A New Plateau

Tired of today's freeform architecture? Still interested in technology?
A New Plateau
The next big thing is not parametrics. It's not a new geometry. It is more than that. The stances of Gehry, Eisenman, Libeskind, UNStudio, Hadid and others are pointing towards a new direction altogether. They give us a taste of what lies beyond, as do the aesthetic exercises of Herzog & de Meuron or Zumthor. We have left the certainties of geometry, logic and arithmetic behind. The substrate of the new meta-level is symbolic. At our Chair, we don't want to follow a reductionist, functional view of architecture. We don't like the uncommitted structuralist attitude towards global challenges. We want to start cultivating a new plateau; widen the perspective. We want to be pioneers in learning to construct within the symbolic, and do so seriously. The MAS class provides a forum, establishes a network and offers practical experiments, doing just that.
What's next ?
Today, information technology is ubiquitous. Most architects have a self-taught working knowledge of visualisation and computer-aided modelling techniques. In some places, there are specialised technical programmes, especially in the areas of parametric design and experimental computer-generated production. This specialist knowledge is not sufficient, however, to keep track of the medial, technical, organisational, economical and political developments in architecture. Information technology has become a driving force in every sphere of activity for architects. But these developments are as yet badly understood, and so their interpretation is narrow and the architectural landscape diffuse. This programme is directed at architects, designers and creative people. It offers, for the first time, not technical specialisation but architectural integration on a higher technical level. It conveys profound insights into a variety of technical areas and prompts theoretical reflection as well as promoting an independent personal stance. The programme is demanding. Technologies are becoming ever simpler and more accessible, but defining an individual position for an architect is becoming more and more difficult. We offer no formulas or solutions. We mistrust the attitude, taken by MIT for example, that popularises, and in doing so naturalises, technology. This, to our minds, amounts to a positioning for power by way of simplification: complexities are being externalised. We believe that this is not enough: technological creation has to be complemented by expertise, not just in technology, but also in creation. Step out of the wood
The MAS in Architecture and Information is a one-year full-time course at the Chair for CAAD at ETH Zrich. It starts at the beginning of the academic year in September and consists of 3 theory modules (M1, M4 and M7), and 4 practical modules (M2, M3, M5 and M6), in 3 different focal areas (research, development and application) and concludes after 12 months with an individual Masters project, in September the following year. The cost of the programme is CHF 12,000.
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ETH Zrich, MAS in Architecture and Information

September, 1 Week October, 4 Weeks November, 4 Weeks Dec - Januar, 4 Weeks Januar - Feb,
M0 welcome
M1 theory
M2 A research
p 13
M3 A research
Connected Artefacts p 13
M4 theory
Architecture and Information
Livint in a World of Theory and Information Algorithmic Design Abundant Potentiabilities p 13 p 13
M2 B development M3 B development
Fiction p 13 Innovation p 13
M2 C application
Advanced Geometry Modelling p 13
M3 C application
Mass Customised Production p 13
4 Weeks
March, 4 Weeks
April, 4 Weeks
Mai, 4 Weeks
June - Sept, 12 Weeks
M5 A research
Customised Materials p 13 p 13
M6 A research
Design Beyond the Problematic p 13
M7 theory
Information and I p 13
IT
Individual Thesis p 13
M5 B development M6 B development
Articulation p 13 Population p 13
M5 C application
Building Information Models p 13
M6 C application
Buidling Operation Models p 13
Charles Jencks on Postmodernism
Map about Architecture by C
Charles Jencks Map of the Internet
'' It is great to be a part of a true research! '' Miro Roman
...I'm talking to my parents, trying to explain them what I'm doing for this module. My mother says 'Why you are not learning Architecture?' My father, very satisfied replies 'They are learning to think'... Ekaterina Ageeva
"Looking deeper into theoretical issues, while shifting perspectives towards tools and methods.Rethinking "computational" architectureby focusing on underlying principles." Evangelos Pantazis
"Few higher-academic experiences allow for self-reflective and insightful paths in the field of technology, relying not on instrumentalism, but on conceptual and methodological strategy. My experience here has revealed a fresh and fertile perspective towards the future of architecture, accessible today." Mauricio Rodrguez
Rem Koolhaas OMA Casa da Musica, Porto, Portugal 2005
M0
module 0 welcome
Living in a World of Abundant Potentiabilities
M0
This programme is unlike any other. We take a different stance. Technology is not comfortable. We cant ask technology whats right and whats wrong, whats good or bad. These are our machines, weve made them. They are our statistics, our images, which weve created of our world. They are not The Truth about earth or nature. So who can we complain to, if not ourselves? Who should we be afraid of? Elsewhere, you may hear people declare: Nothing is scarier than the truth. (Al Gore). Globalisation, finance, climate, technological catastrophes, naturalisation, scarcities, wars, terrorism, fundamentalism, media overkill, educational crises... cool it! Our programme takes an optimistic perspective, from a new plateau: we have more energy than we need, we have fantastic potential. But we have to do it ourselves. We cant ask anybody else to do it for us. Not nature, not technology. Just ourselves. Worm up, lectures and seminar. 1 week in September. The Draughtsmans Contract, Peter Greenaway
Silk production in Bejing, China
Silk production in China
Cabinet of curiosities
M1
theory
Theory and Information
Tran
M1
Information is everywhere. The term information is so powerful, yet we understand it so little. Information is information. Its neither energy nor is it matter (as Norbert Wiener claims). But this doesnt say a lot, and perhaps it isnt even accurate, because matter is a form of energy. What, though, is information? Perhaps the question is put the wrong way. Couldnt we ask instead: how can we use information? Especially seeing that computers are not machines but general machines. And in asking the question how?, other, unexpected, questions pose themselves, such as: how do we use rationality? How analytics? How do we use geometry, arithmetic, algebra? How can we produce stabilities? How can we use symbols, indices, signals? How calculations, functions, codings? How generalisations and abstractions? How concepts, words, texts, constructs, drawings? How infrastructures, medialities, narratives? Fictions, phantasms, specifications, definitions? How form, structure, topoi? How behaviour, sensation, reason, cognition, logic? How does the new come about? What do Deleuze and Guattari, Derrida, Habermas, Heidegger, Sartre, Wittgenstein, Nietzsche, Peirce, Boole, Poe, Hegel, Kant, Leibniz, Spinoza, Descartes, Aristotle, Plato and all the others have to say about it? - Curious yet?...
Lectures, seminar and exercises in reading and writing. Final presentation as a short video. 4 Weeks in October.
nsplanting rice seedlings in Java, Indonesia
Libr
module 1 theory Theory and Information
rary of the Abbey of St Gall (St Gallen, Switzerland)
Georg Flegel, Still Li
ife with Apple, 1566 - 1638.
Van Gogh: Still Life with a Basket of Apples, 1885.
Apples, 2011.
Kughelof-Specialite alsacienne parfumee au citron et a la fleur d'oranger
Daredevil Comic, 2005.
Rice-field,Kakogawa,Japan, 2008.
Dehli, India 2010
M2 A
module 2 A
by Algorithms, or The Availability of Logical Thinking
research Design
The Masjid-i Shah, Isfahan 1629
M2 A
In 1854 George Boole developed an algebra that reflects logical thought (An Investigation of the Laws of Thought). Computers follow this type of algebra and externalise precisely what we call logical thinking (Turing, 1936; von Neumann, 1945). We may call it Turing Computing. Using computers, we are able, as creative people, to explore this logical think space. We can discover phenomena never seen before. Multitudes of new images, geometries and artefacts become concrete constructions from a logical world. Its so simple: procedures, iterations, recursions, objects, rules, constraints, agents, text, drawing, imagery, video, morphing, topology, grammar, cellular automata, parametric geometry, simulation, generation, evolutionary algorithms, neural networks... all easily accessible and online. This module offers practical exercises in logical order systems and delivers an introduction to corresponding thought. Technologies: processing, Java, Eclipse. Lectures and exercises in programming. Final presentation as a short video. 4 weeks, November
Charles Babbage, Analytical Engine, 1823, 2000
module 2 A research Design by Algorisms
Culmann, Grafische Statik 1866. Lueger 1904
Applied Fourier (1768 - 1830) Transformation
Applied Fourier (1768 - 1830) Transformation
The first Intel processor, 4004, 1971.
CAAD 2009
Michael Hansmeyer, CAAD 2009
CAAD 2009
M2 B
module 2 B development
Fiction
Gustave M
M2 B
It is always the great narratives, the big concepts that count. They are told, and retold, again and again. Over and over, they are reformulated, as poetry, as prose, as fiction, as definitions, as lists, as compositions, as tables, as forms, as users guides, as formulas, as equations, as drawings, as pictures, as constructs, as machines, as software, as figures, as fusion, as dance, as theatre, as music; spoken, sung, gestured, as lectures, as deceptions, as orders, as advertising, in German, in English, in the 16th Century, in the 18th Century, today; as photography, as email, as text message, as a wiki, as a blog. Melvilles Moby Dick, Edgar Allan Poe, Scorseses Godfather, NASAs Apollo missions, Kubricks 2001: A Space Odyssey, Spielbergs Star Wars, Tatis Play Time, Koolhaass New York, Jencks postmodernism, Loos Ornament, Wittgensteins wordplay, Heideggers Gestell. What does Ovid tell us, what scholastics, what is the turn of meaning in Shakespeare, Goethe, Nietzsche, Bach, Mozart, Wagner, Stockhausen, what in Vatel, Bocuse, Ducasse or Adria, what in Leibniz, Newton, Descartes, Lagrange, Maxwell, Einstein; how do Popper, Feyerabend, Chomsky, Kurzweil articulate themselves, how Derrida, Deleuze and Guattari? How are the big concepts reformulated and rephrased, over and over again? Element, substance, body, life, love, power, friendship, hospitality, fertility, symbolism, security, contemplation, freedom, fear, joy, nature, death, age, equilibrium, energy, matter, being, order, time. What are the narratives for their derived concepts: existence, health, childhood, vitality, progress, youth, intelligence, landscape, nutrition. Lectures and exercises to investigate and learn to read the big themes of our culture beyond their concrete manifestations. 4 weeks, November
Moreau, Hercules and the Hydra Lernaean - 1876
module 2 development Fiction
: A Space Odysee, 1968
Stanley Kubrick, 2001:
This visualization depicts specific atmospheric humidity on June 17, 1993, during the Great Flood that hit the Midwestern United States.
module 2 development Fiction
Bjork Yuri Gagarin, 1961
M2 B
module 2 application
Advanced Geometry Modelling
Frank Geh
module 2 B application Advanced Geometry Modelling
M2 B
Generative Components, CATIA, Pro/ENGINEER, Solid Works, Rhino, Revit, scripting, Grasshopper, processing, OpenGL... - Non-Euclidian geometry is now universally available. Only ten years ago, it belonged to the experts, 25 years ago to visionaries; 40 years ago the only people who had access to it were mathematicians. Today, the machines using it are on every desk, the software on every laptop, and the tutorials on YouTube. Secularisation. The fascination with its potential of this geometry, iterated a millionfold in blogs. But in actual fact, designing buildings or developing an architectural style, even in this environment, is only easy at first glance. How, for example, can you generate the continuities of, for instance, Hadid, UNStudio, NOX, Eisenman, Gehry, or the geometrical discontinuities of Liebeskind, Herzog & de Meuron, Ito or Sejima? How can we proceed in technology, without getting stuck within a very short time? How can we plan such buildings at a rate that were used to from regular geometry? How can we preserve our creative freedom within that technological complexity? How can we retain the flexibility of a small geometrical experiment when we apply it to a building that has been thought through in every detail? Lectures and exercises in advanced CAD modelling 4 weeks, November
hry, Dsseldorf (Germany) 2006.
ISTANBUL- Zaha Hadids Urban Transform
mation Project for Kartal, 2008.
Peter Eisenman, Greater Columbus Convention Center, 199
93.
CAAD 2005
Herzog & de Meuron, Beijing National Stadium, 2003.
Daniel Lee, Year of the Ox, Manimal, 1993.
M3 A
module 3 A research Design
and Construction of Connected Artefacts, or: The Global Availability of Physical Characteristics
Diagram of the of radio waves anten Nicola Tesla, US390721 Patent for a "Dynamo Electric Machine", 1888.
M3 A
Computers are general machines (Turing 1936). Not just all known, but also all future machines can be logically visualised through them. Computers are abstract from any physics (von Neumann, 1945). The networks of space and time (Baran, 1964, Licklider, 1960), reduced to minute, printed particles, connected with each other by electromagnetic modulations. Billions of them. Every computer, phone, machine. Design is no longer constructed from necessities, rather it condensates from the wealth of all possibilities. Rendered from virtual availability into concrete existence. And its so simple: mechanics from CNC production, electrical controls from do-it-yourself kits, general processors, accessible networks, a bit of software. This module offers practical exercises in the established manifestations of virtual information technology order systems, and an introduction to corresponding thought patterns. Over the last few years, electronic prototyping has evolved to the extent where any interested lay person can very quickly develop electronic gadgets and connect them to the mediality of the internet. This module gives an overview over the technological concepts and delivers a guide to building your own gadgets in electronics, software and mechanics. The Internet of Things, distributed computing, remote procedure calls, TCP/IP, URL, Google Earth, sensors, actuators, Arduino, automation, interaction technologies: processing, wiring, CNC production. Lectures and exercises in Electronics, Programming and CNC Production. Final presentation as a short video. 4 weeks, December and January
e electric fields (E) and magnetic fields (H) emitted by a monopole radio transmitting nna (small dark vertical line in the center).
Photodiode
module 3 A research Connected Artefacts
Paul Baran, "On Distributed Commu
unications" Series, 1964.
United States radio spectrum fre
equency allocations chart as of 2011
88W8686-Chip, der 90 nm WLAN-Single Chip Solution by M
Marvell, 2007.
Wiring, Processing
CAAD 2009
3D Printer
42
CAAD 2009
wireless sensor system network for paragliding
M3 B
Innovation
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M3 B
Whatever you call out into the forest, the forest calls back at you. We call out into the forest with statistics, analyses, methodology, automaton, diagnoses, references, illustrations, didactics, safeguards. And for a long time, we got a lot of responses to these reductions and concentrations. The harvest was rich. But today, you could be forgiven for getting the impression that this way of going about things has exhausted itself. There is talk of limits to growth. There are calls for discipline, empathy, sustainability. But might it not be the case that we could see further, solve more problems, master more riddles, if we were to bypass the shortest possible route, the logical arguments and stringent analysis? If, instead of putting to one side - as so often demanded by critics of modernity methodology, because weve always known about it and now demand naturalisation and aestheticisation, we were to learn how to juggle the established methodologies, specialisms and manifold forms of articulation. Creative people know that problems and their solutions twist, turn and change the moment you articulate their narrative in a different medium or language. We might call this meta-rational. How then is it possible, in a networked world of ubiquitous accessibility, to look and listen, to ask questions, to examine, without blocking your own possibilities for the new, without losing the flexibility of future twists and turns. If we are looking for the new, we cannot depend on our established disciplines, methods and expertise. The new is neither out there, nor is it inside us; it doesnt lie rooted in our language or in differences of iteration. These manifestations of the concept of scarcity are what blocks our view. Could such a concept still be adequate in the context of a trillion links referenced by Google? The hypothesis of this module is that the new resides in the potential that derives from the concentration of that which is explicitly and rationally accessible. It lies in cultivating the rational. Lecture and exercises on the free availability of information and on the subject of indexability. 4 weeks, December and January
Hurricane Katrina, 2005.
module 3 B development Innovation
Frei Otto
Bertrand Piccard, Solar Impulse, 2010.
The Crown of Genghis Khan, 13th century.
M3 C
module 3 C application
Mass Customised Production
A very early example of constructions in non-eucledian geometry. Peter Cook, Kunsthaus Graz Austria, 2003.
module 3 C application Mass Customised Production
M3 C
Its contemporary CNC production methods that make non-standard buildings and the use of non-Euclidean geometry possible. Worlds of a difference lie between the qualities of Peter Cooks Kunsthaus in Graz (2003) and the Norpark Cable Railway by Zaha Hadid (2007). Using a master geometry and a continuous digital workflow from design via construction right through to production and logistics, buildings can be realised in freeform geometry at prices normally associated with serial production in the grid. Industrial production has emancipated itself from the grid, or the table, as the principle of order, coordination and logistics. Beyond that, 90% of architecture that is being built could be parametrically modularised, and could therefore be manufactured in CNC production without significantly affecting the architectural result in terms of spatiality, materials or construction. (Other economic sectors show that industrialisation makes possible an increase in productivity of 60% and a reduction in costs of 30% across the board. Applied to the construction industry globally the largest economic sector - this results in gigantic amounts.) The idea that industrial production brings about a uniform system of construction has been reversed: now systems are being developed for individual buildings and make possible a fantastical architecture in the first place.
So how do you dismantle buildings into parametric modules? How can you actually build Coop Himmelblau, Hadid, Gehry, UNStudio? How can you mass produce bespoke everyday architecture? Modularisation, standardisation, normalisation, parametrisation, deformation, configuration, integration, serialisation, master geometry, building construction, building services, building logistics, production code, production tools, production facilities.
Lectures and exercises in mass customised building production with field trips to production facilities. 4 weeks, December and January
CAAD 2005
Parametric master geometry. Zaha Hadid
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CAAD 2005
One-of a kind production.
CAAD 2005
Daniel Libeskind, Sculpture, St. Gallen, 2006.
M4
module 4 theory
Archtecture and Information

CAAD 2005
M4
What could be more fantastical, of more consequence, than building a new city? Or a new house? Hunting a hog or ploughing a field is easy enough, you can follow a natural order. But building a new city? Thats pure imagination, pure virtuality. On a small, carefully chosen and defined plot of land, a city can be anything we want it to be. There, in that particular abstraction of territory, there are no qualitative boundaries, except those set by our own imagination, which in turn has been shaped over time by the rhythms of the fields that lie under the sun. Today, thus our contention, it is no longer the cultivation of fields that is being visualised and whose surpluses find articulation in the cities. Through information technology it is our cities themselves that are being cultivated. Today we look for virtualisations and architectural articulations on a new plateau. What, then, are the imaginings, the thought patterns that are being shown to us by Vitruvius, Palladio, Ledoux, Durand, Semper, Loos, Wright, Corbusier, Sullivan, Rossi, Krier, Ungers, Alexander, Otto, Venturi, Eisenman, Libeskind, Hadid, Gehry, Lynn, Herzog & de Meuron, Zumthor, Koolhaas? What are the virtualities, what the urbanities described by deconstructivism, structuralism, post-structuralism, minimalism, functionalism, international style, modernity, postmodernism, existentialism, phenomenology, behaviourism, positivism, vitalism? Lets cultivate these ideas for our new architecture and our new cities. Lectures, seminar and exercises in reading and writing. Final presentation as a short video. 4 weeks, January and February
La Cit de Carcassonne
Park in Isphahan, 2010.
module 4 theory Archtecture and Information
St. Mary's Church, Lbeck, Germany, 1250-1350
Notre Dame de Paris, 1163-1345
Anonymous 17th-century watercolor of the Semper Augustus, famous for being the most expensive tulip sold during tulip mania.
The Futurist City by Antonio St'Elia., 1914
Apple Computer, Think Different: Hitchcock, Boston 2000.
Herzog & de Meuron, Elbe Philharmonic Hall, Hamburg, 2007.
module 5A research Customised Materials
M5 A
module 5 A research
Design and Construction with Customised Materials Printed Physics
Doping material with ions
M5 A
Material availability - the explosion of materials - the search for construction that is appropriate to materials no longer boiled, refined, concentrated, arduous, cleansed - materials are being thought up and made, drawn from the earth, in controlled processes. The most explicit manifestation of this is found in doping, the deliberate adding of impurities - materials achieve what weve never been able to achieve through continuities: they turn sunlight into electricity, they glow, shine, gleam, oscillate, move, see, smell, hear, sound, absorb, concentrate, switch, operate logically... simply because weve coded them, doped them.
This module conveys, by way of exercises, the methods of material doping. What we are looking for are material constructions which articulate these constructed material properties into new kinds of constructions. Processing, wiring, CNC production.
Lectures and exercises in Electronics, Programming and CNC Production. Final presentation as a short video. 4 weeks, March
s.
Light emitting foil
CAAD 2010
Kinetic foil.
l.
CAAD 2010
Shape Shift, 2010.
CAAD 2006
Metal sheet blow ups. Zieta.
CAAD 2009
Jean Prouve,
Ink Jet Bubbles.
Brussels, Grand Place, 2007.

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Print. Herzog & de Meuron, Ricola Mlhausen-Brunstatt, Switzerland 2000.

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Valerio Olg
M5 B
Articulation
giati, The Yellow House, Flims, Switzerland, 1999.
Europe by satellite.
module 5 B development Articulation
M5 B
Its so easy to play the individual disciplinary, medial and technological channels. Theres no problem producing a satellite picture showing us the hole in the ozone layer, calculating a model that simulates the climate on planet earth, publishing a video report about the revolution in Egypt, generating imagery that shows the phenomena at work in our brain, developing the crumple zone for a new car, making an artificial nose to aid wine tasting, designing a curved facade for a new airport building, going for a week-long hike in the Amazon, attending a threeday conference in Seoul, manufacturing a computer chip in Taiwan, selling your old printer on eBay to a man in Stockholm, making a phone call to the slums of Mumbai, buying shares in a start-up in Chicago... theres no problem doing anything we like. The many standards we use: ASCII, dtp, html, TCP, JPEG, MP3, AVI, Linux, AJAX, USB, UPnP, DXF, MEL, TCL, JAVA, GSM, GPS, UPC, IBAN - there are thousands. And the technologies we use for the development of our buildings: building layout generators, building structure simulation, building automation, finite elements analysis, photorealistic rendering and printing, one-of-a-kind production, 3D printing... Or, more generally: energy harvesting, ubiquitous logic, worldwide logistics, mobile phones, social media, micro-banking... An ever more densely populated carpet of electronic media. The idea that for a development project, for research, for thought itself one of these channels could suffice - and it doesnt matter whether it be a classical channel such as a scientific journal, a lecture, a political book, a journalists picture, an eye witness report, a technical development, a new product, or any of the new media channels - becomes increasingly absurd. More and more, these channels can be utilised automatically; rendering content into any of these channels becomes easier all the time, and its being done more and more frequently. The channels themselves keep getting broader. And increasingly its not us, but the channels that determine the content. The medium is the message. (McLuhan). Time to take a step back. Time to find the right level of abstraction for our projects, our articulations. Time to learn to understand what we can do with information, what the code is that can play all these channels. It, the code, brings about a new substrate. With it, we can learn seriously, and at the same time fantastically. Cross-media story telling. We want to learn to cultivate the logical channels (exactly not the magical channels [McLuhan, 1964], and not the sacred channels [Hrl, 2006], and neither a metaphysics of mediality [Krmer, 2009]), so as to be able to create the fantastical.
Lectures and exercises in the Articulation of the Fantastical. 4 weeks, March
A bomber captured on CCTV at Luton station at 7:21 am on 7 Ju
uly 2005.
Humanoid walking robot, Cornell University, 2005.
Future Systems, Selfridges (Birmingham), 2003.
Ski Dubai, 2005.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2006. Josie has also been suffering from low hemoglobin and low iron for some as yet undetermined reason. Because of this Josie is going to have a peripheral catheter put into her hand through which she'll get a blood transfusion to help this conditions ...
Junya Ishigami, the japanese pavilion at the Architectural Biennale in Venice 2008.
M5 C
Building Information Models
RFID chip.
module 5 C application Building Informa
M5 C
The construction industry is under increasing pressure from economists. They, not unreasonably, want to know what it is that theyll get, when theyll get it, at what price and to what specification. To the end of quantitative transparency, so called Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) were formulated in 1995 by American and European AEC (Architecture Engineering and Construction) firms and promoted worldwide by the institution buildingSMART in 2005. The IFC derives from the production information model standards IGES and STEP from the year 1980. IFC pursues a hypothesis that it is possible to describe every building that has ever been built, as well as every building that is ever going to be built, no matter in which part of the world or culture it happens to be, by a hierarchical system of pre-defined formulas. This, to us, seems somewhat crazy. These long-term efforts, within a set-up that is in itself adventurous, lead to a situation where technicians draw up more and more tables into which practitioners make more and more erroneous entries, if they are using them at all. Yet still economists demand this type of solution, because it has been shown to work in other industries, and so they increasingly cause a reduction of architecture to simplistic quantities. Wikipedia, Google and the success stories of the internet in general demonstrate a different path towards solutions. There is no technological need for tables, nor for strict hierarchies, there is no reason for specifications before designing a building just in order to enable transparencies and comparison and with it open competition and quality standards. So how can buildings be modelled in such a way that effective cost management is possible early on in the planning, while allowing for the prerequisite architectural freedom? How is it possible to model in such a way that buildings can be compared with each other? So that learnings and experiences can quickly and efficiently be applied to other projects? So that jobs and mistakes dont have to be repeated three, five, a hundred or a thousand times?
Lectures and exercises in building information models, databases, standards, modules, abstractions, flexibilities, indexing and cost management. 4 weeks, March
module 5 C application Building Information Models
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The plots of Zrich, sorted by size.
CAAD 2009
CAAD Seminar Week Ispha
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CAAD 2010
Herzog & de Meuron, Elbe Philharmonic Hall, Hamburg, 2010.
HRL DN15 HVL DN15
HRL DN15 HVL DN15
HRL DN15 HVL DN15
HRL DN15 HVL DN15
Typ B
L=220 L=220 L=220 L=220
Typ B
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Typ B Typ B
Typ B
Falleitung nach unten
565x400 32 -0,15 UKRD RW DN70 -0,15UKRD

Schako Ib-R 815x115 Schako Ib-R 815x115 Schako Ib-R 815x115
KT 300
KT 300
KT 300
KT 300
DN 25 DN50 AL 500
Schako Ib-R 815x115 Schako Ib-R 815x115
DN50 AL 450
Kugelhahn Druckluft
DN50
DN50 AL 400
Schako Ib-R 815x115
DN50
DN50 AL 355
Schako Ib-R 815x115
DN50 A
565x400
AW DN 100
AW DN 100
DN 65
Entl. DN 100
565x400 ZL 500 DN50

250
KT 300
ZL 450 DN50
250
Kugelhahn Druckluft
AW DN100 -0,15 UKRD
ZL 400 DN50 DN50

KT 300
ZL 355 DN50
KT 300
DN 25 KT 300
DN50
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DN50
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KT 30
Indultherm 600x600 Fa. Kiefer
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Sammelleitung RW DN100 L=600 Zusammenfhrung 1m ueber FFB
DN 15
KT 300 KT 300 KT 300
Prefabricated modules for service systems of a production hall for pharmaceutical products. digitales bauen 2003.
KT 300
RW DN50
RW DN50
RW DN50
DN 25 DN50 565x400
Schako Ib-R 815x115
2 KT 400
DN50 AL 450
Kugelhahn Druckluft
DN50 RW DN70 -0,40 UKRD

Schako Ib-R 815x115
DN50 AL 400
RW DN 50 RW DN 50
DN50 RW DN40 -0,40 UKRD

Schako Ib-R 815x115
DN50 AL 355
Schako Ib-R 815x115
DN50
AL 500 RW DN40 -0,20 UKRD RW DN70 -0,40 UKRD
GK Rauchschrze -40 ab UKUZ

AW DN 100 Entl. DN 100
AW DN 100
DN 65
565x400 DN 25
250
ZL 500 DN50
KT 300
AW DN100 -0,15 UKRD ZL 450 DN50

250
Kugelhahn Druckluft
ZL 400 DN50 DN50

KT 300
ZL 355 DN50
KT 300
DN50
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KT 300
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DN 32 DN 32
DN 32
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CAAD 2003
DV
280 x 180 5,04 qm
DN 15 KT 300
KT 300 KT 300 KT 300
DN 25 565x400
DN50 AL 500
DN50 AL 450
Kugelhahn Druckluft
DN50
DN50 AL 400
DN50
DN50 AL 355
DN50 A
KT 300
L=250
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Schlauchanschluss
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250
KT 300 KT 300 KT 300
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L=250
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L=250
L=250
565x400 ZL 500 DN50

250 250 250
Kugelhahn Druckluft DN25
AW DN100 -0,15 UKRD ZL 450 ZL 400 DN50

DN25
ZL 355 DN50
AW DN100 -0,15 UKRD mit Geflle
L=250
DN50
L=250
L=250
DN50
DN50
DN50
250
KT 300
KT 300
DN50
DV
DV
DV
DV
DV
L=540
2 KT 300
2 KT 300
Fan-Filter-Unit
Fan-Filter-Unit
KD Option 180
KD Option 180
KD Option 180
280 x 180 5,04 qm
280 x 180 5,04 qm
280 x 180 5,04 qm
280 x 180 5,04 qm
280 x 180 5,04 qm
280 x 180 5,04 qm
280 x 180 5,04 qm
280 x 180 5,04 qm
2 KT 300
DN150
KT 200
RWA L=600 1,25 x 1,25
RWA L=600 1,25 x 1,25
DN 25 DN50 AL 500
RW DN 50
DN 25 DN50
250
KT 300 KT 300
565 x 400 L=600
L=600
L=600
L=600
L=600
L=600
L=600
Indultherm 600x600 Fa. Kiefer Indultherm 600x600 Fa. Kiefer Indultherm 600x600 Fa. Kiefer
L=600
L=600
L=600
L=600
L=600
L=600
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DN 15 DN 40 DN 40
KT 300 KT 300 KT 300 KT 300
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DN 32
DN 32
DN 40
DN 40
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DN 40 DN 25 DN 20
DN 40
DN 15 KT 300 DN50 AL 355

Schako Ib-R 815x115
KT 300 DN50 AL 450 AL 400

Kugelhahn Druckluft
DN50
DN50
DN50
DN50 A
RW DN 50
RW DN 70
WB WW Boiler
AW DN 100
AW DN 100
DN 40
Entl. DN 100
565x400 ZL 500 ZL 450 DN50

250 250
Kugelhahn Druckluft
Ltg aus EG
AW DN100 -0,15 UKRD
ZL 400 DN50
KT 300
ZL 355 DN50
250
DN50
DN50
DN50
250
KT 300
KT 300
DN50
DV
DV
DV
DV
DV
L=540
Fan-Filter-Unit
Fan-Filter-Unit
2 KT 300
2 KT 300
KD Option 180
KD Option 180
KD Option 180
KD Option 180
280 x 180 5,04 qm
280 x 180 5,04 qm
280 x 180 5,04 qm
280 x 180 5,04 qm
280 x 180 5,04 qm
280 x 180 5,04 qm
280 x 180 5,04 qm
2 KT 300
DN150
KT 200
RWA L=600 1,25 x 1,25
RWA L=600 1,25 x 1,25
DN 25 DN50 AL 500
1000 x 400 L=600
L=600
L=600
L=600
L=600
L=600
L=600
Indultherm 600x600 Fa. Kiefer Indultherm 600x600 Fa. Kiefer
L=600
L=600
L=600
L=600
L=600
L=600
L=600
L=600
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L=600
L=600
L=600
L=600
DN 15 DN 40 DN 40
KT 300 KT 300
DN 20 DN 40 DN 40 DN 32 DN 32 DN 32
DN 25
DN 25
DN 32
DN 32
DN 32
DN 32 DN 32
DN 40 DN 25
DN 40
DN 40 DN 25
KT 300
DN 40 DN 25 DN 20
DN 40
DN 15
KT 300
KT 300 DN50 AL 450 AL 400

Kugelhahn Druckluft
DN50
DN50
DN50
DN50 AL 355
DN50 A
565x400
AW DN 100
AW DN 100
DN 50
Entl. DN 100
565x400 ZL 500 DN50

250 250 250
AW DN100 -0,15 UKRD ZL 450 DN50

Kugelhahn Druckluft
ZL 400 DN50 DN50

250
ZL 355 DN50 DN50 2KT KT 300 400

250
DN 25 DN50 KT 300
KT 300
KT 300
2KT 300 KT 300 /
DN50
DV
DV
DV
DV
DV
L=540
Fan-Filter-Unit
2 KT 300
2 KT 300
KD Option 180
KD Option 180
KD Option 180
280 x 180 5,04 qm
280 x 180 5,04 qm
280 x 180 5,04 qm
280 x 180 5,04 qm
280 x 180 5,04 qm
280 x 180 5,04 qm
280 x 180 5,04 qm
280 x 180 5,04 qm
2 KT 300
2 KT 300
DN150
RWA L=600 1,25 x 1,25
RWA L=600 1,25 x 1,25
1100 x 500 L=600
L=600
L=600
L=600
L=600
L=600
L=600
L=600
L=600
L=600
L=600
L=600
L=600
L=600
L=600
L=600
L=600
L=600
L=600
L=600
L=600
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L=600
L=600
L=600
L=600
L=600
DN 15 DN 40 DN 40 DN 40 DN 40
DN 20
DN 25
DN 25
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DN 32
DN 32 DN 32 DN 32
DN 32 DN 32
DN 40 DN 25
DN 40
DN 40 DN 25
DN 40 DN 25 DN 20
DN 40
DN 15
DN50
DV
DV
DV
DV
DV
L=540
Symbol fehlt L=600
2 KT 300
2 KT 300
Fan-Filter-Unit
Fan-Filter-Unit
KD Option 180
KD Option 180
KD Option 180
280 x 180 5,04 qm
280 x 180 5,04 qm
280 x 180 5,04 qm
280 x 180 5,04 qm
280 x 180 5,04 qm
280 x 180 5,04 qm
280 x 180 5,04 qm
280 x 180 5,04 qm
2 KT 300
2 KT 300
DN150
RWA L=600 1,25 x 1,25
RWA L=600 1,25 x 1,25
1250 x 600 L=600
L=600
L=600
L=600
L=600
L=600
L=600
L=600
L=600
L=600
L=600
L=600
L=600
L=600
L=600
L=600
L=600
L=600
L=600
L=600
L=600
L=600
L=600
L=600
KT 300
L=600
DV Verteiler
RW
RW DN 50
DN50
DV
DV
DV
DV
Symbol fehlt L=600
L=540
Fan-Filter-Unit
Fan-Filter-Unit
2 KT 300
2 KT 200
KD Option 180
KD Option 180
KD Option 180
KD Option 180
280 x 180 5,04 qm
280 x 180 5,04 qm
280 x 180 5,04 qm
280 x 180 5,04 qm
280 x 180 5,04 qm
280 x 180 5,04 qm
2 KT 300
2 KT 300
DN150
RWA L=600 1,25 x 1,25
RWA L=600 1,25 x 1,25
1550 x 600 L=600
L=600
L=600
L=600
L=600
L=600
L=600
L=600
L=600
L=600
L=600
L=600
L=600
L=600
L=600
L=600
L=600
L=600
L=600
L=600
L=600
L=600
L=600
L=600
L=600
KT 300
L=600
DN50 KT 300 / KT
KT 300
HVL DN15
KT 300
2K
KT 300
KT 300
2K
2 KT 300
L=600
L=600
L=600
L=600
L=600
L=250
Typ B
DN 15
DN 40
250
DV
L=600
DN 40
250
DV
L=600
DN 15
250
DV
L=600
250
DV
L=600
250
DV DN 50
L=600
DN50
DN50
DN50
DN50
DN50
DN50
DN50
DN50
DN50
280 x 180 5,04 qm
DN 40
DN 20
DN 40
L=600
Schako Ib-R 815x115
L=600
Schako Ib-R 815x115
DN 20
L=600
Schako Ib-R 815x115
DN25
L=540
AW DN 100
280 x 180 5,04 qm
KD Option 180
KD Option 180 AW DN 100
KD Option 180
L=540
L=540
L=540
L=540
AW DN 100
L=600
Schako Ib-R 815x115
L=600
Schako Ib-R 815x115
DN50
L=250
L=250
L=250
Typ B
KD Option 180
Fan-Filter-Unit
280 x 180 5,04 qm

L=600
KD Option 180 L=600
KD Option 180 L=600
KD Option 180 L=600
L=600
L=250
ZL 355
ZL 355
ZL 355
ZL 355
AL 355
AL 355
AL 355
AL 355
ZL 355
DN 40
DN 25
DN 40
DN 25
2 KT 300
2 KT 300
2 KT 300
AL 355
DN50
DN50
DN50
DN50
DN50
DN50
DN50
DN50
DN50
DN50
L=600
L=600
L=600
L=600
L=600
DN50
2 KT 300
2 KT 300
2 KT 300
RW DN 50
L=250
HVL DN15
280 x 180 5,04 qm
280 x 180 5,04 qm
KD Option 180
KD Option 180
KD Option 180
KT 200
KT 300
KT 300
KT 200
Typ B
KT 300
KT 300
L=600
L=600
L=600
L=600
L=600 DN 50
L=250
DN 40
DN 25
DN 40
250
DV
L=600
250
DV
L=600
DN 25
250
DV
L=600
250
DV
L=600
250
DV
L=600
L=250
RW DN40 -0,20 UKRD
ZL 400
ZL 400
ZL 400
ZL 400
ZL 400
RWA L=600 1,25 x 1,25
RWA L=600 1,25 x 1,25
RWA L=600 1,25 x 1,25
RWA L=600 1,25 x 1,25
RWA L=600 1,25 x 1,25
L=250
DN 40
DN 25
DN 40
DN 25
Typ B
DN50
DN50
DN50
DN50
DN50
DN50
DN50
DN50
DN50
DN50
L=600
L=600
L=600
L=600
L=600
L=600
Schako Ib-R 815x115
L=600
Schako Ib-R 815x115
L=600
DN25
W N 100
280 x 180 5,04 qm
280 x 180 5,04 qm
KD Option 180 AW DN 100
KD Option 180 L=600

KD Option 180 AW DN 100 L=600
AW DN 70
Schako Ib-R 815x115
AW DN 70
L=250 < Entlftung Hebeanlag
DN 32
DN 32
DN 32
AW DN100 -0,15 UKRD
DN 32
L=600
L=600
L=600
AW DN100 -0,15 UKRD
L=600
L=600
AW DN70 -0,40 UKRD AW DN100 -0,15 UKRD
DN 50
DN50
L=250
L=250
Typ B
KD Option 180 L=600
KD Option 180 L=600
KD Option 180 L=600
KD Option 180 L=600
KD Option 180 L=600
AW DN100 -0,40 UKRD
L=250
AL 400
AL 400
AL 400
AL 400
AL 400
2 KT 300
DN 32
DN 32
DN 32
DN 32
DN50
DN50
DN50
DN50
DN50
DN50
DN50
DN50
DN50
DN50
RWA L=600 1,25 x 1,25
RWA L=600 1,25 x 1,25
RWA L=600 1,25 x 1,25
RWA L=600 1,25 x 1,25
RWA L=600 1,25 x 1,25
DN50
Staplerladestation 400V L=250
HVL DN15
Entl. DN 100
KT 200
KT 200
KT 300
KT 300
Typ B
KT 300
L=600
KT 300
L=600
L=600
L=600
L=600
L=250
DN 32
DN 32
DN 32
Entl. DN 100
250
DV
L=600
Entl. DN 100
250
DV
L=600
DN 32
Entl. DN 100
250
DV
L=600
Entl. DN 100
250
DV
L=600
Entl. DN 100
250
DV
L=600
RW DN40 -0,40 UKRD
L=250
KD Option 180
Fan-Filter-Unit
280 x 180 5,04 qm

L=600
KD Option 180 L=600
KD Option 180 L=600
KD Option 180
Entl. DN 100
DN 50
L=600
L=600
L=250
AW DN100 -0,15 UKRD ZL 450
AW DN100 -0,15 UKRD ZL 450
DN 32
DN 32
DN 32
DN 32
DN50
DN50
DN50
DN50
DN50
DN50
DN50
DN50
DN50
DN50
L=600
L=600
L=600
L=600
L=600
ZL 450
ZL 450
L=600
Schako Ib-R 815x115
L=600
Schako Ib-R 815x115
L=600
DN25
AW DN 100
AW DN 100
ZL 450
280 x 180 5,04 qm
280 x 180 5,04 qm
KD Option 180
KD Option 180 L=600

Schako Ib-R 815x115
KD Option 180 L=600
RW DN50 -0,40 UKRD
AW DN 100
Schako Ib-R 815x115
L=600
L=600
L=600
L=600
L=600
Schako Ib-R 815x115
DN 25
DN 40
DN 25
DN 40
DN50
RW DN 50
Typ B
L=250
L=250
L=250
Typ B
280 x 180 5,04 qm

Kugelhahn Druckluft Kugelhahn Druckluft Kugelhahn Druckluft
L=600
KD Option 180
KD Option 180
KD Option 180
KD Option 180
RW DN 50
Kugelhahn Druckluft
Kugelhahn Druckluft
Kugelhahn Druckluft
Kugelhahn Druckluft
Kugelhahn Druckluft
Kugelhahn Druckluft
Fan-Filter-Unit
L=600 DN50
L=600
L=600 DN50
L=600 DN50
Kugelhahn Druckluft
L=250 Sammelleitung RW DN100 Zusammenfhrung 1m ueber FFB
DN 25
DN 40
DN 25
AL 450
DN 40
AL 450
AL 450
AL 450
DN50
DN50
DN50
DN50
DN50
DN50
DN50
DN50
DN50
DN50
L=600
L=600
L=600
L=600
L=600
DN50
2 KT 300
2 KT 300
2 KT 300
AL 450
2 KT 200
DN50
2 KT 200
2 KT 200
DN50
L=250
HVL DN15
KD Option 180
KD Option 180
KD Option 180
KD Option 180
KD Option 180
KT 300
KT 300
KT 200
KT 300
KT 200
Typ B
KT 300
L=600
KT 300
L=600
L=600
L=600
L=600
L=250
250
DV
Symbol fehlt L=600
250
DV
L=600
250
DV
L=600
250
DV
L=600
250
DV
L=600
AL 500 RW DN40 -0,20 UKRD
RW DN50 -0,40 UKRD
DN 20
DN 40
DN 20
DN 40
KT 300
L=250
AL 500
AL 500
AL 500
280 x 180 5,04 qm

L=600
280 x 180 5,04 qm
KD Option 180 L=600
KD Option 180 L=600
AL 500
KD Option 180 L=600
ZL 500
ZL 500
ZL 500
ZL 500
Schako Ib-R 815x115
Schako Ib-R 815x115
Schako Ib-R 815x115
Schako Ib-R 815x115
ZL 500
L=600
L=250
DN 100
DN 15
DN 40
DN 15
DN 40
DN 50
DN50
DN50
DN50
DN50
DN50
DN50
Schako Ib-R 815x115
Typ B
DN50
DN50
DN50
DN50
L=600
L=600
L=600
L=600
L=600
RW DN50
250
W N 100
280 x 180 5,04 qm
250
DN150
L=600
280 x 180 5,04 qm
250
AW DN 100
KD Option 180
250
KD Option 180 L=600 AW DN 100

250
DN150
L=600
DN 150
L=600
CAAD 2009
KD Option 180 L=600
Sammelleitung RW DN100 Zusammenfhrung 1m ueber FFB RW RW DN50 L=250
DV
L=600
DV DN 65
L=600
DV DN 80 VL
L=600
DV
L=600
DV
L=600
DN 65
565x400
565x400
KT 300
KT 300
KT 300
KT 300
KT 300
Anschluss Konvektoren an Ringleitung im EG DN 150 s. Detailblatt: "Hauptbaugruppen Heizung" DN 100
DN 150 2 KT 300
L=600 L=250
DN 25
DN 25
DN 25
DN 25
DN 25
L=600
DN 25
1550 x 600 L=600
1850 x 600 L=600
2200 x 600
2 KT 300
L=600
L=600
L=600
Detailplan TPI
VL RL
L=600
0 -0,20 UKRD
565x400
565x400
WH
DN50
L=250
L=250
L=250
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Indexed floor plans of Zrich, Switzerland.
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Autoselection and -adaptation of indexed floorplans according to individual needs.
CAAD 2007
CAAD 2009
M6 A
module 6 A research
Designing Beyond the Problematic, or: Design Under the Premise of General Availabilities
M6 A
With all these manifold availabilities, we, with our problems, tend to get in our own way. We cant see the wood for the trees. In view of all the analysis and statistics, we are blind to the causes. We dont see what next steps are adequate. (We dont want to keep talking about solutions any more, seeing that we want to go beyond thinking in terms of problems.) Yet we could create approaches to issues such as urbanity, sophistication, modes of living, friendliness, inspiration, openness, concentration, creativity, liveliness, differentiation, narratives, styles and fashions, beyond individual parameters. A new way of looking at things in a new environment of information makes these creative potentials available to us. We are calling this Non-Turing-Computing.
This module offers practical exercises in meta-logical order systems and gives an introduction to the corresponding thought processes. Self-organising maps, reaction diffusion diagrams, JAVA, Eclipse.
Lectures and exercises in advanced programming concepts. Final presentation as a short video. 4 weeks, April. Reaction Diffusion Diagram
Self Organizing Map clustering schemes of flo
oor plans.
CAAD 2010
eboy Tokyo
Compression
ns by Rem Koolhaas, Content, 2004.
Er
Shape grammar. Project Sdpark by Herzog & de Meuron, Basel Switzerland 2006.
Peter Zumthor, Kolumba rzbischfliches Dizesanmuseum, Cologne (Kln), Germany. 2007.
CAAD 2006
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CAAD 2009
M6 B
Population
Prada 2009
M6 A
How can we evaluate all these cross-media narratives? Is it sufficient for something to work, for something to be correct, for it to have been checked, said out loud and clear, in a world of logical channels? Can we find stabilities in fixing, in referencing, in illustrating, in looking, if everything is absorbed in logical channels? Here, stability and order can no longer be found, they have to be made. In the repetitions (Deleuze, 1968), in the populations, in exercises (Sloterdijk, 2009), in the ever renewed narratives, in the differences in time, in space, in the articulations of the various channels. What, though, is it that needs to be told in order to create stabilities across these various channels, to popularise a narrative, to make a story valuable. We cant invent any new stories. So, what can we rely on? We have to pass them on, the big stories, tell them afresh, modulate them. Body, life, love, power, friendship, hospitality, fertility, security, contemplation, freedom, fear, joy, nature, death, age, equilibrium, health, childhood, vitality, progress, youth, intelligence, landscape, nutrition...
So how do journalists, political scientists, sociologists, economists, communication scientists deal with this situation? How does Nestl, for example, tell the narrative of body and hospitality, Siemens the narrative of technology and progress, whats the story of Apple, of SAP, of IBM, whats the story about the knowledge of Google, the novelty of Facebook, what is the technology story as told by MIT, what the story of history and values of Harvard, what is Marlboros story about freedom, whats the story that liberalism tells us about the history of ethics, what does Swiss Re tell us about security, what Nike about our bodies, what does Formula 1 tell us, what BMW about motion, what the French revolution about freedom, whats the story that Marxism tells us... What are the channels that are successfully being played by H&M, Toyota, Novartis, Nokia, IBM, SAP, Google, by the Louvre, by Harvard, by UBS, Walt Disney, by Rem Koolhaas?
Lectures and exercises in the dissemination of the great narratives into popular culture 4 weeks, April
Parmigianino, Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror, 1524.
William Turner, Rain, Steam, and Speed - The Western Railway
e Great y, 1844
Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth, 2006.
Yann Arthus-Bertrand, Home, 2009.
Tsunami in Japan, 11 March 2011
Gnomon Apollo 11, 1967.
Herzog & de Meuron, Schaulager Basel 2003.
M6 C
Building Operation Models
Power station Weisweiler, Ge
M6 C
Between 30% and 60% of the investment cost for new buildings goes towards building technology. Building technology itself develops from central, hierarchical systems - so called central building control systems - to locally distributed and IT-networked systems. The focus is no longer on the temperature, brightness or level of humidity that is being brought about; instead, whats being created are atmospheres for animated discussion, concentrated study, security, access, maintenance, logistics, navigations, displays, transmissions, readiness, availability, efficiencies, services, management, accounting.
In hospitals, within 6 years of completion, running the building costs more than its original investment for construction. In offices, its 10 years. Thus, new business models evolve. Buildings become smart. Services are being articulated into the building by its users, rather than functions being produced by the building for the user. Middleware, building services, building automation, SPS, PLC, zigbee, digitalSTROM, UIN, facilities management, persistence, multi-hierarchical databases, SAP integration, WEB, mobile phones, interaction, tracking, accounting...
Lectures and exercises on building automation and service models. 4 weeks, April
ermany since 1913.
Solar-powered lanterns recharging, Barefoot C
College, Ajmer, Rajasthan, India, 2006.
CAAD 2009
Single chip, high voltage computer with power line communication for building automation, digitalSTROM, 2009.
Crystal mesh media facade, realities:united, Singapore 2009.
Minato Tokyo
HASSELL architects, ANZ Centre, Melburne 2010.
CAAD 2010
Builidng automation and management, digitalSTROM, mivune, 2010.
Arriving late night at Dizengoff square, Tel Aviv, 2010.
Decentralized HVAC module, ETH Zrich GT, 2008.
ETHZ 2008
emission free ocean world
solar pv
cold water
Solar & ambient gains
Waste-heat
Cooling Electrical power
Power storage
Fresh water storage
Chiller Service water
CAAD 2007
Water treatment Solid-waste
Cleaned water for irrigation
Fresh H 2 O
Evaporation
Emmision free building service, ETH Zrich CAAD & GT, 2007.
v desalination cold water
Waste-heat
Desalination Persian Gulf 3000 m / d water
Fresh water storage
Chiller Cleaned water for irrigation Fresh H 2 O

PV-tracker 16'500 kWh / d 100'000 m
ste
Evaporation
CAAD in collaboration with GT ETHZ viagialla.ch, 2006
M7
module 7: theory
Information and I
IIT camp
M7
Its not easy, finding your own position as an architect. With our technologies, we accelerate everything: more people, more mobility, more television, more images, more phones, more networks, more research, more publications, more complexity, more statistics, more rubbish, more technology, more advertising, more consumerism... Google, Twitter, games, leisure, over-ageing, privacy, intellectual property, corporate communications, global village, mega-cities, economy drives, liberalism, marketing, entertainment, war architecture... Its easy to think that all this could be halted, that it could all slow down, that it is possible to cast an anchor an arrest the movement. Sustainability, misery, crisis, scarce resources, nature, empathy, renunciation, limitation, insurance, reassurance, delegation, the original, the origin, territory, land, causes, simplicity, clarity, guilt, regeneration, recycling, recreation, creation, simplicity, materials-appropriate construction... but information technology is of a different nature. Which is why our old concepts are not sufficient to grasp it or its phenomena. Just as described in the fable of the Hare and the Tortoise: the hare kills himself running and the tortoise doesnt even get out of breath. Thats exactly what were witnessing: we feel washed away every time we try to cast an anchor, within the sea of our old conceptions. And so, adrift, we keep looking for an equilibrium in arranging our belongings. But how about, instead of casting anchors, we learn to surf?
Lectures, seminar and exercises in conceptualising. Final presentation as a short video. 4 weeks, May
pus, Chicago, 2010.
brose, Hallstadt Germany, 2003.
Delhi
Coney Island
Jan van Huijsum - Vase of Flowers in a Niche, 1720-40.
Individual Thesis
your choice 12 weeks in June - September
IABR 4. Internationale Architektur Biennale Rotterdam 24. September 2009 10. Januar 2010 Rotterdam-Amsterdam
Gwangju De biennale cur Sept. 2nd
ETHZ 2009
ETHZ 20
esign Biennale: The Sixth Order, rated by Ai Wei Wei and Seung H-Sang, Oct. 23rd 2011
011
ET
TH Zrich Hnggerberg campus
CAAD The Chair of CAAD (Computer Aided Architectural Design) represents the information-technology branch at the ETH's Department of Architecture. The Chair was newly vested with Ludger Hovestadt at the end of year 2000, which led to a paradigm shift in its orientation. Since then the aim has no longer been to illustrate architecture within the computer (simulation, virtual reality), but to once more extract architecture from the computer (back to reality) in order to think, design and build artefacts, which cannot be realised by conventional methods. To attain these goals, the CAAD Group employs a uniquely large faculty of teachers and researchers, which is formed in an interdisciplinary manner and is at its core oriented towards a pragmatic conversion of information technologies in architecture.
ETH Zrich ETH Zrich is one of Europe's leading research universities. The school attracts excellent faculty members and draws on a large community of architects, theorists and practitioners in the field. The Department of Architecture is particularly vibrant, with a large number of exhibitions, conferences and lectures. See the Department of Architecture's site for further information and for a list of current events: www.arch.ethz.ch
A programme by Prof. Ludger Hovestadt Architecture, Computer Science Dr. Vera Bhlmann Philosophy, Literature, Media Theory Michael Hansmeyer Architecture, Computational Art Manuel Kretzer Architecture
see YOU in Zrich
ETHZ CAAD 02.2012

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