Conference theme
The notion of configuration can be described as a relative arrangement of elements in a particular system, form, figure, or other formations. Configuration represents the essence of the design process in architecture. The configurable architecture may include a process of abstract thinking through design and exploitation. It can be considered from different perspectives such as design analysis and critical thinking, creative process, digital fabrication, computational design, responsive architecture and environments, material-based design, autonomous assembly, design visualization. From mass-customization toward mass-personalization, configurable architecture is seeking for an answer how architecture will adjust to habitual behaviour of their users in the 21st century. A century ago the book Vers une architecture was published for the first time, advocating a new concept of architecture based on engineering logic of second industrial revolution and mass production. Third industrial revolution brings digital turn in architecture, reshaping the way of thinking and making. Fourth industrial revolution is already changing architecture before our eyes towards new, configurable architecture. What are the new lessons for architects in this new age, age of mass-customization? The theme “Towards a new configurable architecture” critically questions the notion of configuration in architecture and how it can be applied to rethinking architectural ideas, design process, representation, fabrication and utilisation process. International eCAADe conference in Novi Sad will be a place for testing and discussing novel ideas and design approaches, making and transforming built environment.
Conference topics:
- Computational design
- Rule based systems and shape grammar
- Building Information Modelling
- CAAD and education
- CAAD, creativity and design thinking models
- Smart cities, city modelling and GIS
- Digital fabrication and robotics
- Mass customization in design
- Digital representation and visualization
- VR, AR and interactive visualization
- Agent-based modeling and machine learning in design
- Simulation, prediction and evaluation in design
- Structure optimization and material-based design
- Bionics, bioprinting, living materials
- Collaborative, participative or responsive design
- Digital design for sustainable buildings
- Performance based design
- Digital heritage
- MASS CUSTOMIZATION AND DESIGN DEMOCRATIZATION was presented by Branko Kolarevic, Hillier College of Architecture and Design New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT)
- ARCHITECTURE IN THE AGE OF SENSORY CONSTRUCTION MACHINES was presented by Ammar Mirjan, Gramazio Kohler Research Professorship for Architecture und Digital Fabrication ETH Zurich
- PROJECT-BASED ROBOTIC TIMBER CONSTRUCTION: TOWARDS FLEXIBLE AUTOMATION IN ARCHITECTURE was presented by Hans Jakob Wagner, ICD University of Stuttgart
- TOWARDS A NEW BUILDING ENVIRONMENT THROUGH LIGHTWEIGHT AND ADAPTIVITY was presented by Ivan Tomovic, Werner Sobek AG Stuttgart
- GIS to Grasshopper
- Urban Beauty: Quantifying and Predicting Crowd-sourced Subjective Evaluation using Machine Vision
- Wooden Kerf-bent Developable Strips
- Urban aggregator – the discrete battle between aggregation systems for meaningful urban spaces
- Wild Stories
- Agile performance-based building design optimization and exploration
- Collaborative AI Agents
- Freeforming coral-like planar 3D prints
- (Design) Smart Contracts (for Configurable Design)
- Unreal Engine 4 workshop
