Materialising Design | Designing Material

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Designing Material | Materialising Design:
Considering material possibilities within digital architectural representation
The research project Materialising Design | Designing Material aims to develop and test novel operational models for integrating and activating the behaviour of designed composite materials within the architectural design process. Designed composite materials bring new opportunities for the design of architectural structures. These opportunities are based on designing with and through material: the making of relations between architectural design intention and the specification of physical properties embedded within material itself.
The research takes its departure from the hypothesis that, to more fully engage the architectural potentials of designed materials, architects require new predictive design methods. A key constraint of conventional practice has been the limited capacity of traditional representations to accurately incorporate material properties and tendencies, and for designers to consider materiality and material performance only after the determination of a design’s geometric aspects, within often only generic contexts of optimisation.
Specifically focused upon fibre-reinforced composites, the research developed new design methods that support the same conceptual connections between material configuration, physical behaviour and geometric outcome as underlie the materials themselves. Developing novel concepts and operational models by which to specify and materialise causal relationships between configuration and transformation, these investigations reveal a new locus for architectural instruction that requires new kinds of design information, new representational models, and different modes of design control.
Designing Material | Materialising Design currently includes five projects developed at the Centre for Information Technology and Architecture (CITA) at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture. These case studies sustain an exploration into the design and making of elastically tailored architectural structures that rely on the use of computational design to predict sensitive interdependencies between geometry and behaviour. They include:
Composite Territories
Graded Territories
Performative Pigmentations
Faraday Pavilion
The Social Weavers
The project is an Individual PostDoc Grant research project supported by The Danish Council for Independent Research | Humanities. The grant was awarded to Paul Nicholas. The project started in 2011 and will run to 2013.
AkronymDMMD
StatusAfsluttet
Effektiv start/slut dato01/01/201131/10/2013