PhD Summer School 2016 DESIGN+ TECTONICS: Working in the Space Between Theory and Practice The University of Nottingham University Park Nottingham NG7 2RD t: +44 (0) 115 95 13164 Monday 4 July – Wednesday 6 July 2016 e: [email protected] www.nottingham.ac.uk Organised by the Architecture, Culture and Tectonics Research Group About This event is the inaugural annual PhD Summer School This year’s focus is on research at the interface between of the Architecture, Culture and Tectonics Research technology and the humanities, refl ecting the interests Group, part of the Department of Architecture and Built of the ACT group, which includes Nottingham staff and Environment, within the Faculty of Engineering at The students working in the areas of: architectural technology University of Nottingham. (experimental structures, systems, components and materials); architectural design (including digital modelling It brings together a group of practitioners, academics and fabrication, and research by design); architectural and research students from the UK and Europe to share humanities (architectural history, theory, philosophy and knowledge and experience of ongoing research activity in urban design). the broad area of design and tectonics in architecture. The event features the work of key fi gures from European research and practice: Professor Manfred Grohmann Professor Anne Beim Professor Tim Anstey Principal of engineers Bollinger and Director of CINARK, Centre for Chair of PhD Programme Grohmann, Frankfurt, and Honorary Industrialized Architecture, The in Architecture, The Oslo Professor at The University of Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts - School of Architecture Nottingham. Schools of Architecture, Design and and Design. Conservation (KADK), Copenhagen. The event addresses a number of pressing questions in contemporary research and practice, such as: • How to support the drive for sustainability within the context of contemporary design aesthetics? • How to exploit the potential of new materials and technologies in relation to established design approaches? • What can new digital design tools offer in the pursuit of both social and environmental responsibility? • Are new materials and systems compatible with adaptive re-use of existing structures? The event is open to all students, staff and architectural practitioners from the local region. Venue 2 Venue 1 Hotel UNITED KINGDOM CHINA MALAYSIA Summer School Programme Monday 4 July 1.30pm – 2.30pm Break 2.30pm – 3.30pm 2 PhD students from KADK CINARK Group: Room A30 - Arts Lecture Theatre, • Mr Torben THYREGOD South Entrance to University Park Campus “Daylight, Health and Better Well-being: Glass as a catalyst for sustainable transformation of existing housing” 4.30pm – 4.45pm Introduction • Ms Henriette EJSTRUP 4.45pm – 6pm Keynote lecture: “The tectonics of reuse: Learning sustainable energy optimizations from the past” Professor Manfred Grohmann, Discussion led by Professor Anne Beim/Ulrik Stylsvig Madsen Bollinger and Grohmann 3.30pm – 4.00pm Tea and coffee 6pm – 7pm Drinks reception at Lakeside 4.00pm – 5.30pm 3 PhD students from AHO, Oslo and KTH, Stockholm: Arts Centre, University Park • Ute GROBE (AHO) “Making a Case: The potential of horizontally densified housing as a contemporary timber typology for Norwegian cities” Tuesday 5 July • Jan STRUMILO (AHO) “Ten Propositions for Urban Timber: Developing guidelines for the multi-storey timber city” Room C10, Sustainable Research Building, Department of Architecture and Built Environment • Marja LUNDGREN (KTH) “Nearly Zero Energy as a Design Parameter: A study in tectonics and morphology for 9.30am – 10am Tea and coffee nearly zero energy architecture” 10am – 11.30am 3 PhD students from Nottingham Discussion led by Tim Anstey ACT Group: • Mr Xin JIN Wednesday 6 July “Re-appropriation of material Invitation Only (physical, textual and typological) 8.15am – 10.00am Site visit: Sustainable Chemistry Building, Jubilee campus in the architecture of Wang Shu” • Ms Jing YANG 12pm – 1pm Lunch - Room C10, Sustainable Research Building, “Tectonics of ‘Weak Architecture’ Department of Architecture and Built Environment in 3 projects by SANAA” • Dr Nils JAEGER Room C10, Sustainable Research Building, “Bodily interactions with adaptive Department of Architecture and Built Environment architecture” Discussion led by Jonathan Hale 1pm – 2pm 2 PhD students from Newcastle University: 11.30am – 12pm Tea and coffee • Mr Kieran CONNOLLY “Default in Architecture: the history, design and logic of the suspended ceiling” 12pm – 1pm 2 PhD students from Kassel • Mr Thomas KERN University: “Introvert Monoliths: the narrative, the memory and the future of Brutalist • Mr Moritz RUMPF churches in Central Europe” “Informed Form Generation: • Discussion led by Jonathan Hale (on behalf of Professor Adam Sharr) Embedding multi parameter optimization into architectural 2pm – 3pm Wrap-up/closing discussion: design” • The links between research and practice • Mr Phillipp EISENBACH • The role of tectonics in the age of digital design “Processing of Slender Concrete Shells: Fabrication and installation” Discussion led by Professor Manfred Grohmann Supervisors Supervisors Professor Manfred Grohmann Professor Anne Beim Professor Tim Anstey Principal of engineers Bollinger and Grohmann, Director of CINARK, Centre for Industrialized Chair of PhD Programme in Architecture, The Oslo Frankfurt, and Honorary Professor at The University Architecture, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts School of Architecture and Design. of Nottingham. - Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation (KADK), Copenhagen. Manfred Grohmann is a founding principal with Anne Beim received her M.Arch. in 1990 and her Tim Anstey is an architect, and joined AHO as Chair Klaus Bollinger of the international engineering PhD in Architecture in 2000 from the Royal Danish of the PhD Programme in 2013. He is affiliated company Bollinger Grohmann Engineers. Based in Academy of Fine Arts School of Architecture (KADK). to the institute of Form, Theory and History and a Frankfurt am Main, they are also present in Berlin, Part of her PhD studies has been conducted under member of OCCAS. Until 2013 he was Director of Munich, Vienna, Paris, Oslo and Melbourne. With Professor Marco Frascari and Professor David Research at KTH School of Architecture, Stockholm these teams they are active in 20 countries outside Leatherbarrow as a visiting scholar at PennDesign, in which role he worked with developing research Germany. University of Pennsylvania. culture and research-driven Masters Education. He has a strong interest in the history of the disciplines Over thirty years Manfred Grohmann and his Since 2004 she has chaired the research center around architecture and design, with a focus on team have been working with a large number of CINARK - Centre for Industrialized Architecture, which how ideas about the role of the architect have been internationally recognized architects on structurally serves to bridge the gap between the architectural inscribed into discourse. From 2011¬–2013 he challenging projects including Peter Cook, Coop education, the construction industry, and the was co-director of the Swedish National Strong Himmelb(l)au, Frank Gehry, LAVA, Dominique architectural profession. In 2008 she was appointed Research Environment “Architecture in the Making”. Perrault, SANAA, Snøhetta, Zaha Hadid and professor of Architectural Technology at KADK and He is on the editorial board of SITE Magazine. scores of others. from 2014 she has co-chaired the Graduate Program; Settlement, Ecology and Tectonics. https://kadk.dk/en/ His current research project, “Things that move” Manfred Grohmann has been a Professor for programme/settlement-ecology-and-tectonics received funding from the Swedish Research Structural Design at Kassel University since 1996, Council 2014–2016. The project makes a revisionist Guest Professor at the Städelschule, Frankfurt since From 2008-2010 she was the Chair of the Architecture reading of canonical texts in architectural history to 2000 and at the ESA – École d´Architecture, Paris Committee of the Danish Arts Foundation and since uncover open up a discussion about the architectural since 2007 and has taught at Darmstadt Technical 2013 - the Chair of the Admission Board of the work – whether it is to be constituted through the University. Architects Association in Denmark. design of objects or processes. He is involved in research partnerships with several Her research focuses at how architectural ideas international Universities. translate into the world of constructions; defined as building culture and tectonics. e: [email protected] e: [email protected] e: [email protected] w: bollinger-grohmann.com w: kadk.dk/en/cinark/about-cinark w: occas.aho.no/people/tim-anstey/ Supervisors Dr Ulrik Stylsvig Madsen Dr Jonathan Hale Professor Adam Sharr Associate Professor, Architect MAA / PhD, The Associate Professor and Reader in Architectural Theory, School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts - Schools of Department of Architecture and Built Environment, Newcastle University. Architecture, Design and Conservation (KADK), Faculty of Engineering, The University of Nottingham. Copenhagen. Ulrik Stylsvig Madsen is an associate professor at Dr Jonathan Hale is an architect, Associate Adam Sharr researches how architecture illustrates the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School Professor and Reader in Architectural Theory.