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Modelling Behaviour

Design Modelling Symposium 2015

  • Helps readers to understand, simulate, and ultimately design buildings by taking into consideration the interlinked elements and forces that act on them

  • Poses new challenges in all areas of the industry from the material and structural to the urban scale

  • Provides the reader with a comprehensive overview of building design

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (44 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxv
  2. Modelling and Design of Behaviour

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-3
    2. Modelling Aggregate Behaviour

      • Karola Dierichs, Desislava Angelova, Achim Menges
      Pages 5-15
    3. A Multiscale Adaptive Mesh Refinement Approach to Architectured Steel Specification in the Design of a Frameless Stressed Skin Structure

      • Paul Nicholas, David Stasiuk, Esben Clausen Nørgaard, Christopher Hutchinson, Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen
      Pages 17-34
    4. Challenges of Scale Modelling Material Behaviour of Additive-Manufactured Nodes

      • Nicholas Williams, Daniel Prohasky, Jane Burry, Kristof Crolla, Martin Leary, Milan Brandt et al.
      Pages 45-51
    5. Form-Finding and Design Potentials of Bending-Active Plate Structures

      • Simon Schleicher, Andrew Rastetter, Riccardo La Magna, Andreas Schönbrunner, Nicola Haberbosch, Jan Knippers
      Pages 53-63
    6. Form-Finding of Architectural Membranes in a CAD-Environment Using the AiCAD-Concept

      • Benedikt Philipp, Michael Breitenberger, Roland Wuchner, Kai-Uwe Bletzinger
      Pages 65-74
    7. Hybrid Tower, Designing Soft Structures

      • Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen, Martin Tamke, Anders Holden Deleuran, Ida Katrine Friis Tinning, Henrik Leander Evers, Christoph Gengnagel et al.
      Pages 87-99
    8. Thinking Massively Parallel: Design Modelling Thermoactive Architecture

      • Jeffrey L. Boyer, Yao Yu, Ajit Naik
      Pages 137-148
    9. The Architecture of the ILL-Tempered Environment

      • Djordje Stojanovic
      Pages 149-157
    10. Designing the Desert

      • Henrik Malm, Sam Joyce, Martha Tsigkari, Khaled El-Ashry, Francis Aish
      Pages 159-168
  3. Modelling and Design of Process

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 169-171
    2. Digital Inca: An Assembly Method for Free-Form Geometries

      • Brandon Clifford, Wes McGee
      Pages 173-186
    3. Decomposing Three-Dimensional Shapes into Self-supporting, Discrete-Element Assemblies

      • Ursula Frick, Tom Van Mele, Philippe Block
      Pages 187-201
    4. Computational Brick Stacking for Constructing Free-Form Structures

      • Danil Nagy, John Locke, David Benjamin
      Pages 203-212

About this book

This book reflects and expands on the current trend in the building industry to understand, simulate and ultimately design buildings by taking into consideration the interlinked elements and forces that act on them. This approach overcomes the traditional, exclusive focus on building tasks, while posing new challenges in all areas of the industry from material and structural to the urban scale. Contributions from invited experts, papers and case studies provide the reader with a comprehensive overview of the field, as well as perspectives from related disciplines, such as computer science.

The chapter authors were invited speakers at the 5th Symposium "Modelling Behaviour", which took place at the CITA in Copenhagen in September 2015.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Schools of Arch., Design & Conserva, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Ar Schools of Arch., Design & Conserva, Copenhagen, Denmark

    Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen

  • Schools of Architecture, Centre for IT and Architecture, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art, Copenhagen, Denmark

    Martin Tamke

  • University of Arts, Berlin, Germany

    Christoph Gengnagel

  • Kieran Timberlake, Philadelphia, USA

    Billie Faircloth

  • designtoproduction GmbH, Erlenbach, Switzerland

    Fabian Scheurer

Bibliographic Information

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Buying options

eBook USD 129.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
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  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 169.99
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  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 169.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

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