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hybrid domains Gothenburg
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WELCOME
WELCOME! Smartgeometry was founded in 2001 as a partnership between Practice, Research and Academia, formed by members of the world’s leading architectural and engineering practices and educational institutions. To the new generations of designers, engineers and architects, mathematics and algorithms are becoming as natural as pen and pencil. Smartgeometry promotes the emergence of this new paradigm in which digital designers and craftsmen are able to intelligently exploit the combination of digital and physical media to take projects from design right through to production. The SG community is built on annual workshops and an international conference. SG is a truly global community with participants and cluster champions coming together from countries spread across the planet. As modern design has progressed and the tools and techniques have matured, the Smartgeometry Group has emerged as a forum where the new critical language of digital architecture can be formed. Smartgeometry is run entirely by passionate volunteers who balance their professional careers often competing against each other, with investment of time and energy in the wider community. sg2016 would not be possible without an intense amount of work by a large number of individuals. The entire Smartgeometry Community contributes to the selection of host, challenge, clusters, and workshop participants.
This list represents a collection of individuals who are leading coordination activities for sg2016.
Smartgeometry Directors Shane Burger Woods Bagot Jane Burry SIAL / RMIT University Xavier de Kestelier Foster + Partners Lars Hesselgren PLP Architects J Parrish AECOM Brady Peters University of Toronto Hugh Whitehead Foster + Partners (retired) Host Committee Karl-Gunnar Olsson Emil Adiels Emil Poulsen Stig Anton Nielsen Lars Hesselgren Anders Logg Viktoria Henriksson Maria Hult Johanna Riad Carl Hoff Martin Nygren Puria Safari Review & Planning Committee Jan Dierckx Foster + Partners Seth Edwards Autodesk Consulting Samuel Wilkinson Foster + Partners Robert Woodbury Simon Fraser University
WELCOME
Chalmers Volunteers Alexander Gösta Samuel Eliasson Nina Åström Sanna Englund Sebastian Andersson Liv Andersson Arvid Söderholm Gustav Good Oscar Borgström Ahmad Abdul Sater Jacob Flårback Simon Larsson Olof Holmblad Johan Hammarberg Ona Forss Elif Yilmaz Regina Makhmutova Sara Olsson Hans Carlsson 2
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CHALLENGE
HYBRID DOMAINS The act of producing architecture is a collaborative, interdisciplinary exercise. Architects design with knowledge from many branches of study. Architecture involves the coordination of building projects, which themselves are products of a wide range of technologies and systems. Buildings are constructed and procured within a complex ecology of different disciplines, building trades, economic markets, and legal regulations. However, developments in digital technology continue to introduce new design methods and tools to the practice of architecture. Performance simulation, information modelling, and algorithmic design are now part of the expected skillset of the architect, and these new skills require knowledge from multiple disciplines. Information technology has introduced new potential for building designers and Smartgeometry is at the forefront in the exploration of this territory. Computational design and digital manufacturing are creating changes in the design process, often shifting the boundaries of disciplinary roles. Perhaps more fundamentally, as the tools of design change, so does the cognitive structure of the architect’s own mind. As Brett Steele writes, the value of Smartgeometry’s collective, collaborative and sustained focus lies not only in helping to define the role of information-based approaches to architectural design, but also in the making of the most difficult of all architectures, the architect’s own cognitive structure.
With new digital tools comes the potential for new knowledge, new collaborations, and new ways of thinking. The notion of interdisciplinarity refers to the integration of two or more disciplines focused on a complex problem, and in this new landscape of interdisciplinary working lies the potential to address some of architecture’s most challenging problems, for example: designing better performing buildings, decreasing environmental impact, and developing new manufacturing techniques. At sg2016, designers and researchers will operate between, across, and at the edge of their own disciplines. They are challenged to question how they work and connect to and borrow from other disciplines, thereby creating new hybrid domains. The sg2016 Workshop challenges participants to tackle problems that span different knowledge realms. Clusters will connect distinct research domains and will be coordinated by champions from different disciplines (likely one architect and one non-architect). The Cluster participants will collaborate to solve a complex and connected problem. Issues of communication, representation, prototyping, and simulation will be critical to address, and fullscale prototyping is encouraged. Cluster champions are asked to propose a series of linked research questions, outline the framework of interdisciplinary collaboration, propose methods, and predict workshop outcomes.
CHALLENGE
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CLUSTERS
20,000 BLOCKS ABOVE THE GROUND
ATMOSPHERIC DELIGHT
CALIBRATED MODELLING OF FORM-ACTIVE HYBRID STRUCTURES
LOG JAM: POLAR ORTHOTROPY AND PRINCIPAL STRESSES
MARS: MARTIAN AUTONOMOUS ROBOT SWARM
20,000 Blocks will explore structures in a virtual world platform based on the game Minecraft. These structures are exported and processed using Rhino/Grasshopper and then fed to a robot arm which constructs physical scaled-down models.
The cluster aims to produce generative feedback loops between spatial scenarios and user experiences, through a close working relationship between architecture and cognitive science.
The cluster aims to explore the new modelling paradigm, of form-active structures, to evaluate its output in terms of mechanically correct engineering behaviour and to design, develop and prototype novel hybrid structures.
LogJam! proposes an exploration of inter-species optimization in construction of spatial structures. The cluster will explore the role of computational design in wood composites, while providing a study for functionally gradient materials in buildings.
The cluster will explore the advantages and drawbacks of utilising an autonomous robot swarm to build a prototype of a Martian dwelling, inspired by recent work at Foster + Partners.
Cluster Champions: Anton Savov Ben Buckton
Cluster Champions: Berardo Matalucci Alicia Walf
Cluster Champions: Anders Holden Deleuran Gregory Quinn
Cluster Champions: Nathan King Gustav Fagerstrรถm
Cluster Champions: Jan Dierckx Josef Musil
MUD, TEXTILES, AND ROBOTS FOR LARGE STRUCTURES
NANO-GYROIDS
PARALLEL PARAMETRICS
SENSORY DETECTIVE
The cluster explores domes and large spans recursive geometries allowing the construction of earthen shells. Textiles and branches will be used as form-works for the structure.
Nano-gyroids will look at gyroid-like formations, with the aim of exploring how these three-dimensional surfaces can have a transformative potential in the design of objects and spaces surrounding humans.
The Parallel Parametrics Cluster will envision and demonstrate future design media that enable us to find, make, compare, combine, organize, remember, recall and reflect on many design ideas at once.
The cluster will question the dynamics of heat, moisture and air within an atmospheric pavilion design modular architectural elements and experience their effect through your body, electronic sensors and augmented reality.
Swarmbot Assemblage will explore dynamic construction processes through the stigmergic interaction of autonomous robots and a malleable environment.
Cluster Champions: Stephanie Chaltiel Alexandre Dubor
Cluster Champions: Kenneth Harris Sergio Pineda
Cluster Champions: Mark Cichy Robert Woodbury
Cluster Champions: Daniel Prohasky Mehrnoush Latifi
Cluster Champions: Petra Jenning Kirstin Petersen
CLUSTERS
SWARMBOT ASSEMBLAGE
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SCHEDULE APRIL 4-9
09:00-09:30 09:30-10:00 10:00 24:00 * 09:00 - 17:00
Workshop registration Welcome Workshop starts Workshop ends Wood workshop hours
Concrete Hall
19:00-20:00
Evening Lecture
SB-Multi Hall (above Concrete Hall)
09:00 10:00 15:00 24:00 * 09:00 - 17:00
Workshop starts Morning fika Afternoon fika Workshop ends Wood workshop hours
Concrete Hall
19.00-21.00
Evening lecture
Visual Arena - Campus Lindholmen
09:00 10:00 15:00 24:00 * 09:00 - 17:00
Workshop starts Morning fika Afternoon fika Workshop ends Wood workshop hours
Concrete Hall
19:00-20:00
Evening Lecture
SB-Multi Hall (above Concrete Hall)
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09:00 10:00 15:00 24:00 * 09:00 - 17:00
Workshop starts Morning fika Afternoon fika Workshop ends Wood workshop hours
Concrete Hall
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08:00 - 09:00 09:00 - 17:20 13:00 - 14:00
Symposium registration Smartgeometry symposium day 1 Lunch break
Student union building Student union building - RunAn
18:00 - 22:00
Workshop exhibition
Concrete Hall
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08:30 -17:25 12:25-13:25 17:10
Smartgeometry symposium day 2 Lunch break Closing remarks
Student union building - RunAn
18:00 - 22:00
Closing party
Valand
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WORKSHOP
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WORKSHOP
WORKSHOP
SYMPOSIUM
SYMPOSIUM SCHEDULE APRIL 4-9
Architecture building
Architecture building
Architecture building
Architecture building
Student union building - RunAn
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SYMPOSIUM AGENDA - DAY 1
DAY 1 -MORNING 08:00 09:00
Registration + Coffee Intro to sg2016 Fredrik Nilsson, Lars Hesselgren
09:15
Dynamic Architecture Tyler Kicera, Kendra Byrne
Tyler Kicera, TAIT Towers
Kendra Byrne Bot & Dolly
Vincent Loubière Airbus ProtoSpace
Rob Mueller NASA
10:25
Tyler is leading business development of Kinetic Architecture, which aims to leverage the skills and technology TAIT develops in live entertainment, to further enhance public spaces in a dynamic way.
Kendra Byrne is a creative technologist who has worked with a variety of technology firms including Bot & Dolly and Google [x]. While at Bot & Dolly she developed accessible interfaces and tools that could re-invent how creative professionals understand and interact with robots.
Vincent is lead technologist for the Emerging Technologies and Concept team at Airbus. He is the founder of the ProtoSpace, a set of facilities and tools established across Airbus main sites.
Rob Mueller is the co-founder of the KSC Swamp Works and Granular Mechanics & Regolith Operations (GMRO) Lab. Rob has recently been leading the development of technologies required for the utilization of resources on asteroids, Earth’s moon and Mars.
10:40 11:10 12:20 13:00
Q&A Session
Moderator: Xavier de Kestelier
Morning Fika Design Innovation
Vincent Loubiere, Rob Mueller
Panel Session
Moderator: Xavier de Kestelier
Lunch
DAY 1- AFTERNOON 14:00
Creative Software Phil Bernstein, Daniel Piker, Palle Dahlstedt
15:10 15:40 Phil Bernstein Autodesk Phil leads Strategic Industry Relations, where he is responsible for setting the company’s future vision and strategy for technology as well as cultivating and sustaining the firm’s relationships with strategic industry leaders and associations.
SYMPOSIUM AGENDA - DAY 1
Daniel Piker
Foster+Partners Daniel is a researcher on the use of computation for design and realization of complex forms and structures. After studying architecture at the AA, he has worked as part of the Advanced Geometry Unit at Arup, and currently for the Specialist Modelling Group at Foster+Partners.
Palle Dahlstedt Chalmers
Palle Dahlstedt is a composer, improviser and researcher from Sweden. He is currently associate professor in applied IT/computer-aided creativity, at the Dept. of Applied Information Technology, University of Gothenburg and Chalmers. He is also lecturer in composition and artistic director of the Lindblad Studios.
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Panel Session
Moderator: Shane Burger
Afternoon Fika Workshop Presentations
Presentation of the 10 different workshops
End of Symposium Day 1 Opening of Exhibition
Concrete Hall, Chalmers
Closing of Exhibition
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SYMPOSIUM AGENDA - DAY 2
DAY 2 - MORNING 08:00 08:30 08:45
Chris Williams University of Bath
Sheelagh Carpendale University of Calgary
Chris Williams is a structural engineer who worked for Arup prior to joining the University of Bath. He has a particular interest in the relationship between geometrical form and structural action as applied to bridges, shells, tension structures and tall buildings.
Sheelagh is a Professor at the department of Computer Science at the University of Calgary where she holds a Canada Research Chair in Information Visualization and NSERC/AITF/SMART Technologies Industrial Research Chair in Interactive Technologies. She also initiated the interdisciplinary graduate programs in Computational Media Design.
Kasper Stoy IT University, CPHof Copenhagen Kasper holds an Associate Professorship in robotics and embodied artificial intelligence at the IT University of Copenhagen where he serves as the head of the Robots, Evolution, and Art Lab (REAL). His key contributions are in the areas of multi-robot coordination, swarm-robotics, and modular robotics.
10:00 10:20 10:50
12:05 12:25
Morning Coffee Welcome + Introduction
Brady Peters
Visualizing Data
Sheelagh Carpendale, Rob Woodbury, Martin Tamke, Monica Billger
Panel Session
Moderator: Daniel Davis
Morning Fika Robotics and AI
Kasper Stoy, Kirsten Petersen, Nils Napp, Sam Wilkinson, Jan Dierckx, Stephanie Chaltiel, Alexandre Dubor
Panel Session
Moderator: Stig Anton Nielsen
Lunch
DAY 2 - AFTERNOON 13:25
14:40 15:00 Adam Lowe Factum Arte
Anders Logg Chalmers
Martin Antemann Blumer Lehmann
Adam Lowe created the multi-disciplinary workshop Factum Arte in Madrid in 2000. He founded the Factum Foundation for Digital Technology in Conservation in 2007. The projects he is directing are diverse and are redefining the relationship between originality and authenticity.
Anders teaches Computational Mathematics at Chalmers and is a scientific advisor to the Fraunhofer-Chalmers Centre. He is director of the Swedish Network for Mathematics in Industry and a member of the EMS Applied Mathematics Committee and Swedish National Committee for Mathematics.
Martin Antemann is a Civil Engineer at Blumer Lehmann, where he is responsible for the development of research, technical development and marketing. Blumer Lehman is a high-end timber construction company based in Switzerland, specialising in free-form wooden structures.
SYMPOSIUM AGENDA - DAY 2
15:30
16:50
Simulating Performance
Chris Williams, Anders Logg, Nancy Cheng, Mehrnoush Latifi Khorasgani
Panel Session
Moderator: Jane Burry
Afternoon Fika Materialising Architecture
Adam Lowe, Aleksandar Matic, Martin Antemann, Lars Nyborg
Panel Session
Moderator: Hugh Whitehead
17:10
Closing Remarks
18:00
Closing Party
Xavier DeKestelier, Brady Peters, Karl-Gunnar Olsson
Valand
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CHALMERS CAMPUS
Architecture building
Conference venue
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Chalmers tram & bus stop
Concrete Hall
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Wood workshop
Chalmers bus stop
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3D printers / laser cutter
SB-Multi Hall (above)
Chalmers Campus Chalmers is one of the most prominent technical universities in Sweden. It is unique in its strive for collaboration between different fields, where one example of this is the course program in Architecture and Engineering.
Workshop space
This has started a platform for a culture of digital exploration in the fields of computational design. This is why the philosophy of Chalmers goes hand in hand with this year’s theme of Smartgeometry -exploring hybrid domains.
Foam cutter WORKSHOP SPACE
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LUNCH / DINNER OPTIONS
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Gibraltargatan
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Off-Campus restaurants
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Student Union 7 Building
Serves lunch every day from 11:30-14:00 with many different food options (50-80 kr)
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2 Johanneberg 8
Lunch 11:30-14:00 café open to 19:00 (80-100 kr)
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Science Centre
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Building Café
5 J.A Pripps
LUNCH / DINNER OPTIONS
Serves lunch from 11:00-14:00 usually offers four different options and an asian buffét (85 kr) Soup, sallad and also meatballs with mashed potatoes (40-60 kr) Serves coffe and snacks to 16:30 Campus pub with food open from 15:00-23:00 daily (50-100 kr)
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Baan Thai
Pub food open 11:00-23:00 (80-150 kr) Thai food place with few seatings available, offers take away (80 kr)
8 Miss Fajitas
Mexican food open 11:00-20:00 (5090 kr)
9 Sannegårdens
Voted best pizza in Gothenburg, don’t miss the Swedish classic: kebab pizza! open 11:00-22:00 (65-110 kr)
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10 10 Sushi Me
Sushi resturant with both lunch and dinner options. 60-100 kr
Many more resturants are available along Gibraltargatan.
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CITY OF GOTHENBURG
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Chalmers Johanneberg Campus Chalmers Lindolmen Campus Haga area Skansen Kronan Fisherman’s Church Town Hall Hotel Poseidon Götaplatsen Andra Långgatan Museum of World Culture Korsvägen -Shuttle to airport Quality Hotel Panorama Closing Party - Valand
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Introduction to Swedish Hello Thank you You’re welcome My name is ... Coffee break Just about right Beer Good morning Good night Goodbye
CONTACTS
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Conference Wifi
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Wifi name: NOMAD
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Local contact Stig Anton Nielsen +4631 7 72 2424 www.smartgeometry.org www.chalmers.se
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