Encoded Behaviour
(project by Dennis Carlsson, Bjarke Stenaa Ørvad & Stine Skogheim Walle)
Workshop Encoded Behaviour
Collaborators: Paul Nicholas (mesne.net)
CITA (Martin Tamke; Jacob Riiber)
Conducted with students from the Architecture, Experiment and Technology master course at Department 8, Royal School of Architecture led by Niels Andersen and Ali Tabatabai (aaet.dk)
Information beyond this page can be found on the workshops blog
Design Task
The workshop asks how material behaviour can be introduced into architectural design and which consequences this has on design. The workshop focuses on the behaviour of material in larger arrays and how one can design and steer these.
The workshop focuses on the exploration of structures which utilise material behaviour to mediate light and view in innovative ways. Shading, direct, indirect light as well as the visual impact of open or inhibited lines of view are considered. The programmatic setting will develop from within the investigations, by which a wide range of applications beyond shading devices, screens, canopies or building facades can be addressed. Priority will be given to the fast implementation and evaluation of material feedback loops, with the aim of gaining a deep working knowledge of material capacities and tendencies, and of their potential to mediate relationships between design intent, context and performance.
(project by Dennis Carlsson, Bjarke Stenaa Ørvad & Stine Skogheim Walle)
Performative Extensions: Light and Structure.
To explore the means by which material behaviour might inform and extend processes of design exploration, we will lastly look to link flexible digital models to the concepts of performance analysis, evaluation and adaptation. By re-purposing optimisation techniques as generative design instruments, students will examine how material properties and solar exposure analysis might in combination actively guide design generation through the concept of performance. Our aim will be to take parametrically defined material systems, to some extent cognisant of their own material tendencies and capacities, and to then seek good solutions to the problem of shading from within this range.
(project by Nanna Riise & Johannes Beck)
In keeping with the broader architectural nature of this investigation, this part of work-shop will focus upon generative and integrative potentials, and upon ‘aptimised’ design rather than strictly ‘optimised’ solutions. A means for utilising an algorithm for simu-lated annealing within Grasshopper will be provided.
(project by Jonas Tesch Hallberg & Christoffer Bjørn Weile)
The workshop introduces a series of new skills and is based on a constant negotiation between physical and digital media. You are asked to work between 3D modeling (rhino), parametric design (Grasshopper), speculative models (paper/wood) and full-scale demonstrators. The resulting Rhino / Grasshopper definitions for teh encoded behavour are linked to the above images.
the complete brief can be downloaded here
Schedule
Wed Dec 2.
11.00 Introduction
13:00 Grasshopper tutorial I – Physical properties in GH
15:00 Material investigation and production of first speculative models
Thu Dec. 3.
9:00 Review of speculative models and results of investigation in physical behaviour
10:30 Grasshopper tutorial II – Components
13:00 Development of speculative models and measurement of physical behaviour, programming of behaviour in GH
18:00 Evening lecture Component Design
Fri Dec. 4.
9:00 Developing components and programming of behaviour in GH
17:00 Evening lecture Paul Nicholas
Sat Dec. 5.
10:00 Creation of assemblies. Developing physical models and prototypes
13:00 Grasshopper Tutorial III – Clusters
Sun Dec. 6.
10:00 Review of models and prototypes
14:00 Grasshopper Tutorial IV – Introducing environmental performance
14:00 Developing models and prototypes, building demonstrator
Mon Dec. 7.
9:00 Developing prototypes, building demonstrator
Tue Dec. 8.
9:00 Developing prototypes, building demonstrator
Wed Dec. 9.
9:00 Finalising of prototypes, building demonstrator13:00 FINAL REVIEW with tutors from your programme
(project by Nanna Riise & Johannes Beck)