INHABITATS architectural space-suits paris summer school 2015 The colonization of space is the only possible salvation of Earth. Isaac Asimov PRESENTATION /// An architectural space-suit performs several functions to allow its occupant to live safely and comfortably, inside or outside a space. It s the combination of complex equipment, designed to keep the inhabitant comfortable, integrating multiple layers of environmental control and communication systems, all employed to allow complete freedom of movement and interaction. We call those spatial and human hybridizations INHABITATS. The ADVANCED ARCHITECTURE SUMMER SCHOOL at VOLUMES coworking is a 3 weeks learning experience designed as an immersive journey in social innovation, computational design, digital fabrication and collaborative culture.
BRIEF /// The recent interest in adaptive, actuating materials and structures is driven by the search for responsive systems forming a new paradigm in Architecture. A closer link between architecture and the environment, both as an ecologic and as a social ecosystem, drives new behaviors of buildings like described in G.J Ballard novel "vermillion sands", where the building responds to the users and new tenants, and has a behavior of its own. What enables us to make these new types of architecture are abilities to actuate soft materials which can be designed to show stimuli-sensing, multi-length scale actuation, tunable transport, programmed shape control and multifunctional orthogonal responses in architecture. During the workshop, we will detail strategies of design that react to different environmental conditions, or changes in programmatic functions in order to elicit a precise dimensional and controlled response. Material and fabrication research extended the possibilities of designing structures presenting cognitive abilities, integrating behavioral capabilities into architectural components with the ability to alter its configuration, form or properties in response to changes in the environment and social-spatial interaction. We will explore the various advances in the emerging field of material responsive strategies for architecture with a focus on the various parameters that can be modulated to control a complex system behavior. We will look into biological systems, networks, smart adaptive material systems, specific responses to environment and co-evolution. We will start with exploring responsive systems, through generative design experimentation, using digital tools to capture and simulate behaviors. We will then translate this research into material investigations, working with adaptive and responsive materials that will form a full 1:1 fabricated installation showing our ways to respond to the environment, physically computing environmental data and human interaction.
LECTURES / / / DURING THE EVENT WILL BE held several lectures: DESIGN BY DATA FRANCESCO CINGOLANI, VOLUME COWORKING HABITATS DOMENICO DI SIENA, URBANO HUMANO SCIENCE OF PARTECIPATION JOSEP PERELLO, OPEN SYSTEMS ROUNDTABLE / / / FRANCESCO CINGOLANI, DOMENICO DI SIENA, MANJA VAN DE WORP, JÁN PERNECKÝ, ALDO SOLLAZZO, MASSIMILIANO DI BITONTO, MATEUSZ ZWIERZYCKI, CHIRAG RANGHOLIA
ADVANCED TRACK / / / SCHEDULES / / /17th August 4th of September W- A1_ GENERATIVE ECOLOGIES design strategies through environmental data 17-21 AUGUST 2015 Computational techniques Generative design tools Looping strategies Design to fabrication methodologies JÁN PERNECKÝ MATEUSZ ZWIERZYCKI FRANCESCO CINGOLANI W- A2_ PROTOTYPING INTERACTIONS computing responsive spaces 24 30 August 2015 Responsive and adaptive material systems. Social and environmental interaction Arduino Physical computing Internet of Things Physical prototyping MANJA VAN DE WORP - NOUS ENGINEERING ALDO SOLLAZZO - NOUMENA MASSIMILIANO DIBITONTO - LINK CAMPUS UNIVERSITY
W- A3_ 1:1 RESPONSE constructing the sensing capsule 31-04 SEPTEMBER 2015 1:1 PROTOTYPING Rapid manufacturing Laser cutting CNC milling 3d printing CHIRAG RANGHOLIA - NOUMENA
BEGINNERS TRACK / / / SCHEDULES / / /17th August 4th of September W- B1_ ADVANCED MODELING AND MAKING 3d modeling and fabrication for advanced and non- standard geometries 17-21 AUGUST 2015 Introduction to 3d environment and mathematics Non- standard architecture cases of study Advanced 3d modeling Complex and non- standard geometry Physical prototyping FRANCESCO CINGOLANI MICHAEL ARROYO W- B2_ COMPUTATIONAL DESIGN AND COLLABORATIVE CULTURE Computing tools and open- source approach to design and architecture 24 30 August 2015 Computational Design in Grasshopper Procedural design approaches Network design and co- design Smart cities and p2p urbanism Open Source and Collaborative Culture FRANCESCO CINGOLANI DOMENICO DI SIENA ALDO SOLLAZZO - NOUMENA
W- B3_ 1:1 RESPONSE constructing the sensing capsule 31-04 SEPTEMBER 2015 1:1 PROTOTYPING Rapid manufacturing Laser cutting CNC milling 3d printing CHIRAG RANGHOLIA NOUMENA
TUTORS MATEUSZ ZWIERZYCKI Architect, designer and Grasshopper user,co-author of the projektowanieparametryczne.pl (the first polish website about parametric tools in architectural design). Author of the Starling, Squid, Anemone and Mesh Tools plugins for Grasshopper and many more disassociated scripts scattered all over the Grasshopper community. Founder of the Milkbox group, long time workshop tutor, teacher and a parametric design popularizer. JAN PERNECKY Expert in creative programming, form making and computer vision in Java / Processing and Grasshopper. Maker of the Boid flocking library for Grasshopper (2014). Teaching creative programming at independent workshops and at universities in SK and CZ (8 courses since 2013). Conducting independent research on the theory of digital architecture (genetic algorithms, generative design, design by behavior, augmented reality), lecturing at independent events (9 since 2011) and universities MANJA VAN DE WORP Manja van de Worp is a trained Architect and Structural Engineer at the "Technical University of Eindhoven", The Netherlands. She followed her dual master degree with a postgraduate at the "Architectural Association" in Emergent Technology and Design. She has worked from 2007 until 2012 for Arup in London in the Advanced Geometry Unit and Advanced Technology and Research group designing moveable structures. In 2013 she Launched 'NOUS' engineering London. Manja also holds a permanent teaching position at the "Architectural Association" and atthe"bartlett" in London. In addition she teaches at the "IAAC" in Barcelona and runs international workshops dealing with structural geometry. ALDO SOLLAZZO Aldo is an architect and researcher. Master in Architectonic Design in 2007, Master in Advanced Architecture at IAAC [Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalunya] in 2012, Fab Academy diploma in 2014 in the Fab Lab Barcelona, Aldo is an expert in computational design and digital fabrication. Since 2011, he is the manager of Noumena. He is also founder of Fab Lab Frosinone and Director of Reshape digital craft community.
MASSIMILIANO DIBITONTO MassimilianoDibitonto is a phd in Computer Science, a research fellow at Link Campus University in Rome and a lecturer at Rome University of Fine Arts. His main research interests are in Human Computer Interaction and especially Natural Interaction paradigms. He is also an User Experience designer and an expert of physical computing and open source electronics. He is the cofounder of Madsign, a company that has it main focus on the design and the creation of Smart Objects and new user experience based on novel interaction paradigms and technologies. CHIRAG RANGHOLIA Chirag is an architect with expertise in digital fabrication and computational design. After completing architecture from CEPT, India, he furthered his interest through researching and developing interdisciplinary skills of architectural and parametric design at Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) in Spain, followed by expertise in digital tools and digital fabrication by graduating Fab Academy (Course by MIT s Center For Bits and Atoms) from Fab Lab Barcelona. FRANCESCO CINGOLANI Computational designer, director of the Summer School and co-founder of VOLUMES coworking. Francesco Cingolani teaches computational design and parametric architecture in different design and architecture schools and digital arts centres. He is the director of the new Advanced Master Program in Computational Design and Making in Paris. He strives to push forward the idea of design as a process without boundaries, merging art, social sciences and collaborative cultures. DOMENICO DI SIENA Domenico Di Siena is an architect, urban planner and researcher; is founder and director of Urbano Humano Agency, Agency for Innovation and Knowledge Society. His professional activity focuses on Research and Transformation projects related to Urban Innovation, Social Design, Network Thinking and Knowledge Management. MICHAEL ARROYO Michael is a transdisciplinar designer. He founded the maker space inside VOLUMES coworking and he is the manager of everything related to fabrication and prototyping in the space. He is also design and build furniture for collaborative spaces.