TY - GEN
T1 - Knit as bespoke material practce for architecture
AU - Thomsen, Mete Ramsgaard
AU - Tamke, Martn
AU - Karmon, Ayelet
AU - Underwood, Jenny
AU - Gengnagel, Christoph
AU - Stranghöner, Natalie
AU - Uhlemann, Jörg
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2016/1/1
Y1 - 2016/1/1
N2 - This paper presents an inquiry into how to inform material systems that allow for a high degree of variation and gradation of their material composition. Presenting knit as a partcular system of material fabrication, we discuss how new practces that integrate material design into the architectural design chain present new opportunites and challenges for how we understand and create cycles of design, analysis, specification and fabrication. By tracing current interdisciplinary efforts to establish simulation methods for knited textles, our aim is to question how these efforts can be understood and extended in the context of knited architectural textles. The paper draws on a number of projects that prototype methods for using simulation and sensing as grounds for informing the design of complex, heterogeneous and performative materials. It asks how these methods can allow feedback in the design chain and be interfaced with highly craft-based methods of fabrication.
AB - This paper presents an inquiry into how to inform material systems that allow for a high degree of variation and gradation of their material composition. Presenting knit as a partcular system of material fabrication, we discuss how new practces that integrate material design into the architectural design chain present new opportunites and challenges for how we understand and create cycles of design, analysis, specification and fabrication. By tracing current interdisciplinary efforts to establish simulation methods for knited textles, our aim is to question how these efforts can be understood and extended in the context of knited architectural textles. The paper draws on a number of projects that prototype methods for using simulation and sensing as grounds for informing the design of complex, heterogeneous and performative materials. It asks how these methods can allow feedback in the design chain and be interfaced with highly craft-based methods of fabrication.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85048218950
T3 - ACADIA 2016: Posthuman Frontiers: Data, Designers, and Cognitive Machines - Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture
SP - 280
EP - 289
BT - ACADIA 2016
A2 - Thun, Geoffrey
A2 - Velikov, Kathy
A2 - del Campo, Matias
A2 - Ahlquist, Sean
PB - ACADIA
T2 - 36th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture - Posthuman Frontiers: Data, Designers, and Cognitive Machines, ACADIA 2016
Y2 - 27 October 2016 through 29 October 2016
ER -