Versatility and Vicissitude
Performance in Morpho-Ecological Design
Architectural Design
1. Auflage März 2008
144 Seiten, Softcover
Praktikerbuch
Kurzbeschreibung
Versatility & Vicissitude progresses the discussions initiated by the earlier two titles of AD (Emergence, May 2004, and Techniques and Technologies in Morphogenetic Design, March 2006) further by placing the spotlight on performance and interaction with natural ecologies. The exchange between the performance of a designed artifact and the specific contexts and the users are investigated. Thus morpho-ecological design becomes a new mode of achieving truly integral design solutions in collusion with natural ecologies and a powerful, cutting-edge alternative model for sustainability.
This third AD by the guest-editors of the highly successful Emergence and techniques and technologies in Morphogenetic Design titles shifts the morpho-ecological design project into the realm of performance. Whereas the dictionary definition of performance -to 'carry out an action' or 'to fulfill a task' - invokes a tired utilitarian debate, Hensel and Menges inject the meaning of the word 'performance' with an entirely new life. In this context, form is redefined not as the shape of a material object alone, but as the multitude of effects, a milieu of conditions, modulations and microclimates that emanate from an object's exchange with its specific environment, a dynamic relationship that is perceived and interacted with by a subject. A synergetic employment of performance and morpho-ecological techniques combine to create integral design solutions that will render an alternative model for sustainability. This issue presents historical precursors and precedents for this approach, as well as the current state of the art of morpho-ecological design. Key contributors include: Klaus Bollinger and Manfred Grohmann of Bollinger & Grohmann, Aleksandra Jaeschke, OCEAN, Professor Remo Pedreschi, Defne Sunguroglu, Peter Trummer and Michael Weinstock.
01 Introduction
Versatility & Vicissitude: An Introduction to Performance in Morpho-Ecological Design
Michael Hensel and Achim Menges
02 Form, Force and Structure: A Brief History
Professor Remo Pedreschi
03 Form, Force, Performance: Multi-Parametric Structural Design
Professor Klaus Bollinger, Professor Manfred Grohmann and Oliver Tessmann
04 Metabolism and Morphology
Michael Weinstock
05 Material Performance
Michael Hensel, Defne Sunguroglu and Achim Menges
06 Manufacturing Performance
Achim Menges
07 Performance-Oriented Design: Precursors and Potentials
Michael Hensel
08 Inclusive Performance: Efficiency Versus Effectiveness - Towards a Morpho-Ecological Approach for Design
Michael Hensel and Achim Menges
09 Complex Brick Assemblies
Defne Sunguroglu
10 Membrane Spaces
Michael Hensel and Achim Menges
11 Aggregates
Michael Hensel and Achim Menges
12 Environmental Intensifiers
Aleksandra Jaeschke
13 Engineering Ecologies
Peter Trummer
14 Designing Morpho-Ecologies: Versatility and Vicissitude of Heterogeneous Space
Michael Hensel and Achim Menges
AD+
01 Interior Eye
Craftsteak, New York
Jayne Merkel
02 Building Profile
Public Toilet, Gravesend
David Littlefield
03 Practice Profile
m3architecture
Mark Taylor
04 Unit Factor
Renewable Types and the Urban Plan
Christopher Lee and Sam Jacoby
05 Spiller's Bits
In Praise of the Blur
Neil Spiller
06 Yeang's Eco-Files
Recharging your Eco-Batteries
Ken Yeang
07 McLean's Nuggets
Will McLean
08 Userscape
The Use of the cellular and New Digital Mapping
Valentina Croci
09 Site Lines
Making Waves: East Beach Café
Howard Watson
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Professor Achim Menges is an architect and partner in OCEAN and the Emergence and Design Group. He studied at the Technical University Darmstadt and graduated from the Architectural Association with Honours. He has taught at the AA as Studio Master of the Emergent Technologies and Design masters programme since 2002, and as Unit Master of Diploma Unit 4 from 2003 to 2006. Since 2005 he has been Professor of Form Generation and Materialization at the HfG Offenbach University for Art and Design in Germany. His research focuses on the development of integral design processes at the intersection of evolutionary computation, parametric design, biomimetic engineering and computer-aided manufacturing that enable a highly articulated, performative built environment. His research projects have been published and exhibited in Europe, Asia and the US. He received the FEIDAD (Far Eastern International Digital Architectural Design) Outstanding Design Award in 2002, the FEIDAD Design Merit Award in 2003, the Archiprix International Award 2003, RIBA Tutor Price 2004, the International Bentley Educator of the Year Award 2005 and the ACADIA 2007 Award for Emerging Digital Practice.
www.achimmenges.net
www.ocean-north.net
