Day 1, Session Block A
10:45 Parametric Design and Digital Fabrication
Chair: Ezio Arlati, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Parametric curtain wall design
- Innovation in curtain wall design
- Implementation and construction of complex geometries
- Tianjin CTF Finance Centre
Thomas Kinzl, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP, Chicago, USA
Customizing a mixed-use building in real time
- Iterative building design process to accommodate direct client input in real time
- Fabrication and installation of complex façade systems
- Finance Centre Tower, Manila, Philippines
Aleksandar Sasha Zeljic, Gensler, Chicago, USA
Work differently for different work: a return to the artful façade
- Integration of design/fabrication/construction in façades
- Flexible approaches to digital design and digital fabrication
- Materials and methodologies
Kristofer Leese, Belzberg Architects, Santa Monica, USA
Computational design in lightweight membrane enclosures
- Lightweight membrane skin enclosures
- Design, analysis, documentation and fabrication
- Innovation in building skins through cooperation between architects and engineers
Kais Al-Rawi, Walter P Moore, Los Angeles, USA
12:30 Lunch