Projects per year
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
- 3d Printing
- Feedback
- Sensing
- Architecture
- Digital design
- Materials
- Composite Materials
- Incremental Sheet Forming
- Bio-materials
Projects
- 8 Finished
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Performance-based additive manufacturing processes in architectural design practice
Heywood, K. (PI), Nicholas, P. (Main supervisor (industrial PhD)), Dam Madsen, T. (industrial supervisor (industrial PhD)) & Strømann-Andersen, J. (industrial supervisor (industrial PhD))
01/03/2022 → 28/02/2025
Project: PhD project
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Designing dynamic responsive architectural systems
Nicholas, P. (Project Participant)
05/10/2015 → 30/03/2016
Project: Other
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Complex Modelling
Ramsgaard Thomsen, M. (Project Participant), Tamke, M. (Project Participant), Ayres, P. (Project Participant), Nicholas, P. (Project Participant), Stasiuk, D. (Project Participant), Holden Deleuran, A. (Project Participant), Pauly, M. (Project Participant) & Gengnagel, C. (Project Participant)
01/09/2013 → 31/08/2017
Project: Research
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What does it mean to make an experiment?
Tamke, M. (Project Manager, academic), Ramsgaard Thomsen, M. (Project Participant), Johansson, T. D. (Project Manager, academic), Hansen, F. T. (Project Participant), Nicholas, P. (Project Participant), Binder, T. (Project Participant) & Mossé, A. (Project Participant)
01/06/2012 → 31/12/2013
Project: Research
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Material Stories: Assessing Sustainability of Digital Fabrication with Bio-Based Materials through LCA
Gallucio, G., Tamke, M., Nicholas, P., Svilans, T., Gaudillière, N. & Ramsgaard Thomsen, M., 9 Jan 2025, The 1st International Conference on Net-Zero Built Environment: NTZR 2024. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering. Springer, Vol. 237. p. 25-37Publications: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review
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3D Concrete Printing in a Circular Economy: What we can learn from a 3DCP slab designed for dissassembly
Heywood, K. & Nicholas, P., 20 Apr 2024, CAADRIA 2024: Accelerated Design - Volume 1. Gardner, N. & Herr, C. M. (eds.). p. 271-280Publications: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review
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Additive manufacture with graded bio-polymer composites
Nicholas, P., Eppinger, C., Chiujdea, R.-S., Sonne, K. & Ramsgaard Thomsen, M., 2024. 16 p.Publications: Contribution to conference › Paper › Research › peer-review
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Automated Shotcrete: A More Sustainable Construction Technology
Nicholas, P., Isaac, G., Paul, G., Pietroni, N., Calleja, T., Xie, M. & Schork, T., 7 Feb 2024, Sustainable Engineering: Concepts and Practices. Dunmade, I. S., Daramola, M. O. & Iwarere, S. A. (eds.). Springer, Cham, p. 331-345 (Green Energy and Technology).Publications: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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Design for and with 3DCP: An Integrated Early Design Stage Workflow
Heywood, K. & Nicholas, P., 2024, Fourth RILEM International Conference on Concrete and Digital Fabrication: Digital Concrete 2024. Springer Nature Swizerland AG, (RILEM Bookseries, Vol. 53).Publications: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Article in proceedings › Research
Prizes
Activities
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AI for design and digital fabrication
Nicholas, P. (Lecturer)
11 Apr 2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Lecture and oral contribution
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Design for Robotic Incremental Sheet Forming
Nicholas, P. (Lecturer)
2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Lecture and oral contribution
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Built Action: Architecture and the Time of Making
Ramsgaard Thomsen, M. (Participant), Nicholas, P. (Participant) & Dalager Nielsen, S. (Participant)
2 Dec 2022Activity: Other activity types › Other
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University of Stuttgart, Cluster of Excellence Integrative Computational Design and Construction for Architecture (External organisation)
Tamke, M. (Member), Nicholas, P. (Member), Ayres, P. (Member), Ramsgaard Thomsen, M. (Member) & Svilans, T. (Member)
2022Activity: Membership › Membership in research network
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ARC Centre for Next-Gen Architectural Manufacturing (External organisation)
Tamke, M. (Member), Nicholas, P. (Member) & Ramsgaard Thomsen, M. (Member)
2022Activity: Membership › Membership in research network