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 Date: 18 October 2010 at 11am Venue: Room 607, CAD-LAB, 6/F Wong Foo Yuan Building, CUHK Building envelope provides protection and comfort to work environment. Its performance directly affects the energy consumption of the building. Today’s facade design is far more than proportioning and glazed area calculation. While the availability of fossil fuels is approaching its end and the concern of global warming is rising, both regulating bodies and clients raise their expectations on building performance. How intelligent can our cladding system can be to respond to its urban context? How does its environmental performance inform the design process? This seminar will discuss the close interrelationship between innovative envelope design and the building performance.
SUPER SKIN: PARAMETRIC PANEL OPTIMIZATION AND FABRICATION
Date: 20 September 2010 at 11am Venue: Room 607, CAD-LAB, 6/F Wong Foo Yuan Building, CUHK Today, building forms are becoming more complex. On the other hand, facing the global crisis on natural resources, we are required to construct more efficiently. Somewhere between complex geometry and building efficiency lays a balance. On searching for this balance, parametric design usually plays a key role. How can we optimize the panel sizes to reduce manufacturing cost? How can we use minimum numbers of modular component to achieve maximum variations? This seminar will discuss, both in theory and in practice, the application of parametric design mythologies to solve cladding problems in complex forms.
PARAMETRIC METHOD IN REAL PRACTICE
Date: 02 September 2010 at 6pm Venue: NUS Architecture Department (LR424), Singapore West Kowloon Terminal,
an icon of Hong Kong when its completed in 2015 presents an opportunity to
show how parametric methods is employed to deal with increasing demanding
pace and complexity of today project in Asia.
DIGITAL PRACTICE: SHANGHAI STUDIO
Date: 31 July to 8 August 2010 Venue: Shanghai Study Center, 2/F, 298 North Suzhou Road, Hong Kou District, Shanghai For a successful architectural project, the efficiency of design communication and the control of information-flow cannot be less important than the creativity of ideas. In response to the concurrent digital evolution emerging in the architectural industry world-wide, the Faculty of Architecture at The University of Hong Kong will host a 9 day intensive summer program named Digital Practice at its Shanghai Study Center, which is located at the heart of Shanghai. Led by professors from The University of Hong Kong, as well as invited practitioners from Hong Kong with expertise in practice of cutting edge digital techniques, the program offers participants opportunities to experience applications of digital technology during different stages of an architectural project, i.e. delivery, management and communication of design information under the team-based working environment. By learning advanced digital techniques through case studies in the context of fast growing metropolis Shanghai, participants are expected to go beyond the conventional perception of technology, considering users and tools as a feedback-based entity instead of a dichotomy. The program, which is taught in English, includes a series of evening lectures related to the program topic, delivered by teaching staff and invited local architects.
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