Paul Nicholas

Personal profile

Curriculum vitae

My research focusses on novel opportunities for architectural design that emerge when digital information flows across traditional domain boundaries. My PhD research developed digital methods to support interdependent working across engineering and architectural domains. In my PostDoc I explored the idea that new materials such as composites necessitate new relationships between material and representation, and developed new methods for extending architectural design into material property specification. As an Associate Professor, my research has focussed on architectural robotics, machine learning and sensing, and opportunities to extend processes of design into processes of making through feedback, adaptation, and the transfer of new modelling methods.

Research area

Technology and digital design
Robotics
Machine learning
Architecture
Materials
Composite Materials
Incremental Sheet Forming

Projects 2011 2017

7 Finished

Designing dynamic responsive architectural systems

Nicholas, P.

05/10/2015 → 30/03/2016

Project: Other

Complex Modelling

Ramsgaard Thomsen, M., Tamke, M., Ayres, P., Nicholas, P., Stasiuk, D., Holden Deleuran, A., Pauly, M. & Gengnagel, C.

01/09/2013 → 31/08/2017

Project: Research

The Social Weavers

Nicholas, P.

22/07/2013 → 25/07/2013

Project: Other

What does it mean to make an experiment?

Tamke, M., Ramsgaard Thomsen, M., Johansson, T. D., Hansen, F. T., Nicholas, P., Binder, T. & Mossé, A.

01/06/2012 → 31/12/2013

Project: Research

The Faraday Pavilion

Nicholas, P., Lafuente Hernández, E. & Gengnagel, C.

01/05/2012 → 31/07/2013

Project: Research

Research Output 2010 2019

Pneumatically Actuated Material: Exploration of the Morphospace of an Adaptable System of Soft Actuators

Kieffer, L. & Nicholas, P., Oct 2019, ACADIA // 2018: Recalibration. On imprecision and infidelity: Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture. p. 294-301 9 p.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review

Open Access

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Predicting and steering performance in architectural materials

Ramsgaard Thomsen, M., Nicholas, P., Tamke, M., Gatz, S. & Sinke, Y., 2019, In : ECAADE SIGRADI 2019 Architecture in the age of the 4th Industrial revolution.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Conference article › Research › peer-review

Re/Learning the Wheel: Methods to Utilize Neural Networks as Design Tools for Doubly Curved Metal Surfaces

Rossi, G. & Nicholas, P., Oct 2019, ACADIA // 2018: Recalibration. On imprecisionand infidelity: Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture. p. 146-155 9 p.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review

Open Access

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A Bridge Too Far

Nicholas, P., 2018

Research output: Non-textual form › Contribution to exhibition › Communication

Coupled Modeling and Monitoring of Phase Change Phenomena in Architectural Practice

Faircloth, B., Welch, R., Sinke, Y., Tamke, M., Nicholas, P., Ayres, P., Eherenbard, E. & Ramsgaard Thomsen, M., Jun 2018, 2018 Proceedings of the Symposium on Simulation for Architecture and Urban Design. Rakha, T., Turrin, M., Macumber, D., Meggers, F. & Rockcastle, S. (eds.). p. 81-88 8 p.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review

Open Access

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