LECTURE SERIES: HALLO BIOLOGIE

Studio: MORPHING ECOLOGIES II

Urban and architectural design strategies are experiencing a paradigm shift. Questions on how to transform our current cities and how to design our future cities are driven by economics, globalization, politics, demographics and ecology. We are in search of new architectural typologies and urban organization to integrate biodiversity and artificial natures. Now, we have digital tools at hand, can quantify infinite phenomena and trade data like oil. The ecological question, and the question of the human condition in the midst of bitcoin farms and styrofoam insulation systems, however, has not been answered as yet. During the studio, we will ask the question of how we can understand our environment and our world that is overwhelmed with analog and digital complexity, equipped with fluid terrains in a new AI cyberspace in order to create ecological urban habitat. Our sites are linear empty stretches along the S-Bahn, crawling and extending into contradicting parts of the city. You will be designing a new urban quarter fostering living 4.0, working 4.0, new mobility and gardening concepts, laboratories for ancient herbal medicine and ayurvedic living, chickens and a rooftop bar with cycling track – or just an ice cream parlor next to a circus.  Your design proposals will be driven by bio-diversity, imagination and radical rethinking of methodologies that utilize cybernetic thinking and computational making. The studio, therefore, will be supported by the PIV, orchestrated by the Chair of Architectural Theory.
Morphing Ecologies is computational driven, skills such as Grasshopper and Python are welcome.
https://cyphylab.chora.tu-berlin.de | contact: cyphylab@architektur.tu-berlin.de

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Modul: Entwurfsprojekt  Städtebau I / – Ma Arch / MArch-T / Ma Urban Design
Fachgebiet: Bio-Inspired Architecture and Sensoric (Werner)
Prüfrecht: Prof. Liss C. Werner
Betreuer/in: Prof. Liss C. Werner, Zvonko Vugreshek (LA)
Prüfungsleistung: Portfolioprüfung
Teilnehmerzahl: 22
Ort: Zoom TU Berlin – Universe of Architecture
Zeit: Donnerstag 11:00 – 17:00 (nach PIV)
1 Veranstaltung: 15.04.2021
Anmeldung: Quispos Nr. 40385 / ISIS / Typeform

INTERESTED? ANSWER THE TYPEFORM QUESTIONNAIRE HERE

Elective: ARTIFICAL NATURES I

Artificial Natures I

Digital computational architecture has been emerging over the last decades. By using digital tools architects and designers are enabled to generate thousands of design options with more or less complex geometries, create city patterns or new typologies with the help of deep neural networks; possibly to be evaluated against set criteria in order to choose ‘the best one’. Being critical towards a ‘random’ use of digital tools because we can, this Artificial Natures offers an overview over computational architecture, of which the very tools are just one part of many. The goal of Artificial Natures is to inform students about a variety of ingredients for understanding and possibly designing with the assistance of computation.

This course is structured in five modules:

computational thinking | digital computational tools | analysis of urban data | machine learning | computational biology

Artificial Natures is a dual online class we developed and will teach together with ESU Lab, Mansoura University Egypt. The course is attached to the lecture series hello biology.

https://cyphylab.chora.tu-berlin.de | contact: cyphylab@architektur.tu-berlin.de

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Modul: Aspekte städtebaulicher Analyse und Entwurfsmethodik; Ma Arch / MArch-T / Ma Urban Design
Modulebestandteil: 4SWS / 6 LP
Prüfrecht: Prof. Liss C. Werner
Betreuer/in: Prof. Liss C. Werner, Zvonko Vugreshek (LA)
Prüfungsleistung: Portfolioprüfung
Teilnehmerzahl: 15
Ort: Zoom TU Berlin
Zeit: Mittwochs 15:00-18/19:00
1 Veranstaltung: 21.04.2021
Anmeldung: Quispos Nr. 60490, ISIS, Typeform

INTERESTED? ANSWER THE TYPEFORM QUESTIONNAIRE HERE

Studio: MORPHING ECOLOGIES I

Urban and architectural design strategies are experiencing a paradigm shift. In 1974 Constantinos A. Doxiadis stated “At present we are in the middle of the greatest ecological crisis. This is the crisis which started two centuries ago when humanity entered the era of applied science and industry.“ In 1997, during the first digital turn in architecture, Stan Allen contributed to an understanding of architecture as systemic field rather than an agglomeration of discrete objects, leading to an investigation of design methods based on biological principles paired with cybernetic concepts. In the studio we will develop and design cities of morphing ecologies. Our cities will be systemic in nature – embracing humans and no-humans alike, computationally generated urban landscapes of formally alien beauty. Our decisions will be driven by the UN sustainability goals set by the 2030 agenda for Sustainable Development. Tiny intro to bio-inspiration. NOTE: You will start with direct observation, monitoring and analysis of physical natural and biological organisms. their growth and morphological changes (PIV). The studio is computational driven, skills such as Grasshopper and Python are welcome. 

Image credit: Antonio Maria Leicht and Niki Sidirourgou

Learning Outcomes: At the end of the semester you will know a bit better how biology works, geometries in nature are generated based on specific rules and logics and how you can translate this into computational making of architecture and urban design. Technically you will also have learned of how to digitally create, possibly fabricate your morphological typologies. As an add on, you will have gained an insight into the terminology and theory of computational (digital, parametric) architecture.

Design Outcome: Modular or fibrous architectural typologies leading to morphogenetic landscapes for our urban environment. Functions are up to your ideas.

Exhibited at the Venice Biennale 2021 as part of CityX.

Modul: MA Städtebau I, MA-UD, MA-T-Arch
Quispos: 40385, 8SWS, 12LP
Course start: early November, then Thursday 1000-1530 –> Berlin time

Max 25 students

Registration Quispos and Typeform – also see poster

Location: Zoom – United Universe of Architecture
Teaching Team: Prof. Liss C. Werner, Assist. Valmir Kastrati, Zvonko Vugreshek (LA)

Studio: MORPHING ECOLOGIES EXPERIMENTS I

The PIV ‘Morphing Ecologies Experiments I’ is interrelated with the studio ‘Morphing Ecologies’. You will grow, observe, document and analyze biological and natural and/or biological organisms. Physarum Polycephalum, Algea and Mycelium are in our focus. You will depict the differences and communalities in their individual biological computation; their growing behavior, structural characteristics, function and form, surface topography, topology and appearance. Through experiments using natural and biological organisms, we tackle the beginnings of ‘computational architecture and ecology’ as an interwoven construct. You will reference and learn about the relevance of the work of Constantinos A. Doxiadis, Christopher Alexander, Stan Allen, and alike. Paired with your insights in biological (functional and formal) principles (practice) you will gain a first understanding of complex systems and their behavior (method), essential for the studio work. Tiny intro to bio-inspiration.

Image credit: Liss C. Werner

Design Outcome and Deliverables: movies, diagrams, drawings, photographs

Exhibited at the Venice Biennale 2021 as part of CityX.

Modul: MA Städtebau I, MA-UD, MA-T-Arch
Quispos: 40385, 2SWS, 3LP
Course start: early November, then Thursday 1600-1800 –> Berlin time

Max 25 students

Registration Qispos and Typeform – also see poster
Location: Zoom – United Universe of Architecture
Teaching Team: Prof. Liss C. Werner, Assist. Valmir Kastrati, Zvonko Vugreshek (LA)

Urban Material Intelligence VII: BIO-INSPIRED MODULAR MORPHOLOGIES.

Bio-inspired modular morphologies are understood as 2- to 3-dimensional aggregated geometries based on biological principles. Morphogenesis, driven through a multitude of parameters such as material behavior and humidity, is the bio-computer generating the form of a static or kinetic structure. We will use this design strategy to examine material; leading to the design of topographies, modular landscapes and objects. Methods: observation, analysis, analog folding, digital 3D-printing, biological growing. Ad-on: computational theory in architecture. Tiny intro to bio-inspiration.

Learning Outcomes: At the end of the semester you will know a bit better how biology works, geometries in nature are generated based on specific rules and logics and how you can translate this into computational making of architecture. Technically you will also have learned of how to digitally fabricate your bio-inspired modules. As an add on, you will have gained an insight into the terminology and theory of computational (digital, parametric) architecture.

Design Outcome: Modular objects leading to morphogenetic landscapes for our urban environment. Functions are up to your ideas.

Modul: Aspekte städtebaulicher Analyse und Entwurfsmethodik
Quispos: 4584, 4SWS, 6LP
Course start: planned May 05th 2020, each Tuesday 16:30-18:30

Registration via ISIS, OR at
jessica.luettke@tu-berlin.de

Location: United Universe of Architecture
Teaching Team: Liss C. Werner, Valmir Kastrati

2017:

Studio Werkstatt Berlin- Malaysia, Biennal 100YC with D. Köring, I. M. Pienaru, IDs 234558, 40405. Results were presented at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2018 as part of 100 year city.

Thesis supervision, Slawomir Klyszcz “Disruptive Future Cities” with Prof. R. Bunschoten and Prof. Dr. I. Borrego

Urban Material Intelligence XS-XL #IV,V, Sensoric urban Prototypes, Interaction, Modularity – Material Behavior through Geometry, BuiltbyData. ID40425.

2018:

Architekturtheorie/Kritik II, Analog loves Digital I Post-digital Theory: learning from a Pioneer seminar on and conversation with Peter Eisenman, IDs2345645, 32020.

Urban Material Intelligence XS-XL, #VI, Sensoric Urban Prototypes, Interaction, Modularity – Material Behavior through Geometry, From Bits to Light. ID40425.

2015:

Studio City Lab – City Maker, Tempelhof and Berlins Housing Crisis with Prof. R. Bunschoten, IDs 234558, 40405

2016:

Taught Research Project, Speculative Urbanism, ID40435

Communicating Architecture, ID24010

Studio Digital Forefront with Prof. R. Bunschoten, D. Köring, IDs 234558, 40405

Urban Material Intelligence XS-XL #II, III, Sensoric urban Prototypes, Interaction, Modularity – Material Behavior through Geometry, ID 40425