Wednesday, July 12

MS12
Architectural Geometry

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: 402

Free forms constitute one of the major trends within contemporary architecture. While the digital design of freeform geometry with current modeling tools is well understood, the actual fabrication on the architectural scale is a big challenge: one has to decompose the skins into manufacturable panels, provide appropriate support structures, meet structural constraints and last, but not least make sure that the cost does not become excessive. These practical requirements form a rich source of research topics in geometry and geometric computing. The minisymposium presents recent progress in the emerging field of Architectural Geometry, elaborates on important relations to contemporary research in Discrete Differential Geometry and Geometric Optimization, discusses fabrication-aware design systems and illustrates the transfer of mathematical research into the architectural practice at hand of selected projects.

Organizer: Helmut Pottmann
Technische Universitaet Wien, Austria and King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia

4:00-4:25 Mapping Materials: Computational Methods for Material-Aware Design abstract

Mark Pauly, EPFL, France

4:30-4:55 Surface Rationalization and Design for Robotic Hot-Blade Cutting abstract

David Brander, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark

5:00-5:25 Formfinding with Polyhedral Meshes abstract

Helmut Pottmann, Technische Universitaet Wien, Austria and King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia

5:30-5:55 Architectural Geometry in Practice abstract

Konstantinos Gavriil, Evolute GmbH, Vienna University of Technology, Austria