Product Development and Architecture

Description

Aims and Scope

From idea to product

In the construction sector, demand is steadily increasing for innovative products. Product Development and Architecture presents selected examples that illustrate how the planning disciplines can contribute to such innovations in building. Introductory essays comprehensively explain the thematic and methodological framework. Case studies exemplify the transformation of ideas into prototypes or products.
Creating dynamics, shifting boundaries, building and expanding networks, conserving resources, developing and optimizing planning tools, as well as implementing use-additive processes — all these processes are discussed in order to clarify the necessary collaboration between various actors in the construction industry. Groundbreaking solutions clearly explain the role applied sciences play in the active collaboration between university and industry, as well as the interdisciplinary integration of disciplines and experts. This publication presents interdisciplinary collaborative projects such as the “Seaweed Facade,” which resulted in the realization of a building with a bioreactor facade at the International Building Exhibition in Hamburg in 2012, or the “Printed Envelope,” the result of a collaborative research project in which free forms for the facade design were generated from 3D computer-generated processes.

CONTENTS

• Human-Centered Design / Uta Pottgiesser
• Digital Architecture / Marco Hemmerling, Ulrich Nether
• Facade Road Map: Paths and Pathfinders / Ulrich Knaack

Developing Ideas

• Curved Planes / Christoph Schindler, Jan Bieniek
• The Rediscovery of Known Materials / Christian Grabitz, Christina  Kröger

Redefining Boundaries

• Total Building Envelope / Winfried Heusler, Steve Lo
• Engineers Construct Art / Thomas Henriksen

Expanding Networks

• Open Innovation / Eckard Foltin, Lorenz Kramer, Holger Strauß
• Connections and Layers / Christoph Kirch, Thomaw Böhm

Conserving Resources

• Energy Supplying Envelope / Jan Wurm
• Facade Recycling / Linda Hildebrand, Daniel Arztmann
• Wohn-Vision-2020 / Verena Wriedt, Mark Fleischhauer

Optimizing Planning Tools

• Measuring Light – Calculating Geometry / José Miguel Martínez Rico, Sergio Saiz, Aitor Leceta Murguzur
• Digital Design and Construction / Marco Hemmerling, Jens Böke, Frank Püchner
• Optimizing and Directing Processes / Xavier Ferrers, Thomas Braig, Jörn Tillmanns

Transfering Technologies

• The Printed Building Envelope / Holger Strauß
• Direct Glass Fabrication / Lisa Rammig

Notes , Authors, Index, Acknowledgments, Imprint

184 pages / 22 x 28 cm / English