Design Studio Vol. 2: Intelligent Control

Disruptive Technologies

Rob Hyde, Filippos Filippidis, Rob Hyde, Filippos Filippidis

• Publisher: RIBA Publishing
• Year: 2021
• eBook ISBN:
  9781000450934
• Topic: Architecture
• Subtopic: Architecture General

How should we train? What should we learn? What is our value? Disruptive technologies have increased speculation about what it means to be an architect. Innovations simultaneously offer great promise and potential risk to design practice. This volume identifies the game-changing trends driven by technology, and the opportunities they provide for architecture, urbanism and design. It advocates for an approach of intelligent control that transforms practice with specialist knowledge of technological models and systems. It features new developments in automation, generative design, augmented reality, videogame urbanism, artificial intelligence and robotics, as well as lived experiences within a continually shifting landscape. Showcasing evolving research, it discusses the cultural, social, environmental and political implications of various technological trajectories. In doing so it speculates upon future urban, spatial, aesthetic and formal possibilities within architecture. The future is already here. Now is the time to act. Features: Austrian Institute of Technology AiT - City Intelligence Lab CiT, Bryden Wood, Mollie Claypool, Soomeen Hahm, Hawkins\Brown, LASSA Architects, The Living, Danil Nagy, Odico Construction Robotics, Stefana Parascho, Luke Caspar Pearson, SHoP Architects, Kostas Terzidis, Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen and Sandra Youkhana.

Index

Page numbers in bold indicate figures.

9 DeKalb, Brooklyn 120–125, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125

Aarhus School of Architecture 96

Aarseth, Espen 13, 22

Airbnb 4, 5

algorithmic design 28

see also Complexity, Planning and Urbanism [CPU] group; design automation; Videogame Urbanism

algorithms, optimisation 27, 28, 30, 32–34

‘allegorithmic’ structures 12–13

Architecture 00 109

artificial intelligence 13, 27, 28, 126, 131

see also Intelligent Framework for Resilient Design (InFraReD); Mixed Reality (MR) technologies

Arup 103

augmentation see Mixed Reality (MR) technologies

Augmented Grounds project 72, 72, 73

Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT) 79–85, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85

Automated Architecture (AUAR)/AUAR Labs 56–67

architecture for automation 58–60, 59

automation as design project 57–58

automation for assembly 60–61, 60, 61

platforms for communities 62–63, 64–67, 64, 65, 66, 67

automated construction 70, 92, 92

see also Automated Architecture (AUAR)/ AUAR Labs; robotics

automated design

Bryden Wood 86, 87–...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Title Page
• About the Editors
• Acknowledgements
• Editor's Note:
• Complex Urban Futures: Design Science for Flux Territories
• The Allegorithmic Utopia of Videogame Urbanism
• Evolving Design: From Computer Tools to Generative Design Partners
• Entering a Bio-Based Material Paradigm: Probing Advanced Computational Methods for a Shift in Material Thinking
• Home Position: Reflecting on Disciplines, Discontinuities and Design Spaces
• Automation, Architecture and Labour
• Augmenting Human Designers and Builders: Augmentation Discussed in Architectural Design Research
• PROFILE
• CASE STUDIE
• Final Word
• Contributors
• Recommended Reading and Sources
• Index
• Image Credits