CITA complex modelling
CITA complex modelling
Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen / Martin Tamke / Phil Ayres / Paul Nicholas
The four year Complex Modelling research project investigates the infrastructures of our design models. By questioning the tools for integrating information across the expanded digital design chain, the project asks how to support feedback between different scales of design engagement moving from material design, across design, simulation and analysis to specification and fabrication. The project focuses on the integration of material performance as a particular challenge opening up new horizons for a sustainable building culture. The ability to design for and with material performance is a core resource for design innovation closely tied to material optimisation. The project introduces three scales of design engagement by which to examine material performance: the structure, the element and the material. Positioning feedback as a central concern cascading through all scales of engagement, the project asks how dynamic modes of organisation including self-organisation, multi-scalar modelling and self-adaptive modelling can introduce new logics into the design of architectural information models.
Riverside Architectural Press
CITA centre for information technology and architecture CITA is an innovative research environment exploring the intersections between architecture and digital technologies. By identifying core research questions into how space and technology can be probed, CITA investigates how the current forming of a digital culture impacts on architectural thinking and practice. CITA examines how architecture is influenced by new digital design- and production tools as well as the digital practices that are informing our societies culturally, socially and technologically. CITA consolidates new collaborations with interdisciplinary partners from the fields of computer science, robotics, engineering as well as the practice based fields such as furniture design, fashion and textiles, industrial design, film, dance and interactive arts.
CITA complex modelling
Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen Martin Tamke Phil Ayres Paul Nicholas