Lukáš Kurilla is currently a teaching assistant in Studio Flo|w [link http://www.studioflorian.com/en, http://caad.kurilluk.net/ in Prague.

In his work and research he focuses on synergy  between human intuition and computing calculation and development of decision supporting software tools aimed to help architects optimize structural design especially in the concept design phase.  Cooperation with an artist Federico  Díaz [link: http://www.fediaz.com/  on projects:

ULTRA – CNC digital fabricated installation for PS1 in Miami (2008), an experimental  project LacrimAu and thermo-displays Pulsar, exhibited in Expo Shanghai (2010). At the conference Rob|Arch 2012 in Vienna he presented optimization of a robotic fabricated structure Geometric Death Frequenci -141.

Might architecture be envisioned as a kind of radiant, diffusive soil? New projects from the Hylozoic Series explore fertile, diffusive systems. The radically open qualities of this new kind of aerial soil might seem opposite to the kinds of disciplined forms that minimize waste and serve sustainable architecture. Equations that seek maximum territory and minimum exposing faces might say that waste reduction demands the closure of boundaries and the avoidance of exposure. Yet the deeply fissured forms of snowflakes and flowers demonstrate effective energy exchanges that are based on maximum interaction with their surroundings. If buildings were designed for diffusion and interwoven relationships, perhaps forms akin to forests and soils might result.

Philip Beesley will present recent projects from the Hylozoic Series with underlying concepts and next stages of development in the work. Pursuing a renewed, diffusive form-language for architecture, several different kinds of active liquid cells are integrated within masses of suspended glass flasks within current building assemblies in development. These include protocells, organic power cells, reticulated storage manifolds and scent-lures. Glass vessels house self-generating protocells, offering osmotic felt-like skins, and blooming precipitates. Other liquid cells have forms akin to natural glands. Organic power cells provide weak amounts of current in the form of pulses that behave like unconscious reflexes within a human nervous system.

Philip Beesley MRAIC OAA RCA (Professor School of Architecture, University of Waterloo; Director Integrated Group for Visualization, Design and Manufacturing, Director Riverside Architectural Press) is a practicing architect developing responsive kinetic architectural environments that approach near-living functions. He is cited as a pioneer in the rapidly expanding technology of responsive architecture with wide press including WIRED, TEDx, Discovery Channel features. He has authored and edited eight books, three international proceedings and a number of catalogues, and appears on the cover of Artificial Life (MIT), LEONARDO and AD journals. Current projects are in London, Paris, Edmonton and Hangzhou. He was selected to represent Canada for the 2010 Venice Biennale for Architecture and the 2012 Biennale of Sydney. A series of dresses with Iris Van Herpen were recently launched at Paris Fashion Week. Distinctions include Prix de Rome in Architecture (Canada), VIDA 11.0, FEIDAD, RAIC Allied Arts, ACADIA Emerging Digital Practice, Dora Mavor Moore awards. He is chair for the ACADIA 2013 Adaptive Architecture international conference.

Gamescapes

ScanToProduction is a material oriented design/production process, integrating digital scanning, computer aided design and digital fabrication in a one-shot process. This process is a modern translation of how craftsman reads characteristics of natural materials and dynamically reflects on fabrication processes. Thanks to the recent inexpensive sensing devices and the exponential rise of computing power, finally tools are able to adapt their machining processes to the heterogeneous nature of materials!

As an example of ScanToProduction, “Digitized Grain” was exhibited in Milano Salone 2013 Ventura at Work. In the exhibition, 16 Digitized Grain planks were erected, emulating an artificial forest as well as demonstrating applications in living environments.

Digitized Grain was originally initiated as a research project about gradient material transition where different materials are gradually changing from one to another. The outcome was a hybridization of materials on a transition enabled by a superposed vivid material texture on both materials. Digitized Grain uses wood grain as a texture mediating the contrasted material combination between wood and polyester resin regarding their mechanical properties (opaque <-> transparent, elastic <-> rigid) and emotional materiality (natural <-> synthetic).

For the automated production process, the material features are digitally scanned, image-processed and translated into motion paths for a seven-axis industrial robotic arm. This sequence of operations are executed by an algorithm and then transmitted to any kind of cnc machine that operates following the inputs generated by the program. The program can flexibly change the amount of tooling and resolutions of image processing. Also target materials are flexible, combinations such as marble stone and casting metal.

Due to the flexible process, we decided to show Digitized Grain as a material sample, or a meta-product, and let it open for design product applications such as product, furniture, interior design and architecture. Designing by designing materials, we see this approach is an opportunity. Furthermore, not only material hybridization, ScanToProduction is also open for engineering applications for example defects detections, scanning historical heritages and reinforcing them.

Publications

http://www.domusweb.it/en/salone2013/2013/04/12/scan_to_production.html

http://www.pill-a.com/wp/scantoproduction-fuorisalone2013/

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ScanToProduction @ Ventura at Work, Milano Design Week / 9-14 April, 2013 by
Hironori Yoshida
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Giacomo Cantoni
Pietro Pagliaro

Contributors:
Hua Hao, Mathias Bernhard, Jessica In, David Schildberger, Demetris Shammas, Achilleas Xydis, Akihiko Tanigaito, Nan Jiang, Alessandro Tellini, Daniel Bachmann, Alessandro Mason.

Filmed and edited by Demetris Shammas
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Will be held during 2013 International Conference on Multimodal
Interaction (ICMI 2013: http://www.acm.org/icmi/2013/)

December 13th, 2013

Coogee Bay Hotel, Sydney, Australia.

http://smartmaterialinterfaces.wordpress.com

1. CALL FOR PAPERS

Goal:
The objective of this workshop is to draw attention to the emerging field of smart material interfaces which spans the areas of design, engineering and architecture. These novel composites, which in some cases are already celebrated as the answer for the 21st. century’s technological needs, are generally referred to as materials that are capable of sensing the environment and actively responding to by changing their physical properties, such as shape, size and color.

The workshop aims at stimulating research and development in interfaces that make novel use of smart materials, and will provide a platform for state-of-the-art design of smart material interfaces. In order to establish a rich live demo session throughout the conference we want to particularly encourage the submission of research that includes physical live demonstrators and experimental prototypes.

Topic Keywords:
Smart material interfaces, reality-based interfaces, organic user interfaces, programmable matter, smart textiles.

Topics of interest:
We invite original contributions in a variety of areas related to interaction design and development of interfaces that makes use of SMART MATERIALS. Main topic of interest is the application of smart materials in designing and building interfaces that communicate
information to the user – or allow the user to manipulate information – using different modalities provided by the material’s properties.

- Reality-based interfaces
- Tangible Interfaces
- Organic user interfaces
- Programmable matter
- Electronic textiles, computational textiles, smart textiles
- Robotics
- Relevant developments in materials science, mechanical engineering,
chemistry, biological engineering, nanotechnology, electrical
engineering, textile engineering, and other fields, coupled with
thoughtful speculation about applications
- …

We strongly encourage submissions with related DEMO.

Important Dates:
Workshop papers submission due: July 22th, 2013
Author notifications: September 7th, 2013
Workshop camera-ready paper due: October 7th, 2013
Workshop: December 13th, 2013

Submissions:
The workshop solicits original and unpublished papers concerning Smart Material Interfaces. Authors should submit papers not exceeding 6 pages in total. Submissions must be sent in PDF using the ACM format (as indicated on the main conference page and here http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html) to the address: smi.submission@gmail.com

For up-to-date details on submissions please refer to the official Workshop site:
http://smartmaterialinterfaces.wordpress.com/

Accepted papers will be presented at the workshop. All the workshop papers will be included in a USB stick with all the other proceedings of the conference. They will be also published on ACM Digital Library with associated ISBN.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION:

Please visit the workshop website.
http://smartmaterialinterfaces.wordpress.com

And the conference site:
http://www.acm.org/icmi/2013

2. ABOUT SMART MATERIAL INTERFACES

With the use of smart materials, SMI attempts to overcome the limitation of traditional and tangible interfaces. SMI focuses on changing the physical reality around the user as the output of interaction and/or computation as well as being used as input device. SMI promotes a tighter coupling between the information displayed and the display itself by using the tangible interface as the control and display at the same time – embedding the information directly inside the physical object. It uses the physicality of the object as a way to deliver information.
Utilizing smart materials’ properties, SMI can support cohesive interaction by maintaining both channels (input and output) on the same object of interaction. The interaction constructed in this way will grant the user a continuous perception of the object and of the output.

For more information refer to the site: http://smartmaterialinterfaces.wordpress.com/about/

3. SMART MATERIAL INTERFACES ORGANIZERS

Organizers:

Anton Nijholt, University of Twente, Human Media Interaction group, the Netherlands, a.nijholt@utwente.nl

Manuel Kretzer, CAAD, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich, Switzerland, kretzer@arch.ethz.ch

Andrea Minuto, University of Twente, Human Media Interaction group, the Netherlands, a.minuto@utwente.nl

Leonardo Giusti, MIT – Mobile Experience Lab Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, lgiusti@mit.edu

Program committee members:

Jason Alexander, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK
Huihui Wang, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA
Wim Poelman, Delft University of Technology, Delft, NL
Akira Wakita, Keio University SFC, Fujisawa, Japan
Orkan Telhan, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
Dhaval Vyas, ABB Corporate Research, Bangalore, India
Patrizia Marti, University of Siena, Italy
Andres Lucero, Nokia Research Centre, Tampere, Finland
Kasper Hornbæk, Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, DK
Letizia Jaccheri, NTNU, Norway
Augusto Celentano, Ca’ Foscari University, Venice, Italy
Fabio Pittarello, Ca’ Foscari University, Venice, Italy
Federico Casalegno, MIT – Mobile Experience Lab Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

For contacts and other information: http://smartmaterialinterfaces.wordpress.com/

When: 13.03.13 // 13:00 – 14:00
Where: Chair for CAAD, HPZ Floor F

Delia Dumitrescu : Relational Textiles

The relationship between technology and the expression of form have always been interconnected in the architectural design process; associating the art of envisioning spaces with the craft of materializing them. Recently in terms of surface fabrication, computational tools of representation and material fabrication opened for architectural design new possibilities to explore novel spatial expressions. Surface design processes in architecture start to borrow from the logic of representation of different non-hierarchical structures, e.g., biological systems or textile construction techniques. Relating to that, the present fascination of textiles in architectural design relies on this specific way of building surface design as non-hierarchical form, and by that, allowing the designer to play with the depth of the surface design at micro and macro levels.
Exploring different relations between digital and physical through textiles expressions, this research reassess static principles of form–marking the turn from static to relational principles. Thus, the intention is to describe how the character of the textiles and computation as design material redefines the notion of space trough surface aesthetics merging the digital to the physical, and how spatiality can be questioned through textile and interaction aesthetics. Using practice-based research methodology, this research opens and explores this design space by relating theory and practice; it questions and reframes fundamental concepts of expression and scale in architecture by proposing methods for surface design, and a specific language to describe textile architectural aesthetics.

Delia Dumitrescu lectures BA students in textile design at the Swedish School of Textiles. She holds a degree in architectural design from the University of Architecture and Urbanism Ion Mincu, Bucharest and a MA in Textile Design at the Swedish School of Textiles, Borås. She is currently completing her PhD at the Swedish School of Textiles, University of Borås. Her research develops theoretical knowledge through design on Smart Textiles as materials for architecture. Her work focuses on developing design methods for interactive textile surfaces using knitted constructions. Her projects have been exhibited at the Stockholm Furniture Fair, Salone Satellite, Milan, Responsive by Material Sense, Berlin, Hannover and Avantex, Frankfurt, Keller Center, MIT School of Architecture and Planning, Cambridge.

Digital Stimulation tHrougH DeSign : generative DeSign anD interactive inStallation exPloration in arcHitectural eDucation

Weixin Huang lectures at the School of Architecture at Tsinghua University, Beijing. He is also an organizational officer for CAADRIA.

Lei Yu graduated from the Harvard GSD and is currently a doctoral candidate at Tsinghua University. He is also a Principal of ASW.

When: 25.02.13 // 17:00 – 18:00
Where: Chair for CAAD, HPZ Floor F

Part I – dr. Tomasz Jaskiewicz (faculty of Architecture, TU Delft)

The concept of interactive architecture (iA) stems from the premise that buildings and built environments can be formed and trans-formed in continuous and direct response to needs and activities of their inhabitants, while also, in turn, reciprocally influencing future needs and activities. The past decade has seen a revival of iA ideas, made possible with latest technological advancements and following current social trends. Among those, projects investigated at the TU Delft’s Hyperbody chair investigate new experiences and spatial qualities that iA can deliver, define the new role of an architect in iA and verify the societal need for interactive buildings. Yet despite all these explorations, to date all cases of interactive architecture are just experimental and highly constrained in scale and scope. How do we move from these limited, small-scale projects to realising truly interactive buildings, public spaces and cities?

Part II – dr. Stefan Dulman (faculty of Computer Science, TU Delft)
Large-scale installations containing embedded systems (sensors, actuators, displays, etc.) become difficult to design and manage once the number of devices increases over, say, a few hundreds. The traditional approach of using a central computer to coordinate such a network, if feasible at all, has a number of disadvantages such as its prohibitive high price. A different design approach is to remove the central computer completely from the solution and focus on a distributed systems approach. A number of cheap computing elements are deployed in the system and the desired network behavior will be created from their interaction. In this lecture, we will focus on the concept of emergent behavior occurring in large networks. We will show how it can be used as a programming primitive and briefly introduce a few examples.

CVs
Dr. Stefan Dulman received the BS and MS degrees from “Gh.Asachi” Technical University, Iasi, Romania in 2001 and respectively in 2002. He was awarded the PhD degree for the thesis entitled “Data-centric architecture for wireless sensor networks” at the University of Twente, the Netherlands, in 2005. He started his research career by focusing on the area of wireless sensor networks. Some of his research results being integrated in the products of the Ambient Systems BV, a Dutch SME specialized in providing wireless solutions for the transport and logistics scenarios, where he acted as founding member and senior researcher between 2004-2010. Between 2009-2013 he held the Assistant Professor position at the Delft University of Technology, Embedded Software Chair. His current research interests include self-adaptive aspects of large-scale embedded systems (wireless sensor networks, robotic swarms, mobile ad-hoc networks), spatial computing, interactive distributed systems. He pays a particular interest to the real-world applicability of his research, especially in the field of interactive architecture. He was involved in several research projects, both at European level (Eyes, Wisebed, Demanes) and Dutch national level (Free, LoCare). He has (co-)authored more than 50 research papers in peer-reviewed publications.

His full CV can be found here:http://www.linkedin.com/in/stefandulman

Dr. Tomasz Jaśkiewicz is an architect, urban designer, academic researcher and educator. After finishing his undergraduate studies in Architecture and Urban Planning at TU Gdansk in Poland, he joined the Hyperbody chair at the faculty of Architecture, TU Delft in the Netherlands. There, in 2005, he obtained his Master of Science degree as an Architect, with a thesis on a real-time participatory urban planning toolkit “Paracity”. Afterwards he continued this work as a leading researcher on a series of Protospace Demo projects, investigating novel applications of computational techniques and interfaces to participatory and collaborative architectural and urban design. In following years he joined the architecture firm ONL [Oosterhuis_Lénárd] where he worked as architect and project manager, bringing much of his earlier studies to practice. In 2007 he has started his PhD research at TU Delft, in which, supervised by prof. Kas Oosterhuis, he developed an integrated design framework for development of evolving interactive architectural ecosystems. Next to his research, he also works as an academic teacher, among others having initiated and coordinated the interdisciplinary undergraduate minor program “Interactive Environments”. Since 2011 he has been the manager of TU Delft’s Architecture design laboratory “protoSPACE”, an innovative prototyping facility and think-tank where numerous research, commercial and educational projects on out-of-the-box applications of technology to architectural design are being executed.
In all his projects, Tomasz transgresses the boundaries between conventionally established disciplines and practices. He explores new paths leading towards creation of architecture approached as a complex adaptive system. In this way, he aspires to produce artificial spatial ecologies operating in a proactive symbiosis with their human inhabitants and with the natural environment.

His full CV can be found here:http://www.jaskiewicz.net/cv

Städtebauliche Situationen sind vielschichtig. Einzelne Kennwerte wie Dichte oder Geschossflächenzahl sind alleine betrachtet nicht aussagekräftig. Um den Charakter von Stadtstrukturen zu beschreiben, benötigt man mehrere Dimensionen also eine Vielzahl von Eigenschaften. In ihrer Summe dienen sie als Vergleichsgrundlage, unabhängig davon, wie man die einzelnen Werte bewertet. Diese unterschiedlichen Eigenschaften können voneinander abhängen, sich gegenseitig bedingen, widersprechen oder ausschließen.

Betrachtet man urbane Gefüge in mehrere Dimensionen, ohne zu pauschalisieren oder zu generalisieren, lassen sich diese allerdings nicht mehr intuitiv vergleichen und sortieren. Die Untersuchung wird zwar präzise aber zunehmend unübersichtlich.

Wir möchten in dem Diplombegleitfach erkunden, inwiefern uns der Computer dabei helfen kann, trotz multi-dimensionaler Kriterien die Orientierung zu behalten. Wie lassen sich Aussagen und Vorhersagen für den Städtebau treffen, in Abhängigkeit von den eigenen Zielvorstellungen? Wie lässt sich eine Brücke zwischen die Kennzahlen und Erscheinungsform schlagen?

Aufgabenstellung:

Wir werden in dem Diplombegleitfach einfache, unterschiedliche semantische Stadtmodelle für den Aufgabenbereich erstellen und diese mit dem Computer analysieren. Auf Grundlage der Analysedaten werden die Variationen automatisch mit selbstorganisierenden Karten arrangiert und nach Ähnlichkeiten sortiert. Damit dienen die Karten als  experimentelles  Instrument zum Operationalisieren von Stadtstrukturen und zur Orientierung im Feld der Möglichkeiten.

Variantenbildung:

Erstellen Sie eine Vielzahl von schematischen Varianten in einem semantischen Stadtmodell. Definieren sie Die Bebauung, die Lage besondere Interessenschwerpunkte und die Erschließung.

Schätzen sie den erwarteten Fußgänger-verkehr zwischen den einzelnen Objekten in einer Tabelle ab. Kennzeichnen sie zeichnerisch wichtige Sichtachsen.

Analyse

Computergestützte Analyse der Varianten. Wähle Sie eine Anzahl von Kennwerten aus, die automatisch mittels Software für alle Varianten analysiert wird. Dazu zählen unter anderem Verkehrsaufkommen, Sichtbarkeiten und Zentralität.

Kartographierung

Die Testplanungen werden mit Hilfe von selbstorganisierten Karten zu einem Übersichtsplan sortiert. Varianten mit ähnlichen Eigenschaften liegen nah beieinander, Cluster werden gebildet.

Abgabe

• Mehrere Testplanungen als semantische Modelle. Wir stellen ein Vectorworks Framework zur Vefügung, in dem diese schnell und bequem erstellt und exportiert werden können. Gebäudekubaturen, Gebäudenutzung, Gebäudeeingänge und Strassen werden fixiert.
• Computergestützte Analyse der Studien: Die Studien sollen mit Programmen (Processing), die wir anbieten, analysiert werden sollen. Als Ergebnis gibt es für jede Studie verschiedene Analysediagramme, die Teil der Abgabe sind.
• Sortierung und Clusterung der Varianten in selbstorganisierten Karten. Der Datensatz aus den Modellen und den Analysen wird mit Software (Processing) zu Karten sortiert, die exportiert werden und als Ausdruck und Datei mit abgegeben werden.
• Interpretation der Ergebnisse und des Ansatzes (max 500 Wörter)

Termine

Einführung: Montag, 25. Februar 2013, 11.00 Uhr
Gebäude HPZ, Etage F

Die Eingangsbesprechung findet in der Professur für CAAD, im HPZ Gebäude Etage F statt. Die Termine der Zwischenbesprechungen erfolgen nach Absprache.

Übergabe Software, Definition von Schnittstellen

Zwischenkritik der Ergebnisse, Justierung.

Abgabe der Ergebnisse