program
rca 2018 conference
Thursday, 27 September and Friday, 28 September, 2018
27 September, 2018 Start 9:00
28 September, 2018: End 18:00
keynote speakers
Sigrid Brell-Cokcan, RWTH Aachen, Individualized Production - "Individualizing production with DIANA - a dynamic and interactive robotic assistant"
Margitta Buchert, LUH Hannover, 
Christian Derix, Woods Bagot, Sydney, 
Michael Hensel, TU Wien, Digital Architecture and Planning - "Researching research cultures in architecture"
Caitlin T. Mueller, MIT Cambridge, Structures - "Exploring design with data: Tools and techniques for performance-driven architecture"
Eike Roswag-Klinge, TU Berlin, Natural Building Lab - "Designing natural buildings"paper sessions
We will have 12 paper sessions in three parallel sessions, with 4 short presentations (15 Min.) in each session. Each session ends with a discussion of the presented papers. The discussed paper sessions will be also included in the discussions at the end of each day.
poster session
Exhibition during the whole conference with presentation and discussion on Friday, September 28th, 2018 - 12:30.
discussions: Research Culture in Architecture
Moderation: Georg Vrachliotis, KIT Karlsruhe, Theory of Architecturedetailed program
Flyer Conference Program (pdf)
Thursday, 27 September, 2018
09:00 Registration & coffee
10:00 Welcome
Arnd Poetzsch-Heffter, Vice President for Research, Technology and Innovation, TUK
Johannes Modersohn, Dean of Architecture Faculty, fatuk
10:15 Keynote lecture: Researching Research Cultures in Architecture
Michael Hensel, Digital Architecture and Planning, TU Wien
Chair: Stephan Birk, fatuk
11:00 Coffee break
11:30 Parallel Paper Sessions
A1 Practice and Research - Chair: Marco Zünd, fatuk
B1 Structures and Sustainability - Chair: Angèle Tersluisen, fatuk
C1 Architectural Space and Perception - Chair: Cornelie Leopold, fatuk
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Keynote lecture: In-Between Realms
Margitta Buchert, Architecture and Art 20th/21st Century, LUH Hannover
Chair: Heike Kern, fatuk
14:45 Keynote lecture: The Spatial Turn in Design Computing
Christian Derix, Woods Bagot SuperSpace, Sydney
Chair: Helmut Kleine-Kraneburg, fatuk
15:30 Coffee break
16:00 Parallel Paper Sessions
A2 Design Methods: New Approaches - Chair: Christina Jagsch, fatuk
B2 Material and Construction - Chair: Moritz Kaiser, fatuk
C2 Architectural Space and Human Body - Chair: Judith Leinen, fatuk
17:30 Coffee break
18:00 - 19:00 Discussion 1: Research Culture in Architecture
Moderator: Georg Vrachliotis, Theory of Architecture, KIT Karlsruhe
Michael Hensel, TU Wien
Margitta Buchert, LUH Hannover
Christian Derix, Woods Bagot SuperSpace, Sydney
Maria da Piedade Ferreira, Peter Spitzley, Ulrike Weber, fatuk
20:00 Dinner at "TwentyOne" - Rathaus Kaiserslautern, Willy-Brandt-Platz 1 - Entrance Maxstr.
Friday, 28 September, 2018
09:00 Parallel Paper Sessions
A3 Architecture and Visualization - Chair: Franziska Wilcken, fatuk
B3 Digital Timber Construction - Chair: Christopher Robeller, fatuk
C3 Architectural Education - Chair: Oda Pälmke, fatuk
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Keynote lecture: Designing Natural Buildings
Eike Roswag-Klinge, Natural Building Lab, TU Berlin
ZRS Architekten Ingenieure, Berlin
Chair: Stephan Birk, fatuk
11:45 Keynote lecture: Exploring Design with Data: Tools and Techniques for Performance-driven Architecture
Caitlin T. Mueller, Digital Structures, MIT Cambridge
Chair: Johannes Modersohn, fatuk
12:30 Poster Session
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Keynote lecture: Individualizing Production with DIANA
- a Dynamic and Interactive Robotic Assistant for Novel Applications
Sigrid Brell-Cokcan, Individualized Production, RWTH Aachen
Chair: Christopher Robeller, fatuk
14:45 Parallel Paper Sessions
A4 Mathematical and Structural Design Approaches - Chair: Cornelie Leopold, fatuk
B4 Robotics in Timber Construction - Chair: Christopher Robeller, fatuk
C4 Sustainability and Climate Approaches - Chair: Andreas Winkels, TH Bingen
16:00 Coffee break
16:30 Discussion 2: Research Culture in Architecture
Moderator: Georg Vrachliotis, Theory of Architecture, KIT Karlsruhe
Eike Roswag-Klinge, TU Berlin
Caitlin T. Mueller, MIT Cambridge
Sigrid Brell-Cokcan, RWTH Aachen
Cornelie Leopold, Christopher Robeller, Peter Spitzley, fatuk
18:00 END
paper sessions
A1 Practice and Research
Chair: Marco Zünd, fatuk
Tomas Ooms: Public Debate: Public Interior: Circular Economy: Forms of Exchange: Approaching the Reconversion of an Iconic 1966 Office Tower in Brussels
Charlott Greub: Making Architecture Public - The Architecture Exhibition - an Environment for a Radical Redesign of the Discipline
Marcin Luczkowski, John Haddal Mork, Steinar Hillersøy Dyvik, Nathalie Labonnote: Digital Workflows for Timber Free Form Structures - Gamification of Architectural and Engineering Design
Ragunath Vasudevan, Till Schneider, Kai Otto and Klaus Bollinger: Practical Researchitecture - On the Role of Research in the Context of an Architectural Practice
B1 Structures and Sustainability
Chair: Angèle Tersluisen, fatuk
Viktor Poteschkin, Stefan Krötsch, Jürgen Graf and Christopher Robeller: Recycling of Cross Laminated Timber Production Waste
Steffi Silbermann, Hoa Nguyen, Daniel Kohl, Stefan Böhm, Philipp Eversmann and Heike Klussmann: TETHOK – Textile Tectonics for Wood Construction
Samira Aden, Rebecca A. Milhuisen, Muhammad Kalim Kashif, Udo Bach and Heike Klussmann: Dye-Sensitized Concrete – Solar Power from Concrete
Sherif Abdelmohsen, Passaint Massoud, Rana El-Dabaa, Aly Ibrahim and Tasbeh Mokbel: A Computational Approach for Soft Adaptive Building Skins Using Hygromorphic and Thermobimetal Composites
C1 Architectural Space and Perception
Chair: Cornelie Leopold, fatuk
Beatrix Emo: Why Evidence-Based Methods are Useful for Architectural Design
Holger Mertins, Barbara Mertins, Renate Delucchi Danhier, Ansgar and Benedikt
Schulz: The Role of Expertise in the Perception of Architectural Space
Andri Gerber, Michal Berkowitz, Beatrix Emo, Stefan Kurath, Christoph Hölscher, Elsbeth Stern: Does Space Matter? A Cross-Disciplinary Investigation upon Spatial Abilities and Spatial Knowledge of Architects
Giulia Vismara: Sound as a Space Generator
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A2 Design Methods: New Approaches
Chair: Christina Jagsch, fatuk
Joost Meyer and Federico Garrido: Dexterity Controlled Design Procedures
Pradeep Devadass, Martin von Hilchen, Sven Stumm and Sigrid Brell-Cokcan: Re-Informed Design Process: Understanding Robotic Fabrication Constraints and their Influence on Design
Luise Rellensmann and Jens Casper: Making Heritage: Das Garagenmanifest
Dagmar Jäger: Asking the Task: Principles of Traditional Knowledge Production
B2 Material and Construction
Chair: Moritz Kaiser, fatuk
Reiner Klopfer, Christian Weisgerber and Jürgen Graf: Acetylated Beech in Structural Timber Constructions
Efilena Baseta and Klaus Bollinger: Digitally Fabricated Active-Bending Beams for the Rapid Assembly of Temporary Structures
Roman Polster, Lucas Büscher, Wigbert Riehl and Heike Klussmann: Botanical Concrete: Novel Composites for Urban Greening
Felix Lowin and Jutta Albus: Architecture without Architects: Rough Implementation Strategy / Supporting Residential Construction by Precast Building Systems
C2 Architectural Space and Human Body
Chair: Judith Leinen, fatuk
Maria da Piedade Ferreira, Andreas Kretzer, José Pinto Duarte: Embodied Emotions: a Methodology for Experiments in Architecture and Corporeality
Helle Braband: Dance with Space – Animate-Configuring
Katharina Voigt: Referring to … Whom?
Liselotte Vroman and Thierry Lagrange: Design to Move, Move to Design: An Interdisciplinary Approach for Designing an Architectural Choreography
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A3 Architecture and Visualization
Chair: Franziska Wilcken, fatuk
Isabell Schütz: The Biorealistic Approach in the Settlement Architecture of Richard Neutra
Rachele Bernardello, Paolo Borin, Isabella Friso, Andrea Giordano, Cosimo Monteleone and Federico Panarotto: Cultural Dissemination and Interoperable Management of Architecture
Shilong Tan, Yuxin Yang and Luigi Cocchiarella: AR&VR, New Tools for Architecture Design and Architectural Visualization
B3 Digital Timber Construction
Chair: Christopher Robeller, fatuk
Jan Brütting, Julieta Moradei, Corentin Fivet, Aliz Fischer and Nick Sherrow-Groves: Reconsidering Traditional Timber Joinery for Sustainable Structures
Miro Bannwart: The Gravitational Pavilion - Simplified Node Complexity
Dominga Garufi, Hans Jakob Wagner, Simon Bechert, Tobias Schwinn, Dylan Marx Wood, Achim Menges and Jan Knippers: Fibrous Joints for Lightweight Segmented Timber Shells
Dennis Röver and Jürgen Graf: Densified Veneer Wood Reinforced Timber Joints
C3 Architectural Education
Chair: Oda Pälmke, fatuk
Angelika Jäkel, Susanne Gerstberger and Fanny Kranz: Collaborative Tools. Adaptions from the Educational Sciences to Research in Architecture
Alexa Maria Kunz and Bernd Sum: Research Architecture | Architectural Research – A Seminar Concept for Research-Oriented Education
Moritz Dörstelmann, Daniele Santucci and Ferdinand Ludwig: Prototyping Based Research Methodology and Interdisciplinary Research-Oriented Teaching
Bettina Kraus, Nandini Oehlmann and Mathias Peppler: Werkstücke – Making Objects into Houses / Understanding by the Way of the Hands in Design Teaching
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A4 Mathematical and Structural Design Approaches
Chair: Cornelie Leopold, fatuk
Toni Kotnik: Architecture as Science of Structures
Hao Hua, Jiacheng Wang, Biao Li, Tingli Jia and Peng Tang: Pythagorean Carpenter
Cristoph Dijoux, Alexander Stahr and Martin Dembski: Form Finding of Grid-Shells with Straight, Equal Line-Length Rods
Corneel Cannaerts and Holger Hoffmann: Grounding Associative Geometry
B4 Robotics in Timber Construction
Chair: Christopher Robeller, fatuk
Samuel Leder, Ramon Weber, Oliver Bucklin, Dylan Wood and Achim Menges: Towards Distributed in Situ Robotic Timber Construction
Andreas Thoma, David Jenny, Matthias Helmreich, Augusto Gandia, Fabio Gramazio and Matthias Kohler: Cooperative Robotic Fabrication of Timber Dowel Assemblies
Benedikt Wannemacher and Philipp Eversmann: Intuitive Path Planning for Robotic Timber Beam Assembly
Bahar Al Bahar, Abel Groenewolt, Oliver Krieg and Achim Menges: Bending-Active Lamination for Spatial Timber Structures: Robotically Fabricated Elements with Continuous Fibre Alignment
C4 Sustainability and Climate Approaches
Chair: Andreas Winkels, TH Bingen
Gabriela Celani, Sabine Hoffmann, Lucila Labaki, Watson Loh, Caio Gomide Otoni and Maikol Yabuki: Affordable Application of PCM for Passive Indoors Temperature Control in a Tropical Climate
Rosaria Revellini, Massimiliano Condotta and Francesca Cappelletti: Parametric Design for Bow-Windows Optimization According to Daylighting
Christoph Kuhn, Karsten Tichelmann, Edin Saronjic and Dieter Blome: Dammerstock 2020
Luyi Liu and Luigi Cocchiarella: Lifestyle Landscape Architecture
posters
Jan Brütting, Gennaro Senatore and Corentin Fivet:
Re-Use in Architecture and Structural Design
Corneel Cannaerts and Holger Hoffmann:
Grounding Associative Geometry
Margherita Ferrari:
Headmade. The Transformation of the Wood Manufacturing
Anke Fissabre, Inga Hahn, Gesa Königstein, Heike Matcha, Günter Barczik and Nikolai Roskammi:
Teaming, Taming and Teeming: Teaming up People for Taming Complex Problems by Creating Environments Teeming with Possibilities
Fabrizio Leoni:
Leisure / Hospitality / Exhibition. Three mixed-use Projects for Milan, Olbia, Sanya, at the Frontier of Teaching, Researching and Professional Design
Manuel Pfänder:
Tailored Precast Concrete Structures – Experimental Design of Tailored Fabric Formwork for Precast Structural Concrete Elements
Clara Rellensmann and Alexander Römer:
Studio Bagan – Building in Heritage Contexts
Torsten Schröder:
Translating the Concept of Sustainability into Architectural Design Practices: The Case of London City Hall
Benoît Vandenbulcke:
Savoir-faire/faire savoir: How to Engage Architecture Practice as a Research Tool?
Vera Viana:
Topological Interlocking of Convex Regular Polyhedra