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- 29 JanDr. Nimish Biloria appointed as board member OCEAN Design Research Association
- 29 JanNext Generation Building special issue: info-matter, edited by Dr. Nimish Biloria and Matias Del Campo is out now.
- 27 JanFinal Review MSc1 Design Studio: EXPO 2025 (World Expo Rotterdam 2025)
- 26 JanHenriette Bier and Sina Mostafavi publish paper on Structural Optimization for Materially Informed D2RP
- 15 JanJoint PhD student Tiantian Du joins Hyperbody
- 12 Jan Henriette Bier and Sina Mostafavi discuss how robotic processes improve the built environment in Delta interview
- 04 JanFibrous Smart Material Topologies initiated by Dr. Nimish Biloria has received funding from 3TU.Bouw and will be implemented in collaboration with TU Eindhoven, U Twente and EURECAT
- 26 NovHyperbody MSc2 studios "Design To Robotic Production" and "Inter-Activating Environments" prototypes at exhibition "Synthetic 2015"
- 24 NovProf. Kas Oosterhuis will lecture at Dubai Chamber of Commerce on 24th of November at 13:30. The lecture is entitled: "Unchaining The Building Industry"
- 12 NovSocialGlass is among the selected projects to be presented at 'De Veranderende Stad' Exhibition in Amsterdam
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Time:
18th October Tuesday, 10:45
Venue:protoSPACE (Zaal D)
Free-form Design by data-driven components
On the example of the remodelling of a house in Lower Austria, it is shown, how free-from design can be used to solve restrictions of local zoning law and how parametric design can be used to structurally optimize a shell construction by local differentiation of each shell component.
Architectural free-form design, though omni-present in the conceptual work of universities and architectural practices, still is a rare feature in the built environment. If such formal concepts materialize, it is usually either a very prominent building brought to life by a huge team of highly educated experts or it is about a small, temporary building, such as a pavilion or booth. The latter usually do not have to meet much of the usual safety and legal standards. Between these cornerstones, there is a surprisingly big gap of every-day architecture, which rarely seems to be affected by the idea of free-form design. Also, there might be a lot of reasons for this fact - from design preferences of the involved planners to strict regulationsn the appearance of buildings -, this basically has to do with a lack of experience of smaller practices and the reluctance of the building industry and contractors to take on unusual building tasks.
Evolutionary Energy Design
Kaleidoscope City - daylight & adaptability
An evolutionary strategy towards a master plan for a super-dense and highly sustainable developement Kaleidoscope School - orientation & radiation. An evolutionary strategy for an efficient and differentiated ambiance
Bernhard Sommer graduated from Vienna University of Technology in 1999 and currently teaches and researches in the field of Energy Design as an Assistant Professor at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna.
In 2003, he founded Exikon, an independent architecture practice based in Vienna, which, since 2006, has a full license as a civil engineer practice. Its aim is to use latest palnning technologies to integtrate engineering skills into the architectural design process.
He was awarded the Arch+ Prize 2000, the MAK Schindler fellowship and the prize for Experimental Tendencies in Architecture.