Cooperation Project

Course Objective

How can emerging industrial processes reshape building design and construction? In this Studio collaboration between three universities in the US and Europe Design ideas, technical innovation and fabrication techniques will come together and theory can be translated into practice. Digital design and synthetic fabrication are changing architecture in fundamental ways. The studio will present new design methods and fabrication systems as technologies that can be learned and as practices that invite critical discussion. How do new construction systems work? What digital design methods, materials, and building details are emerging? What are the implications for design and industry? What new paradigms can contemporary fabrication offer architecture? In the last decade the phenomenon of Blob architecture (or liquid design, or non-standard architecture) was introduced in the building industry by ambitious architects and designers in the USA and Europe.

This collaboration will bring three universities and there students from the US and Europe together to generate concepts, develop and manufacture design projects located in the US and Europe. 10 students from each university will work in teams of 3 together. The collaboration will be structured around three workshops in Delft, Kassel and Knoxville. Each individual workshop has a special goal.

Time: SS06 – End of November

Schedule:

Class in Kassel for Kassel students SS06

Workshop Delft, NL 13-19 August

Workshop Kassel, Germany 20-27 August

Design development in groups, Aug. + Sept. + Oct.

Workshop Knoxville 29 October - 5 November

Exhibit KMA projects 5 – 10 November

Stop Over NY: 6 - ... November

Cooperation between:

The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA

College of Architecture and Design and School of Art

Associate Professor Dipl.-Ing. Edgar Stach

Knoxville, TN 37996, USA

University of Kassel, Germany, Department of Architecture

Chair of Structures

Professor Dipl.-Ing. Manfred Grohman; Dipl.-Ing. Gregor Zimmermann; Dipl.-Ing. Oliver Tessmann

University of Delft, Netherlands, Department of Architecture

Chair of Structural Mechanics Coordinator of the Laboratory of Materials and Constructions Coordinator of the Master Building Technology