Craftsmanship in the Digital Age #4: Alternative Sketch to Site Processes
The digital era enables new structures for managing communication in the building process, like BIM. These frameworks involve manufacturers of building components and facilitate closer communication between architects and the production of finished components. Partners:Forschungsinitiative Zukunft Bau (BBSR), Bonn; Netherlands Embassy in Berlin; NOWlab@BigRep, Berlin; Rieder Group, Maishofen
New Functions of the Surface
Thinking the city as a sequence of layers, this investigation into the cities' envelope, surfaces and spheres goes beyond façades, roofs and pavements to serve as the starting point for a societal, technological, cultural and infrastructural analysis, offering a new integrated understanding of the city. Partners:Schüco International KG, Bielefeld
SheltAir. A pioneering pavilion in the ANCB garden
The pavilion by Gregory Quinn, Berlin University of the Arts investigates the use of air-filled cushions to rapidly, safely and cheaply erect elastic gridshells for humanitarian causes. Partners:Gregory Quinn, Berlin University of the Arts
Craftsmanship in the Digital Age #2: Innovative Building Components
This second discussion explores the potential of digital fabrication to expand the functional scope of building components beyond the structural and the aesthetic. Partners:Forschungsinitiative Zukunft Bau (BBSR), Bonn; Netherlands Embassy in Berlin; NOWlab@BigRep, Berlin; Rieder Group, Maishofen
Craftsmanship in the Digital Age #1: Architecture, Technology and Materiality
The opening discussion examines the relationship between design, materials, and digital technology in architecture. Manufacturers of ceramic and concrete components contribute to the exploration of material qualities and the potentials of digital fabrication. Partners:Forschungsinitiative Zukunft Bau (BBSR), Bonn; Netherlands Embassy in Berlin; NOWlab@BigRep, Berlin
WOHA: Garden City Mega City
WOHA’s Garden City Mega City is a plea for urgent action to rethink, re-plan and remediate the world’s mega cities for the age of global warming. Using WOHA’s 'Macro-Architecture Micro-Urbanism' approach as a prototype, the book presents a compelling manifesto for densely settled, yet comprehensively green and ultimately self-sufficient cities of the future.
Partners: WOHA, Singapore
Lab Talk Series: Retooling the trades
The ANCB series ReTooling the Trades is about equipping the capable urban practitioner with an upgraded set of working methods, approaches, strategies, processes and systems for effective and responsible professional practice.
Partners: Netherlands Embassy in Berlin
Yves Bréchet
Yves Bréchet focuses on the field of modelling in physical and mechanical metallurgy. He is interested in phase changes, plasticity, fragility and material sciences in biological systems, as well as materials in nuclear technology and transport systems. Partners:Cluster of Excellence "Image Knowledge Gestaltung. An Interdisciplinary Laboratory", Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Innovative Werkstoffe für die Energiewende
The decision to transition to renewable energy by the federal government has sparked an innovation surge, allowing for smaller-scale and decentralized energy production, making the use of energy-efficient materials and technologies more appealing to designers and architects. Partners:TSB Technologiestiftung Berlin; HAUTE INNOVATION - Agentur für Material und Technologie, Berlin
The City Lights Project #3: Light Beyond the Atmosphere
"Light Beyond the Atmosphere" is the third event of the ANCB Zumtobel Research: The City Lights Project, featuring discussions on the role of light in architecture and urban environments, with a focus on the interplay between architecture, virtual scenarios, and the representation of unrealized visions for evolving cities. Partners:Zumtobel, Dornbirn
