Knit as bespoke material practice for architecture

Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen; Martin Tamke; Ayelet Karmon; Jenny Underwood; Christoph Gengnagel; Natalie Stranghöner; Jörg  Uhlemann

Knit as bespoke material practice for architecture

Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen, Martin Tamke, Ayelet Karmon, Jenny Underwood, Christoph Gengnagel, Natalie Stranghöner, Jörg Uhlemann

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Abstract

This paper presents an inquiry into how to inform material systems that allow for a high degree of variation and gradation of their material composition. Presenting knit as a particular system of material fabrication, we discuss how new practices that integrate material design into the architectural design chain present new opportunities and challenges for how we understand and create cycles of design, analysis, specification and fabrication. By tracing current interdisciplinary efforts to establish simulation methods for knitted textiles, our aim is to question how these efforts can
be understood and extended in the context of knitted architectural textiles. The paper draws on a number of projects that prototype methods for using simulation and sensing as grounds for informing the design of complex, heterogeneous and performative materials. It asks how these methods can allow feedback in the design chain and be interfaced with highly craft-based methods of fabrication.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) : Posthuman Frontiers: Data, Designers, and Cognitive Machines
Number of pages	10
Publisher	ACADIA
Publication date	2016
Pages	280-289
Publication status	Published - 2016
Event	Acadia 2016 - University of Michigan Taubman College, Ann Arbor, United States Duration: 27 Oct 2016 → 29 Oct 2016 http://2016.acadia.org/

Conference

Conference	Acadia 2016
Location	University of Michigan Taubman College
Country/Territory	United States
City	Ann Arbor
Period	27/10/2016 → 29/10/2016
Internet address	http://2016.acadia.org/

Keywords

cross disciplinary collaboration
knitting, light weight simulation
idesign integrated fe simulation
interfacing, sensing
bespoke material fabrication

Artistic research

No

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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

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Ramsgaard Thomsen, M., Tamke, M., Karmon, A., Underwood, J., Gengnagel, C., Stranghöner, N., & Uhlemann, J. (2016). Knit as bespoke material practice for architecture. In Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA): Posthuman Frontiers: Data, Designers, and Cognitive Machines (pp. 280-289). ACADIA. http://papers.cumincad.org/data/works/att/acadia16_280.pdf

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Ramsgaard Thomsen, M , Tamke, M, Karmon, A, Underwood, J, Gengnagel, C, Stranghöner, N & Uhlemann, J 2016, Knit as bespoke material practice for architecture. in Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA): Posthuman Frontiers: Data, Designers, and Cognitive Machines. ACADIA, pp. 280-289, Acadia 2016, Ann Arbor, United States, 27/10/2016. <http://papers.cumincad.org/data/works/att/acadia16_280.pdf>

Knit as bespoke material practice for architecture. / Ramsgaard Thomsen, Mette ; Tamke, Martin; Karmon, Ayelet et al.
Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA): Posthuman Frontiers: Data, Designers, and Cognitive Machines. ACADIA, 2016. p. 280-289.

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

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