Design of Structures
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Exhibition: Designs for a Cooler Planet
ADS has been selected to participate in the exhibition Designs for a Cooler Planet. This exhibition will take place in September...
eCAADe 2020
New publications by ADS at eCAADe 2020 Conference in Berlin: Fricker, P., Kotnik, T. & Borg, K.: Computational Design Pedagogcy...
Exhibition: Rethinking the Singapore Hawker Centre
Hawker culture in Singapore is an integral part of the way of life for Singaporeans and has evolved into a microcosm of Singapore’s multicultural society. “Hawker Centres are ‘community dining rooms’ that have shaped Singaporean identity in many ways” as the PM Lee...
Connecting the Dots_an AI Exhibition
ADS is exhibiting at Connecting the Dots: an AI exhibition at Dipoli. On show are some first...
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The use of computers as active agent in the design process fosters an operative approach to design. In such a design approach, attention shifts away from the architectural form itself towards the logic of the underlying computational function that is to the organizational pattern that governs the interaction of the form with the context. The research in Design of Structures is focused on the exploration of the underlying patterns formation with the aim to develop methods and design techniques to bridge between the technical and the artistic by means of formal design strategies.