Digital vernacular - In-Situ Resource Utilisation - Support and Infill framework negotiating contingent forces in architecture
“Practicing the Digital Vernacular embraces the inherent opportunities provided by new digital technology while maintaining the virtues of working manually with hand tools.”
Digital Vernacular - Stevens and Nelson
RMIT examples:
https://practice-research.com/presentations/prs-europe-november-2020/diffracting-construction
Adapt-R
http://adapt-r.eu/research-database/
* Examination example: http://adapt-r.eu/research-database/examination-tom-holbrook/?searched=1
Bioceramics?
Loughborough phd programme
https://www.lboro.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/research-degrees/research-areas/architecture/
“Architectural Legacies, Architectural Tectonics and Digital Architecture”
- Building structures and materials
- Building performance and systems
- Digital fabrication
- Automated and AI design
- Human robot co-creation
- XR architecture
- Adaptable architecture
- Design pedagogy
- Architectural history and theory
- Socio-behavioural impacts of architecture
- Built environment heritage and legislation
- Urban morphology and mapping
- Architecture as social mediator
Notes
architected metamaterials
http://scf.acm.org/ - symposium on computational fabrication
Low resolution
Self assembly - Skylar Tibbits MIT
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/being-material
Disassembly value
Adaptation to environment
Self organising systems
Hierarchical assembly
Functionally Graded Material - FGM
Post-production challenge
Digital Materials Symmetrical units that can be connected in any orientation - 2.5d voxels
Mollie Claypool Discrete Automation
https://space10.com/project/digital-in-architecture/
https://videos.theconference.se/mollie-claypool-discrete
Striated workforce / adversarial procurement Part to whole vs whole to part relationships (bottom up)
Crisis of syntax - new ontology of built space for less bias - enabling heterogeneity
https://www.e-flux.com/architecture/becoming-digital/ https://www.e-flux.com/architecture/becoming-digital/248060/discrete-automation/
Neri Oxman - Material Ecology Digital Vernacular https://space10.com/project/digital-in-architecture/
Design and analysis of digital materials for physical 3D voxel printing Jonathan Hiller and Hod Lipson
Voxel. (volume-x-element A fundamental, physical, aligned object, constrained to a repeating unit of physical 3D space. Not necessarily cubic or space filling. “do not typically have their position (i.e. coordinates) explicitly encoded with their values. Instead, rendering systems infer the position of a voxel based upon its position relative to other voxels”
Digital material. Material composed of many such assembled voxels. Refers to the overall material, which is defined by the voxel topology, how the voxels are assembled, and the material each voxel is constructed of.
“Matter is fundamentally digital if it considered in terms of distinct, regularly repeating regions (voxels) that tessellate 3D space. In much the same way as a digital byte is binary, the occupation of each voxel-space within the solid must be defined as either present or not present”
Microbial relations
Newcastle program - BIOME Transplanetary Imaginaries of Living Architecture: Sociocultural Explorations of More-than-Human Relations in Off-Earth and Futuristic Habitats
In-Situ Resource Utilization in the Extra-Terrestrial Critical Zone or speculative cultural materialism of interplanetary intentional communities
Environmental niche - microbiomes of intentional communities
Geoengineering - biochar - carbon control
Speculative fiction and microbiomes - depictions of terraforming and colonisation - cli-fi - hyperobjects
How is extra-terrestrial microbiome manifested in SF?
Controlling boundaries of human microbiome in space habitats and planetary protection issues
Legible, hackable microbiomes capable of adaptation. Tailored to suit environment.
Minimal launch mass materials for rapid expansion and growth in use - growing, foaming, expanding, replication
Radiation protection, thermal protection, structure vs skin - questions of trust in living, changing materials
Different cultural relationships with home and shelter and impacts on habitats and ships - language, personalisation, anthropomorphism
Cultural attitudes to archetypal forms or spaces
Maintenance - building management - live adaptation and repair
Terraforming before human arrival - seeding habitats, automated, uncontrolled
Waste recycling - closed systems, closed microbiomes
Non-human companions in habitats and impacts on microbiome
The Microbiome Vernacular
How the microbiome challenges our concept of self
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.2005358
Anthropology of microbes
https://www.pnas.org/content/109/17/6378#T1
cultural materialism, the investigation of how material realities such as technological, economic, and demographic factors mold and influence culture;
'…Bringing anthropology and human microbial ecology into a meaningful dialogue allows for new modes of collaborative research. It should create a symbiosis that enables both fields to codevelop in ways that encourage a more profound view of our “humanness”—transforming our categories of “community,” “individual,” and “life,” and in the process helping to address major global health inequities…'
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NET - Negative Emissions Technology
Return to Papanek / Schumacher?