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Detached houses by MVRDV

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/// Detached Houses by MVRDV

Project: Hageneiland Housing

Location: Ypenburg, The Netherlands

Completed: 2001

Architect: MVRDV

Load-bearing structure: ABT

Construction: Office for Architectual Engineering

Executing company: Balaast Nedam

The design presents a new way of thinking towards detached houses. The typical building shape had been used but with a unique facade and roof claddings. Sheet metals, roof tiles, wooden shingles or even plastic materials in green and blue had been wrapped the buildings. These materials had given different colours to disguise its appearance.



Vakko Headquarters and Power Media Center / REX

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/// Vakko Headquarters and Power Media Center / REX

The Vakko building consists of three storey rectangle, which was abandoned skeleton of an unfinished hotel project. The whole building wrapped in floor-to ceiling glass panes. The glass panes made of thin glass. Each pane slumped with a structural X to increase its strength, thus the glass’s thickness could be reduced and the perimeter mullions could be eliminated.
The Vakko building is considered as the new addition to Turkey’s contemporary architecture collection.


AIR ARCHITECTURE

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IMAGINED BY Yves Klein
“My walls of fire and my walls of water, with the roofs of air, materials for a new architecture. With these three classical elements, fire, air, and water, the city of tomorrow will be constructed; it will at last be flexible, spiritual, and immaterial.”
— Yves Klein, excerpt from “The Evolution of Art Toward the Immaterial,” lecture at the Sorbonne

Picture courtesy of Yves Klein Archives / from the catalogue : «Antagonismes 2 L’objet», Musée des Art Décoratifs, Paris, France, March 1962


BALLOON INSULATION

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/// BALLOON INSULATION

IMAGINED BY: Workshop “I am Energy”, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts – School of Architecture, TU Delft – Faculty of Architecture – Façade Research Group, renderings by Jens Böke
KEYWORDS: pneumatic, electrostatic, flying architecture, adaptivity
This concept uses balloons to provide an insulation volume. The level of insulation can be controlled by electrostatic charge: switched on, the balloons are attracted by the building parts and rise from a storage. To improve adaptivity the storages could be supported with balloons from zeppelin suppliers.


Future Envelope 8 ‘Mind the gap’

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Future Envelope 8

Mind the gap

Friday 6 June 2014, University of Bath

Registration 08.30 for 9.15 start

Programme includes:

Designing the Gap: Case studies of ZHA projects on site Uli Blum, Zaha Hadid.

Mind the Blob: The challenges of resolving the knowledge-gaps in unprecedented façade design. Neesha Gopal, Meinhardt Facades, London

Unobtanium: The missing material. Tillmann Klien - TU Delft

Visualising sound through vented and double skin facades Ze Nunes - MAC Acoustics

Mega large spans in double curvature laminated glass: Latest developments in structural glass. Lisa Rammig - Eckersley O’Callaghan

BIM: where are we and where do we need to be? Stephen Emmitt - University of Bath

CIBSE project on façade selection Ant Wilson - AECOM

Bridging the gap between people, facades, buildings and the city: design informed by prediction. Darren Robinson - University of Nottingham

The HIVE project Mike Lawrence - University of Bath

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Abbey Hotel From £99.00 +44 (0) 1225 461603 www.abbeyhotelbath.co.uk
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MCDC- Masters of Computational Design and Construction

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///MCDC- Masters of Computational Design and Construction

The masters of computational design and construction, MCDC, is a graduate program for generative design and fabrication through parametric software. The approach of the program is to rethink architecture, engineering and construction, AEC, in a way that applies algorithmic logic and material intelligence from the initial design to the final creation of a project. A special emphasis is placed on fabrication technology integrally embedded in the design process. In this graduate program students are taught technical tools like computer programming and advanced 3d modelling software’s while exploring fabrication techniques ranging from laser cutter, CNC milling and additive manufacturing using 3d printers, all of which are available for student use at the faculty. The program is oriented towards real life construction methods and is supported by leading industry companies.


Growing Buildings

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IMAGINED BY: Hans Knaack

DATE: 02-05-2007

KEYWORDS: self growing, structure, plants, seeds, architecture
“That’s much too complicated…with all the building constructions…” Hans Knaack complained. “If we have to use as much wood as possible to reduce our carbon footprint as you explained, why not train the plants and trees themselves to do the job for us? Imagine a method where we can draw a structure on a piece of paper (or something similar) and then put it into a hole in the ground and let nature do its thing …
you only have to wait and maybe protect the young plants while growing and then we have the building! No nails or bolts needed. Don’t ask me how we teach the seeds to assume that shape, that’s up to you…!”


Markus Kayser – Solar Sinter Project

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Making Something Out of Nothing Using Nothing (renewable energy).

In this experiment sunlight and sand are used as raw energy and material to produce glass objects using a 3D printing process, that combines natural energy and material with high-tech production technology.



efnMOBIL in Bath

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The european façade Network (efn) is granted by Alcoa Foundation and Architecture for Humanity to develop a mobile experimental workshop – to educate designers and engineers for the future challenges of façade technology.
Touring in Europe, the last event took place in Bath: one intensive week of workshops with environmental design students form Bath (UK) and façade technology students form Detmold (Germany), investigation the questions of sun shading and potentials for cost effective building envelopes.
Hosted in Bath by Stephen Lo and Sukumar Natarajan the group was guided by Linda Hildebrand and Dennis Dück. The final mockups were exhibited and intensive discussed at the conference “future envelope 8”.


PhD Defense Linda Hildebrand

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“Strategic investment of embodied energy during the architectural planning process”

Date: 01. Of July – 12.00

Location: Aula TU Delft


Façade Refurbishment Toolbox

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Supporting Design of Residential Energy upgrades.

Summary:
The starting point of the research is the need to refurbish existing residential building stock, in order to reduce its energy demand, which is a necessary step to reach the ambitious energy and decarbonisation targets for 2020 and 2050 that require an eventual reduction up to 90% in CO2 emissions. In this context, the rate and depth of refurbishment need to grow. The early design phases are particularly important, as decisions taken during this stage can determine the success or failure of the design. Even though the design decisions made earlier can have bigger impact with lower cost and effort, most existing tools focus on post-design evaluation. Therefore, the thesis aims at integrating the energy upgrade potential of residential façade refurbishment strategies in the early design phase, in order to support decision-making. Having available an assessment of the energy performance results in informed decisions that improve the efficiency of the strategy and the final refurbished building.
This thesis concludes with an approach to enable informed and energy-efficiency conscious decisions in the early stage of the design of refurbishment strategies. To improve the design process, the Façade Refurbishment Toolbox (FRT) facilitates the development of strategies in different cases and for different specifications, without limiting or dictating designers’ choices. It consists of three different types of information that can support the decision-making of residential façade refurbishment strategies. Firstly, retrofitting measures for each building envelope component are proposed, composing the Façade Refurbishment Toolbox. Secondly, the measures are quantified in terms of energy upgrade potential. Finally, a roadmap to the key decision aspects in the refurbishment strategy development indicates when the toolbox information can be used.
Designing is deciding. Knowledge and information can lead to better understanding of a decision consequent and, therefore, result in better design solutions. In this way, refurbishment strategies that take into account the building improvement, occupants’ comfort and efficient energy use can be designed, contributing to the greater society’s goals of CO2 emissions reduction and sustainable development.


Glass 5.0

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As one event at Glasstec the Architektenkammer NW and TU Delft are organize in collaboration with the Messe Düsseldorf an annual conference, focusing the design potentials and newest developments in the area of glass construction.

By naming the event in 2014 “Glass 5.0” the focus was clearly beyond the known themes of bolt fixings, large glass components or twin face facades, asking, what are the development for a glassed future. Lectures be Paulo Cruis (University of Minho, Portugal), Graham Dott (Arup, London), Winy Maas ( MVRDV Rotterdam), Dirk Engelen (Crepain Binst / Antwerp), Mathias Rudolph /Transsolar, Stuttgart) and Jens Witffort (Wittfort Architekten / Stuttgart), Jürgen Bartenschlag (Sauerbruch Hutton, Berlin), Nathalie Rozencwajg (rare architects, London) and Martin Haas (haascookzemmrich, Stuttgart) did give project insides but also – and here it becomes for interesting – thoughts about future trends in design and construction, allowing new directions of stacked glass constructions, pneumatic supported thin glass principles or just new designs for Bowl windows, reinterpreting aesthetics and special experiences.

A nice event – see you again in 2 years.


efnMOBIL @ RWTH Aachen

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/// efnMOBIL @ RWTH Aachen

As one of the workshops of 2014 the efnMOBIL was hosted by the chairs CAAD / Peter Russell, which developed in cooperation with the Jan Borchers / Media Computing Group (both RWTH Aachen) the concept of the workshop, named “thinking skin” – a collaboration of design and architecture students with informatics students. Task was to develop a new envelope concept, which allows to calibrate functions of the building envelope duet to the concrete requirements of the function – and to establish an interaction between the components – the thinking skin.

The workshop was supported by Sascha Hickert and Jens Böke for the efnMOBIL and Thomas Stachelhaus and Christian Möllering for the RWTH Aachen.


Project 4 Habitats rewarded with red dot

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/// Project 4 Habitats rewarded with red dot

The project 4 Habitats, a collaboration SUH Architects / Seoul and the imagine group (climate, structure, materials) was honored by the red dot award with a grand prix in der category spatial communication. The project is an exhibition space, focusing the exposure of textile materials, manufactured by Kolon, and Korean nylon manufacturer.


Principles of Construction-Façades| New version

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/// Principles of Construction-Facades | New version

The new edition version of the educational book Facades of the Birkhäuser series is issued in 10.2014. Next to a general review the chapters “projects” and “future” are done new – to keep updated and follow the new developments.



iD 01| Imagine Detail – Dutch Foundation

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We started a new concept on our blog: imagine detail. Within these small videos we travel around and explain how building construction works. The first one is about a dutch foundation system that is made as a lost moulding out of polystyrene foam. The foam acts as a casting support but also as an insulating layer. Have a look!


iD 02| Imagine Detail – Blockhouse

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/// Imagine Detail 02 – Blockhouse.
The second movie for our new series, this time Uli Knaack is explaining the principles of a blockhouse. We found this in the Netherlands, not a very typical location to found a typical blockhouse…


iD 03| Imagine Detail – Cavity wall

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/// Imagine Detail 03 – Cavity wall.
The cavity wall – one of the standards of wall constructions is the focus of this imagine detail. The sample is a hollow block layout with PS-insulation.


Ceramics in an AM process | One material solution

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///Ceramics in an AM process | One material solution

The ability to produce so called one-material-wall systems is promising: there is an increasing demand for the raw materials to be recycled, but recycling components made out of different materials is hard. By printing stones with voids that are mechanical interlocking, complete façades can be made out of one material.
A first example has been printed. The inner side of the brick (or façade element) will be the load bearing structure, protected by a thin walled pattern as insulation, which is covered by an outside cladding. Such façade elements can be made using an extrusion process, however, this is impossible when complete freedom in form is desired.
The answer to this requirement is AM – additive manufacturing, a production process for a mono-material construction with a multi-functional performance.


Additive Manufactring Triple Sessions | Darmstadt, Eindhoven and Delft

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/// Additive Manufactring Triple Sessions | Darmstadt, Eindhoven and Delft 

There were these sessions about additive manufacturing in the built environment – or let’s call it 3D Printing for buildings. Interesting triple in Darmstadt, Eindhoven and Delft with lots of lectures by material specialists, engineers and designers developing concepts for building components or complete buildings being made by a new generation of printers.
What could be tracked directly is the interest in each other’s work – and the spirit of a new community developing. In addition, the questions raised are interesting: will we build in components – meaning having standard products and adding parts with additive manufacturing to individualize them, or will the complete building be made by this technology? And will it develop via mono-materials or are we going to use combined materials? And by the way – what are the material properties?
An interesting new field – quite challenging!


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