Current methods for communicating domain specific knowledge in building practice assume disciplinary separation and discretisation of design control. State of the art research questions these professional boundaries by creating shared methods that integrate design and simulation. However, these methods either remain data heavy and therefore unintuitive and contrary to design creativity or borrow methods from unrelated fields such as film industry. These ad hoc methods remain highly experimental and unverified.
The topic is tackled in the innochain Work package 3, which will examine innovative links between structural simulation, material and design.
The Workpackage is lead by the Institute of Building Structures and Structural Design (ITKE)
research projects
ESR01- MULTIPLE STATES OF EQUILIBRIUM FOR BENDING-ACTIVE (TENSILE) STRUCTURES
Author: Evy Slabbinck
Bending-active tensile (BAT) structures introduce a recently new integrative solution into the field of lightweight architecture. This combination of bending-active elements with a tensile element generates challenges for designers due to the complexity in the necessary integrated form-finding and analysis simulations combined with the reciprocal equilibrium, as well as the high level of detail required in fabrication and erection of these form-active structures. These BAT structures remain a challenge, but current developments in CAD and CAE allow designers to engage in that complexity and generate new architectural and structural possibilities in simulating and generating geometry. The research aims to develop an integrated process interface from design to analysis for BAT structures and to explore its potential for architectural design culture. read more
Keywords: · analysis · bending-active · design · hybrid · innovation · membrane
ESR02 – INTEGRATING MATERIAL PERFORMANCE
Author: Tom Svilans
Industrial Partners: Blumer Lehmann, White. The ability to simulate material performance, parametrising and calculating material properties as design drivers present new perspectives in structural and material thinking. By understanding materials not as static or inanimate, but as engaged by complex behaviours, material performance is regarded as one of the richest sources of innovation. New structural paradigms are emerging that integrate material performance such as active bending. read more
Keywords: · Communicating · INTEGRATING MATERIAL PERFORMANCE · timber
ESR03- INTEGRATING BUILDING PHYSICS FOR PERFORMANCE CONTROL
Author: Angelos Chronis
The project is focused on building performance simulation and new fabrication techniques for the application of “smart materials” in architectural construction. read more
Keywords: · Building Physics · CFD · Environmental Performance · Performance Driven Design · simulation
ESR04- INTERACTIVE MULTIPLE CRITERIA SEARCH IN EARLY DESIGN PHASE
Author: Zeynep Aksoz
ESR: Zeynep Aksöz ESR NUMBER: ESR4 INDUSTRIAL PARTNERS: Str.ucture + Foster and Partners INSTITUTE: IOA The involvement of machine intelligence carries the process of design into a new association between two species which continuously influence each other during the search for an ideal design solution. Such design methodology is of high importance for a more... read more
Keywords: · AI · analysis · Communicating · digital simulation · GA · IoA · Machine Learning · simulation · Vienna
ARTICLES
COMPUTATIONAL BAMBOO INSTALLATION AT THE MUSEUM OF INTERACTIVE SCIENCE IN QUITO
Author: Innochain
COMPUTATIONAL BAMBOO INSTALLATION AT THE MUSEUM OF INTERACTIVE SCIENCE IN QUITO from Innochain Research on Vimeo. Credits: Scientific Development: Evy Slabbinck and Seiichi Suzuki Technical support: Yaner Luis Cangá Chavez, Anders Obregon, and Juan Edison Columba Paucar IAAC GSS Students (Design and Fabrication): Juan Francisco Mayorga Jaramillo, Valeria Latorre, Gordon Leibowitz, Valeria León, Veronica Sofia... read more
Keywords: · bamboo · bending-active · computational design · form-finding
Computational bamboo installation
Author: Evy Slabbinck
The computational bamboo installation was built in July 2018 as part of the IAAC Global Summer School in Quito, Ecuador. The structure is constructed from bending-active bamboo laths and rods and will be showcased for 3 months at the Museum of Interactive Science in Quito. The workshop, which resulted in this demonstrator, combined natural local traditional building materials with new computational methods for design combined with traditional fabrication. The workshop was led by two ITKE researchers, Evy Slabbinck and Seiichi Suzuki. read more
Keywords: · bamboo · bending-active · computational design · formfinding · itke
Applying Machine Learning for Real-time Structural Reinforcement
Author: Zeynep Aksoz
Smart Geometry 2018: Machine Minds AI Strategies for Space Frame Structures Cluster This project aims to explore a collaborative design process between human and computer intelligence by using Machine Learning methods and finite element analysis. The project represents an approach to structural optimization which makes use of local rules applied to subsections... read more
Keywords: · Artificial Intelligence · Finite Element Analysis · Machine Learning · SmartGeometry2018 · Space Frame Structures · Structural Design · Workshops
BAT_02 Wood textile
Author: Evy Slabbinck
The BAT_02 is in the last steps of the design phase and starts to have its final equilibrium-shape. We are happy to announce that next to the collaboration with Foster + Partners, we have the sponsorship and knowledge of Tesler + Mendelovitch, who are masters in combining wood veneer with textiles. Have a closer look at the 'Capitonnage' (double curvature) effect of the wood veneer. read more
Keywords: · bending-acitve · formfinding · FosterPartners · hybrid structures · itke
BAT_02
Author: Evy Slabbinck
BAT_02 - Adaptive hybrid bending-active tensile meeting room - in collaboration with Seiichi Suzuki and Foster + Partners read more
Keywords: · bending-active · Communicating · formfinding · hybrid structures · itke
Four Feedback Experiments in Industrial Glulam Production
Author: Tom Svilans
An exploration of different methods of integrating direct material feedback in industrial glulam production at Blumer Lehmann AG, Switzerland in spring 2017. read more
Keywords: · 3d scanning · cnc · Faro · glulam · industry · lamination · LiDAR · material performance · Optitrack · scanning · timber · wood