. Together with Andrew Witt he is founding partner of Certain Measures (CM), a hypothesis driven creative studio based in Berlin and Boston. Works by CM have been exhibited […]
MONOCAB PRESENTATION + FIRST RIDE
In the presence of NRW Transport Minister Oliver Krischer, the demonstrator of the MONOCAB OWL system was presented driving on part of the disused test track of the Extertalbahn on Monday, October 3. “Thusnelda”, as the demonstrator is called, mastered the route autonomously driving thanks to its two stabilizing gyroscopes. Thanks to the Mouse Door […]
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Existing commercial space frame systems offer structural solutions, which has proven effective and economical for large span projects. Typically, current space frames systems consist of a repetition of a regular pattern, primarily due to the impossibility of resolving complex geometries and topologies with a limited number of standard nodes. As 3D-printing eliminates the incentive of […]
Digital techniques and methods help – even if still mostly exemplarily – reinstating basic principles of craft production in design and architecture “ […] in which material and form are naturally intertwined into a tradition of making […]“ (N- Oxman, 2010). The principals of digital design and manufacturing processes are rather linked to a way […]
ALIVE ENVELOPES Buildings should ensure the protection, safety and well-being of their users. The façade plays a special role in this context. It represents the transition from the external environment to the interior and has to fulfill further tasks and functions besides shaping the formal-aesthetic character of the building. It significantly influences the comfort of […]
Synthetic & Tangible Agents: A decision support system for urban design In the Master Computational Design, many digital tools are learned, some of which have one thing in common: their use is complex, and they are for the single-user-experience designed. In this collaborative master thesis from Amanda Jardim and Maximilian Müh, supervised by Prof. Dr. […]
DIGITAL FABRICATION provides the connection and potential of computer-controlled production processes in combination with rule-based design and construction methods. For this semester MID Computational students the task was to develop a digital fabricated 1:1 sculpture using Alucobond material with the CNC milling machine. Called “Space Mesh”, the sculpture is designed to compose more dynamically with […]
Architectural performance resides in the complex synthesis of a multitude of agents, bringing together multiple conditions such as of program, site, available modes of construction, materiality, economics, culture into a re-sounding whole. If we consider architecture as being fundamentally determined by dynamic structures of information, we need to explore new methodologies for producing architecture that […]
In the first part of the module, the students developed a deeper understanding of the possibilities in digital modeling and parametric form-finding by simply creating different variations of stacked containers. This process was developed in Grasshopper. The resulting, abstract forms were transferred to Revit in a second workshop, using Dynamo. In Revit, the students had […]
Digital tools and methods dominate large parts of design, development, simulation and communication processes in architectural design. In advanced studios, architectural projects are already developed predominantly with 3D models. The goal is to establish a smooth workflow between architects, project developers, engineers and clients through a real-time, simultaneous project development environment. In this context, many […]
The goal of project Hyper Hub was to re-activate the idea of alternative traveling through new, arising technologies, such as hyperloop, drones, electric vehicles and magnetic rail-ways in Europe, which finds itself today in both, a socio-economic but also a deepening global environmental crisis. In interdisciplinary teams of two students, an architectural vision was developed. The […]
This interdisciplinary project connected different modules and departments of the various faculties of the Technical University of Applied Sciences Ostwestfalen-Lippe. The competences of the respective fields of study were used to design, develop and plan to realize a 1:1 pavilion structure on the ‘Innovation Campus’ in Lemgo. Hereby the students in the module were taught […]
Digital tools and methods dominate large parts of design, development, simulation and communication processes in architectural design. In advanced studios architectural projects are already developed predominately with 3D models. The goal is to establish a smooth workflow between architects, project developers, engineers and clients through a real-time, simultaneous project development environment. In this context many […]
“…it recognizes outstanding ideas that redefine skyscraper design through the implementation of novel technologies, materials, programs, aesthetics, and spatial organizations along with studies on globalization, flexibility, adaptability, and the digital revolution. It is a forum that examines the relationship between the skyscraper and the natural world, the skyscraper and the community, and the skyscraper and […]
Metropolitan areas have grown intensively worldwide over the past century. In the recent years and within that context, architects have developed a variety of concepts for ‚open‘ structures in public spaces or squares (i.e. Metropol Parasol, Sevilla). They can provide protection from weather, traffic or urban bustle and provide space for markets or public events, […]
Yona Friedman is an hungarian-french architect, born in Budapest (Hungary) in 1923, his work is one of the most visionary ones since the second half of the 20th century, and his ideas have inspired to urbanist, architects, designers and sociologist all around the world. His projects of ‘La Dissolution de l‘Architecture‘ are conceived as a […]
A MID student realization project The development process of the ClipHut is based on a circular metamorphosis of digital design and fabrication techniques according to the principals of „design through making“. The design development has been largely driven by constructive and computational design principals including material properties, processing and behaviour but also an optimized […]
The cross-referenced series of lectures and seminars „Digital Crafting“ at the professorship of CAAD at the Detmold School of Architecture and Interior Architecture is mainly about dynamics, changeability and adaptivity in architectural design. Hereby the focus of the development, presentation and realization of architecture lies on the one hand on the architectural presentation and visualization […]
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