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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
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
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
Actuated Textile Hybrids: Textile smocking for designing dynamic force equilibria in membrane structures
Millentrup, V., Ramsgaard Thomsen, M. & Nicholas, P., 2019, Architecture in the Age of the 4th Industrial Revolution : Proceedings of the 37th eCAADe and 23rd SIGraDi Conference - Volume 2, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal, 11-13 September 2019. Sousa, J. P., Xavier, J. P. & Castro Henriques, G. (eds.). Porto, p. 521-530 10 p. 521Publications: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review
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Haptic Learning: Towards Neural-Network-based adaptive Cobot Path-Planning for unstructured spaces
Rossi, G. & Nicholas, P., 2019, Architecture in the Age of the 4th Industrial Revolution : Proceedings of the 37th eCAADe and 23rd SIGraDi Conference - Volume 2, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal, 11-13 September 2019. Sousa, J. P., Xavier, J. P. & Castro Henriques, G. (eds.). Porto, p. 201-210 10 p. 280. (ECAADE SIGRADI 2019 Architecture in the age of the 4th Industrial revolution).Publications: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review
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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.Publications: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review
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Predicting and steering performance in architectural materials
Ramsgaard Thomsen, M., Nicholas, P., Tamke, M., Gatz, S. & Sinke, Y., 2019, Architecture in the Age of the 4th Industrial Revolution: Proceedings of the 37th eCAADe and 23rd SIGraDi Conference - Volume 2, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal, 11-13 September 2019. Sousa, J. P., Xavier, J. P. & Castro Henriques, G. (eds.). Porto, p. 485-494 10 p. 150. (ECAADE SIGRADI 2019 Architecture in the age of the 4th Industrial revolution).Publications: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review
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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.Publications: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review
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Prizes
Activities 2012 2018
RobArch 2018: Robotic Fabrication in Architecture, Art and Design (External organisation)
Paul Nicholas (Member)2018
Activity: Membership types › Membership in review committee
ACADIA (External organisation)
Paul Nicholas (Member)2018
Activity: Membership types › Membership in review committee
Masterclass: Stressed Skins - robotic incremental sheet forming
Paul Nicholas (Teacher)3 Dec 2017 → 15 Dec 2017
Activity: Other activity types › Period visiting other institutions
structures for straddling domains
Paul Nicholas (Lecturer)10 Jan 2014
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
Transmaterial: Cita's research practice
Paul Nicholas (Lecturer)25 Jul 2013
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution