Versatility and Vicissitude - Performance in Morpho-Ecological Design

Informationen zum Autor Michael U Hensel is an architect, writer and principal researcher in OCEAN and the Emergence and Design Group, as well as a board member of BIONIS (the Biomimetic Network for Industrial Sustainability), and co-founder and co-director of the Emergent Technologies and Design masters programme at the Architectural Association School of Architecture. He is also on the editorial boards of AD and JBE (the Journal for Bionic Engineering). Recent publications include AD Emergence: Morphogenetic Design Strategies (2004), AD Techniques and Technologies in Morphogenetic Design (2006), and Morpho-Ecologies (AA Publications, 2006). Forthcoming publications include a book entitled Heterogeneous Space Reader, which he is co-editing with Professor Christopher Hight and Professor Achim Menges, to be published by John Wiley and Sons in early 2009. He is currently working on the concept and content for a peer-reviewed architectural research journal that will focus on research by design. www.ocean-north.net 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 Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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, ...

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AD Versatility and Vicissitude: Performance in Morpho-Ecological Design
 

 

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

Produktdetails

• Autoren: M Hensel, Michael Hensel, Michael Menges Hensel, Achim Menges
• Mitarbeit: Helen Castle (Herausgeber), Michae Hensel (Herausgeber), Michael Hensel (Herausgeber), Menges (Herausgeber), Menges (Herausgeber), Achim Menges (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 07.03.2008
• EAN: 9780470516874
• ISBN: 978-0-470-51687-4
• Seiten: 144
• Serien: Architectural Design; Architectural Design
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Kunst > Architektur; Architektur, Bauwerk, Architecture, Allg. Architektur