Tessellated Facade Foreign Office Architects, London

http://www.propertyweek.com/practice-and-it/foa%E2%80%99s-peninsula-patterns-for-ravensbourne-college/3144928.article

NEWTECNIC

http://www.newtecnic.com/projects/thom.html

self supporting framework mockup

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKzf5h1cAXI

Some call it Mandala Roof or reciprocal frame. That describes a load bearing principle known since centuries. Using it one can bridge a span wider than the length of each beam by connecting these elements at the end in an arrangement that allows the bending moment to run continuously through the framework.One main research topic at the chair of Structural Design at the Faculty of Architecture at University Kassel is the development of parametric tools for different usages. Particularly in combination with the material timber this load bearing principle seemed to promise advantages. Guided by Prof. Manfred Grohmann and Dipl.-Ing. Asko Fromm the students Andreas Günther and me started with this principle and developed it further to allow to use it for theoretically any double curved spatial structure. The programs calculates the length of all beams and the detailed position and geometry of all cuts and connecting bolt-holes. Before all these data for production become necessary the geometry is exported into a calculating program which checks the structural behavior and an optimization can be done.As part of my master thesis I transferred this workflow to a demonstration building using a very fruitful cooperation with the education center of the German Carpenter Association based in Kassel. The data generated by the program was used by a group of young carpenters to transfer in total about 2.5 m³ of timber with the dimension 100 by 100mm into the 180 beams of the framework using a numerically controlled cutting machine. After a kind of nesting the machine cuts all the beams to the appropriate length. Within the same step all the 324 cuttings are milled into the timber from both sides. This was arranged in a way the cross-sections only are weakened at the end of the beams. With the help of the same group of young carpenters the demonstration building was finally erected at University Kassel.

http://www.rhinoscript.org/gallery/31

http://www.debonothinkingsystems.com/tools/6hats.htm

What thinking hat will you use to gather information (research), generate design ideas, analyse ideas, critically appraise and draw conclusions?

Descriptive Diagram of Process Architecture

Design Problem Space, Goel 2001

Goel[P1] , V., 2001, Dissociation of Design Knowledge, Design Knowing and Learning Cognition and Design Education, Chapter 10; Pages 221-240 London, Elsevier.

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[P1]Gero.J.S, and Kannengeisser , U., 2006. A FUNCTION-BEHAVIOUR-STRUCTURE ONTOLOGY OF PROCESSES., Key Centre of Design Computing and Cognition University of Sydney, Australia Design Computing and Cognition ’06 2006, Part 6, 407-422, DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5131-9_21

Kalay(2004): Iterative structure of the design process

Kalay, Y.E., 2004, Architecture's new media : principles, theories, and methods of computer-aided design, Cambridge, Mass. ; London : MIT,

Stages of Creative Process

Kneller, G. (1965). The art and science of creativity. NYC: Holt, Rinehart, & Winston

Emergent Technologies and Design page113. Workflow of the production of various scaled and full-scale hardened fabric shells. MArch Dissertation of Arielle Blonder-Afek, February 2008.

Emergent Technologies and Design page 65. Diagram showing the relation between the computational design processes based on a 'hill-climbing' algorithm and the critical parameters of the new envelope's components, component networks and global form. MSc Dissertation of Ioannis Douida, October 2005.

Emergent Technologies and Design page 65. Flow chart of the iterative development of an new envelope for the Piraeus Tower in Athens based on analysing the existing building, establishing relevant building performance criteria, implementing the findings of related design research and conducting iterative design evaluations. MSc Dissertation of Ioannis Douridas, October 2005.