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SUMMARY:Embedded Architectures |  Data-driven Design en route to Architect
 ure and Environment Integration | Prof. Michael U. Hensel
DTSTART:20191125T150000
DTEND:20191125T160000
DTSTAMP:20260407T043523Z
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Michael U. Hensel Univ. Prof. Dr. Michael U. Hensel is an arch
 itect\, researcher and and  director of the practice OCEAN Architecture
  | Environment. He co-founded the international network OCEAN in 1994 and
  was founding and acting chairperson of OCEAN Design Research Association 
 from 2008 to 2018. He is professor at Vienna University of Technology wher
 e he heads the research department for digital architecture and planning. 
 Previously he taught at the Architectural Association School of Architectu
 re in London\, Berlage Institute Amsterdam\, Oslo School of Architecture a
 nd Design\, Technical University in Munich\, Rice University in Houston an
 d University of Technology Sydney. He was founding and acting director of 
 the Research Centre for Architecture and Tectonics in Oslo\, Norway\, inno
 vation fellow at the University of Sydney and honorary fellow of the Insti
 tute of Advanced Studies at the Technical University in Munich. He has co-
 pioneered research by design\, experimental and computational design in ar
 chitecture and urban design since the early 1990s. Primary research intere
 sts include integrating architecture\, landscape architecture\, urban desi
 gn\, microclimatology and ecology\; performance-oriented architecture and 
 urban design\; data-driven modelling and design\; and alternative approach
 es to sustainable and regenerative design.\nSustainability requirements ar
 e becoming rapidly more complex and pressing as climate change and related
  societal\, economic and environmental problems unfold. Human modification
 s of the environment fall short of advanced sustainability considerations 
 from early design stages onward due to a pronounced gap in the integration
  of relevant data across domains and scales. At the same time data is gain
 ing increasing importance in many areas concerning the biophysical environ
 ment\, as well as design and construction of the human dominated and\, mor
 e specifically\, the built environment. The talk introduces a current effo
 rt in integrating multi-scale and multi-domain knowledge and modelling met
 hods that link systematic data acquisition and integration for assessing a
 rchitecture and biophysical environment interaction\, as well as modeling 
 and analysis of ecology and climate impact and modulation. This includes t
 he integration of architecture\, landscape architecture and urban design\,
  micro-climate and ecology. From this new approaches to urban green infras
 tructure and urban agriculture are beginning to emerge that are supported 
 by constructions and that are integrated with non-discrete architectures. 
 The talk will introduce an approach entitled "embedded architectures" that
  seeks to tackle this problematic at the intersection between architecture
 \, landscape architecture\, urban design\, micro-climatology and ecology.
LOCATION:BC 117 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==BC%20117
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