ETH+NUU Nov. 2017
The aim of the Smart City is to improve the quality of urban living through the integration of different information and communication technologies. Nowadays, identities of cities are rapidly deteriorating and vanishing, which will result in the loss of self-identity, sense of a community and sense of a place. This workshop aims to harness data mining technologies together with automatic methods of urban patterns generation to analyze and use information from urban data. To build urban identities in a creative way, an additional data input from citizens’ participatory design tools will be integrated into the framework applied in an existing culture-reserved site in Taipei. The involved citizens’ ideas can inform city authorities and stakeholders after the workshop with their ideas in a more convenient and responsive way, the citizens of the pre-selected area in Taipei will participate in the process by means of the „QUA-KIT“ application – the citizens’ modeling and voting participatory design tool. As a result, the citizens will deliver their opinions, knowledge and suggestions for improvements of the investigated neighborhood from their own design perspective.
UCL+NUU Apr. 2017
Discrete Expression: Re-thinking architectural space through computational ornaments is a 5 days design and build workshop, investigating the changing paradigm of architecture today in relation to construction process, material use, design language, spatial quality and inhabitants. We will revisit the concept of ornaments in architectural history and look into the possible technologies possibilities technology offers today. Our aim is to re-think about the architectural system and building components which would be multi-functional and beyond embellishment. This workshop challenges the idea of architectural expression and functionality through computation.
Throughout the history of architecture field, architects and engineers were devoted to make architecture design and construction process faster and more efficient. With the help of technologies today, such as robotic arm and CNC milling machine, architects are not only able to design, but also manage fabrication process through data in computer. Digital design connected to digital fabrication has widely implemented in industrial industry, which makes the process more precise, faster, more flexible, and need less labor. This is one of the fact that illustrate the concept of data based architecture has high potential to make the whole process more efficient. Furthermore, digital practices have high potential to narrow down the gap between the concept and actual architecture, affording nearly a hypothetically connection between design and fabrication.
We are aiming to produce some architectural prototypes testing the idea of discrete expression in a novel architecture scenario.