Index of Authors

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 4
3. Preface 9
4. Introduction 11
5. 1. Digitalization and Robotics
6. Paradigm Reversal – Connectionist Technologies for Linear Environments 21
7. Individualizing Production with DIANA: A Dynamic and Interactive Robotic Assistant for Novel Applications 37
8. 1.1 Digital Timber Construction
9. The Gravitational Pavilion: Simplified Node Complexity 45
10. Fibrous Joints for Lightweight Segmented Timber Shells 53
11. 1.2 Robotics in Timber Construction
12. Towards Distributed In Situ Robotic Timber Construction 67
13. Cooperative Robotic Fabrication of Timber Dowel Assemblies 77
14. Bending-Active Lamination of Robotically Fabricated Timber Elements 89
15. 2. Timber Construction
16. Recycling of Cross-Laminated Timber Production Waste 101
17. Textile Architecture for Wood Construction 113
18. Acetylated Beech in Structural Timber Constructions 123
19. 3. Architectural Practice and Research
20. Developing Research Cultures in Architecture 135
21. Public Debate, Public Interior, Circular Economy – Forms of Exchange: Approaching the Reconversion of an Iconic 1966 Office Tower in Brussels 143
22. Making Architecture Public: The Architecture Exhibition – An Environment for a Radical Redesign of the Discipline? 153
23. Grounding Associative Geometry: From Universal Style toward Specific Form 161
24. 4. Design Methods
25. Why Evidence-Based Methods Are Useful for Architectural and Urban Design 173
26. Architecture as Science of Structures 183
27. Dexterity-Controlled Design Procedures 193
28. Werkstücke – Making Objects into Houses: Understanding by the Way of the Hands in Design Teaching 205
29. Biorealism in the Settlement Architecture of Richard Neutra 213
30. Exploring Chinese Scholar Gardens as a Paradigm of Lifestyle Landscape Architecture 223
31. 5. Sustainability
32. Designing Natural Buildings 237
33. Dye-Sensitized Solar Concrete 247
34. Form-Finding of the ParaKnot3D’s Gridshell with Equal Line Length Rods 255
35. Botanical Concrete: Novel Composites for Urban Greening 265
36. 6. Architectural Space
37. 6.1 Perception and Visualization
38. The Role of Expertise in the Perception of Architectural Space 279
39. Does Space Matter? A Cross-Disciplinary Investigation upon Spatial Abilities of Architects 289
40. Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality: New Tools for Architectural Visualization and Design 301
41. 6.2 Human Body
42. Embodied Emotions: A Methodology for Experiments in Architecture and Corporeality 313
43. Reciprocity and Interaction 321
44. Move to Design, Design to Move 331
45. Biographies 341
46. Index of Authors 372