TU Eind­hoven invites to par­tic­i­pate in the Work­shop Advanced Archi­tec­tural Struc­tures, from 9-13 March. The work­shop deals with gen­er­a­tion and pro­duc­tion of doubly curved sur­faces and includes an intro­duc­tion to Rhino as well as Pro­cess­ing. Reg­is­tra­tion closes tomor­row, par­tic­i­pa­tion fee for pro­fes­sion­als is 300 Euros. Full pro­gram after the fold.

Monday 9 March (Room 5 audi­to­rium) Mem­branes
12:00 – 13:00 Reception

13:00 – 13:15 Wel­come (Jan Westra, Dean of the fac­ulty of Architecture)

13:15 – 13:45 Open­ing, expla­na­tion of the work­shop (Arno Pronk, TU/e)

13:45 – 14:30 Ten­sile struc­tures in archi­tec­tural design (Mar­ijke Mol­laert, VUB)

14:30 – 15:15 The detail­ing of Mem­brane struc­tures (Rogier Hout­man, TenTech)

15:15 – 15:45 Coffee

15:45 – 16:15 Instruc­tion Rapid Pro­to­typ­ing (Bart van de Vorst, TNO)

16:15 – 17:15 Mate­r­ial behav­ior of mem­branes (Fran­coise Fourancier, Ferrari)

17:15 – 17:45 Cli­matic behav­ior of tex­tile struc­tures (Mark Cox, TU/e)

19:30 – 20:15 Research in mem­brane struc­tures (Niels de Tem­mer­man, VUB)

20:15 – 21:00 Research in mem­brane struc­tures (Gerald Lind­ner, TU/e )

21:00 – 21:45 Tex­tile projects by (Rogier Hout­man, Tentech)

Tues­day 10 March (Room 2 audi­to­rium) Design soft­ware
09:00 – 10:00 Tess3D Pre­mier Intro­duc­tion and overview (Erik Mon­crieff, Kurvenbau)

10:00 – 10:30 Coffee

10:30 – 11:30 Rhino/Grasshopper Intro­duc­tion and overview (Rinus Roelofs, Rhino)

11:30 – 12:30 “Pro­cess­ing”, intro­duc­tion and overview (Axel Kilian, TUD)

12:00 – 13:30 Lunch

Par­al­lel Work­shop ses­sions: Matrix building

1) 13:30 – 17:00 Rhino/Grasshopper (Rinus Roelofs, Rhino)

2) 13:30 – 17:00 Tess 3D (Erik Mon­crieff, Kurvenbau)

3) 13:30 – 17:00 “Pro­cess­ing” (Axel Kilian, TUD)

17:00 – 18:00 Drinks

Room 5 auditorium

19:30 – 20:15 Geo­met­ric art (Rinus Roelofs, Rhino)

20:15 – 21:00 script­ing at NOX Archi­tects (Thomas Wortmann)

21:00 – 21:45 Design explo­ration (Axel Kilian, TUD)

Wednes­day 11 March (Room 5 audi­to­rium) Tools
09:00 – 9:45 Shap­ing tech­nol­ogy (Nedcam Erwin van Maaren)

9:45 – 10:30 Fold­ing struc­tures (Vini­cius Raducanu)

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee

11:00 –11:45 Rapid pro­to­typ­ing and scan­ning (Bart van de Vorst, TNO)

11:45 –12:15 CNC laser cutter and work­shop facil­i­ties (Ralf Bro­druck, TU/e)

12:15 – 13:00 Mechan­i­cal behav­iour of light­weight struc­tures (Andrew Bor­gart, TUD)

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch

Par­al­lel Work­shop ses­sions: Matrix building

1) 14:00 – 17:00 Rhino/Grasshopper (Rinus Roelofs, Rhino)

2) 14:00 – 17:00 Tess 3D (Erik Mon­crieff, Kurvenbau)

3) 14:00 – 17:00 Rhino draw­ing lessons (M.Dominicus / A.Mulderij, TU/e)

4) 14:00 – 15:30 Rapid Pro­to­typ­ing Instruc­tions (Bart van de Vorst, TNO)

15:30 – 17:00 Excur­sion TNO, (Bart van de Vorst, TNO)

13:30 – 17:00 Work­shop Laser­cut­ter, Ver­tigo, (Ralf Bro­druck, TU/e)

17:00 – 18:00 Drinks

Projects in prac­tice Room 5 auditorium

19:30 – 20:15 Projects by Grohmann & Bollinger (Man­fred Grohmann,)

20:15 – 21:00 The Works of Heinz Isler (John Chilton, Not­ting­ham Trent)

Thurs­day 12 March (Room 5 audi­to­rium) pro­duc­tion tech­nique and shell structures

9.00 Hand­ing in your STL-​file for Rapid pro­to­typ­ing. Only cor­rect files handed in before 9.00 hr will be accepted

09:00 – 9:45 Explo­form (H. Groeneveld)

09:45 – 10:30 Hol­land Com­pos­ites – (Olivier Lauteslager)

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee

11:00 – 11:20 Adjustable mould (Sebas­ti­aan Boers, TU/e)

11:20 – 11:45 Shell struc­tures by BB-​con (M. van der Ham)

11:45 – 12.30 Mem­brane Mould (Arno Pronk, TU/e)

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch

Par­al­lel Work­shop ses­sions: Matrix building

1) 13:30 – 17:00 Rhino/Grasshopper (Rinus Roelofs, Rhino)

2) 13:30 – 17:00 Tess 3D (Erik Mon­crieff, Kurvenbau)

3) 13:30 – 15:30 Excur­sion to dome, (M van der Ham BB-​con)

15:30 – 17:00 Excur­sion Bicy­cle cellar Eind­hoven by Fuksas (Arno Pronk TU/e)

13:30 – 17:00 Work­shop Laser­cut­ter, Ver­tigo, (Ralf Bro­druck, TU/e)

17:00 – 18:00 Drinks

Cham­ber of commerce

19:30 Banquet

Friday 13 March (Room 5 audi­to­rium) work­shop results and archi­tec­tural experiments

09:00 – 9.30 Pre­sen­ta­tion of work­shop results (Arno Pronk TU/e)

09:30 – 10:00 Formfind­ing of grid shell (Olivier Baverel)

10:00 – 10:30 Inte­gra­tion of soft­ware in archi­tec­tural prac­tice. (Erik Mon­crieff Kurvenbau)

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee

11:00 – 11:45 Tex­tile techniques/tectonics in archi­tec­ture (Ivo Vrouwe, TU/e)

11:45 – 12:30 Slim build­ing (Jos Licht­en­berg, TU/e)

12:30 Clos­ing and Col­lect­ing of the 3D printed parts