Guest speakers: Branko Kolarevic (University of Calgary), Mark Sarkisian (Director of Structural Engineering, SOM San Francisco), Greg Lynn (Angewandte Wien & UCLA A+UD), Axel Kilian (Princeton University), Luca Dellatore (ARUP), Hod Lipson (Cornell University)
Translate the Intangible, a symposium organised by the AA PhD in Architectural Design students as part of the AA Public Programme, addresses the challenges of communicating dynamic aspects of contemporary design methodologies through static mediums such as text and images. As current design-oriented fields have amplified the implementation of computational and generative tools for various motives, the process of documentation and representation of the design process has become more difficult to express. As such, Translate the Intangible will bring together a multi-disciplinary group of leading practitioners from different fields to discuss the challenges involved in expressing the process involved in their work and propose new perspectives addressing this issue.
The symposium will also serve as a platform for the PhD in Architectural Design students to present and discuss their individual research with the invited speakers. The day is divided into three sessions. Each session will last for two hours, and will include a presentation by two PhD students and two invited speakers under a specific theme. During the final hour of each session, the moderators will open up a discussion that follows up on the session’s theme. The aim is to steer a discussion to develop a further understanding of how different disciplines transcribe the temporal aspects of their research to permanent static medium.
Organised by Merate Barakat, Elif Erdine and Ali Farzaneh
PROGRAMME
10.00 Morning coffee
10.20 Introduction, Michael Weinstock (AA) Director, Research and Development; Director, Emergent Technologies and Design
SESSION 01:
10.30 Spatial Cognition and Performative Systems
Moderators: Merate Barakat, Urban Sonic Networking: Urban Design through Acoustic Sensory; Kensuke Hotta, Programmable Architecture: Towards Intelligent Architecture
Speakers: Luca Dellatore, ARUP, Acoustic Consultant; Hod Lipson, Cornell University, Director of Graduate Studies, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering.
12.30 Lunch
13.50 Afternoon session opening, Brett Steele, Director of AA School
SESSION 02:
14.00 DESIGN(INNOVATION) = f (NATURE, FAB, MATERIAL)
Moderators: Francisca Aroso, Fabrication Based Design of Adaptable Transitional Spaces; Arturo Revilla, Processcity: Towards a New Territorial Performance of the Urban Border
Speakers: Axel Kilian, Assistant Professor, School of Architecture, Princeton University; Branko Kolarevic, University of Calgary, Associate Dean (Academic-Architecture) Professor and Chair in Integrated Design
16.00 break
SESSION 03:
16.30 GENERATIVE TECHNIQUES FOR SYSTEM DESIGN
Moderators: Ali Farzaneh, Mathematical Models and Digital Morphogenesis of Urban Tissues; Elif Erdine, Generative Processes in Tower Design: Algorithms for the Integration of Tower Subsystems
Speakers: Greg Lynn, O. Univ. Prof. Arch. Angewandte Wien & UCLA A+UD; Mark Sarkisian, SOM – San Francisco office, Director of Seismic and Structural Engineering
18.30 Roundtable discussion