Time: 3-4 October & 10-11 October
Location: ClickMeeting platform, hosted by PA
Format: Online
Duration: 4 Days
Total Hours: 16 Hours
Topic: Designing for Robotic Fabrication
Workshop Type: Online Workshop
Registration Deadline: 30th September (extendet to 2nd October)
Seats Available: 30 Seats
Fee: €350 EURO
First 10 Seats: €300 EURO (15% Discount for the first 10 seats) (Closed)
Organized By: PAACADEMY
In Collaboration With: Architectural Association Design Research Lab (AADRL)
Introduction to design for robotic hot wire cutting & web-based remote control. 4-day online workshop by PAACADEMY in collaboration with AADRL.
Digital design and robotic fabrication technologies are rapidly maturing towards mainstream architectural application. To participate in this structurally performative, material-saving and aesthetic revolution architects and designers need to incorporate, among other parameters, fabrication related expressive opportunities and constraints into the early design stage. This maturing paradigm of fabrication-aware creation of shape – so called Architectural Geometry has a symbiotic relation with the design-research trajectory of Tectonism which stylistically expresses the inherent structural and manufacturing logics of the shape.
Architectural geometry and Tectonism simultaneously incorporate traditional wisdoms and historic practises methods of design and construction, particularly those related to masonry and timber construction and state-of-the-art methods of Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Geometric Design. This contrasts with the currently widespread paradigm of history and process-agnostic creation of shape. This subsequently leads to materially wasteful designs, and time and resource-expensive, post-processing of such shapes to modify the shapes to suit manufacturing requirements.
This workshop will provide a gentle, hands-on introduction to geometry topics of stereotomy, ruled surfaces and their computational adaptation. The workshop will also incorporate technological topics of robotic fabrication and web-services including remote accessing and instructing an industrial robot set-up to cut foam.
Workshops Conducted by Professors:
Shajay Bhooshan
- Studio Master, Nahmad-Bhooshan studio, Architectural Association Design Research Laboratory (AADRL)
- Co-founder and Head of Zaha Hadid Computation and Design Group (ZHCODE)
Shajay Bhooshan is a studio master at the Architectural Association DRL (AADRL) Master’s program in London. He is also a Senior Associate at Zaha Hadid Architects where he co-founded and heads the Computation and Design (CODE) group. He pursues his research in structure and fabrication aware architectural geometry as a PhD candidate at the Block Research Group, ETH Zurich. Previously, he completed his M.Phil from the University of Bath, UK and M.Arch from AADRL.
Federico Borello
Federico Borello is a registered architect (OAT and ARB) and Computational Designer at Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHCODE) in London. Federico has a degree with Honor from the Polytechnic of Turin and a Master’s degree at the Architectural Association Design Research Laboratory (DRL) in London. His major interest is in fabrication and structure aware geometries, robotically assisted manufacturing and 3d printing. Federico is also a Teaching Fellow at UCL Bartlett BPro in London and a Software and Robotics Consultant at AA Design Research Laboratory. He has taught numerous courses and conferences including AADRL (London), Tonji University (Shanghai), CITA (Copenhagen), ACADIA 2019 (Austin)
Leo Bieling
Leo Bieling is a registered architect (UK, Germany and Austria) and part of the Computation and Design Research Group (ZHCODE) at Zaha Hadid Architects in London. His current research is motivated by observations regarding data-driven design, digital fabrication technologies and emerging trends in contemporary living. He has taught several international workshops including CAARDIA in Beijing, RobArch hosted at ETH Zurich and at the B-Pro Bartlett in London. In these courses, he continued his design-research in architectural geometry towards robotic and digital fabrication implementations
Cesar Fragachan
Cesar Fragachan works for the Computation and Design group of Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHCODE); He is a registered Architect in Venezuela. He holds a M.Arch(Hons) from the Architectural Association Design Research Laboratory (AADRL). He also holds a MBA from the IESA Institute, and B.Arch(Hons) from Universidad Simon Bolivar in Caracas, Venezuela. His ongoing research is focused on computational design, game technologies and digital fabrication in robotics. Previously, Cesar was a studio professor at Universidad Simon Bolivar, worked at Mendoza-Capiello Arquitectos, and established his own professional practice where he developed several residential, office and hotel projects;
Workshop Info:
- 4-Day Workshop Online
- 3-4 October & 10-11 October // Time 10:00-14:00 (GMT)
- The workshop will run live for 4 hours per day from 10:00-14:00 (GMT)
- The entire workshop will be recorded and you will have access to the recorded videos after each day ends.
- Registration Fee:
€300 (15% Discount for the first 10 seats)Closed - General Registration: €350
- 25% discount to all members in a group of 4
- Payment link will be shown at the end stage of the registration.
- After the payment you will need to email us the photo of the receipt to [email protected] by putting (Your name – Designing for Robotic Fabrication) in subject.
- This email will include a link to the conference room and a password called TOKEN to login.
- Note that this password will be assigned to just one email address, and it is the one you send us the email. If you want to use another email you should inform us.
- The entire conference will be recorded and after the event ended, you will have the access to all the videos and data of the conference with the same TOKEN password.
- Tickets are non-transferable & non-refundable.
Schedule
3-4 October & 10-11 October
Approx. 1 hour lecture each day, 4 hours total.
Approx. 2-hour tutorials each day, 8 hours total
Approx. 30-minute robot time per student (access times will be outside of workshop time)
2-hour first review of student work
2-hour of final review of student work
Meet your instructor:
If you have any questions that you would like to be answered directly from the instructors, you can watch this live discussion between Hamid Hassanzadeh, founder of PA, and Shajay Bhooshan.
Time: 3-4 October & 10-11 October
Location: ClickMeeting platform, hosted by PA
Format: Online
Duration: 4 Days
Total Hours: 16 Hours
Topic: Designing for Robotic Fabrication
Workshop Type: Online Workshop
Registration Deadline: 30th September (extendet to 2nd October)
Seats Available: 30 Seats
Fee: €350 EURO
First 10 Seats: €300 EURO (15% Discount for the first 10 seats) Closed
Organized By: PAACADEMY
In Collaboration With: Architectural Association Design Research Lab (AADRL)
