Computational Design | Online Workshop | English | Asia-Pacific
Description:
Bamboo is the most ecologically sustainable construction material currently available. Certain species have tensile strength properties like steel, grow over a meter a day, and can be used in construction within 3 to 5 years, making bamboo one of the fastest biological carbon absorbing materials. By incorporation bamboo as structural material in high-performative applications, like light-weight bending-active shell structures, a wide variation of non-standard architectural spatial designs becomes possible.
However, bamboo is a notoriously difficult material to incorporate in modern modes of construction due to the large natural dimensional and structural performance variations found within and in between individual culms. Typically, no building codes exist for bamboo applications in construction nor for structural performance calculation of its use in a non-processed natural form. As the material doesn’t succumb well to the material control and predictability typically found in and expected from contemporary construction materials, like steel, concrete, and even wood, current modes of architecture implementation struggle to benefit from its inclusion. Incorporating digital design technologies, like real-time physics performance simulation engines in the design process, can help overcome these material challenges.
Since the late 2000s, several design software programmes have incorporated real-time physics simulation engines, giving non-specialist architects design access to material behaviour simulations, expanding their applicability to early-stage architectural design. The parametric nature of these simulation engines enables the development of fully controllable building data environments that incorporate implementation communication.
This hands-on workshop will introduce students to specific digital design methods and techniques for the development of bamboo shell structures. Covered workflows will apply real-time physics simulation (add-on software Kangaroo 2®) and structural performance analysis (add-on software KARAMBA 3D®) within the 3D modeller McNeel Rhinoceros ® and its algorithmic modelling plugin Grasshopper®.
Key Words:
Bamboo architecture,Bending-active shell structure,Live Physics Simulation,Form Finding
Required Skills:
Advanced rhino, advanced grasshopper, beginner Kangaroo 2, beginner Karamba3D
Required Software:
Rhinoceros v.6 or 7, Kangaroo2.42, Karamba3d
Required Hardware:
PC/Laptop running Windows is preferred.
Maximum number of participating students:
15
However, bamboo is a notoriously difficult material to incorporate in modern modes of construction due to the large natural dimensional and structural performance variations found within and in between individual culms. Typically, no building codes exist for bamboo applications in construction nor for structural performance calculation of its use in a non-processed natural form. As the material doesn’t succumb well to the material control and predictability typically found in and expected from contemporary construction materials, like steel, concrete, and even wood, current modes of architecture implementation struggle to benefit from its inclusion. Incorporating digital design technologies, like real-time physics performance simulation engines in the design process, can help overcome these material challenges.
Since the late 2000s, several design software programmes have incorporated real-time physics simulation engines, giving non-specialist architects design access to material behaviour simulations, expanding their applicability to early-stage architectural design. The parametric nature of these simulation engines enables the development of fully controllable building data environments that incorporate implementation communication.
This hands-on workshop will introduce students to specific digital design methods and techniques for the development of bamboo shell structures. Covered workflows will apply real-time physics simulation (add-on software Kangaroo 2®) and structural performance analysis (add-on software KARAMBA 3D®) within the 3D modeller McNeel Rhinoceros ® and its algorithmic modelling plugin Grasshopper®.
Schedule:
Jun 28 - Jul 2
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Day 1 / Jun 28
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Day 2 / Jun 29
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Day 3 / Jun 30
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Day 4 / Jul 2
Instructors:
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Kristof Crolla The University of Hong Kong (HKU),Associate ProfessorA/Prof. Dr. Ir. Arch. Kristof Crolla is a Belgian architect who combines his architecture practice Laboratory for Explorative Architecture & Design Ltd. (LEAD) with an Associate Professorship at the University of Hong Kong. After graduating Magna Cum Laude as Civil Architectural Engineer from Ghent University in 2003, he practiced in Belgium at Bureau Buildings & Techniques and designed his first built project, House for an Artist. He moved to London in 2005 where he trained and taught at the Architectural Association, School of Architecture (AA) and worked for many years for Zaha Hadid Architects, where he led the design of the “Antwerp Port House”. In 2010 he moved to Hong Kong, where his academic research and office work focusses on the strategic implementation of computation in architectural design practice. This work has been extensively exhibited internationally, including at the Venice Architecture Biennale, and led him to receive over thirty international design, research, and teaching awards, including the G-Mark (Japan), Architizer A+ (USA) Awards, the 2016 World Architectural Festival Award - Small Project of the Year 2016, and the RMIT Vice-Chancellor’s Prize for Research Impact. He is best known for projects ‘Golden Moon (Hong Kong, 2012)’, ‘ZCB Bamboo Pavilion (Hong Kong, 2015)’, and ‘YEZO (Japan, 2020)’.