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Robotic Ecotectonics

Robotic Ecotectonics Description Climate change is challenging humanity. There is an increasing need to develop sustainable building systems for zero or negative carbon emissions. Innovation in ecologically sound materials and sustainable construction techniques could...

Additive Tectonics

Additive Tectonics “When a structural concept has found its implementation through construction, the visual result will affect us through certain expressive qualities which clearly have something to do with the play of forces and corresponding arrangement of parts in...

Design Computation 1

Design Computation 1 Description Computation has a profound impact on a contemporary understanding of architectural form, space, and structure. It shifts the way one perceives form, the way in which form is purposed, and the way in which form is produced. The course...

Robotic Additive Manufacturing

Introduction to Robotic Additive Manufacturing “The manifest form—that which appears—is the result of a computational interaction between internal rules and external (morphogenetic) pressures that, themselves, originate in other adjacent forms (ecology).” — Who is...

Wood Proto-architecture III

Wood Proto-architecture III: Integrating Design Computation and Materialization “It is a question of surrendering to the wood, then following where it leads by connecting operations to a materiality, instead of imposing a form upon a matter.” — Gilles Deleuze and...
Doctoral Dissertation Defense: Generative Agent-Based Architectural Design Computation

Doctoral Dissertation Defense: Generative Agent-Based Architectural Design Computation

University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
Ehsan Baharlou

Doctoral candidate Ehsan Baharlou will present his doctoral thesis entitled “Generative Agent-Based Architectural Design Computation. Behavioral Strategies for Integrating Material, Fabrication and Construction Characteristics in Design Processes.” The defense...

Behavioral Integration of Design Computation and Construction Methods

Behavioral Integration of Design Computation and Construction Methods

ICD, University of Stuttgart
Ehsan Baharlou

Behavioral Integration of Design Computation and Construction Methods Description Agent-based systems have been widely investigated in simulation and modeling. Particularly in social sciences, these systems have used an effective computational method to simulate and...

Robotic Softness

Robotic Softness

ACADIA 2016, Ann Arbor
Brugnaro, G., Baharlou, E., Vasey, L., Menges, A.

Robotic Softness Brugnaro, G., Baharlou E., Vasey, L. and Menges, A.: 2016, Robotic Softness: An Adaptive Robotic Fabrication Process for Woven Structures, in Posthuman Frontiers: Data, Designers, and Cognitive Machines, Proceedings of the 36th Conference of the...

Robotic Softness

Feedback- and Data-driven Design for Aggregate Architectures

ACADIA 2016, Ann Arbor
Rusenova, G., Dierichs, K., Baharlou, E., Menges, A.

Feedback- and Data-driven Design for Aggregate Architectures Rusenova, G., Dierichs, K., Baharlou E. and Menges, A.: 2016, Feedback- and Data-driven Design for Aggregate Architectures: Analyses of Data Collections for Physical and Numerical Prototypes of Designed...

Computational Design Techniques in Architecture

Computational Design Techniques in Architecture

Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy
Baharlou, E.

Computational Design Techniques in Architecture Computational tools have radically reformed the approach to design at the different scale of a project, from object design, to architecture, to large scale masterplans. The workshop introduces the fundamentals of Python...

Tailored Structures

Tailored Structures

ITECH M.Sc. Thesis Project 2016
Students: Martin Alvarez and Eric Martínez

Tailored Structures: Adaptive Robotic Fabrication of Sewn Veneer Composites Description Tailored Structures investigates the use of robotics and sensing mechanisms in combination with industrial sewing techniques to explore a new way of fabricating wood shells. The...

Toward a Behavioral Design System: an Agent-Based Approach for Polygonal Surfaces Structures

Behavioral Design and Adaptive Robotic Fabrication of a Fiber Composite Compression Shell with Pneumatic Formwork

ACADIA 2015, Cincinnati OH
Vasey, L., Baharlou, E., Dörstelmann, M., Koslowski, V., Prado, M., Schieber, G., Menges, A., Knippers, J.

Behavioral Design and Adaptive Robotic Fabrication of a Fiber Composite Compression Shell with Pneumatic Formwork Vasey, L., Baharlou, E., Dörstelmann, M., Koslowski, V., Prado, M., Schieber, G., Menges, A., Knippers, J.: 2015, Behavioral Design and Adaptive Robotic...