Computation for a new age of Resource AWare
architecture: waste-sourced and fast-growing bio-based materials (RAW)
RAW proposes a breakthrough digital resource model for architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) fostering a steep change in all areas of the triad of design, fabrication and materials as presented in the Pathfinder Challenge for AEC. The transformation of AEC into a net-zero and circular industry based on renewable and green materials can only be achieved if the inherent complexity of this material class, the variability in quality and availability due to climatic, seasonal and local conditions, can be interfaced with design to become part of architectural design thinking and technology.
This project addresses this through a new resource model that is extendable and can enrich parallel digitalisation efforts in the European industry. With a central focus on the alternative materials of waste-sourced and fast-growing bio-based materials, this project will develop a holistic approach that innovates material practice across disciplinary boundaries with digital technologies by (1) characterising waste-sourced and fast-growing bio-based materials in a non-destructive and, at best, inline methods and predict their individual properties relevant to AEC, (2) developing an open design model and semantic data model that provides architects and engineers means to design and specify with the variability of the actual resource streams, and (3) creating an adaptive fabrication model that can instrumentalise the developed model.
PROJECT TEAM
ICD Institute for Computational Design and Construction, Department for Computing in Architecture, University of Stuttgart
Laura Marsillo, Zuardin Akbar, Prof. Dr. Thomas Wortmann
Student Assistant: Yuxing Liu
ITKE Institute for Building Construction and Structural Design, University of Stuttgart
Fabian Eidner, Otto Lindstam, Dr.-Ing. Axel Körner, Prof. Dr.Ing. Jan Knippers
PARTNERS
The Royal Danish Academy (Centre for Information Technology and Architecture)
Danish Technological University (Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering)
Lulea Technological University (Wood Science and Engineering)
University Innsbruck (Department of Structural Engineering and Material Sciences and Research Institute of Textile Chemistry and Textile Physics)
OMTRE A/S, Norway
University of Leiden (Institute of Environmental Sciences)
Taltech (Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture)
WoodK+
EXTERNAL LINKS
PORJECT FUNDING
Horizon Europe project "RAW" GA no. 101161441.
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101161441
