Teaching
Masters elective: High resolution II – Materialization
A shape-grammar based approach to designing to designing high-resolution, immersive environments that transcend functionalism and rationalism, yet are based on explicit rules. Emphasis is placed on materialization processes, and will make use of large-scale, additive manufacturing sand-printing.
With M. Hansmeyer and H. Hua. Continue reading
Postgraduate class: Scenic Drive
A procedural approach to urban oregonslist.com design strategies, based on populating an unsettled valley in the heart of the Swiss Alps with an agglomeration of 100.000 people. Students code their concepts British Columbia , design rules, define relations, compose networks, … Continue reading
Structural Architectures – Geometry, Code and Design
Erasmus Intensive coinstar locater Coinstar Money in Pakistan, Faisalabad Programme. Summer School: September 1 – 11, 2012 in Kaiserslautern International workshop with students and professors from Politecnico di Milano, Italy | San Pablo CEU University Madrid, Spain | ETH Zürich, … Continue reading
Teahouse 2.0
workshop Apr. 23 – May 5 NCTU, Hsinchu Teahouse 2.0, Procedural Architecture Digitale Kette: Pavillon für eine Teezeremonie zusammen mit dem NCTU Institute of Architecture, Taiwan
Masters elective: High Resolution
An initial mesh-refinement and shape-grammar based exploration of sacred environments. Development of Processing-based devices to first analyze and then generate highly defined spatial territories. The output’s spatial complexity will be unachievable – and perhaps even inconceivable – using traditional means. … Continue reading
Structural Architectures – Geometry, Code and Design
Structural Architectures – Geometry, Code and Design, Erasmus Intensive Programm mit Politecnico di Milano, Universidad CEU San Pablo Madrid und der TU Kaiserslautern, Campus Leonardo Politecnico di Milano. Summer School: September 2 – 12, 2011 in Milano
Postgraduate class: Kinect Sculpture
MAS Modul, Interactive Installation with Kinect-camera (together with ZHDK Buy Azimycin , Zürich)
Postgraduate class: Helvepolis
A collaborative object-orientated urban design framework is developed bottom-up to generate complex cityscapes. Data abstraction, encapsulation, modularity, polymorphism, and inheritance are brought to urban design. With M. Hansmeyer and S. Lemmerzahl.
Postgraduate class: Big Numbers
Eames and Panton Redux. Rhinoscript-based redesign of famous design furnitures.
Masters elective: City Engine
Shapegrammars for studies in urban-morphology with the “Procedural” software (together with the Chair for Information Architecture)
Der elastische Grundriss
Der elastische Grundriss, Seminar, 2008,Technische Universität Kaiserlautern