Notes from the conference

Cloud 9 - Enric Ruiz Geli

Cloud house in bcn, nurbs house.
Hydrogen lobby
We have ceded design to mega corps, in the past "I'm not sure what I'm doing but I'm doing speed"
What would the door to a zeppelin factory like?

Same scale could build buildings inside that factory.
"_when beauty emerges, every body gets sleepy_"
Doesn't seem to be interested in manufacturing optimisation
Using a projector to check positioning of parts
"_Architects as a platform for contemporary art_"
Still more talk of innovation : but nobody is really talking about how to achieve it, just that it is a good thing, some sort of nebulous good
"it's not like materials are here to fight with us... We should play with them"
"Attack"

bio tic building

No oil, but we have software
All surrounding buildings are not really built the way they look
150kg of people/m² 800kg of structure wtf
"looks like, performs, is" "perform, look, one"
1:1 weight to function ratio
Less weight means less cost of foundations, saves money for other parts of the building
Top truss lifted on the rest of the structure of the building.
60% of Spanish energy is imported gas (figures here don't seem to support this though)
Satronik d 6000, plasma cutter?
60 companies in Cat doing digital fab, who's doing digital fab in NSW?
Move fees to architect to reduce steel kg, how do you write that contract? A bit like akt
"stay in the bubble, continues dumb"
Hang the building to produce emptiness
When asked to draw what is missing they all draw columns (8 yr olds) we have constructed their reality
"4 technologies for 4 energy diagrams of a building"
Each etfe pillow component is smart arduino driven, 0.3% of the cost of the building
Cloud in pillow produces a shadow
Who are the enviro consultants?
7 years to net zero, are we ready? Will this happen in aus? I doubt it
Adding 2 years of monitoring to the contract
Arduinos do distributed decision making, I wonder if they have any oversight possibility?
I wonder if you could mash the DEC database with google maps?
Trees are the Boss of the buildings

Start early and per plan the workshop via skype.
Working with dynamic materials, simulation, micro controllers and user interaction
Each sub component (personal project) is linked/networked into a larger system
Using thermo wires and thermal paint
Everyone seems to prefer to work with grasshopper, is it going to become the ubiquitous platform for everything? Do other fields like grasshopper?
Digitally mediated vs direct material responses? Motors vs shape memory etc.

Designed materials, micro spec of materials affect macro performance
Simulation and testing
Glass fibre polymer
Programming with making
Working with structure in the surface
A much richer understanding of failure
Using layup to control bending and twisting
Thermo presses, fancy t shirt press/ sandwich press
Design, making, testing (formal), testing (playing), making
Simulation using sofistick, but also using it for design not just verification
The structure has completely stiff, flat and non rotating nodes so that all bending happens in the members.
Questions
Lars: where do you put the intelligence in your intelligent systems?
Much disagreement ensues, but it seems that the one thing that is agreed on is that we ought to move into it in general, and let the balance of things work itself out.

The atom: we are manipulating atoms 1by1 in the last 15 years
Atomic crystal structures are a finite set
230 symmetry solutions , a schema of crystallography until the 80s
Nd rotational symmetry was not considered possible or make lattice structures
Quasi crystals - dan shechtman - found 10 fold symmetry
This is the root of aperiodic tiling
Redefined crystallography using Ammann lines of symmetry
Materials selection in conceptual design, ashby
Using property graphs to spec materials without any idea what the material actually is.
Graphs called ashby maps
Iron carbon phase diagram a blueprint for modern civilisation
Federal materials genome initiative

Responsive pixelated building skins so that the performance changes dependant on whatever factors matter to you
Double pane systems, like etfe pillows, allows directional opacity

Material conflicts

Rc: as a designer nobody wants to pick over a scatter plot ( why not? Maybe it's just a skill we need to get used to? All visualisations are an abstraction that leaves something out, so maybe we should be making our own abstractions?)

Using reciprocal frames and CNC cutting to make craft joints
Geodesics on a surface to make frames and enclosures (what sorts of surfaces are amenable to this kind of treatment?)
Cutting in the strong direction, bend in weak direction
D to p on contractor side
Hermes rive gauch
Air rail parking connector
Comp optimised Irregular girder - this doesn't seem very interesting any more, this is quite good I suppose; this kind of thing is now mainstream
Mountain rail
Why make complicated details when you can just mill plastic, nicely pragmatic
Statsel museum looks like it well worth a visit
Gtecz.com
Voxeljet 3d concrete printing

Use geodesic curves to get straight unrolls
Complex form with straight members
How to check that it won't sag to failure?
Splicing long pieces
4 layer lath construction
No bin packing due to unknown deliveries, more time and 3% wastage could go down even more maybe?

Exploring the flows _around objects_
Modelling a 60 storey building in a wind tunnel
Playing around in wind tunnel to see what really happens rather than relying on cfd simulation
I want some helium bubbles!
Using a neural network, but for what end?