Teaching and Experimenting with Architectural Design

180 EAAE no 35 Teaching and Experimenting with Architectural Design: Advances in Technology and Changes in Pedagogy

material created an indeterminate range of heterogeneous folded profiles that were

versions of folding and weaving principles. These profiles evolved to enable spatial,

structural and environmental envelope functions within the woven matrix (see figure

3). The design transformations are defined by a set of syntactic rules (see figure 3).

A Marina along the sea shore was selected as a context to inform the development

of a continuously evolving structure.

Performance-based Design

This experiment involved the design of responsive building skins (see figure 4) that

might protect a building from excessive wind loads, solar penetration and acousti-

cal contextual problems such as urban noise. The responsive wall is a project that

integrates a constructive skeleton that supports a dynamic surface structure. The

skeleton has built-in sensors that can inform and simulate the dynamic motion of

the skin which is designed as a system of scales.

The skin design itself has been generated by a performative simulation of wind

force and light penetration. These forces produce dynamic effects on the skin. Ani-

Figure 2
Parametric Design
(by Shoham Ben Ari- Technion)

Figure 3
Weaving Techniques
(by Alex Eitan and Tal Kasten - Technion)