Technische Universit채t M체nchen Faculty of Architecture
Chair for Emerging Technologies Michelle Addington Summer Semester 2012
Technische Universit채t M체nchen Faculty of Architecture
Chair for Emerging Technologies Michelle Addington Summer Semester 2012
CONCEPT VISITING PROFESSORSHIP
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CONCEPT VISITING PROFESSORSHIP
Visiting Professorship in Emerging Technologies The new Visiting Professorship ´Emerging Technologies´ gives an engineering-oriented view onto the whole process of architecture. The focus of the teaching is to produce architectural projects that demonstrate the latest and most revolutionary heights of structural and material developments and is placed between architecture and industrial design. The field ranges from parametric design to the building of 1:1 prototypes in the context of digital production processes. Munich is a city touched by the grandeur of the Alps and by the technological achievement of the twenty-first century. The TUM enhances the programme the new Visiting Professorship in ´Emerging Technologies´ through its surrounding high technology environment. Design and building processes are guided by the cooperations with partners from the industry, such as aerospace or car production (BWM, Eurocopter, Siemens, Audi, SGL Carbon, etc.). The pressure to reduce carbon emissions is one of the main factors in building and engineering processes wich have to become most efficient. A strong interest in researching and the close cooperation with the Munich School of Engineering and the Centre for Energyefficient construction is obligatory.
Typical precedent intervention: James Carpenter Design Associates, NY
Alternating Visiting International Professors run the design courses of the new Visiting Professorship in ´Emerging Technologies´. This ensures both innovation and variety in the teaching process and gives the students an interessting and wide-ranging view into the international field of architecture and product design.
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VISITING PROFESSOR | MICHELLE ADDINGTON
Michelle Addington Prof.
Dr. Des. M.Des.S. B.S.M.E
Michelle Addington, Hines Professor of Sustainable Architectural Design at the Yale University School of Architecture, is trained as both an architect and an engineer whose teaching and research explore energy systems, advanced materials and new technologies. Originally educated as a nuclear and mechanical engineer, she began her career at NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, where she developed structural data for composite materials and designed components for unmanned spacecraft. She then spent a decade as a process design and power plant engineer as well as a manufacturing supervisor at DuPont, and, after studying architecture, she became an architectural associate at a firm based in Philadelphia. To further investigate the potential for architecture afforded by new scientific theories in heat transfer and fluid mechanics coupled with emerging technologies, she returned to academia to earn a doctorate in which she researched the discrete control of boundary layer heat transfer using micro-machines. She serves as an advisor on energy and sustainability for many organizations, including the UN, the Department of Energy and the AIA, and her chapters and articles on energy, HVAC, system design, lighting, new technologies and materials have appeared in many books, reference volumes and journals. She recently coauthored Smart Materials and Technologies for the Architecture and Design Professions. She joined the faculty of Yale University’s School of Architecture in 2006, and holds a joint appointment at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. Prior to teaching at Yale, Dr. Addington taught at Harvard University for ten years and before that at Temple University and Philadelphia University. She received a B.S.M.E from Tulane University, a B.Arch from Temple University, an M.Des.S. and a Dr.Des from Harvard University. She also holds an honorary M.A. from Yale University. In 2009, Architect magazine selected her as one of the country’s top ten faculty in architecture. The fundamental question underlying her research asks how we can directly, discretely,
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studies of the different micro environments that can be created by moving a halogen lamp in a room
locally and transiently control phenomena. She has applied her research methods to situations as diverse as determining, at the micro level, why the walls of the Sistine Chapel were even more contaminated after a state of the art HVAC system was installed, to developing, at the macro level, new regional design guidelines for sustainability. Her current projects include the “Intelligent Buildings Project”, a collaborative effort whose objectives include the development of a new metric as well as designing how buildings connect to the smart grid; a new research lab at the “Institute for the Preservation and Conservation of Cultural Heritage” in which she will work on developing micro-environments that travel with art objects and also new LED lighting schemes for museums; and new community energy design strategies for Ecuador and India.
Cover of Addington’s book on Smart Materials
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BACKGROUND | PHILOSOPHY
Documentation of material characteristics
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BACKGROUND | PHILOSOPHY
Contingent Architectures Materiality resides in an artifact, as substance and properties, and in its realization, as function and image. Materiality is therefore constituent in that it can be defined, specified, produced and measured. Our normative means of design privileges materiality: we create, situate and represent surfaces, and we presume that those surfaces are the determinant of how we perceive the spatial environment. Materiality is, however, just a subordinate player in perception. Perception is driven by local, discrete, and transient energy exchanges between the human body and its immediate surroundings. The surfaces of the building might provide an armature for these exchanges, they might provide a context for the exchanges, but they do not generate them. The architecture of a perceptual environment is instead an architecture of contingency. Not geometry and surface, but heat and light. Not form and materials, but sensuality and tactility. A contingent architecture emerges through the interaction of the body and responds to each body with behaviors that are specific to that moment in time and to that given individual. The objective totality of a geometrically derived architecture gives way to subjective discretion when the contingencies are designed.
Student experimenting with perceptual view field
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Design Task Contingent Architectures
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DESIGN TASK | CONTINGENT ARCHITECTURES
Experimental studies of a fiber optic wall
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DESIGN TASK | CONTINGENT ARCHITECTURES
Contingent Architectures The design task of this studio is for each student to develop and ‘build’ a material installation to be located at one of five sites in Munich. The installations, which may be either physical or computational, will each negotiate a specific boundary condition. Although the installation will be constructed as a constituent material system, it must be capable of creating multiple contingent environments. These environments will be contingent upon both the physical environment--for example the position of the sun--as well as the physiological condition--for example contrast in the retinal receptor field. Leading up to the final installation, students will complete a series of focused design exercises/experiments to develop their understanding of material characteristics and phenomenological behaviors. The ultimate objective of the studio is to produce a single (and minimal) physical intervention with multiple perceptual manifestations.
Typical precedent installation: Gage / Clemenceau Architects, NY
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Organisation Visiting Professorship Courses | Design Studio | Organisation
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STUDY PROGRAM | COURSES
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STUDY PROGRAM | COURSES
Lectures: ArchTech I >> MA //Dipl. course >> obligatory to our design course
Credits: 3 ECTS Hours: Tue. 05:00pm - 06:00pm Room: Vorhoelzer Forum/ 4170 Lecturer: Prof. Michelle Addington, Guests
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FACILITIES | DESIGN STUDIO
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FACILITIES | DESIGN STUDIO
Design Studio The design studio offers upper semester students the opportunity to improve their design skills. The unique approach in strongly combining research and teaching led to many outstanding projects, some of them built full scale. Teaching focus is on innovation, conceptual and lateral thinking, new technologies, construction, interdisciplinary work, collaboration with industries and potential clients, multimedia presentation and model building up full scale mock-ups. Students learn the full range of skills an architects needs.
TEAM-WORK The project should be developed first in person and will be handled as a competition system where the students join up later in bigger groups. Please work in our atelier - you will learn most while working together with other students! COACHING The assistants and professor team will help guide you and show how to optimise your design from concept to final presentation. Teaching hours are every monday and tuesday from 9:00am. DESIGN PROCESS You are free to break the rules and design new, fresh and innovative concepts!
Studio Emerging Technologies Room 4170 design critic
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ORGANISATION | DESIGN STUDIO
Timeline
TIME
EVENT
LOCATION
COURS
Room 4170
DESIGN MA//DIPL
Vorhoelzer Forum
LECTURE
10.00 h
17.04.2012
17:00 h
Design Studio Launch: MIchelle Addington introduction to design task LECTURE 1 + WELCOME
23.04.2012 24.04.2012 24.04.2012
10.00 h 10.00 h 17:00 h
Group Breakfast // 1. IDEA PRESENTATION PHASE 1 // EFFECT ANALYSIS LECTURE 2
Room 4170 Room 4170 Room 4170
DESIGN MA//DIPL DESIGN MA//DIPL LECTURE
PHASE 1 // EFFECT ANALYSIS BANK HOLIDAY
Room 4170 -------------
DESIGN MA//DIPL -----------
PHASE 1 // EFFECT ANALYSIS TESTAT 1 // 1 CONCEPT OF RECREATION LECTURE 3
Room 4170 Room 4170 Room 4170
DESIGN MA//DIPL DESIGN MA//DIPL LECTURE
14.-17.05.2012 10.00 h
- EXCURSION WEEK - // DATE TBC
MADRID
DESIGN MA//DIPL
21./22.05.2012 10.00 h 06.12.2011 17:00 h
PHASE 2 DESIGN LECTURE 4
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DESIGN MA//DIPL LECTURE
28./29.05.2012 --------29.05.2012 ---------
BANK HOLIDAY / LECTURE OFF LECTURE OFF
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04.06.2012 05.06.2012 05.06.2012
TESTAT 2 // DATE TBC PHASE 3 DESIGN LECTURE 5
Room 4170 Room 4170 Room 4170
DESIGN MA//DIPL DESIGN MA//DIPL LECTURE
30.04.2012 10.00 h 01.05.2012 -------07.05.2012 08.05.2012 08.05.2012
10.00 h 10.00 h 17:00 h
10.00 h 10.00 h 17:00 h
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REVERSE PRECEDENTS
17.04.2012
ORGANISATION | DESIGN STUDIO
Timeline
TIME
EVENT
LOCATION
COURS
11./12.06.2012 10.00 h 12.06.2012 17:00 h
PHASE 3 DESIGN LECTURE 6
Room 4170 Room 4170
DESIGN MA//DIPL LECTURE
18.06.2012 19.06.2012 19.06.2012
TESTAT 3 // DATE TBC PHASE 4 DESIGN LECTURE 7
Room 4170 Room 4170 Room 4170
DESIGN MA//DIPL DESIGN MA//DIPL LECTURE
25./26.06.2012 10.00 h 26.06.2012 17:00 h
PHASE 4 DESIGN LECTURE 8
Room 4170 Room 4170
DESIGN MA//DIPL LECTURE
02./03.07.2012 10.00 h 03.07.2012 17:00 h
PHASE 4 DESIGN LECTURE 9
Room 4170 Room 4170
DESIGN MA//DIPL LECTURE
09.07.2012
10.00 h
FINAL TESTAT MA//DIPL
Vorhoelzer Forum
DESIGN MA//DIPL
16.07.2012
09.00 h
EXAMS
Room 4170
LECTURE MA//DIPL
19.07.2012
16:00 h
EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES CONFERENCE
OSKAR v. MILLER FORUM
10.00 h 10.00 h 17:00 h
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ORGANISATION | TEACHING TEAM
Teaching team at TU München
Prof. Dr. Michelle Addington Visiting Professor
Dipl. - Ing. Ulrike Fuchs Teaching Assistant
CONTACT Dr. - Ing. Nadine Zinser-Junghanns Teaching Assistant
Technische Universität München Fakultät Für Architektur Visiting Professorship In Emerging Technologies Arcisstrasse 21 D 80333 München
Dipl. - Ing. Wieland Schmidt Teaching Assistant
Fon: +49 (0)89.289 22 491 Fax: +49 (0)89.289 28 408 E-mail: contact@et.ar.tum.de
Dipl. - Ing. Moritz Mungenast Teaching Assistant
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Alexandra von Petersdorff Office Management
E-mail adresses assistants: vorname.name@et.ar.tum.de
ORGANISATION | COOPERATION INSTITUTES
Cooperation institutes PROVISIONAL HEAD Chair for Architectural Informatics Prof. Dr.-Ing. Frank Petzold www.ai.ar.tum.de
COOPERATION INSTITUTES TU MĂœNCHEN Chair for Climatic Design and Building Services Prof. Dr.-Ing. Gerhard Hausladen www.bk.ar.tum.de Chair for Energy efficient and Sustainable Planning and Building Univ. Prof. Dr.-Ing.W.Lang, M.Arch.II (UCLA) www.enpb.bv.tum.de Chair for Industrial Design Prof. Dipl. Des. Fritz Frenkler www.id.ar.tum.de Teaching and Research Unit for Technology and Design of Shell Constructions Prof. Dr.-Ing. Tina Wolf www.hk.ar.tum.de
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Impressum Technische Universität München Fakultät Für Architektur Visiting Professorship In Emerging Technologies Arcisstrasse 21 D 80333 München
GRAPHIC DESIGN, EDITING Ulrike Fuchs TEXT Michelle Addington Ulrike Fuchs
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