Fabricate 2017

Engineering & Transportation

Achim Menges

Engineering

UCL Press

Ecology is the study of the relationship between organisms and their environment. Through their teaching at the AA, Michael Hensel and Achim Menges have shown how this definition also suits the discipline of architecture surprisingly well: one of the central tasks for architects is to provide opportunities for habitation through specific material and energetic interventions in the physical environment. Correlating morphogenesis and ecology, they have developed a new framework for architectural design that is firmly rooted within a biological paradigm, and thus concerned with issues of higher-level functionality and performance capacity. They have named this approach Morpho-Ecology. 
The first part of the book introduces the theoretical and methodological framework for their approach; the second part presents 20 research projects undertaken by students in AA Diploma Unit 4. The thir part contains the proceedings of the 'Differentiated Systems in Nature and Design Symposium' held at the AA, with contributions by Mark Burry, Christopher Hight, Wolf Mangelsdorf, Peter Trummer, Julian Vincent, Michael Weinstock.

Morpho-Ecologies: Towards Heterogeneous Space In Architecture Design

AA Publications

This entirely new essay collection brings together pioneers in design within architecture, construction, engineering, manufacturing, materials technology and computation to explore the progressive integration of digital design with manufacturing processes, and its impact on design and making in the 21st century. Discussion on key themes include: how digital fabrication technologies are enabling new creative and construction opportunities from component to building scales, the difficult gap that exists between digital modelling and its realization, material performance and manipulation, off-site and on-site construction, interdisciplinary education, economic and sustainable contexts.

Fabricate: Rethinking Design and Construction

Arts & Photography

Bob Sheil

Ruairi Glynn

Marilena Skavara

History & Criticism

Riverside Architectural Press

Advances in Architectural Geometry 2023 (De Gruyter STEM)

Computers & Technology

Helmut Pottmann

Jan Knippers

Kathrin Dörfler

Stefana Parascho

Thomas Wortmann

Computer Science

de Gruyter

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