ENAC Seminar Series by Prof. N. Hack
Event details
| Date | 03.12.2020 |
| Hour | 14:00 › 14:45 |
| Speaker | Prof. Norman Hack |
| Location |
Zoom
Online
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| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
14:00 – 14:45 – Prof. Norman Hack
Junior Professor at Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany
Talk title:
Integrated Digital Design and Fabrication
Abstract:
For almost three decades, architects have been experimenting with rapidly advancing digital technologies and have been speculating about the future of architecture in the digital age. These scenarios have entailed all-virtual living and working environments, neo-baroque formal exuberance, the stratification of virtual and physical worlds, associative parametric design, robotic fabrication, augmented reality and 3D printing with real construction materials. While the pursuits are diverse, there is a marked tendency for the digital to evolve from virtual to physical.
This presentation will highlight this trend and explore the potentials and challenges of an integrated digital design-to-fabrication ecosystem, in particular with regard to a sustainable use of construction materials. These advances will be presented through two interdisciplinary research projects, both of which focus on a reduction of construction waste and an increase of material efficiency for bespoke non-standard constructions through the use of integrated digital design and fabrication technology. Finally, a new research framework is presented that builds on the methods and techniques of digital design and fabrication technology, but likewise extends the prevailing paradigm of material efficiency.
Short bio:
Norman Hack is an architect and researcher in the realm of computational architectural design and digital fabrication. He holds a degree in architecture from the Vienna University of Technology and a master's degree from the Architectural Association in London. After graduation he worked as a programming architect in the Digital Technologies Group with Herzog and de Meuron. His interest in seamless digital design and fabrication processes led him to pursue a PhD with Gramazio Kohler Research, which he began at the Singapore-ETH Centre (Future Cities Laboratory) and completed at the National Centre of Competence in Research in Digital Fabrication at ETH Zurich. Since 2018 Norman Hack holds a tenure track professorship for digital building fabrication at the Institute of Structural Design at Technical University of Braunschweig.
Junior Professor at Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany
Talk title:
Integrated Digital Design and Fabrication
Abstract:
For almost three decades, architects have been experimenting with rapidly advancing digital technologies and have been speculating about the future of architecture in the digital age. These scenarios have entailed all-virtual living and working environments, neo-baroque formal exuberance, the stratification of virtual and physical worlds, associative parametric design, robotic fabrication, augmented reality and 3D printing with real construction materials. While the pursuits are diverse, there is a marked tendency for the digital to evolve from virtual to physical.
This presentation will highlight this trend and explore the potentials and challenges of an integrated digital design-to-fabrication ecosystem, in particular with regard to a sustainable use of construction materials. These advances will be presented through two interdisciplinary research projects, both of which focus on a reduction of construction waste and an increase of material efficiency for bespoke non-standard constructions through the use of integrated digital design and fabrication technology. Finally, a new research framework is presented that builds on the methods and techniques of digital design and fabrication technology, but likewise extends the prevailing paradigm of material efficiency.
Short bio:
Norman Hack is an architect and researcher in the realm of computational architectural design and digital fabrication. He holds a degree in architecture from the Vienna University of Technology and a master's degree from the Architectural Association in London. After graduation he worked as a programming architect in the Digital Technologies Group with Herzog and de Meuron. His interest in seamless digital design and fabrication processes led him to pursue a PhD with Gramazio Kohler Research, which he began at the Singapore-ETH Centre (Future Cities Laboratory) and completed at the National Centre of Competence in Research in Digital Fabrication at ETH Zurich. Since 2018 Norman Hack holds a tenure track professorship for digital building fabrication at the Institute of Structural Design at Technical University of Braunschweig.
Practical information
- General public
- Invitation required
- This event is internal
Organizer
- ENAC
Contact
- Joanna Jermini-Howard / Cristina Perez