Versatility and Vicissitude

AD Versatility and Vicissitude: Performance in Morpho-Ecological Design

01 Introduction
- Versatility & Vicissitude: An Introduction to Performance in Morpho-Ecological Design
- Michael Hensel and Achim Menges

02 Form, Force and Structure: A Brief History
- Professor Remo Pedreschi

03 Form, Force, Performance: Multi-Parametric Structural Design
- Professor Klaus Bollinger, Professor Manfred Grohmann and Oliver Tessmann

04 Metabolism and Morphology
- Michael Weinstock

05 Material Performance
- Michael Hensel, Defne Sunguroglu and Achim Menges

06 Manufacturing Performance
- Achim Menges

07 Performance-Oriented Design: Precursors and Potentials
- Michael Hensel

08 Inclusive Performance: Efficiency Versus Effectiveness - Towards a Morpho-Ecological Approach for Design
- Michael Hensel and Achim Menges

09 Complex Brick Assemblies
- Defne Sunguroglu

10 Membrane Spaces
- Michael Hensel and Achim Menges

11 Aggregates
- Michael Hensel and Achim Menges

12 Environmental Intensifiers
- Aleksandra Jaeschke

13 Engineering Ecologies
- Peter Trummer

14 Designing Morpho-Ecologies: Versatility and Vicissitude of Heterogeneous Space
- Michael Hensel and Achim Menges



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01 Interior Eye
- Craftsteak, New York
- Jayne Merkel

02 Building Profile
- Public Toilet, Gravesend
- David Littlefield

03 Practice Profile
- m3architecture
- Mark Taylor

04 Unit Factor
- Renewable Types and the Urban Plan
- Christopher Lee and Sam Jacoby

05 Spiller's Bits
- In Praise of the Blur
- Neil Spiller

06 Yeang's Eco-Files
- Recharging your Eco-Batteries
- Ken Yeang

07 McLean's Nuggets
- Will McLean

08 Userscape
- The Use of the cellular and New Digital Mapping
- Valentina Croci

09 Site Lines
- Making Waves: East Beach Café
- Howard Watson

Michael U Hensel is an architect, writer and principal researcher in OCEAN and the Emergence and Design Group, as well as a board member of BIONIS (the Biomimetic Network for Industrial Sustainability), and co-founder and co-director of the Emergent Technologies and Design masters programme at the Architectural Association School of Architecture. He is also on the editorial boards of AD and JBE (the Journal for Bionic Engineering). Recent publications include AD Emergence: Morphogenetic Design Strategies (2004), AD Techniques and Technologies in Morphogenetic Design (2006), and Morpho-Ecologies (AA Publications, 2006). Forthcoming publications include a book entitled Heterogeneous Space Reader, which he is co-editing with Professor Christopher Hight and Professor Achim Menges, to be published by John Wiley and Sons in early 2009. He is currently working on the concept and content for a peer-reviewed architectural research journal that will focus on research by design.

www.ocean-north.net

Professor Achim Menges is an architect and partner in OCEAN and the Emergence and Design Group. He studied at the Technical University Darmstadt and graduated from the Architectural Association with Honours. He has taught at the AA as Studio Master of the Emergent Technologies and Design masters programme since 2002, and as Unit Master of Diploma Unit 4 from 2003 to 2006. Since 2005 he has been Professor of Form Generation and Materialization at the HfG Offenbach University for Art and Design in Germany. His research focuses on the development of integral design processes at the intersection of evolutionary computation, parametric design, biomimetic engineering and computer-aided manufacturing that enable a highly articulated, performative built environment. His research projects have been published and exhibited in Europe, Asia and the US. He received the FEIDAD (Far Eastern International Digital Architectural Design) Outstanding Design Award in 2002, the FEIDAD Design Merit