International Symposium File to Factory: The Design and Fabrication of Innovative Forms in a Continuum Host: CMA (Centre for Mediterranean Architecture), Chania, Crete, Greece, 3-4 September 2009 Design and Fabrication The i n a m s u m r Design and Fabrication o u f e n v of innovative forms in a i i t a t T v f2f o file to factory n n n h e i continuum o h e continuum f o T c ISBN 978-2-930301-41-9 editor: Maria Voyatzaki D esign and Fabri c a t i o n c o f o i n n n o v t a t i i v n e f u o r m u s m i n a f2f file to factory continuum Design and Fabrication The i n a m s u m r Design and Fabrication o u f e n v of innovative forms in a i i t a t T v f2f o file to factory n n n h e i continuum o h e continuum f o T c ISBN 978-2-930301-41-9 editor: Maria Voyatzaki D esign and Fabri c a t i o n c o f o i n n n o v t a t i i v n e f u o r m u s m i n a f2f file to factory continuum gn and Fabrication The i n a m s u m r Design and Fabrication o u f e n D e s i v of innovative forms in a i i t a t T v f2f o file to factory n n n h e i continuum o h e continuum f o T c ISBN 978-2-930301-41-9 editor: Maria Voyatzaki D File to Factory: The Design and Fabrication of Innovative Forms in a Continuum esign and Fabri c a t i o n Editor c o f o i n Dr Maria Voyatzaki, DipArch, PhD, RIBA, ARB n n o v t a t i Associate Professor i v n e f u o r Aristotle University of Thessaloniki m u s m School of Architecture i n a f2f file to factory continuum Cover design: Emmanouil Zaroukas Layout design: Dimitris Apostolidis Printed by: Charis Ltd, Thessaloniki, Greece ISBN 978-960-99008-1-2 Copyright © 2010 by the authors All rights reserved. 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List of contents Initiations Maria Voyatzaki Continuum Coordinator, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Architecture (Greece) ........... 11 Dimitris Papalexopoulos Continuum Academic Partner, National Technical University of Athens, School of Architecture (Greece) ................................................................................................................................ 25 Sean Hanna Bartlett School of Graduate Studies, University College London (UK) .......................................................... 31 Georges Jacob Continuum Enterprise Partner, PIC, ABJAC Director (France) .......................................................................... 49 Inspirations Kas Oosterhuis Hyperbody TU Delft, ONL (the Netherlands) ....................................................................................................... 55 Marta Malé - Alemany IaaC (Spain) and Architectural Association DRL (UK) ...................................................................................... 71 Philippe Morel EZCT, School of Architecture, Paris Malaquais (France) .................................................................................. 87 Ali Rahim Architecture Design Faculty, University of Pennsylvania, Contemporary Architecture Practice, N.Y. (USA) ................................................................................................ 101 Contributions Jeroen van Ameijde Architectural Association School of Architecture (UK) ...................................................................................... 107 Aulikki Herneoja Department of Architecture, University of Oulu (Finland) ............................................................................... 113 Odysseas Kontovourkis, Demetrios Economidis Department of Architecture, University of Nicosia (Cyprus) ............................................................................ 121 Rodrigo Garcia Alvarado U. Bio-Bio, Conception (Chile) Underlea Bruscato Unisinos, Rio Grande do Sul (Brasil) ...................................................................................................................... 133 Dimitris Papanikolaou Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA) ................................................................................ 139 Agnese Ghini, Barbara Gherri, Emanuele Mazzadi University of Parma (Italy) ......................................................................................................................................... 153 Barbara Gherri University of Parma (Italy) ......................................................................................................................................... 161 Alessio Erioli University of Bologna – Facolta di Ingegneria (Italy) ......................................................................................... 171 Maria Voyatzaki , Vasilis Papadiamantopoulos Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Architecture (Greece) ............................................................ 181 Philippe Marin Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Lyon (France) Jean-Claude Bignon, Shaghayegh Shadkhou Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Nancy (France) Jean-Paul Wetzel Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Strasbourg, France (France) .......................................... 191 Ana Cocho Bermejo University of Catalunia, Vallés School of Architecture (Spain) ........................................................................ 199 Dimitris Kontaxakis, Spyros Papadmitriou Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Architecture (Greece) ............................................................ 213 Robert Neumayr Studio Hadid, University of Applied Arts, Vienna (Austria) ............................................................................. 225 Τhanos Stathopoulos National Technical University of Athens, School of Architecture (Greece) .................................................. 235 Valter Luca de Bartolomeis Industrial Design, Dicata -Facoltà di Architettura -Federico II, Napoli (Italy) ............................................. 245 Ingrid Paoletti, Matteo Lo Prete Faculty of Architecture, Politecnico di Milano (Italy) ......................................................................................... 253 Anastasia Karandinou, Vangelis Lympouridis University of Edinburgh, (UK) .................................................................................................................................. 263 Zenovia Toloudi Harvard University (USA) ........................................................................................................................................... 279 Domenico D'Uva Politecnico di Milano, Department of Architecture (Italy) ............................................................................... 289 6 File to Factory: The design and fabrication of innovative forms in a continuum Ioanna Symeonidou Architectural Association (UK) ................................................................................................................................. 297 Anastasia Tzaka Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Architecture (Greece) ............................................................ 309 Emanuele Mazzadi, Francesco Freddi, Federica Ottoni Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture, University of Parma (Italy) ........................................ 317 Contributors .............................................................................................................................................................. 327 List of Contents 7 Initiations Maria Voyatzaki Continuum Coordinator School of Architecture Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Greece (Re)thinking Architectural Education for a non-standard Architecture The way we teach architecture depends upon the way we think about and practise architecture, and changes in this perceptual domain, as reflected in its history, are naturally accompanied by changes in the way architecture is taught. This is due to the fact that architecture is based upon a system of values principally related to the con- ception of the human being as individual or social entity, to which architecture is ad- dressed, and to the worldview according to which architecture is produced. Therefore, it follows that architectural education is based upon the same set of values. The proc- ess of creating architectural forms and the architectural education process are fun- damentally expressions, representations or manifestations of the same set of values dominating in a certain period of time. Thus, the development and transformation of values in time are accompanied not only by transformations in architecture itself, but consequently, by transformations in the way architecture is taught. In transitional periods from one value system to another, architectural produc- tion has oscillated between two coexisting systems, yielding architectural products that belong to one or to the other system, experiencing this way the coexistence of completely different perceptions, contemplations and practices of architecture. The same process is also valid for architectural education. As a result, it is not a rare occurrence to note that in the same institution, new ideas are usually adopted by a small number of teachers, thus leading to the coexistence of more than one set of architectural values, which may not always be advantageous to the education of students. In this particular overlapping condition, the new, labeled as avant-garde, pro- motes a critical and even polemic attitude to the old, labeled as established. More- over, an emerging architectural literature encourages this debate,