Detail of Ernst Haeckel's Spumellaria plate, Kunstformen der Natur

Computational Architecture in Germany

Daniel Nunes Locatelli

Atelier Marko Brajovic logo.
Front view of the O3 Pavilion

O3 Pavilion

Expo Revestir São Paulo 2017 SIGRADI 2018

© Gui Morelli

Crown shyness in Wana-Kwali trees, CIRAD plantation, French Guiana

O3 Pavilion

Expo Revestir São Paulo 2017 SIGRADI 2018

© SAM EN CIMES

Two giraffes.

O3 Pavilion

Expo Revestir São Paulo 2017 SIGRADI 2018

© Luca Galuzzi

O3 Pavilion

Expo Revestir São Paulo 2017 SIGRADI 2018

Animation of the form finding with Kangaroo, forcing the cells to be planar

O3 Pavilion

Expo Revestir São Paulo 2017 SIGRADI 2018

Animation with the assembly sequence of the O3 Pavilion

O3 Pavilion

Expo Revestir São Paulo 2017 SIGRADI 2018

Computational detailing of the O3 Pavilion

O3 Pavilion

Expo Revestir São Paulo 2017 SIGRADI 2018

Blacksmiths studying the model of the O3 Pavilion

O3 Pavilion

Expo Revestir São Paulo 2017 SIGRADI 2018

Model in front of the O3 Pavilion structure
Finished O3 Pavilion, exterior view of the three domes.

O3 Pavilion

Expo Revestir São Paulo 2017 SIGRADI 2018

© Gui Morelli

O3 Pavilion detail

O3 Pavilion

Expo Revestir São Paulo 2017 SIGRADI 2018

© Gui Morelli

O3 Pavilion

Expo Revestir São Paulo 2017 SIGRADI 2018

© Gui Morelli

Nike Air Guitar installation

Nike Air Guitar

Red Bull Station 2018

© Edu Ohara

Nike Air Guitar detail

Nike Air Guitar

Red Bull Station 2018

© Edu Ohara

Nike Air Guitar

Red Bull Station 2018

© Edu Ohara

Tensegrity

Small-scale study of tensegrities.

Tensegrity

Computational Design

Tensegrity

Livetalks 2016

Tensegrity at Livetalks 2016.
Tensegrity installation for Coca-Cola at SPFW 2016.

Tensegrity

Coca-Cola at SPFW 2016

© Atelier Marko Brajovic

Tensegrity workshop.

Tensegrity

Workshop in Paraty, 2017

© Adalberto de Paula

Cover of the Models byNature workshop, held in 2019.

Models byNature

Workshop

Models byNature

Workshop

Models byNature workshop, photo 1
Models byNature workshop, photo 2
Models byNature workshop, photo 3

Models byNature

Workshop

Models byNature

Workshop

Models ByNature

Workshop

Models ByNature workshop, photo 4
Models ByNature workshop, photo 5

Models ByNature

Workshop

Cover of the TFG at FAUUSP.

TFG FAUUSP

IASS 2017

Concept of the TFG FAUUSP.

TFG FAUUSP

IASS 2017

TFG FAUUSP

IASS 2017

Algorithm steps.

TFG FAUUSP

IASS 2017

Rendering of one unit.

TFG FAUUSP

IASS 2017

Bobbin lace.
Final physical model.

TFG FAUUSP

IASS 2017

Rendering of the installation.

TFG FAUUSP

IASS 2017

Top view of the installation.

TFG FAUUSP

IASS 2017

Estudio Guto Requena logo.

Life Lamp

eCAADe 2020

Life Lamp turned off.

Life Lamp

eCAADe 2020

© Decimal

Life Lamp turned on.

Life Lamp

eCAADe 2020

© Decimal

Building Across Scales, cover montage

Building Across Scales

A robotic timber construction system for on-site gluing

Daniel Locatelli and Nils Opgenorth

ITECH Master Thesis

Animation of the form finding process, using Kangaroo to distribute columns in the structure.

Building Across Scales

Master's Thesis 2021 Automation in Construction 2024

Animation of the finite element analysis process using Karamba. Followed by an animation of the segmentation process for fabrication.

Building Across Scales

Master's Thesis 2021 Automation in Construction 2024

Exploded-view animation of the robotic device, showing the internal pressure mechanisms.

Building Across Scales

Master's Thesis 2021 Automation in Construction 2024

Animation of the device in action, gluing the timber pieces.

Building Across Scales

Master's Thesis 2021 Automation in Construction 2024

Building Across Scales

Master's Thesis 2021 Automation in Construction 2024

Building Across Scales

Master's Thesis 2021 Automation in Construction 2024

The demonstrator is a structure with a single column and timber slab forming a small shelter.

Building Across Scales

Master's Thesis 2021 Automation in Construction 2024

Art Engineering logo.
Vertical Panorama Pavilion, exterior view

Vertical Panorama Pavilion

Studio Other Spaces Sonoma - USA, 2017 - 2021

© Adam Potts

Vertical Panorama Pavilion, interior view

Vertical Panorama Pavilion

Studio Other Spaces Sonoma - USA, 2017 - 2021

© Adam Potts

Vertical Panorama Pavilion, process

Vertical Panorama Pavilion

Studio Other Spaces Sonoma - USA, 2017 - 2021

© HAHNER Technik GmbH & Co KG

Detail of Ernst Haeckel's Spumellaria plate, Kunstformen der Natur

Computational Design

Detail of Ernst Haeckel's Spumellaria plate, Kunstformen der Natur

Associative Modelling

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Detail of Ernst Haeckel's Spumellaria plate, Kunstformen der Natur

Associative Modelling

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Parametric Design

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Detail of Ernst Haeckel's Spumellaria plate, Kunstformen der Natur

Associative Modelling

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Parametric Design

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Algorithmic Design

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Detail of Ernst Haeckel's Spumellaria plate, Kunstformen der Natur

Associative Modelling

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Parametric Design

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Algorithmic Design

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Generative Design

Mind map

David Rutten, 2012

David Rutten's mind map.
Detail of Ernst Haeckel's Spumellaria plate, Kunstformen der Natur

Computerization

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Computation

Detail of Ernst Haeckel's Spumellaria plate, Kunstformen der Natur

CAD

X

Programming

Night sky with a falling star, taken by NASA photographer Bill Ingalls.

© NASA / Bill Ingalls

Night sky with a falling star, taken by NASA photographer Bill Ingalls.

© NASA / Bill Ingalls

Natural Sciences

Physics, chemistry, biology

Night sky with a falling star, taken by NASA photographer Bill Ingalls.

© NASA / Bill Ingalls

Biomimicry

Night sky with a falling star, taken by NASA photographer Bill Ingalls.

© NASA / Bill Ingalls

Reproducing Forms

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Reproducing Processes

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Reproducing Ecosystems

Night sky with a falling star, taken by NASA photographer Bill Ingalls.

© NASA / Bill Ingalls

Reproducing Forms

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Diatoms, Ernst Haeckel, Art Forms in Nature, 1899-1904

© Detroit Publishing Company

Porte Monumentale, 1900 World's Fair, Detroit Publishing Company

© Ernst Haeckel

Reproducing Forms

1900 World's Fair

Night sky with a falling star, taken by NASA photographer Bill Ingalls.

© NASA / Bill Ingalls

Reproducing Forms

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Reproducing Processes

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Night sky with a falling star, taken by NASA photographer Bill Ingalls.

© NASA / Bill Ingalls

Material Computation

Buckminster Fuller

© AP Photo, Bill Ingraham

"Don't fight forces, USE them!"

Buckminster Fuller

Robert Hooke

1635 - 1703

Robert Hooke, historical context
St Paul's Cathedral, engraving

St Paul's Cathedral

London, 1675, 1711, arch. Christopher Wren

© British Museum

St Paul's Cathedral, present-day view

St Paul's Cathedral

London, 1675, 1711, arch. Christopher Wren

© all-free-photos.com

Antoni Gaudí

© Pau Audouard, Canaan

"When an invention is not in harmony with natural laws it is not viable."

Antoni Gaudí

Antoni Gaudí's hanging model for the Colònia Güell

Colònia Güell

Barcelona, 1898, 1914, arch. Antoni Gaudí

© Canaan

Axial view of the interior of the Crypt of the Colònia Güell, showing the fan-ribbed brick vault, leaning basalt columns, and altar in the background

Colònia Güell

Barcelona, 1898, 1914, arch. Antoni Gaudí

© Unknown author

Buckminster Fuller

© AP Photo, Bill Ingraham

"The opposite of nature is impossible."

Buckminster Fuller

Radiolarian by Ernst Haeckel alongside geodesic and tensegrity studies by Buckminster Fuller

Buckminster Fuller

Geodesics and tensegrity

© Ernst Haeckel; Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

Frei Otto alongside a cable-net model, Expo 67, Montreal

© Frei Otto

"Biology has become indispensable for architecture, but architecture has also become indispensable for biology."

Frei Otto

Frei Otto's soap film study

© Frei Otto

Frei Otto's cable-net model

© Frei Otto

Frei Otto and team analyzing a model on a terrace, possibly for photogrammetry

© Frei Otto

German Pavilion by Frei Otto and Rolf Gutbrod at Expo 67, Montreal

© Frei Otto

© Frei Otto

© Frei Otto

Finite Element Method

J. H. Argyris, University of Stuttgart

NASA / Bill Ingalls

© NASA / Bill Ingalls

Reproducing Forms

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Reproducing Processes

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Reproducing Ecosystems

NASA / Bill Ingalls

© NASA / Bill Ingalls

Unified Theory

Cellular automata, Conway's Game of Life

Game of Life

NASA / Bill Ingalls

© NASA / Bill Ingalls

Emergence

Night view of Texas from the International Space Station, showing the urban lights of the four largest metropolitan areas (Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, San Antonio, and Austin)

© NASA, ISS Expedition 36

Cytoskeleton of a human skin cell revealed by fluorescence, with microtubules and actin filaments around the nucleus

© Torsten Wittmann, UCSF, CC BY-NC 2.0

Four-quadrant collage contrasting natural and digital form, Spumellaria plate by Ernst Haeckel, a DNA sequence, a 3D-printed radiolarian held by Andrei Jipa's hand, and a sequence of binary digits

© Ernst Haeckel

© Andrei Jipa

Collage with three examples of animal construction, a dome-shaped spider web, a weaver bird inspecting its woven nest, and a honeycomb hive with naturally arched edges

© Patricia Manzarraga

© Shirish Totade

© Max Westby

Achim Menges portrayed in front of the Elytra Filament Pavilion

© NAARO

"Biology makes us challenge our preconceptions of how things should be designed and constructed."

Achim Menges

Cover of the book Computational Design Thinking, AD Reader, eds. Achim Menges and Sean Ahlquist, 2011

© ICD/ITKE, University of Stuttgart

ICD/ITKE Research Pavilion 2016-17, cantilevered carbon fibre structure at dusk, with people around it

ICD/ITKE Research Pavilion 2016-17

University of Stuttgart

© Burggraf / Reichert

ICD/ITKE Research Pavilion 2014-15, carbon fibre dome inspired by the water spider

ICD/ITKE Research Pavilion 2014-15

University of Stuttgart

© Roland Halbe

ICD/ITKE Research Pavilion 2015-16, segmented timber shell inspired by sea urchins

ICD/ITKE Research Pavilion 2015-16

University of Stuttgart

© Roland Halbe

ICD/ITKE Research Pavilion 2012, robotically fabricated shell in thin plywood

ICD/ITKE Research Pavilion 2012

University of Stuttgart

© ICD/ITKE University of Stuttgart

ICD/ITKE Research Pavilion 2013-14, filament-wound fibre modules inspired by beetle elytra

ICD/ITKE Research Pavilion 2013-14

University of Stuttgart

© ICD/ITKE University of Stuttgart

BUGA Wood Pavilion reassembled in Mannheim (2023), arch of hexagonal timber panels in an urban landscape

BUGA Wood Pavilion, Reuse 2023

Mannheim, University of Stuttgart

© Conné van d'Grachten, ICD/ITKE/IntCDC, University of Stuttgart

BUGA Fibre Pavilion 2019, translucent shell of wound fibres in a field of daffodils

BUGA Fibre Pavilion 2019

BUGA Heilbronn, University of Stuttgart

© ICD/ITKE University of Stuttgart

livMatS Biomimetic Shell at the FIT campus in Freiburg, shell of hexagonal timber panels at dusk

livMatS Biomimetic Shell

FIT, University of Freiburg / ICD/ITKE Stuttgart

© Roland Halbe

Robotic fabrication platform for the livMatS Biomimetic Shell, timber panels being handled by a KUKA arm

IntCDC, University of Stuttgart

Off-site robotic prefabrication

© ICD/ITKE/IntCDC, University of Stuttgart

Lessons from the ITECH

BuildSystems

Making sustainable construction feasible

BuildSystems logo.

Artificial Intelligence

Thank you!

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