Emerging Technologies

Visiting Professorship in Emerging Technologies

Charles Walker AASummer Semester 2011

Faculty of ArchitectureTechnische Universität München

Faculty of ArchitectureTechnische Universität München


Charles Walker AASummer Semester 2011

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CONCEPT VISITING PROFESSORSHIP


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CONCEPT VISITING PROFESSORSHIP


The new Visiting Professorship Émerging Technologies´ gives an engineering-oriented view onto the whole process of architecture.

The focus of the teaching is to produce architectural projects that demonstrate the latest and most revolutionary heights of structural and material developments and is placed bet-ween architecture and industrial design. The field ranges from parametric design to the building of 1:1 prototypes in the context of digital production processes.

Munich is a city touched by the grandeur of the Alps and by the technological achievement of the twenty-first century. The TUM enhances the programme the new Visiting Professorship in Émerging Technolo-gies´ through its surrounding high technology environment. Design and building processes are guided by the cooperations with partners from the industry, such as aerospace or car production (BWM, Eurocopter, Siemens, Audi, SGL Carbon, etc.).

The pressure to reduce carbon emissions is one of the main factors in building and engi-neering processes wich have to become most efficient. A strong interest in researching and the close cooperation with the Munich School of Engineering and the Centre for Energy-efficient construction is obligatory.

Alternating Visiting International Professors run the design courses of the new Visiting Professorship in Émerging Technologies´. This ensures both innovation and variety in the teaching process and gives the students an interessting and wide-ranging view into the international field of architecture and product design.

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VISITING PROFESSOR | CHARLES WALKER


Charles Walker B.E.S., B.Arch., MSc., D.I.C., CEng, MIStructE, ARB, RIBA

Charles Walker is an architect, structural engineer and industry leader on the effects of digital technology on modern architectural design and construction.

He studied architecture at the University of Waterloo in Canada and then post graduate structural engineering at the Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine.

He has worked in design based engineering offices Whitby + Bird Engineers where he de-signed the Merchants Bridge in Manchester winning an Institution of Structural Engineers Special Award, Atelier One where he designed the domes at the Singapore Arts Centre and Ove Arup + Partners where he co-founded in 2000 (with Cecil Balmond) and led the Advanced Geometry Unit. At the Advanced Geometry Unit he worked with a number of international architects inclu-ding Oscar Niemeyer, Toyo Ito, and Rem Koolhaas. From 2004 to 2007 he was master-planner of the Battersea Power Station site in London. In early 2007 Charles left Arup to found from-work projects and to join Zaha Hadid Architects where he currently works as a project director on a number if international projects.

Charles has been a unit teacher at the Architectural Association School of Architecture from 2003 to 2010, were his students (Intermediate Unit 2) design and build the annual AA Sum-mer Pavilion. The work of his unit has been recorded in the recent AA publication Agendas 9; Making Pavilions.

VISITING PROFESSOR | CHARLES WALKER

Growing AlgorythmStudent design of the AA Unit of Charles Walker & Martin Self


BACKGROUND | PHILOSOPHY




Driftwood was designed by concept designer Danecia Sibingo a 3rd year student, and a team that includes Lyn Hayek, Yoojin Kim, and Taeyoung Lee. ‘Driftwood’, the Architectural Association’s summer pavilion designed by Unit 2 Students is located today in Bedford Square, London, in United Kingdom. The sustainable spruce ‘Kerto’ plywood structure is “neither art nor architecture, science nor ecological adventure, but a sculptural installation and prototype that defies classification. It embraces invention, experimentation, new mate-rials and aesthetic intelligence,” according to a spokesperson for the AA.

The pavilion was selected by a panel of seven eminent judges from the worlds of architec-ture, engineering, design, media and ecology. “It provides a thoughtful, provoking reminder of the UK’s inextricable link to the sea – its undulating form created by the motion of the wa-ter, carried by waves and coming to rest in busy central London,” added the spokesperson.Now in its fourth year of building pavilions, Intermediate Unit 2 pavilion projects are led by tutors Charles Walker and Martin Self with technical advice from ARUP, this year led by Ching Luan Lau, Senior Engineer. The unit challenges students to create architectural space through the construction of a sustainable timber pavilion and is also sponsored by HOK architects. Driftwood is on show in Bedford Square until 25 July 2009.

“The annual summer pavilion competition provides a unique opportunity for students to work together to design, develop and ultimately fabricate a professional standard architec-tural structure for the public to enjoy. Unparalleled in any other architectural school, it crea-tes a collaborative working environment, nurturing inspiration and encouraging radical and fresh ideas which come to life in the form of these incredible structures”, says Brett Steele, Director, The Architectural Association School.

Driftwood, AA Summer Pavilion

Driftwood PavilionStudent design of the AA Unit of Charles Walker & Martin Self



Swoosh, AA Summer Pavilion

London’s Bedford Square is once again being transformed by the arrival of a dynamic tim-ber structure. The Swoosh is this year’s winner of the AA’s summer pavilion competition.Working from an original concept by student Valeria Garcia, 12 second- and third-year students, supervised by tutors Charles Walker and Martin Self, have collaborated over 30 weeks to transform a 2D drawing and a towering pile of timber into a thoughtful and aes-thetically forceful space.The judges included BD’s editor Amanda Baillieu, Renato Benedetti of McDowell & Bene-detti Architects, Alex de Rijke of dRMM, Warren Dudding of Finnforest and Ian Fleetwood of HOK.

Walker and Self say they gave a very open brief. “We asked them to create a pavilion for 100 people with some level of enclosure, and that was basically it,” says Self. The response is a swirling, 60m-wide pavilion which wraps itself around a sturdy lamppost and skirts the pavement enclosing Bedford Square’s central green. It is made of 653 pieces of timber and consists of vertical curving columns — connected by hundreds of short beams — spiralling out from a central fulcrum. While the centre is dense and enclosed, the tails of the spiral taper out to become benches.As for the form, fluidity was the driving factor. “The main goal was to create a sense of flow,” says student Katrina Scoufaridou. The pavilion’s complex geometry meant they had to switch from a computing scripting model to handcrafted 3D models, calculating many details by themselves. Their collaboration with Arup also led to the height of the pavilion rising from 2.5m to 3.3m, which ultimately produced a more elegant solution.

The structure is made almost entirely out of Kerto, a laminated veneer lumber donated by Finnforest.

Swoosh PavilionStudent design of the AA Unit of Charles Walker & Martin Self


Initiator of the Visiting International Professor Prof. Richard Horden


INITIATOR OF THE VISITING INTERNATIONAL PROFESSOR | Prof. RICHARD HORDEN



INITIATOR OF THE VISITING INTERNATIONAL PROFESSOR | Prof. RICHARD HORDEN

Prof. Richard Horden

Project Ski HauseDesign Richard Horden Dates 1992-2004

From 1996 until 2011 Richard Horden was leading an architecture programme at TU Mu-nich that has gained international attention and wide appeal for its achievements in small designs.

Inspired by Case Study Houses and nautical and aviation design, Richard Horden led stu-dents to produce built projects that demonstrate the latest and most revolutionary heights of structural and material development on the micro level, somewhere between architecture and industrial design.

Many of his design ideas are taken almost directly from nature, from the penguin that has withstood eons of subzero temperatures and blasting gales, to the sturdy reed and humble duck. As nature has endowed flora and fauna with the most efficient equipment for surviv-ing in their environments, Richards students at TUM had to take a closer look at nature.

Many of these research projects get built. Richard Horden ran this as a study programme - summarized from Professor Horden as ´Micro Architecture´ - that wants to see ideas thought to the last bolt. It may not mean that every idea is produced at 1:1 scale, but his Institute for Architecture and Product Design was a place where a lot of model-making hap-pend, a lot of research into new materials (as well as site, climate, topography) and then often, at the very least, a workable prototype that elicits outside interest and/or funding for real-size structures.

Prof. Richard Horden


Design TaskTUM Summer Pavillion


TUM Summer Pavilion

The student group will work together to develop and design a single TUM Summer Pavilion proposal that will be selected at the end of the semester from among numerous proposals by a competitive external jury. The intent is to develop a fully engineered and technically complete project with full construction documentation ready for construction. The intent is that the pavilion project could be realised, however whether this will be achieved is uncer-tain and will be determined depending on the success of the project. Certain successful projects may also be entered into a current ideas competition for an information pavilion on the occasion of the 2012 Olympics in London’s Trafalgar Square. The semester will be divided into three parts.

PART 1 CONCEPT DESIGN

20 ideas in 20 days. In the first three weeks of the semester students are required to gener-ate one idea (for a pavilion) per day. There is no required format for the presentation of the ideas, they may be written, drawn, modelled or found. For this part of the semester ideas may be borrowed or copied or reworked from previous projects, the intent is that by the end of the 20 ideas we will have exhausted the usual and familiar work and we will reach deep into the inventive, imaginative and unprecedented.

Each Monday groups will meet to review these ideas with Charles Walker and the teaching assistants. A system of voting for successful ideas will be established to aid the discussion, evaluation and critique of the many ideas presented. At the conclusion of three weeks each student will present their 20 ideas in a 10 minute presentation and a single best idea will be identified to be presented in the ideas competition. At the end four week an external jury will select 9 (nine) pavilion concepts to carry forward to Part 2 of the semester. The concept


DESIGN TASK | INFORMATION PAVILION

jury submission requirements will be one A1 panel. After selection of the 9 concepts the students will reorganise as small groups of 3-4 for development of the concepts.

PART 2 DESIGN

In this stage the 9 groups closely mentored by the teaching assistants will develop the pa-vilion design proposals. Each week the groups will meet for a one hour tutorial at which time the design development of the proposals and initial technical proposals will be discussed. The intent is to develop plans sections and elevations of the proposal at 1:50 as well as a computer model for renderings and a physical model at 1:50. At the conclusion of three weeks this material will be submitted to a further competitive external jury at which time 4 (four) pavilion proposals will be selected to move forward to Part 3 of the semester.

It is intended that the pavilion will be constructed from timber. This is in part due to the ease of working this material in the workshop but in addition for its sustainable building mate-rial status and because FinnForest Merc will sponsor the student work and because of the excellent timber construction knowledge present at TUM.

PART 3 CONSTRUCTION DOCUMENTATION

In the third part of the semester the student will reorganise as 4 (four) teams of 8-9 students. In this three week period the student teams will be supported by external engineers (Bollinger and Grohmann) as well as one of the teaching assistants, as mentor to develop a full technical set of technical construc-tion documents. The intention is that upon leaving the programme the students teams will have a fully detailed set of construction drawing of a small project to their own design.

TUM Summer Pavilion


DESIGN TASK | INFORMATION PAVILION

TUM Summer Pavilion

Mid way through Part 3 of the semester the 4 selected proposals may be submitted as en-tries in the current ideas competition for an information pavilion to be located in London’s Trafalgar Sq. on the occasion of the 2012 Olympics.

At the conclusion of Part 3 an external jury will assemble to select a single TUM Summer Pavilion competition winner. There will be a rigorous technical prequalification jury and only full detailed and technically complete schemes will go forward to the competition jury.

AFTERWARD

At this time the teaching staff are exploring the possibility of the pavilion becoming realised, however this will depend on the success of the student work and whether appropriate sponsors can be identified over the duration of the semester. But in any event a full techni-cal proposal will have been prepared and be ready for construction.

EVALUATION

Each Part of the semester will be counted equally in the evaluation of student work.Part 1 is Individual Conceptual Work and the students should prepare a portfolio of their 20 ideas for the pavilion.Part 2 concerns Design and Design Development and is group work in groups of 3-4 stu-dents. The competition presentation material will be evaluated.Part 3 concerns Technical Drawings and the construction drawings and further competition presentation material may be used.


Organisation Visiting ProfessorshipCourses | Design Studio | Organisation


STUDY PROGRAM | COURSES

Credits: 3 ECTSHours: Tue. 04:00pm - 06:00pmRoom: Vorhoelzer ForumLecturer: Prof. Charles Walker, Dipl. Ing. Ulrike Fuchs, Dipl. Ing. Nadine Zinser-Junghanns, Dipl. Ing. Wieland Schmidt

Intern. Building Typologies

The lecture is about knowledge of contemporary international architecture.The main focus is the understanding of the main characteristics of international building types such as airports, office buildings, medical and mixed use buildings which combine transportation, residential, retail and business environments. Students should learn the ability to analyze and organize complex contemporary buildings with regard to zoning of structure, services and people circulation and flow. Perception of the architectonic relati-onship between large and small scale and between building form, details and components. Analysis and documentation of buildings in regard to specific aspects of structure, zoning, access, mechanical services, detail, etc.Design and representation of characteristic building details. Interdisciplinary share of know-ledge between different disciplines; e.g. product design, traffic engineering, aviation engi-neering etc.

>> obligatory to our design cours


STUDY PROGRAM | COURSES

Architecture in Space

Knowledge of constraints affecting design for conditions of weightlessness, for situ-ations in space and under other extreme conditions; e.g. at and on the water, in the Arctic, and in industry.Ability to enter into a dialogue with other en-gineering disciplines (mechanical, electrical and electronic technicians, etc.). Ability to think in an interdisciplinary manner. Under-standing of common aspects of projects for extreme environmental conditions.Presentation of the main principles and en-vironmental conditions affecting planning for situations in space and for extreme envi-ronments on earth. Model depictions of pl-anning processes in these fields. Training in communication with other engineering dis-ciplines. Excursions to selected institutions (DLR/DAS/NASA) and industrial enterprises.

Credits: 3 ECTSHours: Mo.04:30pm - 06:00pmRoom: 4170 design studioVisiting Lecturer: Dipl. Ing. Hans Huber

Design and Production

The computer as a design tool offers ar-chitects new formal possibilities. Because of the digital chain from design to the ma-nufacture of separate individual compo-nents the computer enables the creation of complex architectural structures. We are modeling complex freeforms with Rhi-no and the Parameterplugin Grasshopper, showing different structures in order to in-vestigate the resulting Computermodelle and produce several prototypes with com-puter-controlled machines like lasercutter, 3D milling and rapid prototyping. Form Follows Producibility

>> obligatory to our design cours

Credits: 3 ECTSHours: Wed. 9:00am - 11:00amRoom: 1719Lecturer: Dipl. Ing. Stefan KaufmannChair: Architectural Informatics

Credits: 3 ECTSHours: Tue. 04:00pm - 06:00pmRoom: Vorhoelzer ForumLecturer: Prof. Charles Walker, Dipl. Ing. Ulrike Fuchs, Dipl. Ing. Nadine Zinser-Junghanns, Dipl. Ing. Wieland Schmidt


FACILITIES | DESIGN STUDIO



FACILITIES | DESIGN STUDIO

The design studio offers upper semester students the opportunity to improve their design skills. The unique approach in strongly combining research and teaching led to many outstanding projects, some of them built full scale. Prefered topics are habitation and mobility, microar-chitecture, space architecture but projects range from housing to towers, inhabited bridges to arctic stations. Some of them are highly experimental others reach patenting status.Teaching focus is on innovation, conceptual and lateral thinking, new technologies, const-ruction, interdisciplinary work, collaboration with industries and potential clients, multime-dia presentation and model building up full scale mock-ups. Students learn the full range of skills an architects needs.

TEAM-WORKThe project should be developed first in person and will be handled as a competition sys-tem where the students joun up later in bigger groups. Please work in our atelier - you will learn most while working together with other students!

COACHINGThe assistants and professor team will help guide you and show how to optimise your design from concept to final presentation.Teaching hours are every monday and tuesday from 9:00am.

DESIGN PROCESSYou are free to breake the rules and design new, fresh and innovative concepts!

Design Studio

Studio Emerging TechnologiesRoom 4170design critic


Launch Lecture 1: Charles Walkerintroduction to design task

Ideas Review: Group 1Group BreakfestIdeas Review: Group 2Lecture 2: Charles Walker

Ideas Review: Group 1Ideas Review: Group 2Lecture 3: Charles Walker

Ideas Review: Group 1Lecture 4: Charles WalkerIdeas Review: Group 2Individual reviews of 20 ideas

TESTAT 1: Ideas Selection Jury>> Selection of 9 GroupsDesign ReviewLecture 5: Charles Walker

Design ReviewLecture 6: Charles Walker

Design ReviewLecture 7: Charles Walker

03.05.2011 10.00 h

09.05.2011 09:00 h10.05.2011 09:00 h

10.05.2011 15:00 h

16.05.2011 09:00 h17.05.2011 09:00 h17.05.2011 16:00 h

23.05.2011 09:00 h23.05.2011 Mo! 16:00 h24.05.2011 09:00 h

30.05.2011 09:00 h

31.05.2011 09:00 h 31.05.2011 16:00 h

06/07.06.2011 09:00 h07.06.2011 16:00 h

14/15.06.2011 09:00 h14.06.2011 16:00 h

Timeline design course and IBT lectures

ORGANISATION | DESIGN STUDIO

TIME EVENT LOCATION

Vorhoelzer Forum

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Vorhoelzer Forum

Room 4170Room 4170

Room 4170Vorhoelzer Forum


COURS

IBT / Design

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ORGANISATION | DESIGN STUDIO

Timeline design course and IBT lectures

TIME EVENT LOCATION COURS

20.06.2011 09:00 h

21.06.2011 09:00 h21.06.2011 16:00 h

27/28.06.2011 09:00 h27.06.2011 Mo! 16:00 h

04/05.07.2011 09:00 h 05.07.2011 16:00 h

12.07.2011 09:00 h

19.07.2011 10:00 h

TESTAT 2: Design Selection Jury>> Selection of 4 GroupsTechnical ReviewLecture 8: Charles Walker

Technical ReviewLecture 9: Charles Walker

Technical Review Lecture 10: Charles Walker

FINAL TESTAT : Final Selection Jury

FINAL EXAMS

Vorhoelzer Forum


Room 4170 Vorhoelzer Forum

Room 4170 Vorhoelzer Forum

Vorhoelzer Forum

Room 4119

Design

DesignIBT

Design IBT

Design IBT

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Technische Universität MünchenFakultät Für ArchitekturVisiting Professorship In Emerging TechnologiesArcisstrasse 21D 80333 München

Fon: +49 (0)89.289 22 491Fax: +49 (0)89.289 28 408E-mail: [email protected]

E-mail adresses assistants:[email protected]

CONTACT

Hans HuberVisiting Lecturer

Ulrike FuchsTeaching Assistant

Charles WalkerVisiting Professor

Nadine Zinser-JunghannsTeaching Assistant

Teaching team at TU München

Wieland SchmidtTeaching Assistant

ORGANISATION | TEACHING TEAM

Moritz MungenastTeaching Assistant

Stephan SchäferVisiting Tutor

alexandra von petersdorffoffice management


Cooperation institutes

ORGANISATION | COOPERATION INSTITUTES

Chair for Architectural InformaticsProf. Dr.-Ing. Frank Petzoldwww.ai.ar.tum.de

PROVISIONAL HEAD

Chair for Climatic Design and Building ServicesProf. Dr.-Ing. Gerhard Hausladenwww.bk.ar.tum.de

Chair for Energy efficient and Sustainable Planning and Building Univ. Prof. Dr.-Ing., M.Arch.II (UCLA)www.enpb.bv.tum.de

Chair for Industrial DesignProf. Dipl. Des. Fritz Frenklerwww.id.ar.tum.de

Teaching and Research Unit for Technology and Design of Shell ConstructionsProf. Dr.-Ing. Tina Wolfwww.hk.ar.tum.de

COOPERATION INSTITUTES TU MÜNCHEN


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