CITAstudio: installation project

CITAstudio: installation project

CITAstudio masters students have just completed another workshop, exploring modulated spaceframe structures.  Engaging directly with generative digital models, simulation, analysis and fabrication, the workshop allowed the querying of underlying translations between description and matter, schema and detail through a hands-on direct engagement with the processes of making.  This process led to the realisation of two architectural-tectonic speculations into the new potentials for digital design, digital simulation and digital fabrication.

Spaceframes, Modules and Modulation

The semester took its point of departure in the years topic of lightness with a special focus on spaceframes and modular structures. The investigations were geared towards generating an understanding of systems and modules and the investigation of concepts and techniques that allow to design with these systems.  Here, non-standard techniques make it possible to consider the modulation of space-frame structures, and to seed differentiation and specificity into an idea that has been characterised more by repetition and the tendency towards standardization. The process of speculation began by exploring how to generate, create change in and map a phenomena. Each team was asked to prototype physical modules that demonstrate a shift between two states. Key aspects included identifying a performance and a related controlling parameter, speculating on what this might be architecturally and testing the impact and potential of modulation. This began an 8 week journey through effects, modules, systems, packing, physics-based simulation, development of details and assembly strategies and finally fabrication and presentation.

Students

Anders Tversted, Henrik Malm, Ida Friis Thinning, Jesper Wallgren, Jonas Ersson, Lisbet Christensen, Margerita Isabel Huszar, Mathias Lindskog, Oskar Edström, Sofia Adolfsson, Yasemin Yilmaz

Teachers

Martin Tamke, Paul Nicholas, David Stasiuk, Phil Ayres, Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen