KAROLA DIERICHS Architectural Research and Design
SAC Material Geometry Workshop
From 18.03.-22.03.2013 Karola Dierichs and Katharina Penner will conduct the workshop ‘Material Geometry – Developing Architectural Articulations of Interiority Based on Geometry-Inherent Surface Materiality’ with the First Year Group of Städelschule’s Architecture Class. The 5-day workshop will explore surface classes and directly link them to material construction systems with the aim to weave both Material [...]
Visiting Critic at the Städelschule Frankfurt
Come mid-February, SAC conducts its End-of-Semester juries. The First Year jury takes place on Tuesday 12 and Wednesday 13, followed by juries for the Master Thesis Group on Thursday 14 and Friday 15. The juries take place in the Städelschule Aula and are open to the public. To discuss the work of the First Year [...]
Lecture RobArch Conference 2012
On 17.12.2012 Karola Dierichs will present the paper: Dierichs, K., Schwinn, T. and Menges, A.: 2012, Robotic Pouring of Aggregate Structures: Responsive Motion Planning Strategies for Online Robot Control of Granular Pouring Processes with Synthetic Macro-scale Particles at the RobARCH Conference in Vienna held from 17.-18.December 2012.
ICD RobArch Workshop 2012, Wood Morphologies
As part of the Rob|Arch 2012 conference in Vienna, the workshop ‘Wood Morphologies’ will explore agent-based modeling algorithms as a computational design tool for wood plate structures. Participants will directly implement the most recent computational design tools developed by the ICD Research Team. They will initially work in three teams focusing on the design of [...]
Talk, FAR Conference, Chicago, USA
As part of the Fluidity-Adaptability-Rigidity Conference held at Chicago University from 26.10.-28.10.2012 Karola Dierichs will give a brief talk on ‘Designed Granular Matter: Non-Convex Particle Models for Aggregate Architectures’. FAR Conference Chicago
Lecture ACADIA 2012, San Francisco, USA
On 20.10.2012, Karola Dierichs will present the paper: Dierichs, K., Menges, A.: 2012, Functionally Graded Aggregate Structures Digital Additive Manufacturing with Designed Granulates, Proceedings of the ACADIA Conference 2012, San Francisco, USA, 18.-21. October 2012.
Lecture ECAADE 2012, Prague, Czech Republic
On 14.09.2012 Karola Dierichs will present the paper: Dierichs, K., Menges, A.: 2012, Material and Machine Computation of Designed Granular Matter: Rigid-Body Dynamics simulations as a design tool for robotically-poured aggregate structures consisting of polygonal concave particles, Proceedings of the ECAADE Conference 2012, Prague, Czech Republic, 12.-14. September 2012.
Visiting Critic at the Städelschule Frankfurt
On 11.-13. July 2012 Karola Dierichs will be an external reviewer for the Master Thesis Projects conducted at the Städelschule Architecture Class in Frankfurt/Main under the supervision of Ben van Berkel and Johan Bettum. This year’s Master Thesis Reviews sees SAC once more hosting some of the best architectural critics there is at DAM (the [...]
Visiting Critic at the Städelschule Frankfurt
On 05.-06. July 2012 Karola Dierichs will be an external reviewer for the First Year Projects conducted at the Städelschule Architecture Class in Frankfurt/Main under the supervision of Johan Bettum and Ben van Berkel. The final reviews of the First Year Group take place in the Städelschule Aula on Thursday July 5 from 11:00 to [...]
Lecture ACSA Conference, Barcelona, Spain
On 22. June 2012, Karola Dierichs will present the paper: Dierichs, K. and Menges, A.: 2012, Aggregate Architectures, Observing and Designing with Changeable Material Systems in Architecture, Proceedings of the International ACSA Conference: Change, Architecture, Education, Practices, Barcelona, Spain, 20.-22.June 2012.