Rethinking Prototyping

Christoph Gengnagel, UdK Berlin

Axel Kilian, Princeton University

Julien Nembrini, UdK Berlin

Norbert Palz, UdK Berlin

Fabian Scheurer, designtoproduction, Zurich

Ioannis Zonitsas, Visual-Dream, Berlin

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christoph Gengnagel, UdK Berlin

Prof. Norbert Palz, UdK Berlin

Dagmar Rumpenhorst-Zonitsas, Daglicious Coordination

Sigrid Adriaenssens, Princeton University

Marc Alexa, TU Berlin

Jussi Ängeslevä, UdK Berlin

Olivier Bavarel, UR Navier, Université Paris-Est

Philippe Block, ETH Zürich

Alexander Bobenko, TU Berlin

Peter von Bülow, University of Michigan

Neil Burford, University of Dundee

Jeroen Coenders, TU Delft

Christian Derix, Aedas London

Günther Filz, Universität Innsbruck

Al Fisher, University of Bath

Christoph Gengnagel, UdK Berlin

Michael Hensel, Oslo School of Architecture and Design

Johann Habakuk Israel, Fraunhofer IPK Berlin

Axel Kilian, Princeton University

Toni Kotnik, ETH Zürich

Oliver Tessmann, KTH, Stockholm

Stefan Peters, TU Graz

Julian Lienhard, Universität Stuttgart

Julien Nembrini, UdK Berlin

Norbert Palz, UdK Berlin

Fabian Scheurer, designtoproduction Zurich

Volker Schmid, TU Berlin

Paul Shepherd, University of Bath

Martin Tamke, CITA Copenhagen

Florian Förster, Buro Happold Berlin

Roland Wüchner, TU München

Tobias Wallisser, ABK Stuttgart, LAVA Berlin

Foreword

Physical and Numerical Prototyping for Integrated Bending and Form-Active Textile Hybrid Structures

From Shape to Shell: A Design Tool to Materialise FreeForm Shapes Using Gridshell Structures

Designing Regular and Irregular Elastic Gridshells by Six DOF Dynamic Relaxation

Shaping Structural Systems

Bridging the Gap

Funicular Funnel Shells

From Structural Purity to Site Specificity New Canopies for the Entrance Gates of the Messe Frankfurt

DesignScript: A Learning Environment for Design Computation

Frequencies of Wood – Designing in Abstract Domains

Enhancing Free-Form Architecture with Conical Panels

Embodied Prototypes: The Interaction of Material System and Environment

Combined Self-Organising Systems for Spatial Net Structures

A Framework for Flexible Search and Optimisation in Parametric Design

Operative Diagramatology: Structural Folding for Architectural Design

The Materiability Research

Ascending Curve - Digital Realisation of Shanghai Tower

MIKADOweb – Innovative Light-Weight Structure

Fuzzy Modelling with Self-Organising Maps

ALIVE - Designing with Aggregate Behaviour in Self-Aware Systems

Integrated Design Methods for the Simulation of Fibre-Based Structures

Behavioural Prototyping: An Approach to Agent-Based Computational Design Driven by Fabrication Characteristics and Material Constraints

From Generic to Specific - Prototyping a Computational Growth Model

Linear Folded V-shaped Stripes

Free-Form Shading and Lighting Systems from Planar Quads

Optimisation of the Building Skin Geometry to Maximise Solar Energy Collection

Analysing The Performance-Based Computational Design Process: A Data Study

Climate-Specific Mass-Customisation of Low-Technology Architecture as Part of a High-Technology Process

Examples for Tool Integration in Design Concepts and Production Methods of Load Carrying Structures

Unlocking Robotic Design

Autonomous Tectonics - A Research into Emergent Robotic Construction Methods

Material Products: How Data is Successfully Transformed into Real-World Objects

The Design Carport – Prototyping Matter

Sketch-Based Pipeline for Mass Customisation

Prototyping Robotic Production: Development of Elastically-Bent Wood-Plate Morphologies with Curved Finger-Joint Seams

Design and Manufacturing of Self-Supporting Folded Structures Using Incremental Sheet Forming

Architectural “Making” Modes in Relation to Prototype Notions The Stripe Pavilion: Progression from a Bespoke to a Parametric-Algorithmic Mode

Blended Prototyping Design for Mobile Applications

Design Workflows for Digitally Calibrated Heterogenous Building Elements

Sustainability-Open: Why Every Building Will Be Sustainable in the Future

Prototyping Helixator

Validation Framework for Urban Mobility Product-Service Systems by Smart Hybrid Prototyping

Porsche Pavilion - Designing the World‘s Largest Seamless Monocoque Shell

The Generator 2.0

A Process where Performance Drives the Physical Design

Gradient Grid - A Spring Mesh with Different Zones of Flexibility

Serial and Persistent Prototyping Addressing Architectural Acoustics

At this Symposium, we look forward to discussing the relationship between prototypes and models of design. The term prototype stands for an implemented design step rather than a trial run for mass production, as an extension to the thought and computational constructs that make up the model of design. The term models of design stands for the idea and all underlying abstractions and assumptions that define the design process.

The relation between model of design and prototype gains importance as our understanding and relating of material systems to their simulated abstract models improves and computation increasingly becomes embodied in physical constructs replacing complex mechanical assemblies with computational feedback and control.

In architecture, the mechanical complexity has usually been lower than in other engineering fields; but obviously much of architecture’s complexity lies in its cultural context and the human occupation due to its scale and the social density of the built environment. Buildings need to evolve due to their potential long lifespan and are essentially evolving prototypes of the initial design intent reflected in the design model. Bridging the gap between design abstraction during the design development and the operation of the built structure is an ongoing challenge. Inherent to the use of digital tools for design is a tension between using simulation and computational processes to develop robust physical constructs that work as physical assemblies but independent of their computational simulations, or whether to move the computational processes into the built form and further sophisticate the feedback and control cycles and adaptability of physical constructs. In other words, computational processes may be found at many levels whether implicitly as computationally crafted material behaviour and/or explicitly in the computational capabilities of construction elements.