2012-2013
Hayk Shahinyan | Project 4 2013
Fabricating Landscapes, 2012-2013
The theme and typology of the academic year 2012-2013 revolved around the notion of ‘Landform Building’ as described by Stan Allen Publication and Conference (See the lecture he gave at KTH in 2011 on YouTube). The studio applied the theme to large-scale research facilities in southern Sweden. In this way the historical idea of the megastructure is re-assessed and reformulated, in order to define digitally supported design strategies that mediate between internal research environments and the public, urban and rural environments, as well as constructed and natural landscape.
Karina Andreeva | Project 4 2013
Louis Bergis | Project 3 2013
The technological focus was put on issues of fabrication, both as a tool for design development, and as means for production of large and small scale structures. Various principles of fabrication, production and construction were developed in the final output, as integral parts of comprehensive architectural designs.
Hayk Shahinyan | Project 3 2013
Project 1 Primer: From Ground to Canopy
‘From Ground to Canopy’ introduced the notion of the Landform Building, Parametric Modeling and Digital Fabrication. It is sequenced into two interrelated design tasks that negotiate the massiveness of ground manipulation with the lightness of a sheltering canopy. Every group member furthermore conducted a detailed research on architectural precedences of Landform Buildings, their construction techniques and processes.
Sjoerd Keetels and David Kriechmair | Project 1 2012
Samantha Surath and Shirin Jafari | Project 1 2012
Project 2: From Landform to Prototype
‘From Landform to Prototype’ addressed the two core topics of our studio – fabrication and the landform building – in two extremely different scales springing from the design and research conducted in the previous project. In the primer ‘From Landscape to Canopy’ students designed open air exhibition and event spaces. In the From Landform to Prototype the designs were contextualized (in regard to site and program) and further developed (in terms of fabrication and construction, as well as topographical relations).
Romaric Matten | Project 2 2013
Visiting the Institute for Computational Design in Stuttgart.
The studio 2012-2013 included a study trip to Stuttgart and Zurich. We visited leading research institutes and practices in the field of computational design and digital fabrication including ICD Stuttgart, Knippers Helbig Ingenieure, Transsolar, Gramazio Kohler, Design to Production.
Staff 2012 - 2013
Lecturer and Adjunct Professor Jonas Runberger is a practicing architect, researcher and educator, with a focus on the implications of digital design in conventional and experimental practice. He was part of the team initiating the studio in 2010, and previous teaching experience includes the KTH, the Architectural Association, the London Metropolitan University and ETHZ, Zürich. He has been participating in the SmartGeometry network since 2005 and is the director of Dsearch, an environment for digital design development within White Arkitekter. He completed his doctoral thesis in architecture and project communication in 2012, titled Architectural Prototypes II: Reformations, Speculations and Strategies within the Digital Design Field.
www.runberger.net
Oliver Tessmann is assistant professor at the KTH School of Architecture. He co-teaches the Studio 9 in the master level. The studio has a strong focus on computational design and digital fabrication. Oliver is currently heading a Formas-funded research project called "Concrete Performance - Towards digitally informed cement-bound material systems" that seeks to link innovations in cement-bound materials, computational design and digital fabrication. The aim of this research is to enhance Concrete Performance when designing and constructing our built environment.