Framed with on-going global research and international debate on digital architectur, this workshop focused on potential architectural evolutions through novel digital design and fabrication methods. The goal of the workshop was to design and build human-scale structures from total of 700m2 of 7mm, black-coated plywood sheets, using water-jet cutter technology at disposal for three days.
The structures were to be built up out of self-similar but varied, mass-produced components that connect via a simple, rule based system into one whole. Local external factors were to operate as informing parameters to introduce variation into the building components, causing the structure to adapt to its context. The varying components were to be built up according to a system that allowed for both easy production and assemblage. The design of both components and overall structure was to happen in a continuous feedback loop between experimental cardboard test models and a final form.
The outcome resulted in two conceptually diametrically opposed pavilions, both appropriating radically different properties of new digital design methodologies and fabrication procedures.
Duration 2010
Project leader Kimmo Ylä-Anttila
Workshop teachers Kirstof Crolla, Sebastien Delagrange, Ilija Vukorep, Kathrin Wiertelarz, Emmi Keskisarja
Funding UPM Kymmene Wood
Partners LEAD Laboratory for Explorative Architecture and Design, University of Kassel, Tammercut
Publications Empirical State of Mind (forthcoming 4/2011)