Conference

Conference

INNOCHAIN CONFERENCE 2018

EXPANDING INFORMATION MODELLING FOR A NEW MATERIAL AGE

8.-9.November 2018
DAC / Danish Architecture Center

Innochain invites to the international conference Expanding information modelling for a new material age. It will take place in Copenhagen on 8.-9. November 2018 at the Danish Architecture Centre in the new Blox building by OMA. The conference is organised in collaboration with the Danish BLOXhub organisation and aims to create a forum for transdisciplinary and entrepreneur driven research.

The Challenge

Information modelling challenges the way we think, design and build architecture. By creating a shared digital platform it enables the emergence of a new hybrid practice in which otherwise separate tools and methodologies of design, analysis and fabrication can intersect. Current design practice is invested in the prototyping of these new methodologies. Across the building industry and in research we see a collective push for understanding how this new digital chain can be structured, what are productive exchanges and how a new sense of feedback can lead to smarter design solutions.
What is at stake here is the future of the information model. Expanding simple BIM with more complex requirements to engage and capitalize on analysis, to steer multi objective design spaces and to interface and control fabrication necessitates new kinds of representations that can handle data rich design enquiries, enable collaboration and manage
the complex and cyclical nature of feedback.

The Conference

The InnoChain conference presents the leading examples of this hybrid design practice. It presents innovative projects from practice and research that highlight strategies and tools for interdisciplinary collaboration, advanced design optimisation and material rethinking.

Projects that:

 – Connect early design thinking with structural and material analysis
 – Devise advanced algorithmic approaches to navigate data rich design
 – Expand material thinking through novel fabrication processes
– Engage interdisciplinary design innovation

 

It does this through open formats to foster debate and exchange in different types of presentations, sessions and keynotes in dialogue:

    • Shigeru Ban Architects, Taro Okabe in conversation with Fabian Scheurer, Design to Production
    • AKT II, Hanif Kara in conversation with Sam Wilkinson, Foster and Partners
    • Philip Yuan, Tongji University in conversation with Areti Markopopolu, IAAC

A central part of the conference are case presentations of innovative projects, that showcase results from new types of collaborations between “research in practice” and “research in academia” through working on buildings, constructions, design and data model. Individuals and teams from small young, as well as large and established groups and companies, which will provide new insights and outlooks in terms of advanced information modelling and its application in computation, integration of simulation and design to fabrication processes.

We welcome keynotes and presentations from:
Buro Happold Engineers, Proving Ground, DTU, BIG, UCL, Zaha Hadid Architects, Aalborg University, CN3, Robots In Architecture, White Architects, XTree Paris, 3XN, Dorte Mandrup Architects, Bollinger-Grohmann Engineers, Uni Stuttgart, IAAC, ITKE, University of Southern Denmark, CITA, Angewandte Vienna, Smith-Innovation.

DATES AND VENUE

Rasmus Hjortshoj – BLOX

8-9 November 2018
BLOX / Danish Architectural Centre
the new Blox building by OMA, which opened May 2018.
www.blox.dk

Bryghuspladsen 10
1473 Copenhagen K
Denmark
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2 day conference
1 evening social program with boat tour through Copenhagen
Reception in the Innochain exhibition at KADK
1 day Bloxhub pre-conference workshop: 7 November 2018, Bloxhub space.

More info: Program

 

REGISTRATION FOR THE CONFERENCE

The registration fee for the conference includes access to the conference at BLOX, catering for the day and the social program of the evening.

  • Professionals 1.600 DKK incl. VAT
  • Students incl. PhD 750 DKK incl. VAT

REGISTER HERE

*If you buy a ticket with a student price you need to be able to present a proof of student status upon arrival.

 

ACCOMMODATION

We recommend:

Mid Price: WakeUp Hotel Borgergade or Bernstorffsgade

Budget: DanHostel Copenhagen City or Generator

Style: 71 Nyhavn Please refer when booking to “Det kgl. Danske Kunstakademis skoler”

 

QUESTIONS OR SUGGESTIONS

If you have questions realted to the conference, please contact the organises via mail.

WHAT IS INNOCHAIN ?

The InnoChain ETN network is a Marie Curie Horizon 2020 shared research training environment examining how advances in digital design tools challenge building culture enabling sustainable, informed and materially smart design solutions. With a strong inter-sector focus, InnoChain connects “research in practice” with “research in academia”. Assembling 6 internationally recognised academic research environments leading research into computational design in architecture and engineering and 14 innovation pioneering industry partners from architecture, engineering, design software development and fabrication, the programme will establish a shared training platform for 15 early stage researchers.

  • Industry partners: Fosters+Partners, White Architekts, BIG, Henn, ROK, Cloud 9, Buro Happold, Str.ucture, Design To Production, Smith Innovation, Blumer Lehmann, SForm, Mc Neel, Fibre
  • Academic partners: CITA (KADK), ITKE (University of Stuttgart), Bartlett (UCL), IAAC-UPC (Barcelona), IOA (Wienna), KTH (Stockholm)

www.innochain.net

Keynotes

Keynotes

INNOCHAIN CONFERENCE 2018

Keynote In Dialogue #1 

Taro Okabe and Fabian Scheurer will discuss the future of information modelling as a tool for interdisciplinary collaboration.

08 / 11 / 18    09:00

Taro Okabe

Taro Okabe is a first class registered architect (Japan) and director at Shigeru Ban Architects Europe in Paris who leads European activities of the office.
Born in Kawasaki, Japan, grew up in London, Tokyo, Osaka and Paris. After receiving a master degree of architecture at Chiba University, Japan, he started his career as an architect working in several architecture offices, and finally joined Shigeru Ban Architects Tokyo on 2004. Here he was involved in competitions and the realization of projects, such as the Nicolas G. Hayek Centre, Swatch Group HQ (finished in 2007) and the Seikei Information Library (finished in 2006) – both in Tokyo. He was soon involved in international projects, such as the 14th Street Hotel NY, NY, USA (finished in 2008), the Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado, USA (finished in 2014) and the TDIC Headquarters, Abu Dhabi, UAE (finished in 2010). He became Senior associate at Shigeru Ban Architects in 2008 and moved in this position in 2011 to their Paris office. Here he became in 2013 Director of Shigeru Ban Architects Europe, responsible for projects such as the new Headquarters for Swatch and Omega in Biel Switzerland which is characterized by highly innovative use of glue laminated timber and digital fabrication technologies.

www.shigerubanarchitects.com

Fabian Scheurer

Fabian Scheurer is founding partner of designtoproduction and leads the company’s office in Zurich. After graduating from the Technical University of Munich with a diploma in computer science and architecture, he worked as assistant for the university’s CAAD group, as software developer for CAD-provider Nemetschek, and as new media consultant for Eclat in Zurich.
From 2002 until 2006 he studied the use of artificial-life methods in architectural construction as a member of Ludger Hovestadt’s CAAD group at the ETH Zurich and managed to transfer the results to a number of collaborative projects between architects, engineers, and fabrication experts. In 2005 he co-founded designtoproduction as a research group at ETH to explore the connections between digital design and fabrication. At the end of 2006 designtoproduction teamed up with architect Arnold Walz and became a commercial consulting practice, since then having implemented digital planning and production chains for projects like the Hungerburg-Funicular in Innsbruck (by Zaha Hadid), the Rolex Learning Center in Lausanne (by SANAA), or the Centre Pompidou in Metz (by Shigeru Ban) and many others.
Fabian Scheurer has taught Digital Modeling and Fabrication as guest lecturer/tutor at the AA in London, the IAAC in Barcelona, and at HTW Chur (Switzerland).

www.designtoproduction.com

INNOCHAIN CONFERENCE 2018

Keynote In Dialogue #2

Phlip Yuan and Areti Markopoulou will discuss digital design methods and their impact on rural and urban architecture.

08 / 11 / 18    17:30

Philip Yuan

Professor, PhD Advisor of CAUP, Tongji University; Guest Professor, MIT; Council Member of Architects Sector, Architectural Society of China; Council Member of Digital Fabrication Sector, Architectural Society of China; Director of Academic Committee of Shanghai Digital Fabrication Engineering Technology Center.

Philip Yuan focuses on the research of Digital Design and Intelligent Construction. He has been awarded a variety of prizes including the 2014 Wienerberger Brick Award, 2015 Shenzhen Biennale Popularity Award and 2016 Gold and Silver Prize of Architectural Design, etc. Philip F. Yuan has published more than 170 theses on academic architectural journals and magazines and 10 books including Collaborative Laboratory, From Diagrammatic Thinking to Digital Fabrication, Digital Fabrication and Computational Design.

www.en.tongji.edu.cn

Areti Markopoulou

Areti Markopoulou is a Greek architect, researcher and educator working at the intersection between architecture and digital techno-logies. She is the Academic Director at IAAC in Barcelona, where she also leads the Advanced Architecture Group, a multidisciplinary research group exploring how design and science can positively impact and transform the present and future of our built spaces, the way we live and interact. Her research and practice seeks to redefine architecture as a performative "body" beyond traditional notions of static materiality, approximate data, or standardized manufacturing. Areti is founder and principal of the multi-disciplinary practice Design Dynamics Studio, and co-editor of Urban Next, a global network focused on rethinking architecture through the contemporary urban milieu. She is the project coordi-nator of a number of European Research funded Projects on topics including urban regeneration though technologies and multi-disciplinary educational models in the digital age. Areti has also served as a curator of international exhibitions such as the On Site Robotics (Building Barcelona Construmat 2017), Print Matter (In3dustry 2016), HyperCity (Shenzhen Bi-city Biennale, 2015) and MyVeryOwnCity (World Bank, BR Barcelona, 2011), and her work has been featured in exhibitions worldwide. Areti serves as member of the Barcelona Advisory Board of "Leading Cities" and advisor of the "Committee of Urbanism and Territory" of the 22@ Network in Barcelona.

www.iaac.net

INNOCHAIN CONFERENCE 2018

Keynote In Dialogue #3

Hanif Kara and Sam Wilkinson will discuss the future of interdisciplinary practice.

09 / 11 / 18    09:00

Hanif Kara

Hanif Kara is Design Director – AKT II, Professor in Practice – Harvard GSD
Professor Hanif Kara is a design director, educator and co-founder of London-based structural engineering firm AKT II. Under his leadership, the practice has gained an international standing in the field of the built environment, and has won over 350 design awards.
He has been responsible for a number of innovative and pioneering projects but also for raising the profile of ‘design’ both in the construction industry and the wider community. His particular ‘design-led’ approach and interest in innovative forms, historical structures and material uses, prefabrication, sustainable construction and complex analysis methods, have allowed him to work on unique, award-winning projects with leading designers.
Hanif’s contribution to the industry has been recognised by professional bodies where he is a fellow member of: the Royal Academy of Engineering, Institute of Civil Engineers, Institute of Structural Engineers, and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects.
His approach extends beyond the technical aspects of structural engineering discipline and led to his appointment as a commissioner for influential government watchdog CABE (Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment) in 2008, the first structural engineer to be appointed to this position. In the global context, the Aga Khan Award for Architecture is recognised as one of the most important awards in the industry; Hanif was the first structural engineer to be selected for the Master Jury for the 2004 cycle awards, on which he has served numerous times and is currently a member of the 2019 Steering Committee of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture.
Hanif’s work is also intertwined with the research and education of design. Following a period of co-tutoring a Diploma Unit at the Architectural Association, he has been Professor in Practice of Architectural Technology at the Harvard Graduate School of Design since 2008.

www.akt-uk.com

Sam Wilkinson

Samuel Wilkinson is an associate within Foster + Partners’ Specialist Modelling Group (SMG), the architecture practice’s multi-disciplinary research and development group. Since 2014, he has worked on various research projects in collaboration with universities or other companies, such as developing large-scale 3D printing with concrete, plastic, and metal, drone mapping for construction sites, and NASA’s Mars habitat challenge.
He studied architecture and environmental design at the University of Nottingham in 2008, and completed his engineering doctorate at The Bartlett UCL in 2014. He has been involved with Smartgeometry, a non-profit educational organisation for computational design and digital fabrication, since 2011 and a director since 2018.

www.fosterandpartners.com

Paper Presentations

Paper Presentations

The Scientific Committee has selected 10 of the submitted cases from interdisciplinary teams for presentation at the conference. We will introduce topics and persons on this page in a short while.

The selected cases come from research oriented large and small companies and research institutions working with information modelling, computation, new material practices and sustainability.  Within four sessions the presenters will share their insights and experience within emerging computational workflows in the building profession.

PAPER SESSION 1:
Advanced Modelling Strategies and new workflows

This session collects presentations that focus on the analysis, synthesis and communication of data, in design thinking. The presentations discuss how new flows of information can be established and how these integrate with design practice.

08 / 11 / 18     11:00 – 13:00

Chaired by  Martin Tamke

Martin Tamke
Associate Professor at CITA, KADK

Martin Tamke is Associate Professor at the Centre for Information Technology and Architecture (CITA) in Copenhagen. He is pursuing a design led research in the interface and implications of computational design and its materialization. He joined the newly founded research centre CITA in 2006 and shaped its design based research practice. Projects on new design and fabrication for wood and fibre based materials led to a series of research projects and digitally fabricated demonstrators that explore an architectural practice engaged with bespoke materials and behaviour.
Martin initiated and conducted research projects in the emerging field of digital production in building industry and architectural computation. The research connects academic and industrial partners from architecture and engineering, computer and material science and the crafts. Currently he is involved in the EU framework 7 project DURAARK, the Danish funded 4 year Complex Modelling research project and the adapt-r and InnoChain PhD research networks.

Case #1 Computational Extensibility and Mass Participation in Design

Eduardo Pignatelli
Machine Learning & Decision Analytics Lead at Buro Happold Engineering
London, United Kingdom

Eduardo is a multi-disciplinary computational researcher with a background in Architecture and Computer Science. He currently leads the BuroHappold Machine Learning development, with a focus on applications of Deep Learning strategies for Computer Vision and Decision Analytics to engineering. As part of the computational engineering core team, Eduardo helps creating a shared, extensible coding framework to ease the co-creation and the continuous development of engineering tools for the design.

Paul Poinet
Innochain Ph.D Fellow CITA
Copenhagen, Denmark

Paul Poinet is an architectural designer and graduate from the University of Stuttgart where he obtained a M.Sc. in Integrative Technologies and Architectural Design Research. During his studies, he participated in the design development and construction of the ICD/ITKE Research Pavilion 2014-15. Paul is currently a Ph.D. Fellow at the Centre for Information Technology and Architecture (CITA) and part of the InnoChain European Training Network, collaborating with Design-To-Production and Buro Happold. His research focuses on Multi-Scalar Modelling techniques for the design of large-scale and free-form architectural projects.

 

Case #2  Alternate Means of Digital Design Communication

Dimitrie Stefanescu
Innochain Ph.D Fellow The Bartlett. UCL
London, United Kingdom

Dimitrie is a maker of tools, architect, designer and programmer. He is finding and speculating new overlaps between the web, code and design challenges. His main current focus is creating digital design communication interfaces that enable the collaborative definition of value for all the stakeholders involved in the design process.Now a Research Assistant at The UCL Bartlett School of Architecture in London, Dimitrie previously worked as an architect for the Brussels-based practice Bogdan & Van Broeck, and taught computational design in Stuttgart (ABK Stuttgart) and Berlin (TU Berlin). Since 2009, he is giving talks and tutoring workshops throughout Europe (TU Delft, TU Brno, TU Berlin, HTWK Leipzig, ZA Cluj) on information architecture, computational design and digital fabrication. He has also published several articles in print, mostly on critical theory related to the digital design paradigms (PLAT, Horizonte, Arhitectura).

 

Case #3  A graph-based project data management system for capture and analysis of AEC big-data and project topology

Mark Pitman
ODS Engineering
Copenhagen, Denmark

Mark is the owner of ODS Engineering, a business which specialises in development, sales, support and training for software primarily related to simulation and modelling in Environmentally Sustainable Design(ESD) for the building industry.

 

Case #4  The vision of a decentralized, distributed AEC information infrastructure using Linked Building Data technologies

Mads Holten Rasmussen
Ph.D Fellow DTU
Copenhagen, Denmark

Mads Holten Rasmussen graduated as M.Sc. in Architectural Engineering from DTU in 2013. Since then he has been employed by the Danish consultancy firm Niras (former Alectia) as an HVAC engineer. From 2013-2016 was involved in the design and planning of building services in a large-scale office building in central Copenhagen, Axel Towers, from which he gained knowledge about the associated processes and interdisciplinary information flows in construction projects. 
The realization of the inefficiencies in today’s information management and the shortcomings of Building Information Modeling (BIM) which was introduced to remedy these inefficiencies motivated the application for an industrial PhD on this subject. Mads started his PhD at the beginning of 2016, and has since been involved in an international research community which seeks to influence the evolution of next-generations’ BIM. 

PAPER SESSION 2:
Design Integration

This session focuses on emergence of new hybrid practices in building industry. The shared digital platform allows otherwise separate tools and methodologies of design, analysis and fabrication to intersect. The presentations discuss how this new digital chain can be structured, how collaboration between partners can be productive and how early design thinking with structural and material information can lead to smarter design solutions.

09 / 11 / 18     11:00 – 13:00

Chaired by Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen

Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen
Professor at CITA – Center for Information Technology and Architecture
Copenhagen, Denmark

Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen is Professor and leads the Centre for Information Technology and Architecture (CITA) in Copenhagen. Her research examines how computation is changing the material cultures of architecture. In projects such as Complex Modelling and Innochain she is exploring the infrastructures of computational modelling including open topologies and adapative parametrization. She is pursuing design led research in the interface and implications of computational design and its materialisation. Recent projects focus on advanced modelling concepts with highly interdependent materials systems and computational design models with integrate simulation of material behaviour.

Case #1 Material feedback in industrial timber production

Tom Svilans
Innochain Ph.D Fellow, CITA
Copenhagen, Denmark

Tom Svilans is an architectural designer and researcher based at CITA (Centre for IT and Architecture), in Copenhagen, Denmark. Tom’s work focuses on the intersection of design, computation, and material fabrication, and the use of emerging technologies to reveal new design potentials in free-form timber structures. Tom combines an expertise in digital fabrication methods with international experience with design, fabrication, and media work. He is currently part of the EU-funded InnoChain research network, where he explores large-scale free-form timber construction in close collaboration with Blumer-Lehmann AG – a leading Swiss timber contractor – and White Arkitekter – a multidisciplinary Scandinavian architecture practice.

Jonas Runberger
Head of Dsearch at White Architects
Stockholm, Sweden

Jonas Runberger is an architect active in practice, research and education, currently based in Stockholm. He is the Head of Dsearch – a computational design development environment at White arkitekter, and an Artistic Professor at Chalmers Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering. He holds a PhD from KTH School of Architecture, and has taught, lectured and been published in in Sweden and internationally since 2001. His main interests involve the relation between design techniques, architectural production and experiential effect, with an emphasis on the role of digital technology on both experimental and conventional practice. He is the representative of White as an industrial partner in InnoChain, with several project collaborations combining research and practice.

Kai Strehlke
Blumer Lehmann AG
Gossau, Switzerland

Kai Strehlke joined Lehmann Timber Code AG  in 2015, where he is working on the interface between digital data and CNC manufacturing of large scale timber structures. In 2015 he was invited by the Technical University Graz in Austria to be a Guest Professor at the Institute of Architecture and Media. Between 2005 and 2015 he built up and led the Department of Digital Technologies at the architectural office Herzog & de Meuron in Basel. He integrated a digital workshop in the office with different CNC technologies and with his team he supported various projects on geometrical issues as well as on parametric design. From 1997 to 2004 he researched and lectured at the chair of CAAD at the Swiss Federal School of Technology in Zurich and submitted his PhD with the theme of “The Digital Ornament in Architecture, its Generation, Production and Application with Computer-Controlled Technologies”.

 

Case #2 Informed Geometry: development of informatically driven design processes for tensile structures

Louis Bergis
Engineer at Bollinger + Grohmann Sarl
Paris, France

Louis Bergis is graduated engineer-architect from the architecture school of Paris La Villette (ENSA-PLV) and the Ecole Spéciale des Travaux Publics (ESTP). Through his education, he studies in the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm where he specialized in computational design. He joined Bollinger+Grohmann in 2013 to work on complex geometry projects.  Since 2016, he is occasionally teaching in the field of innovative engineering, structure and geometry in the architecture schools of Versailles (ENSA-V), Paris-Malaquais (ENSA-PM) and Paris-La Villette (ENSA-PLV). In July 2018, he has founded the association of engineer-architects AAIIA.

Klaas De Rycke
Engineer at Bollinger + Grohmann Sarl
Brussels, Belgium

Klaas De Rycke joined Bollinger+Grohmann Ingenieure in November 2003. In 2005 he relocated to Paris for Bollinger+Grohmann to assist Dominique Perrault Architects on the Mariinsky Theatre project in St. Petersburg. In 2007 he established Bollinger+Grohmann Paris. Since 2015 he manages the Brussels office and he is partner of Bollinger+Grohmann Holding AG. Since 2008 he has been working as an assistant professor for the department of Architecture and Structural Development at the University of Ghent, Belgium. In 2011 he was appointed as Professor in the field of innovative engineering at the Architecture School of Versailles, France (ENSA-V). Since 2018 he is Senior Teaching Fellow at the Bartlett School of Architecture in London.

 

Case #3 Parametric modelling for Digital Fabrication – Three large scale case studies

Jacob Drachmann
Computational Design Specialist at CN3
Copenhagen, Denmark

Jacob Drachmann is a Civil Engineer based in Copenhagen working with Computational Design and Digital Fabrication methods in construction projects. Jacob has worked with the integration of BIM to fabrication technologies in the design and construction of projects like Ny Nørreport Station, The Silo in Copenhagens Nordhavn, Olafur Eliassons Fjordenhus project in Vejle and the recently opened Tivoli Corner. Jacob teaches Computational design at The Technical University of Denmark and is partner in the Danish Technology and Engineering company CN3.

PAPER SESSION 3:
Material Strategies

New computer controlled design to fabrication strategies bear a huge potential for more efficient, environmentally safe and sustainable building practices. Their introduction present new relations between man and machine, that radically question established processes. The presentations discuss how new fabrication processes challenge industrial fabrication and how they can be used to rethink building practice while maintaining creative thinking.

09 / 11 / 18     13:30 – 15:00

Chaired by Mathilde Marengo

Mathilde Marengo
Head of Studies IAAC Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia
Barcelona, Spain

Mathilde Marengo, PhD Architect, graduated cum laude in 2010 from the Faculty of Architecture in Genoa, presenting a project studying the potentials of mega structures, in particular Stadiums, in the urban scape, tutored by Prof. Mosè Ricci, arch. Marco Carenzo. During her academic career she collaborated in several research projects investigating territorial and contemporary urban transformations such as ‘LUNGOILMARE: continuità, modificazione e permanenze. Un’ipotesi di sviluppo per 25km di fronte mare del Ponente Ligure’, scientific coordinator Prof. Arch. Franz Prati; research group coordinators: Prof. Arch. Mosè Ricci, Arch. Gianluca Peluffo; and “The Eco_Univercity Genoa Project”, scientific coordinators Prof. Mosè Ricci with Prof. Joerg Schroeder, Università di Genova, Technische Universitaet Munchen. She was also a part of the Inter-University Research team for the PRIN 2010-2011 managed by Ministry of Education, University and Research (Ministero dell’Università, dell’Istruzione e della Ricerca) RECYCLE research project, focusing on urban recycling as the generator for new infrastructure and creativity in urban contexts. She won a research grant co-financed by Comapgnia di San Paolo for the “Atlante Med-Net”project, and in support for the development of her PhD research, developed both at the PhD School of Architecture and Design at the University of Genoa, XXVI cycle, and the Universitat Politecnica Catalunya. She obtained her International PhD title in April 2014, with “Multi City Coast. The evolving forms and structures of the Mediterranean multi-city. New models of urban thinking and perspective.” Since 2012 she is enrolled in the certified chamber of architects in Genoa. From 2013 to 2015 she was in charge of Communication & Publications at IAAC, and in late 2015 moved back into the Academic field of the Institute as Academic Coordinator of the Masters&Research.

Case #1 Drone spraying on light formwork for mud shells

Stephanie Chaltiel
Innochain Ph.D Fellow, IAAC
Barcelona, Spain

Stephanie Chaltiel began her career in French Guyana and Mexico developing innovative sustainable housing techniques using local material fabricated by hand with local dwellers.
Between 2006 and 2009 Stephanie practiced at Bernard Tschumi in New York and OMA, where she used her knowledge in building with local resources in international contexts. From 2010 onwards, her experience as a student and teacher at the Architectural Association London, paired with her experience at Zaha Hadid, has brought the latest parametric and digital fabrication techniques to her curriculum.
She taught in British universities such as Westminster, Brighton and at SUTD in Singapore.
Since 2015 Stephanie has been one of the selected Innochain researchers (Marie Curie Horizon 2020 funding). As part of the Innochain program she is developing new housing construction systems integrating small robots and more particularly drones. Her award winning (ACADIA 2017) work on Monolithic earthen shells Robotic Fabrication has been internationally published and exhibited worldwide. She has built in summer 2018 the first 4 m mud shells using the drone spray technique during the Domaine du Boisbuchet annual workshops and in London Southbank for the design junction festival.

 

Case #2 Robots for Skill Digitization

Johannes Braumann
IAAC Barcelona, Robots in Architecture / UfG Linz
Linz, Austria

Johannes Braumann co-founded the Association for Robots with Sigrid Brell-Cokcan in 2011 with the goal of making robots accessible to the creative industry. RiA acts as a network for creative robot users, connecting them with industry and each other, while also developing accessible software for robot programming and simulation. Both aspects have since gone far beyond the initial scope of creative users, with industry becoming increasingly interested in innovative solutions for mass customization and lot size one.  Johannes is the lead developer of KUKA|prc, a solution for controlling and simulating industrial robots from within visual programming environments. It is now being used in a wide variety of industries, enabling customized, parametric production processes beyond CAD-CAM, from multi-axis 3D printing to large-scale building construction. Since 2017 Johannes holds a professorship for Creative Robotics at UfG Linz, working closely with the Ars Electronica Center and KUKA Robotics. He has realized projects with large companies such as McLaren, Audi, and VW as well as with regional SMEs, for example introducing robotic arms to craftspersons such as Austria’s last manufacturer of high-quality saddles. He is a frequent contributor to the Ars Electronica Festival and highly involved in science communication, e.g. by curating the annual “Creative Robotics” exhibition at the Ars Electronica Centre.

 

Case #3 Integration of Material and Fabrication Affordances within the Workflows of Design Firms

Giulio Brugnaro
Innochain, Ph.D Fellow, The Bartlett, UCL
London, United Kingdom

Giulio Brugnaro is a trained architect, designer and researcher working in the field of robotic fabrication for architectural production. He is currently PhD Candidate and Marie Curie Fellow at The Bartlett School of Architecture in London as part of the InnoChain Research Network. His research focuses on developing adaptive robotic fabrication processes and sensing methods that allow designers to engage with material behaviours and tool affordances to explore novel design opportunities. Previously he received a B.Arch. in Architectural Sciences at IUAV University of Venice and a M.Sc. in Integrative Technologies and Architectural Design Research at the University of Stuttgart.

Silvan Oesterle
ROK
Zurich, Switzerland

Silvan Oesterle is an architect and researcher with special expertise in the field of computational design and digital fabrication. In 2010 he co-founded ROK, an architectural office in Zurich. ROK’s work focuses on the development of integrated design processes at the intersection of design computation, engineering and digital fabrication. After graduating from ETH Zurich in 2007, he joined the Faculty of Architecture at ETH and conducted research with Professors Gramazio & Kohler. In 2013 he was a guest lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart. Since 2014 he is a lecturer at the Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio. Silvan lectures regularly at schools and conferences amongst which were the Architectural Association, ITECH – University of Stuttgart or Smart Geometry.

 

Plenary Final Statements and Discussion

Bob Sheil
Head of Department, The Bartlett School of Architecture, Faculty of the Built Environment, UCL
London, United Kingdom

In the post digital age, as new tools have dissolved boundaries between the drawn and the made, how we design has become of equal importance to what we design. Both the role and skillset of the designer has been presented with an unprecedented opportunity to expand and diversify. His research is focused on experiments in the production of architecture where questions are developed through integrated acts of design, making and writing. His work explores the complex relationship between design and making, and in particular how this relationship affects and determines the architectural outcome. He defines this field as ‘Protoarchitecture’, a speculative approach to architectural production that seeks to create and hypothesize alternative and simultaneous approaches to making architecture, involving varied methodologies of design, and varied methodologies of making.

 

Program

Program

 

 

 

 

 

Call

Call

Information modelling challenge the way we think, design and build architecture. By creating a shared digital platform it enables the emergence of a new hybrid practice in which otherwise separate tools and methodologies of design, analysis and fabrication can intersect. Current design practice is invested in the prototyping of these new methodologies. Across the building industry and in research we see a collective push for understanding how this new digital chain can be structured, what are productive exchanges and how a new sense of feedback can lead to smarter design solutions.

What is at stake here is the future of the information model. Expanding simple BIM with more complex requirements to engage and capitalize on analysis, to steer multi objective design spaces and to interface and control fabrication necessitates new kinds of representations that can handle data rich design enquiries, enable collaboration and manage the complex and cyclical nature of feedback.

The InnoChain conference presents the leading examples of this hybrid design practice. It presents innovative projects from practice and research that highlight strategies and tools for interdisciplinary collaboration, advanced design optimisation and material rethinking.

Projects that:

  • Connect early design thinking with structural and material analysis
  • Devise advanced algorithmic approaches to navigate data rich design
  • Expand material thinking through novel fabrication processes
  • Engage interdisciplinary design innovation

The conference asks:

  • What’s at stake when advanced computation and fabrication enters architecture?
  • How can research advance practice?
  • What are models for embedded research?

The conference uses open formats to foster debate and exchange. Keynotes from leading industry innovators will shape and guide the discussion.

A central part of the conference is 10 case presentations of innovative projects, that showcase results from new types of collaborations between “research in practice” and “research in academia” through working on buildings, constructions, design and data model. We invited individuals and teams from small young, as well as large and established groups and companies, which will provide new insights and outlooks in terms of advanced information modelling and its application in computation, integration of simulation and design to fabrication processes.

IMPORTANT DATES AND SUBMISSION

April 2018 – announcement of call and conference
14. July – Submission Portal for abstracts opens
19. August 2018 – submission of cases via innochain webportal 
23. August – registration opens
15. September 2018 – notification of selected presenters
7. November 2018 – 1 day Bloxhub pre-conference workshop
8.-9. November 2018 – Conference at BLOX

 

Breakout Sessions

Breakout Sessions

BREAKOUT SESSIONS:

08 / 11 / 18     14:00 – 16:30

Session 1:  Data and Design Practice

Data design is a rapidly developing and highly interdisciplinary field. This panel discusses how data modelling can become a more integral part of architectural practice and how it can lead to more informed design. What methods of data analysis are relevant to architecture, how can they be transferred and how do they interface with design creativity.

Chair & Presenter:
Sean Hanna
Professor, Director of School, UCL, The Bartlett
London, United Kingdom

Sean Hanna is Reader in Space and Adaptive Architectures at University College London, Director of the Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment’s MSc/MRes programs in Architectural Computation, and Academic Director of UCL’s Doctoral Training Centre in Virtual Environments, Imaging and Visualisation. He is a member of the UCL Space Syntax Laboratory, one of the UK’s leading groups in built environment research. His research is primarily in developing computational methods for dealing with complexity in design and the built environment, including the comparative modelling of space, and the use of machine learning and optimisation techniques for the design and fabrication of structures, often conducted in close design industry collaboration with world leading architects and engineers, artists, and technology producers.

Presenters:

Zeynep Aksoez
Innochain Ph.D Fellow, University of Applied Arts in Vienna
Vienna, Austria

Zeynep is a Marie Curie Fellow, Research Associate and PhD Candidate at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and she is a partner in Vienna based design studio OpenFields. Recently she is pursuing her research as an Early Stage Researcher within the international Training Network Innochain. Through her ongoing research, teaching and practice Zeynep explores generative design processes through the collaboration between human and machine intelligence. Zeynep received her master’s degree in architecture from the Architectural Association Emergent Technologies and Design Program and a Master of Science Degree at the Technical University of Vienna.

Angelos Chronis
Innochain Ph.D Fellow, Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia
Barcelona, Spain

Angelos is a PhD Candidate (Marie-Curie Fellow) at the Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia in Barcelona, as a member of the Innochain Marie-Curie ITN network. Previously he has been working as an Associate for the Applied Research + Development group at Foster + Partners. His main research interest lies in the integration of simulation, optimization and performance drive in the design and fabrication process with an expertise in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) while he also works across other fields including virtual & augmented reality, interactive installations, 3D scanning, spatial analysis and parametric design.

Petra Jenning
Partner and Head of Computational Design at FOJAB architects
Malmo, Sweden

Petra Jenning received her MArch from Lund University in Sweden in 2007. She has since practiced architecture in Shanghai, Paris, London and Malmö. She has taught at University of Greenwich, been an invited critic at the AA, CITA, and LTH, and run workshops in several universities and companies.

Henrik Malm
Architect and Computational Design Specialist at FOJAB architects
Malmo, Sweden

Henrik Malm is an Architect and Computational Design Specialist at FOJAB architects in Sweden. He has an MSc in Computer Engineering and a PhD in Applied Mathematics, with a thesis focused on Computer Vision. He was a researcher in Biomimetic Computer Vision for a few years before getting his MArch from Lund School of Architecture. Before joining FOJAB, Henrik was an Associate and a member of the Applied Research and Development Team at Foster+Partners in London and has been a teacher and a critic at e.g. the Bartlett School of Architecture and at Lund School of Architecture.

 

Session 2:  Additive Manufacturing Futures

Additive manufacturing creates new perspective for the way we build architecture. This panel discusses what material practices are affected and how they are transformed. What are the tectonics of additive manufacture and how do we create new intelligent design to fabrication workflows.

Chair:

Johannes Braumann
IAAC Barcelona, Robots in Architecture / UfG Linz
Linz, Austria

Johannes Braumann co-founded the Association for Robots with Sigrid Brell-Cokcan in 2011 with the goal of making robots accessible to the creative industry. RiA acts as a network for creative robot users, connecting them with industry and each other, while also developing accessible software for robot programming and simulation. Both aspects have since gone far beyond the initial scope of creative users, with industry becoming increasingly interested in innovative solutions for mass customization and lot size one.  Johannes is the lead developer of KUKA|prc, a solution for controlling and simulating industrial robots from within visual programming environments. It is now being used in a wide variety of industries, enabling customized, parametric production processes beyond CAD-CAM, from multi-axis 3D printing to large-scale building construction. Since 2017 Johannes holds a professorship for Creative Robotics at UfG Linz, working closely with the Ars Electronica Center and KUKA Robotics. He has realized projects with large companies such as McLaren, Audi, and VW as well as with regional SMEs, for example introducing robotic arms to craftspersons such as Austria’s last manufacturer of high-quality saddles. He is a frequent contributor to the Ars Electronica Festival and highly involved in science communication, e.g. by curating the annual “Creative Robotics” exhibition at the Ars Electronica Centre.

Presenters:

Zuardin Akbar
Research Associate in the Department of Experimental and Digital Design and Construction (EDEK), Uni Kassel
Kassel, Germany

Zuardin Akbar is a Research Associate in the Department of Experimental and Digital Design and Construction (EDEK), Universität Kassel, Germany. He holds a Master of Architecture with Distinction from The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. He also received an honorary award from Sir Peter Cook for his final project focusing on high – resolution architectural computation. He has gained various experiences in conducting research related to intuitive design space exploration with Advanced Architecture Lab at SUTD Singapore as well as large scale robotic 3D printing with Ai Build and Zaha Hadid Design. He is now working on the development of computational and robotic fabrication methods for novel additive manufacturing using continuous wood fibre.

Nadja Gaudilliere
Architect, co-founder of XtreeE
Paris, France

Nadja Gaudillière , architect, graduate of ENSA Paris , Malaquais (2016) – is a co-founder of XtreeE, a company specialized in large-scale 3D-printing, and currently teaches at the ENSA Paris – Malaquais. At XtreeE, she has been contributing to the supervision of the prospective architectural and design projects and currently leads XtreeE’s research program on the environmental impact of additive manufacturing and its conditions of implementation in the contemporary construction context.

Anja Kunic
research assistant at CREATE, the group in Computational Research in Emergent Architectural Technology at University of Southern Denmark (SDU)
Odense, Denmark

Anja Kunic is research assistant at CREATE, the group in Computational Research in Emergent Architectural Technology at University of Southern Denmark (SDU) and currently completing her master degree in Architecture at Politecnico di Milano. Her main activities involve the exploration of computational and fabrication tools, with a special focus on Additive Manufacturing. She has taken part in the SDU Summer School 2018, ‘Experimental Constructions with Large Scale 3D Printing’ as a teaching assistant. Anja has previously collaborated with ACTLAB at Politecnico di Milano, where she participated in developing research projects, exhibitions and related publications.

Panel:

Arthur Prior
Innochain Ph.D Fellow / UCL The Bartlett
London, United Kingdom

Arthur Prior is a Marie Curie Researcher at the Bartlett school of Architecture, London. He is currently pursuing practice-based research into hybrid manufacturing processes, employing the use of both additive and subtractive fabrication strategies. Before joining the Bartlett School of Architecture in 2015, Arthur worked with the Madrid-based company, Factum Arte – an organisation renowned for its ambitious public projects within the cultural heritage sector as well as its collaborations with some of the worlds leading contemporary artists. Arthur’s combined interest in art and technology has shaped a particular outlook on the role of craft within computer-automated processes. His previous projects, which have focused on 3D scanning and methods of re-materialising digital data, are marked by an interest in the interaction between computational tools and physical matter.

Helena Westerlind
InnoChain Ph.D Fellow / KTH
Stockholm, Sweden

Helena Westerlind is a PhD Candidate at the KTH School of Architecture within the InnoChain training network. Her research investigates the morphology of concrete with the aid of computer controlled depositing technology. By eliminating the need of formwork in concrete construction the project seeks to examine ways of integrating material behaviour in newfound relationships between materiality and form. The project originates from a strong interest in the role of technology in exploring inherent potential in materialities and the notion of craftsmanship using digital tools. Helena studied architecture at the Architectural Association School Architecture before joining the art studio Factum Arte in 2012. Based in Madrid the studio consists of a multi-disciplinary team dedicated to the merging of digital technologies and craft in the realisation and preservation of cultural heritage.

 

Session 3:  New workflows

The promise of the digital chain and the ability to integrate early design simulation creates a blurring of the traditional disciplinary borders in the building chain. This panel will discuss the potential of new digital workflows connecting architects, engineers and fabricators. Through best practice examples, we will examine these emergent practices can be organised and how feedback in the design chain is enabled.

Chair & Presenter:

Line Rahbek
Architect, Dorte Mandrup
Copenhagen, Denmark

Line Rahbek is an architect at Dorte Mandrup Architects in Copenhagen. Line specializes in complex modelling and works on the studio’s geometrically advanced and large projects implementing BIM strategies and ICT management. In the past 13 years Line has worked in international practices including Zaha Hadid London, Gottlieb Paludan Architects Copenhagen and Cox Melbourne, on projects including mixed used high-rises and rail transit. Line has taught at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and at RMIT in Australia, and has been an invited guest critic at RMIT, AA London and St. Martins.  Line graduated in 2005 from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.

Presenters:

Kenn Clausen
Architect, Computational Designer, 3XN/ GXN
Copenhagen, Denmark

Kenn Clausen is an architect, computational designer and project manager with multidisciplinary interests ranging from digital tools and robotic fabrication to design and workflow optimization. He joined GXN, the research and innovation unit of 3XN architects in Denmark. He works in the fusion between competition, project development and research, implementing and utilizing digital tools, workflow strategies and design technologies from large scale building projects to experimental prototypes. His work includes the design and development of the Olympic Committee headquarter in Lausanne and the Fish Market in Sydney.

Kåre Poulsgaard
Head of Innovation, 3XN/ GXN
Copenhagen, Denmark

Kåre Stokholm Poulsgaard is Head of Innovation at GXN and work with applied design research in architecture through the development of strategies for informed design across 3XN architects and GXN innovation. He is interested in research and innovation in the built environment, specifically in the ways digital technology impacts human well-being, work, and learning and what this means for design strategy. Alongside this work, Kåre is pursuing a PhD at the University of Oxford focused on how digital technologies impact human cognition and creativity and what that might mean for creative practice and the organization of work.

Morten Norman Lund
Parametric Designer, Design Technologist and Project Manager, 3XN/ GXN
Copenhagen, Denmark

Morten Norman Lund is a parametric designer, design technologist and project manager at 3XN Architect’s independent innovation unit GXN.  Morten has been at GXN as an architect for 5 years, working mainly on research projects that focus on materials, sustainability, and digital technologies as well as architecture projects. He is currently leading GXN’s latest research into digital fabrication though the Digital Factory project as well as applying parametric workflows to BIM models in 3XN. Morten’s current work at 3XN and GXN serves to bring digital tools into the later phases of the design process to allow more complex designs to be conceived and built.

Sean Lineham
Structural Engineer, ARUP
Copenhagen, Denmark

Sean is a Structural Engineer in the Copenhagen Buildings team, who joined Arup in Edinburgh after graduating from the University of Edinburgh in 2015. Since joining Arup, Sean has worked on a range of projects from stadiums to sculptures. Sean’s focus is to learn about, and implement, technologies and processes that will aid design and foster creativity. His current project is Camp Adventure Tower, a steel parabolic hyperboloid tower with spiralling ramp, which was designed with a digitally-driven process promoting close collaboration with the architect, EFFEKT, to collectively develop the form and then analyse, design and deliver this complex geometry.

Panel:

Ayoub Lharchi
InnoChain Ph.D Fellow / CITA, KADK
Copenhagen, Denmark

Ayoub Lharchi is a research associate and doctoral candidate at CITA (Center for Information Technology and Architecture) at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Architecture. After his graduation from the National School of Architecture Rabat with honors, he joined the University of Stuttgart where he earned his Master’s of Science degree (M.Sc. ITECH). Ayoub is a registered Architect with an interest in computational design, complex geometries and digital fabrication. Current research involves the development of computational methods for the analysis, communication and planning of assembly in complex timber structures. The research is carried out under the supervision of Associate Prof. Martin Tamke and in collaboration with two industrial partners, Design-To-Production and Blumer Lehmann.

Giovanni Betti
Senior Associate at HENN
Berlin, Germany

Giovanni Betti leads the Performance Based Design Team at HENN. The team act as an internal consultancy and R&D team that explores innovative technologies and methods for the architectural design. With a strong focus on the introduction of digital tools in everyday practice and multidisciplinary collaboration, the team activities span from parametric modelling to building performance simulation to façade conception and detailing. Prior to HENN, he was working for Foster+Partners in London where he was an Associate Partner in the Specialist Modelling Group. In 2016 he was made Senior Associate.

 

Session 4:  Performative Materials and Systems

Computation allows us to design and manufacture materials with highly specific behaviours. This panel will discuss established and future strategies for digitally informed material fabrication and question how these can intersect with current building practice. What are the methods by which we can engage new performative material understandings and can they lead to a more sustainable building practice.

Chair & Presenter:

Isak  Worre Foged
Assosciate Professor Aalborg University, Lead of Adaptive Architecture Lab
Aalborg, Denmark

Isak Worre Foged is Associate Professor at Aalborg University, where he heads the Adaptive Architecture Lab. He is educated MSc.Eng.Arch. from the Institute of Architecture and Design, Aalborg University and M.Arch. in Genetic Architectures from the EsArq, International University of Catalunya, Barcelona. In 2015, Isak submitted and defended his PhD thesis in architecture, entitled ‘Environmental Tectonics’ at Aalborg University.
The primary research objective is the on-going formulation of a theoretical, methodological and operational framework for ‘Environmental Tectonics’. The research is approached through investigating and creating environmental morphogenetic design methods and models, and adaptive environmentally sensitive physical systems and models. Additionally he is co-organizing, lecturing and tutoring architectural studios at university graduate programmes.
Isak is the co-founder of the research based architectural studio AREA, formalised in 2010 with Anke Pasold, located in Copenhagen. The studio explores in parallel to academic activities, material properties, design methods, generative systems, and techniques with environmental architectures as results. The design research and design projects have been published widely since 2010.

Presenters:

Saman Saffarian
Innochain Ph.D Fellow, ITKE Uni Stuttgart
Stuttgart, Germany

Sam is an Architectural Designer, Technologist and Researcher. He is currently pursuing his research interests in digitally and materially informed design as a PhD candidate at the Institute for Building Structures and Structural Design (ITKE) at the University of Stuttgart. Since 2015, he is a Marie-Curie Fellow and a member of the InnoChain Research and Innovation Network. His research project focuses on Design Development and Manufacturing of Climate Adaptive Building Envelopes and Exploring potentials of Material-Gradient-FRP as a material solution for Kinetic Architectural Applications. Previously, he worked as a Lead Designer for Zaha Hadid Architects in London, delivering Concept Designs for many projects and competitions of various scale and complexity. Additionally, in collaboration with ZHA‐CoDe,he contributed to the development and fabrication of a number of experimental and research‐based installations and exhibitions. He has been involved in teaching as an AA Visiting School tutor, as a guest lecturer and Design Studio Lead at Technical University of Liberec and currently as an Expert Lecturer, and Architecture Studio Lead, at the University of Stuttgart.

Julian Lienhard
Managing Director of str.ucture
Stuttgart, Germany

Dr. Julian Lienhard received his Diploma in Civil Engineering at the University of Stuttgart in 2007. In April 2014 he completed his doctorate summa cum laude for his dissertation on ‘bending-active structures’ at the Institute of Building Structures and Structural Design (ITKE). At the ITKE he played an active part in the academic environment between 2007 and 2013, engaging in research and teaching, where he was leading the German ministry funded research project ‘Pliable Surface Structures on the basis of biomimetic principles’ awarded the Techtextil Innovation Prize 2011, the Bionic Award 2012 and the Gips-Schüle-Forschungspreis 2013. Since 2011 he has been a visiting lecturer for the Masters of Engineering Program at the Technical University of Vienna. He is a co-author of the ‘Construction Manual on Polymers and Membranes’. In 2016 Julian Lienhard is a Visiting Professor at HafenCity Universität Hamburg (HCU). In 2008, Julian founded the engineering and design practice for lightweight and special structures studioLD now str.ucture GmbH.

Panel:

Vasily Sitnikov
InnoChain Ph.D Fellow / KTH
Stockholm, Sweden

Vasily Sitnikov is PhD candidate at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. His 4 years spanning research is dedicated to behavior of fresh concrete and means of its digital simulation. Combining physical probes and numeric experiments in the methodology of the investigation, the research aspires to establish a novel concrete casting technology, which intrinsic principals would allow a high presence of digital simulation in the stage of design modelling.
Having a background in computational design for architecture and expertise in concrete technologies, Vasily is experienced in interdisciplinary collaboration. Starting his career as an assistant of chief technologist in a high performance concrete laboratory in Moscow, he has then attended the postgraduate programme in Staedelschule Architecture Class http://sac.staedelschule.de/en, successively presenting his thesis project on ACADIA 2014 Digital Conference in Los Angeles. Later he has worked with Berlin-based artist and architect Tomás Saraceno http://tomassaraceno.com/.

Efilena Baseta
InnoChain Ph.D Fellow / IOA Angewandte
Vienna, Austria

Efilena Baseta is an architect engineer, studied in the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), with a Master degree in Advanced Architecture from the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC). Her interest lies in exploring material behaviors, physically and digitally, in order to create real time responsive structures. Since 2014 Efilena is a partner of Noumena, an experimental architectural practice based in Barcelona. She has led several workshops internationally and also has been part of the design and coordination of exhibitions related with technology, such as the “Pavilion of Innovation 2015” and “In3dustry”. During 2015-2016 she collaborated with IAAC as the coordinator of the Visiting Programs and tutor of the Global Summer School 2016. She is currently an innochain PhD candidate in the Institute of Architecture at the University of Applied Arts Vienna on the topic of Simulating Anisotropic Material.

Evy Laura Maurice Slabbinck
InnoChain Ph.D Fellow / ITKE Uni Stuttgart
Stuttgart, Germany

Evy Laura Maurice Slabbinck is a Research Associate and tutor at the Institute of Building Structures and Structural Design at the University of Stuttgart. She obtained the degree “Master of Science in Architectural Engineering” at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Université Libre de Bruxelles in 2014, and also holds a Master of Science from the University of Stuttgart obtained in 2015. She gained her professional experience in various international practices, including Bollinger + Grohmann, and Teuffel Engineering Consultancy, where she worked as a membrane engineer and computational specialist in several international projects.
Evy´s interest lies in structural and parametric design, form-finding, and bending-active tensile structures. She published and presented her work at international conferences and in international journals, including IASS and IABSE. She started her research under supervision of Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jan Knippers in September 2015 as part of the Innochain PhD research network. Her research project focuses on multiple states of equilibrium for bending-active (tensile) structures in collaboration with Foster + Partners and Mc Neel Europe.

 

Session 5:  New Collaborations

The digital chain offers a new platform for rethinking of existing practices in building industry and establish new innovative products and services. This panel looks at how new partnerships across the disciplines are creating new ways of building – from new communication platforms and softwares down to the building materials and their processes of fabrication. How can new interdisciplinary and intersectoral partnerships innovate the underlying economic models of building industry.

Chair & Presenter:

Mie Wittenburg
Special Consultant at Smith Innovation
Copenhagen, Denmark

Experienced process facilitator and project manager working within the construction industry to develop and scale up good ide-as into finished products and solutions. Special focus on working systematically with innovation and facilitating interdisci-plinary collaboration and networking be-tween actors inside and outside of the built environment sector.
Extensive knowledge of funding and SMEs are particularly relevant in advising organi-sations and other stakeholders who need knowledge, skills and resources to develop their business or operate a development project. Sustainable urban development and climate change adaptation, and how to make agendas within these areas ap-plicable on a political as well as practice-oriented level, are of special interest.

Presenters:

James Solly
Innochain Ph.D Fellow, ITKE Uni Stuttgart, Format Engineers
London, United Kingdom

James is a British engineer, a director at Format Engineers and a Teaching Fellow on the Design for Manufacture Programme at the Bartlett School of Architecture. For the last three years he has been a member of the Innochain Network (ESR08 – Virtual Prototyping FRP) and a Research Associate at the Institute for Building Structures and Structural Design (ITKE) at the University of Stuttgart. His ongoing PhD research at the ITKE, that started within Innochain, focusses on the development of virtual prototyping strategies for the fabrication by lattice structures formed from fibre-reinforced polymers (FRP). Prior to his Innochain research placement, James worked at Ramboll UK and BuroHappold Engineering. From his work within both academia and practice James is an advocate for collaborative research between these two domains.

Moritz Dörstelmann
Partner at FibR
Stuttgart, Germany

Moritz Dörstelmann is a Research Associate and Doctoral Candidate at the Institute for Computational Design and Construction at Stuttgart University since 2011. He studied architecture at the RWTH Aachen University and the University of Applied Arts in Vienna where he graduated with distinction from the master class of Zaha Hadid and Patrik Schumacher. Focus of Moritz Dörstelmann´s research are integrated computational design and fabrication strategies for novel fiber composite building systems. In interdisciplinary cooperation with experts in aerospace- and structural engineering, biology and textile technology he realized a series of fibrous lightweight structures which are very material efficient and explore a novel architectural design repertoire. His research achieves simultaneous advancement of building culture and technology. Moritz Dörstelmann´s projects are internationally published and exhibited. He has been invited studio critic and gave lectures and workshops at various international institutions including the Harvard GSD.

Christopher Robeller
Junior Professor at Digital Timber Construction DTC, TU Kaiserslautern, Faculty of Architecture
Kaiserslautern, Germany

Jun. Prof. Dr. Christopher Robeller leads the Digital Timber Construction group DTC at TU Kaiserslautern. He is a registered architect and has previously worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research Digital Fabrication NCCR dfab at ETH Zurich, as a doctoral assistant at the Timber Construction Laboratory IBOIS at EPFL Lausanne, and as a research associate at the Institute of Computational Design ICD, at the University of Stuttgart. Christopher holds a Doctor of Sciences from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology EPFL, and a Professional Diploma in Architecture with Distinction from London Metropolitan University. His research of innovative timber structures, design for assembly and digital fabrication is widely published in scientific journals, books, conferences and exhibitions, and received the best paper award at the Advances in Architectural Geometry conference in 2014. The research has been implemented in experimental structures including the ICD/itke pavilion 2010 and the IBOIS curved folded wood pavilion, as well as buildings such as the timber folded plate structure for the Vidy Theater in Lausanne.

Panel:

Jan Knippers
Professor at ITKE Uni Stuttgart
Stuttgart, Germany

Jan Knippers specialises in complex parametrical generated structures for roofs and façades, as well as the use of innovative materials such as glass-fibre reinforced polymers. Since 2000 Jan Knippers is head of the Institute for Building Structures and Structural Design (itke) at the University of Stuttgart and involved in many research projects on fiber based materials and biomimetics in architecture. He is also partner and co-founder of Knippers Helbig Advanced Engineering with offices in Stuttgart, New York City (since 2009) and Berlin (since 2014). The focus of their work is on efficient structural design for international and architecturally demanding projects.

Silvan Oesterle
Founding Partner of ROK – Rippmann Oesterle Knauss
Zürich, Switzerland

Silvan Oesterle is a founding partner of ROK – Rippmann Oesterle Knauss. He studied architecture at ETH Zurich where he earned a Master of Science in Architecture in 2007. On graduation he joined the Faculty of Architecture at ETH Zurich where he taught and conducted research with Professors Gramazio and Kohler at the chair for Architecture and Digital Fabrication. Since 2014 he is a lecturer at the Accademia di architettura di Mendrisio. In 2013 he was a guest lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart with the class of Prof. Tobias Wallisser. Prior to this he worked as a designer for UNStudio (Amsterdam, 2007), Gramazio & Kohler (Zürich, 2006) and Riarch (New York, 2004). Silvan has given lectures at various schools, conferences and offices amongst which are the Architectural Association School of Architecture (London), CITA (Copenhagen), the Smart Geometry Conference (Munich) and ACADIA2009 (Chicago). In 2012 Silvan and his team at ETH received the Global Holcim Inovation Award.

 

 

Pre-Conference Workshops

Pre-Conference Workshops

The Pre-Conference Reception

We invite all the conference participants to join us at the evening before the conference for an informal reception from 16:45 to 18:30 at BLOXhub. The venue is Bryghuspladsen 10 – Fæstningens Materialgård – https://goo.gl/maps/YcYswF5SeZw ).

Within the reception results from the three Pre-Conference workshops are shared and McNeel Europe will do a presentation of their new software developments.

The Pre-Conference Reception is supported by McNeel / Rhino

The Pre-Conference Workshops

The Innochain Pre-Conference Workshops introduce participants to new tools and practices for the building industry, which have been developed in the Innochain projects. Each of the workshop addresses a key challenge in our current architectural, engineering and construction practice. The aim is to introduce participants on a conceptual and technical level to new tools and provide sufficient space for participants to experience and work with the tools hands on and to trigger a discussion and positioning of the innochain developments in their current and future practices.

Pre-Workshop 1

MACHINE LEARNING FOR DESIGN, OPTIMIZATION & SEARCH

Facilitator:  Zeynep Aksöz (IOA Vienna)

A quick assessment of all kinds of building performances is a pressing need in early design stages. This workshop examines how archi-tects and designers can use data from their own internal as external sources to negotiate between per-formative design and aesthetic ob-jectives through Machine Learning.

Pre-Workshop 2

CONNECTING PROJECT & OFFICE SPECIFIC BUILDING MODELS WITH SPECKLE – OPEN SOURCE BIM COLLABORATION

Facilitator: Dimitrie Stefanescu (UCL), Paul Poinet (KADK)

The current proliferation of different design platforms make it difficult  to share information easily within the building industry, as current digital design data is fragmented. This workshop puts forward the shared platform SPECKLE, through which different stakeholders can communicate and share information across design stages, thereby paving the way for a more inclusive design process.

Pre-Workshop 3

VIRTUAL CONSTRUCTION WITH ASSEMBLY INFORMATION MODELING

Facilitator: Ayoub Lharchi (KADK)

While digital tools support architects, engineers and constructors in almost all aspects of design and manufacturing, the planning and design for the assembly of buildings takes only place in late stages of design. This workshop will introduce an approach to represent, simulate, visualize, communicate and optimize assembly processes and data called “Assembly Information Modeling”.

 

Participants are hence asked to bring their own laptops and projects along in order to test and contextualise the innochain solutions. Participants have as well the possibility to present their own approaches and challenges and discuss in the group ideas for future developments.

An informal social bar at Bloxhub will conclude the day.  Herein participants of the workshops, Bloxhub members and guests of the next days’ Innochain conference at Blox, which are already in Copenhagen can join and mingle. Workshop thematics and results will be shown, as well as anyone else has the opportunity to present projects and ideas related to the general topics of the day.

 

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