Design Transactions
Rethinking Information Modelling for a New Material Age
Bob Sheil (Editor), Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen (Editor), Martin Tamke (Editor), Sean Hanna (Editor)
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.
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
DOI: 10.14324/111.9781787355026
Number of pages: 224
Publication date: 06 April 2020
PDF ISBN: 9781787355026
Paperback ISBN: 9781787354890
Bob Sheil (Editor)
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 (Editor)
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 (Editor)
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 (Editor)
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.
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