The Complex Modelling Project includes three PhD positions. One of these is a shared PhD with UDK Berlin, a second takes place in collaboration with EPFL Lausanne.
Category Archives: PhD Projects
The Social Weavers (2013)
The Social Weavers is a bending active, non-standard grid shell structure made from fibre composite rods of variable diameter and stiffness. The installation develops aggregate self-forming processes that intersect with the behavioural activation and distribution of fibre-composites under design direction for the production of a novel architecture.
Exoskeleton (2014)
Exoskeleton (2014)
Created in collaboration with Daniel Piker, Exoskeleton is a grasshopper plug-in designed for for converting networks of connected lines into thickened, wireframe meshes. Continue reading
Learning to be a Vault (2014)
Where parametric modelling allows designers to work in flexible ways with variable geometries, the associated problems of parameterisation and reduction are well known. Parametric models are normally limited because they necessitate a pre-configuration of their embedded variables as well as a pre-determination of model topology, meaning that the designer needs to know all defining parameters and relationships between model elements at the start of the design project. “Learning to be an Arch” operates as an experiment that tests new methodologies for the modelling of design systems that challenge this standard of configuration fixity by opening parameter spaces in both variable value and element connectivity while simultaneously embedding material behaviour within morphogenesis.
Activating the Parameter Space in Computational Design Modelling
PhD of David Stasiuk