Workshops and exhibition
June 29–July 6, 2019, 9am
Application Deadline: May 17, 2019
No fees: Students are responsible for travel and accommodation costs
Any student/architect with a bachelor’s degree or higher is eligible to apply for a place on these workshops.
Computational Design and Engineering of Tensioned Formworks for Concrete Shells
Philippe Block, Tom Van Mele, ETH Zurich
This will be an intense workshop based on COMPAS software to design and realize a large-scale concrete shell, built using a cable-net+fabric formwork. Students on this workshop need to have a good command of Python.
F5: Fashioning Fabricators for Flexible Forms
Achim Menges, Maria Yablonina, Samuel Leder, ICD Stuttgart
The workshop will explore the recent trend of collective robotic construction through the implementation of bespoke mobile machines to create adaptable spaces.
Acquire, Deliver and Design: Integrated Systems for Urban Densification
Patrik Schumacher, Shajay Bhooshan, ZHA/CODE
This workshop aims to develop a necessary, sustainable and dynamic urban intensification model through digital empowerment. Drawing upon physical and social information from the site and consumer communities, the intention is to develop a design based on the core information obtained through digital technology that is subsequently constructed using robotic fabrication.
Robotic Timber Fabrication
Gilles Retsin, Bartlett
This workshop will explore the possibilities of Augmented Reality with modular timber assemblies. We will develop a set of serialized, modular, CNC milled, plywood building blocks, engineered to perform in any structural situation. We will experiment with tracking the building blocks and generating real-time feedback between the physical and digital space, using a hololens headset.
X-Form: Generative Architectural Design and Realization Based on Topological Optimization
Yi Min (Mike) XIE, Nic Dingwen BAO, Xin YAN, RMIT
This workshop will introduce the new approach of generative architectural design. Students will be taught how to develop their architectural design skills through the application of topological optimization (BESO) and the new software, Ameba. Students will be required to complete a series of tasks from small scale to large scale—to design a pavilion individually, to design and 3D print nodes working in pairs, and finally to work together to construct a lightweight pavilion with carefully designed nodes and membranes.
Mobile Urban Environments in Mixed Reality
Biayna Bogosian, USC; Runze Zhang, Alessio Grancini, Doorwi
This workshop focuses on the development of a collaborative Mixed Reality mobile application that allows the users to sense and interact with urban environmental data while exploring the city. Students will develop situated and context-aware environmental sensing and visualization workflows, in order to elevate the environmental literacy of the architects and urban designers.
Holotectonics
Matias del Campo, Sandra Manninger, University of Michigan
Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality technologies offer the potential of a synthetic ecology between physical environments and computationally driven information. This workshop applies AR/VR to fabrication, exploring the emerging potential of AR/VR applications in the field of architecture. The workshop will lead to a digitally fabricated installation.
Jazz Urbanism
Neil Leach, Claudiu Barsan, Tongji
This workshop explores the possibility of using advanced machine learning to generate patterns of urbanism. It exploits the logic of pattern recognition and prediction—which lies at the heart of AI—as a generative technique to trace existing patterns and extrapolate variations on those patterns—much like the logic of jazz. Students need to have some knowledge of programming.
Artificial Intelligence and Architecture
Hao ZHENG, UPenn
This workshop will provide an overview of mainstream models in artificial intelligence. On the basis of this knowledge, attendees will learn the methods to collect and process architectural data of existing buildings, find the most suitable neural network model for training a “form-finding machine”, thus generating architectural forms with combined features.
AI in Urban Design：Image Discrimination Model and Urban Evaluation Systems
Wanyu He, Chun Li, Xiaodi Yang, Jackie Yong, XKool Technology
This workshop explores how urban image data such as satellite images and street view images might be used as resources for analyzing and understanding cities. Last year, we introduced an image discrimination model based on a deep learning technique, Convolutional Neural Networks. This year, the workshop will attempt to further explore how this model might be used as a tool of analysis and evaluation at a specific city scale—the street scale—and test it out for decision making in architectural design and urban planning.
Smart City Decision-Making
Tang Ge, Huang Jixiao/Dapeng, Feng Zongliang, MetroDataTech (City Data Group）
This workshop will address urban big data. Students will learn how to manage city databases, use urban data research techniques, and combine machine learning and artificial intelligence with urban research. They will also learn how to cooperate on an urban research project, just as designing an internet product.
Agent-based UAV Automated Fabrication of a Discrete Structure
Xiang Wang, Philip F. Yuan Tongji; Shixian Yu, LINKS
This workshop will attempt to explore the potential of developing a digitally controlled strategy based on multi-terminal collaborative intelligent fabrication, in order to establish related workflows through the application of key technologies. The challenge is to design a discrete structure, using multi-agent systems to autonomously fit the target structural form, and generate relevant construction strategies, with the aim of eventually fabricating a small-scale structure.
Multi-Material Robotic Fabrication*
Philip F. Yuan, Hua Chai, Liming Zhang, Yige Liu, Tongji
What can robots do when they are endowed with intelligent perception? And what new material properties can a fusion of wood, synthetic resin and fibrous materials exhibit? This workshop will address these two challenges, and result in the construction of two experimental structures.
*Workshop already full
To register please email completed application form (with list of 3 workshops in order of preference), CV and portfolio to digitalfutures2019 [at] tongji.edu.cn
Workshop exhibition opening: July 6
DigitalFUTURES conference: July 7-8
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