SmartGeometry 2010 Online
This year’s event, held in Barcelona Spain at the Palau De La Musica Catalana, focused on innovative design tools, technologies, and methodologies that allow and encourage new forms of architectural and structural expression – forms that are radically changing the built environment.
The SmartGeometry 2010 theme “Working Prototypes” was focused on functioning prototypes developed to prove and test concept and design. Leading industry and academic experts addressed new issues arising from generative design technology in highly informative and thought-provoking presentations and discussions.
The SmartGeometry 2010 Conference was a two-day agenda comprised of “Shop Talk Day” and “Symposium Day,” preceded by a four-day workshop.
Workshop – March 19-22
Held at the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalunia (IaaC), this unique creative cauldron attracted attendees from across the worlds of academia and professional practice, as well as many of the brightest students. The workshop included over 180 participants who came together for four intensive days of design and collaboration.
The workshop was organized around 9 hands-on design studios, hubs of expertise comprised of people, knowledge, tools, materials, and machines. These studios facilitated the development and testing of working prototypes and provide a nucleus for exploration, discussion, processes, and techniques. Each design studio embraced a wide spectrum of approaches and engaged 8 to 16 participants, championed by at least two tutors who are pioneers in their field.
The SmartGeometry 2010 Workshop design studios were:
- Deep Surfaces: Articulation and Fabrication of Spatial Systems from Tensioned Fabric Elements
- Nonlinear Systems Biology and Design
- Manufacturing Parametric Acoustic Surfaces
- High-Tech Design – Low-Tech Construction
- Parametrics and Physical Interactions
- Explicit Bricks
- Rapid R&D to Rapid Assembly: snap fit, push on, and so forth
- Design to Destruction
- Inflatable Fabric Envelopes
Workshop Software
Workshop participants used GenerativeComponents – Bentley’s generative design software – as their platform. Bentley provided GenerativeComponents to participants for use in the workshop.
Shop Talk Day - March 23
Shop Talk Day provided an opportunity for informal discussions among leading practitioners and emerging talent in digital design. Tutors and participants in the Workshop presented and discussed their advanced design work of the previous four days.
Shop Talk Day Videos
 Welcome
Adam Davis – SmartGeometry
Huw Roberts – Bentley Systems, Incorporated
Make Sense: Learning How to Learn
Moderator: Eric Ellingsen – Species of Space / Institut für Raumexperimente
Panelists: Jonathan Rabagliati – Foster + Partners;
Panagioitis Michalatos – Adams Kara Taylor;
Alex Posada – Hangar.org;
Ricardo Iglesias – Hangar.org
Make a Difference: Educated Guesses
Moderator: Rob Woodbury – Simon Fraser University
Panelists: Eric Ellingsen – Species of Space / Institut für Raumexperimente;
Axel Kilian – Princeton University;
Earl Mark – University of Virginia
Make Do: Programming Prototypes
Moderator: Makai Smith – Bentley Systems, Incorporated
Panelists: Flora Salim – RMIT;
Sean Ahlquist – University of Stuttgart;
Sawako Kajima – Adams Kara Taylor;
Przemek Jaworski – Foster + Partners
Making It Add Up: Mathematical Models
Moderator: Joy Ko – RISD/Brown
Panelists: Peter Liebsch – ASTUDIO;
Judit Kimpian – Aedas;
Ignasi Cubina – Eco Intelligent Growth
Sponsor Presentations
Bentley Systems, Incorporated – Brian Moura
DHUB – Carlos Ipser
HP – Introduction by Brian Moura
Kuka – Oscar Perez
Z Corporation – Olimpio DeMarco
ZSI – Inma Lázaro
Research and Visions Update
Volker Mueller – Bentley Systems, Incorporated
Make Work: Manufacturing Procedures
Moderator: Xavier de Kestelier – Foster + Partners
Panelists: Richard Buswell – Loughborough University;
Bart Van der Schueren – Materialise;
Enrico Dini – D-shape;
Rupert Soar – Freeform Engineering Ltd / Loughborough University;
Tobias Bonwetsch – ETH Zurich
Make Some Noise: Sounding Out Possibilities
Moderator: Brady Peters – CITA
Panelists: Martin Tamke – CITA;
Xavier Serra – Universitat Pompeu Fabra;
Ralph Bartschi – ETH;
Jose Manuel Berneguer – Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
Make It or Break It: Structuring Prototypes
Moderator: Jeroen Coenders – Arup
Panelists: Will Laufs – Thornton Tomassetti;
Pavel Hladik – Arup;
Sam Joyce – Bath University / Buro Happold;
Al Fisher – Buro Happold;
Hugo Mulder – Arup
Make It Snappy: Tectonic Prototypes
Moderator: Axel Kilian – Princeton University
Panelists: Bruce Bell – Facit;
Achim Menges – University of Stuttgart;
Russel Loveridge – EPFL Lausanne;
Martha Tsigkari – Foster + Partners
Closing Remarks
Lars Hesselgren – PLP Architecture |
Symposium Day - March 24
Symposium Day was an enlightening forum featuring presentations by preeminent authorities on the theory and practice of computational and parametric design approaches.
Symposium Day Videos
Welcome
Hugh Whitehead – SmartGeometry
Huw Roberts – Bentley Systems
Geometry as Gaudi Design Driver
Mark Burry – RMIT
Full-size Stone 3D Printing
Enrico Dini – D-shape
Racing Prototypes
Darren Davies – Wirth Research
From Termites to Buildings: Towards a Sustainable Architecture
Rupert Soar – Freeform Engineering Ltd / Loughborough University
Report from Workshop Clusters: Inflatable Fabric Envelopes, Deep Surfaces, and Curved Folding
Earl Mark – University of Virginia;
Axel Kilian – Princeton University;
Sean Ahlquist – University of Stuttgart;
Gregory Epps – Robofold Ltd.
MACHINIC CONTROL: Design Research with Customized CNC Devices
Marta Malé-Alemany – Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia
RepRap – the Replicating Rapid Prototyper
Adrian Bowyer – Bath University
Report from Workshop Clusters: High Tech Design – Low Tech Construction, Rapid R&D to Rapid Assembly: Snap, Fit, Push on... and Explicit Bricks
Rob Woodbury – Simon Fraser University;
Juan E Subercaseaux – KPF;
Ben Doherty – NOTION PARALLAX;
Tobias Bonwetsch – ETH Zurich
Engineering as Prototype
Hanif Kara – Adams Kara Taylor
A Working Prototype of Networked Design
Jeroen Coenders – Arup / TU Delft
Parametric Design Futures
Lars Hesselgren – PLP Architecture
Report from Workshop Clusters: Nonlinear Systems Biology and Design, and Manufacturing Acoustic Surfaces
Shane Burger – Grimshaw Architects;
Andrew Lucia – Sabin+Jones LabStudio;
Brady Peters – CITA
Technology Update
Huw Roberts – Bentley Systems
Closing Remarks
Xavier de Kestelier – Foster + Partners |
Reception – March 24
The SmartGeometry 2010 Conference ended with a social gathering celebrating the innovation, creativity, and leadership of the generative design community. The Reception took place at the world-renowned Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia in Barcelona, Spain, and provided attendees with the opportunity to see the amazing prototypes developed during the preceding SmartGeometry 2010 Workshop.
