ABSTRACT The paper will discuss the "Digital Design Build Studio" as a potentia... more ABSTRACT The paper will discuss the "Digital Design Build Studio" as a potential model of interdisciplinary research and show how digital design and fabrication methods that become more affordable and available might open up new possibilities to connect academia with practice. The paper will use the AIA pavilion, a Digital Design Build Studio that were taught during the Fall semester of 2010 as case study.
Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe (eCAADe)
We live in a digital world. This article proposes using digital media to intensify our perception... more We live in a digital world. This article proposes using digital media to intensify our perceptions. An architectural navigation aid by coupling digital media with cognitive processes, a design process will be suggested that requires a shift in thinking from tool to media, from descriptive geometry to constructive geometry, and from stirring media to media that does the stirring.
This paper will investigate the relationship between public space and digital media and speculate... more This paper will investigate the relationship between public space and digital media and speculate about the possibility of using digital technology to reactivate public space. From the perspective of current trends in digital technology, the paper will relate Walter Benjamin’s speculations about a transformation of public space into a space of heightened interaction as well as Gordon Pasks’ installations in the 60s. “Flux Space”, an exhibition by Gernot Riether, Ruth Ron, Renate Weissenbock and Atsunobu Maeda at the Arthur Ross Gallery in New York in 2000 will be used as an example to demonstrate how public space might be reactivated using digital technology to intensify the relationship between the spectator and physical space.
Anais do XIX Congresso da Sociedade Ibero-americana de Gráfica Digital 2015, 2015
During the summer of 2014, a unique pedagogical prototype was initiated and tested through a shor... more During the summer of 2014, a unique pedagogical prototype was initiated and tested through a short five-week digital design build workshop lead by Professors Gernot Riether and Andrew John Wit at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. Unlike the typical design studio typology where projects are initiated through a series of top down predetermined project frameworks, this studio allowed for projects to emerge through student's navigating an area of research in digital design and fabrication. The studio was supplied by nothing more than an entrepreneurial mindset, initial budget and the requirement that an architectural project would be realized at full-scale by the end of the semester. Over the course of the semester, students tested, stumbled and pressed through a series of follies and prototypes that resulted in the realization of the Underwood Pavilion. This paper explores a novel design pedagogy, through the lens of this Digital Design Build Studio.
Tensegrity structures are not commonly found within the current discourse of architecture. The re... more Tensegrity structures are not commonly found within the current discourse of architecture. The reason may be that they can only be designed through physical form finding processes. This paper will show how architects can gain the ability to design these structures digitally utilizing physics engines that simulate these form finding processes in real time. To demonstrate this, the paper will use the Underwood Pavilion as a case study to describe a design process that replaces traditional methodologies by digital methods, suggesting a new parametric design approach for lightweight structures and envelopes.
During the summer of 2014, a unique pedagogical prototype was initiated and tested through a shor... more During the summer of 2014, a unique pedagogical prototype was initiated and tested through a short five-week digital design build workshop lead by Professors Gernot Riether and Andrew John Wit at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. Unlike the typical design studio typology where projects are initiated through a series of top down predetermined project frameworks, this studio allowed for projects to emerge through student's navigating an area of research in digital design and fabrication. The studio was supplied by nothing more than an entrepreneurial mindset, initial budget and the requirement that an architectural project would be realized at full-scale by the end of the semester. Over the course of the semester, students tested, stumbled and pressed through a series of follies and prototypes that resulted in the realization of the Underwood Pavilion. This paper explores a novel design pedagogy, through the lens of this Digital Design Build Studio.
This presentation was part of the session : Digital 24th National Conference on the Beginning Des... more This presentation was part of the session : Digital 24th National Conference on the Beginning Design Student We live in a world that has been digitized, and it is now about finding means to intensify our perception of this world in order to navigate through it. Suggesting a strategy to expand our cognitive framework I will explore how media can operate as an interface that couples information with cognitive processes.
The design machine, an algorithmic structure for design, is considered within current trajectorie... more The design machine, an algorithmic structure for design, is considered within current trajectories of architecture discourse to suggest a reinterpretation of the Vitruvian discourse and to produce eight systematic studies in formal composition in architectural design.
We live in a digital world. This article proposes using digital media to intensify our perception... more We live in a digital world. This article proposes using digital media to intensify our perceptions. An architectural navigation aid by coupling digital media with cognitive processes, a design process will be suggested that requires a shift in thinking from tool to media, from descriptive geometry to constructive geometry, and from stirring media to media that does the stirring.
Digital media, with the capacity to master complexity, has permitted an unprecedented ability to ... more Digital media, with the capacity to master complexity, has permitted an unprecedented ability to reinterpret natural processes. An infinite number of realities can emerge from their interpretations that can be developed into physical structures or spatial models that can further be appropriated to inform the design of architecture. In this paper the potential of these digital interpretations to inform architectural design processes will be discussed. Demonstrating how digital media can operate as an interface that couples information with cognitive processes I will show how digital media can be constructed in order to intensify our perception of our natural environment. Examples from projects that were developed with students during the spring semester of 2008 at Georgia Institute of Technology will be used to support the argument.
Proceedings of the XVII Conference of the Iberoamerican Society of Digital Graphics - SIGraDi: Knowledge-based Design, 2013
The Nuit Blanche Pavilion is a recent project by Gernot Riether in collaboration with artist Dami... more The Nuit Blanche Pavilion is a recent project by Gernot Riether in collaboration with artist Damien Valero. The project takes advantage of an elastic behavior found in high-density elastomers to form a lightweight structure that integrates form, geometry and program in a single material system. Grasshopper and the finite element plug-in Karamba were used to optimize these interdependencies. This paper will describe the design of the project and elaborate on an aspect of Riether's research that uses digital technology to promote environmentally responsible materials and construction methods.
ABSTRACT The paper will discuss the "Digital Design Build Studio" as a potentia... more ABSTRACT The paper will discuss the "Digital Design Build Studio" as a potential model of interdisciplinary research and show how digital design and fabrication methods that become more affordable and available might open up new possibilities to connect academia with practice. The paper will use the AIA pavilion, a Digital Design Build Studio that were taught during the Fall semester of 2010 as case study.
Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe (eCAADe)
We live in a digital world. This article proposes using digital media to intensify our perception... more We live in a digital world. This article proposes using digital media to intensify our perceptions. An architectural navigation aid by coupling digital media with cognitive processes, a design process will be suggested that requires a shift in thinking from tool to media, from descriptive geometry to constructive geometry, and from stirring media to media that does the stirring.
This paper will investigate the relationship between public space and digital media and speculate... more This paper will investigate the relationship between public space and digital media and speculate about the possibility of using digital technology to reactivate public space. From the perspective of current trends in digital technology, the paper will relate Walter Benjamin’s speculations about a transformation of public space into a space of heightened interaction as well as Gordon Pasks’ installations in the 60s. “Flux Space”, an exhibition by Gernot Riether, Ruth Ron, Renate Weissenbock and Atsunobu Maeda at the Arthur Ross Gallery in New York in 2000 will be used as an example to demonstrate how public space might be reactivated using digital technology to intensify the relationship between the spectator and physical space.
Anais do XIX Congresso da Sociedade Ibero-americana de Gráfica Digital 2015, 2015
During the summer of 2014, a unique pedagogical prototype was initiated and tested through a shor... more During the summer of 2014, a unique pedagogical prototype was initiated and tested through a short five-week digital design build workshop lead by Professors Gernot Riether and Andrew John Wit at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. Unlike the typical design studio typology where projects are initiated through a series of top down predetermined project frameworks, this studio allowed for projects to emerge through student's navigating an area of research in digital design and fabrication. The studio was supplied by nothing more than an entrepreneurial mindset, initial budget and the requirement that an architectural project would be realized at full-scale by the end of the semester. Over the course of the semester, students tested, stumbled and pressed through a series of follies and prototypes that resulted in the realization of the Underwood Pavilion. This paper explores a novel design pedagogy, through the lens of this Digital Design Build Studio.
Tensegrity structures are not commonly found within the current discourse of architecture. The re... more Tensegrity structures are not commonly found within the current discourse of architecture. The reason may be that they can only be designed through physical form finding processes. This paper will show how architects can gain the ability to design these structures digitally utilizing physics engines that simulate these form finding processes in real time. To demonstrate this, the paper will use the Underwood Pavilion as a case study to describe a design process that replaces traditional methodologies by digital methods, suggesting a new parametric design approach for lightweight structures and envelopes.
During the summer of 2014, a unique pedagogical prototype was initiated and tested through a shor... more During the summer of 2014, a unique pedagogical prototype was initiated and tested through a short five-week digital design build workshop lead by Professors Gernot Riether and Andrew John Wit at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. Unlike the typical design studio typology where projects are initiated through a series of top down predetermined project frameworks, this studio allowed for projects to emerge through student's navigating an area of research in digital design and fabrication. The studio was supplied by nothing more than an entrepreneurial mindset, initial budget and the requirement that an architectural project would be realized at full-scale by the end of the semester. Over the course of the semester, students tested, stumbled and pressed through a series of follies and prototypes that resulted in the realization of the Underwood Pavilion. This paper explores a novel design pedagogy, through the lens of this Digital Design Build Studio.
This presentation was part of the session : Digital 24th National Conference on the Beginning Des... more This presentation was part of the session : Digital 24th National Conference on the Beginning Design Student We live in a world that has been digitized, and it is now about finding means to intensify our perception of this world in order to navigate through it. Suggesting a strategy to expand our cognitive framework I will explore how media can operate as an interface that couples information with cognitive processes.
The design machine, an algorithmic structure for design, is considered within current trajectorie... more The design machine, an algorithmic structure for design, is considered within current trajectories of architecture discourse to suggest a reinterpretation of the Vitruvian discourse and to produce eight systematic studies in formal composition in architectural design.
We live in a digital world. This article proposes using digital media to intensify our perception... more We live in a digital world. This article proposes using digital media to intensify our perceptions. An architectural navigation aid by coupling digital media with cognitive processes, a design process will be suggested that requires a shift in thinking from tool to media, from descriptive geometry to constructive geometry, and from stirring media to media that does the stirring.
Digital media, with the capacity to master complexity, has permitted an unprecedented ability to ... more Digital media, with the capacity to master complexity, has permitted an unprecedented ability to reinterpret natural processes. An infinite number of realities can emerge from their interpretations that can be developed into physical structures or spatial models that can further be appropriated to inform the design of architecture. In this paper the potential of these digital interpretations to inform architectural design processes will be discussed. Demonstrating how digital media can operate as an interface that couples information with cognitive processes I will show how digital media can be constructed in order to intensify our perception of our natural environment. Examples from projects that were developed with students during the spring semester of 2008 at Georgia Institute of Technology will be used to support the argument.
Proceedings of the XVII Conference of the Iberoamerican Society of Digital Graphics - SIGraDi: Knowledge-based Design, 2013
The Nuit Blanche Pavilion is a recent project by Gernot Riether in collaboration with artist Dami... more The Nuit Blanche Pavilion is a recent project by Gernot Riether in collaboration with artist Damien Valero. The project takes advantage of an elastic behavior found in high-density elastomers to form a lightweight structure that integrates form, geometry and program in a single material system. Grasshopper and the finite element plug-in Karamba were used to optimize these interdependencies. This paper will describe the design of the project and elaborate on an aspect of Riether's research that uses digital technology to promote environmentally responsible materials and construction methods.
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