Publications

Complete List of Works

DISSERTATION

2020

Dierichs, K.: 2020, Granular Architectures: Granular Materials as „Designer Matter“ in Architecture.
Research Reports Institute for Computational Design and Construction, 2. Universität Stuttgart. DOI: 10.18419/opus-10765.

BOOK SECTIONS

2021

Dierichs, K., Menges, A.: 2021, Emergent enclosures: granular architectures, in Digital Fabrication in Interior Design: Body, Object, Enclosure, edited by Anderson, J., Weinthal, L. New York: Routledge, 157-174.
https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003025931

2013

Dierichs, K., Penner, K.: 2013, Material Geometry – Developing Architectural Articulations of Interiority Based on Geometry-inherent Surface Materiality, in: Bettum, J., Savov, A. (eds.): The Small Book of Interiority, Städelschule Architecture Class, pp. 14-17. (ISBN-13: 978-3-98071-77-2)

ARTICLES

2021

Dierichs, K., Menges, A.: 2021, Designing architectural materials: from granular form to functional granular material, in Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, 16 (6): 065010.
https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-3190/ac2987

2019

Dierichs, K., Kyjánek, O., Loucka, M., Menges, A.: 2019, Construction robotics for designed granular materials: in situ construction with designed granular materials at full architectural scale using a cable-driven parallel robot, in Construction Robotics, Springer. doi: 10.1007/s41693-019-00024-6.

2017

Dierichs, K., Menges, A: 2017, Granular Construction: Designed Particles for Macro-Scale Architectural Structures. Archit. Design, 87, pp. 88–93. doi:10.1002/ad.2200.

2016

Dierichs, K., Menges, A.: 2016, Towards an Aggregate Architecture: Designed Granular Systems as Programmable Matter in Architecture, Granular Matter, 18 (25), DOI: 10.1007/s10035-016-0631-3.

Zhao, Y., Liu, K., Zheng, M., Bares, J., Dierichs, K., Menges, A., Behringer, R.P.: 2016, Packings of 3D Stars: Stability and Structure, Granular Matter, 18 (24), DOI: 10.1007/s10035-016-0606-4.

2015

Dierichs, K., Menges, A.: 2015, Granular Morphologies – Programming Material Behaviour with Designed Aggregates, Architectural Design, Vol. 85 No. 5, Wiley, London, pp. 86-91. (ISBN 978-11118878378)

2012

Dierichs, K., Menges, A.: 2012, Aggregate Structures: Material and Machine Computation of Designed Granular Substances, Architectural Design, Vol. 82 No. 2, Wiley Academy, London. pp. 74-81. (ISBN: 978 0470973301)

PEER REVIEWED PAPERS

2017

Dierichs, K., Wood, D., Correa, D., Menges, A.: 2017, Smart Granular Materials: Prototypes for Hygroscopically Actuated Shape-Changing Particles, in ACADIA – Disciplines & Disruption [Proceedings of the ACADIA Conference 2017], Cambridge, MA, pp. 222-231.

Barés, J., Zhao, Y., Renouf, M., Dierichs, K., Behringer, R.: 2017, Structure of Hexapod 3D Packings: Understanding the Global Stability from the Local Organization, in EPJ Web Conf 140, S. 06021. DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/201714006021.

Zhao, Y., Ding, J., Barés, J., Zheng, H., Dierichs, K., Menges, A., Behringer, R.: 2017, Vibrational Collapse of Hexapod Packings, in EPJ Web Conf 140, S. 06011. DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/201714006011.

2016

Rusenova, G., Dierichs, K., Baharlou E., Menges, A.: 2016, Feedback- and Data-driven Design for Aggregate Architectures: Analyses of Data Collections for Physical and Numerical Prototypes of Designed Granular Materials, in Posthuman Frontiers: Data, Designers, and Cognitive Machines, Proceedings of the 36th Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA), Ann Arbor, pp.62-72.

2015

Dierichs, K., Angelova, D., Menges, A.: 2015, Modelling Aggregate Behaviour, in Ramsgaard Thomsen, M., Tamke, M., Gengnagel, C., Faircloth, B., Scheurer, F. (eds.): Modelling Behaviour – Proceedings of the Design Modelling Symposium Copenhagen 2015, Copenhagen/Denmark, Springer, Cham Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London, pp. 5-15.

Dierichs, K., Menges, A.: 2015, Non-convex Designed Aggregates as Architectural Material Systems, in Proceedings of the Particle Simulations Conference 2015, Erlangen/Germany, pp. 96-97 [Poster].

Topic, N., Pöschel, T., Dierichs, K., Menges, A.: 2015, Packings of Complex Shaped Particles in Cylinders, in Proceedings of the Particle Simulations Conference 2015, Erlangen/Germany, pp. 53-54.

Angelova, D., Dierichs, K., Menges, A.: 2015, Graded Light in Aggregate Structures – Modelling the Daylight in Designed Granular Systems Using Online Controlled Robotic Processes, in Martens, B., Wurzer, G., Grasl, T. Lorenz, W., Schaffranek, R. (eds.), Real Time – Proceedings of the 33rd eCAADe Conference – Volume 2, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna/Austria, 16-18 September 2015, pp. 399-406.

2014/15

Dierichs, K., Menges, A.: 2015, Simulation of Aggregate Structures in Architecture: Distinct-Element Modeling of Synthetic Non-Convex Granulates, in Block, P., Knippers, J., Mitra, N., Wang, W. (eds.): Advances in Architectural Geometry 2014, Springer, Cham Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London, pp. 1-13. (ISBN: 978-3-319-11417-0 (Print) 978-3-319-11418-7)

2013

Dierichs, K., Menges, A.: 2013, Aggregate Architecture: Simulation Models for Synthetic Non-convex Granulates, in Adaptive Architecture, Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) Waterloo/Buffalo/Nottingham, pp. 301-310.

Dierichs, K., Schwinn, T., Menges, A.: 2013, Robotic Pouring of Aggregate Structures – Responsive Motion Planning Strategies for Online Robot Control of Granular Pouring Processes with Synthetic Macro-Scale Particles, in Brell Cokcan, S., Braumann, J. (eds.), Proceedings of the Robots in Architecture Conference 2012, TU Vienna, Springer, Vienna, pp. 196-205. (ISBN 978-3709114643)

2012

Dierichs, K., Menges, A.: 2012, Functionally Graded Aggregate Structures: Digital Additive Manufacturing with Designed Granulates, in Synthetic Digital Ecologies, Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA), San Francisco, pp. 295-304.

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, in Achten, H., Pavlicek, J., Hulin, J., Matejdan, D. (eds.), Digital Physicality – Proceedings of the 30th eCAADe Conference, Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Architecture (Czech Republic) 12-14 September 2012, pp. 711-719. (ISBN 978-9-4912070-3-7)

Dierichs, K., Menges, A.: 2012, Aggregate Architectures, Observing and Designing with Changeable Material Systems in Architecture, in Costa, X., Thorne, M. (eds), Change, Architecture, Education, Practices – Proceedings of the International ACSA Conference, Barcelona, Spain, 20-22 June 2012, pp. 463-468. (ISBN 978-0-935502-83-1)

Dierichs, K., Menges, A.: 2012, Material und Machine Computation als Grundlage Experimenteller Ästhetik in der Aggregat Architektur, in Kongress-Akten des VIII. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Ästhetik 2011, www.dgae.de/kongress-akten.html.

2011

Krieg, O., Dierichs, K., Reichert, S., Schwinn, T., Menges, A.: 2011, Performative architectural morphology: Finger-joined plate structures integrating robotic manufacturing, biological principles and location-specific requirements, in Gengnagel, C., Kilian, A., Palz, N. and Scheurer, F. (eds.), Computational Design Modeling, Proceedings of the Design Modeling Symposium Berlin, Springer-Verlag, Berlin/Heidelberg, pp. 259-266. (ISBN: 978-3642234347)

Krieg, O., Dierichs, K., Reichert, S., Schwinn, T., Menges, A.: 2011, Performative architectural morphology: Robotically manufactured biomimetic finger-joined plate structures, in Proceedings of the 29th eCAADE Conference, Ljubljana (Slovenia) 21-24 September 2011, pp. 573-580. (ISBN 978-9491207013)

Dierichs, K., Fleissner, F., Menges, A.: 2011, Interrelation of experiment and simulation in the development of Aggregate Architectures, in Digital Proceedings of the International Symposion on Algorithmic Design for Architecture and Urban Design (ALGODE) in Tokyo (Japan), 14-16 March 2011.

2010

Dierichs, K., Menges, A.: 2010, Material Computation in Architectural Aggregate Systems, in Life In:Formation: On Responsive Information and Variations in Architecture, Proceedings of the 30th Conference of the Association For Computer Aided Design In Architecture (ACADIA), New York City, pp. 372-78.

Dierichs, K., Menges, A.: 2010, Natural Aggregation Processes as Models for Architectural Material Systems, in Proceedings of the Design and Nature Conference 2010, Pisa, Italy, Southampton, WIT, pp. 17-27. (ISBN: 978-1845644543)

PATENTS

2013

Dierichs, K., Menges, A., Schwinn, T.: 2013, Herstellung architektonischer Strukturen aus Aggregaten konkaver Gebilde, German Patent No. 10 2012 100 334.3, Filed 16.01.2012.

2010

Dierichs, K.: 2010, Verfahren zum Herstellen eines Formkörpers, German Patent No. 10 2008 049 408, Filed 29.09.2008.

LECTURES

2022

Shape-changing particles in designed granular materials, Talk at the CurvoBio 2022 Workshop, Harnack House, Berlin, 26 August 2022

Self-folding Particles as Architectural Construction Materials, Panel
Presentation, INCOSE NWSG IW 2022, Folding in Natural Systems and Design,
INCOSE, San Diego, Virtual, 29.01.2022

2021

Designing Matter: Granular Architectures, Lecture at Lecture Series, hallo biologie # 1, a CyPhyLab lecture series, CyPhyLab, Technische Universität Berlin, Virtual, 09.06.2021

2019

Programming Matter: Designed Granular Materials for Architectural Construction, MSS FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, 18.09.2019

Designed Granular Materials in Architecture, Sino-German Symposium on Granular ‘Phase Transitions’, Kloster Banz, Bad Staffelstein, 16.04.2019

2018

Designed Granular Materials, ICD, Stuttgart, 23.01.2018

2016

Aggregat Architektur,  AFFSpace, Berne, 24.11.2016

An Artificial World – Fusing the Computational and the Physical in Architecture, A Menges K Dierichs, Domaine de Boisbuchet, Lessac, 19.08.2016

2015

Granular Morphologies, AD Material Synthesis Symposium, German Architecture Museum, Frankfurt am Main, 30.10.2015 Modelling Aggregate Behaviour,

Design Modelling Symposium Copenhagen, Copenhagen, 01.10.2015

Designed Granular Matter – Aggregate Architecture, Designer Matter Workshop, AMOLF, Amsterdam, 24.06.2015

2014

Simulation of Aggregate Structures in Architecture: Distinct-Element Modeling of Synthetic Non-Convex Granulates, AAG Conference, London, 18.09.2014

2013

Informed Matter – Aggregate Structures, Design and Research Lecture Series, KTH Stockholm, 05.11.2013

Simulation Models for Synthetic Non-convex Granulates, ACADIA Conference, Waterloo, Buffalo, Nottingham, 26.10.2013

2012

Robotic Pouring of Aggregate Structures – Responsive Motion-Planning Strategies for Online Robot-Control of Granular Pouring Processes with Synthetic Macro-Scale Particles, Robots in Architecture Conference 2012, Technical University of Vienna, Vienna, 17.12.2012

Designed Granular Matter: Non-Convex Particle Models for Aggregate Architectures, Fluidity Adaptability Rigidity Conference, University of Chicago, Chicago, 26.10.2012

Functionally Graded Aggregate Structures – Digital Additive Manufacturing with Designed Granulates, ACADIA Conference 2012, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, 20.10.2012

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, ECAADE Conference 2012, Czech Technical University Prague, Prague, 14.09.2012

Aggregate Architectures, Observing and Designing with Changeable Material Systems in Architecture, ACSA International Conference 2012, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, 22.06.2012

Aggregate Architecture, AD Material Computation Symposium, German Architecture Museum, Frankfurt am Main, 05.06.2012

2011

Performative Architectural Morphology: Finger-Joined Plate Structures Integrating Robotic Manufacturing, Biological Principles and Location-Specific Requirements, Design Modelling Symposium Berlin 2011, University of the Arts Berlin, Berlin, 12.10.2011

Material und Machine Computation als Grundlage Experimenteller Ästhetik in der Aggregat Architektur, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Aesthetik Kongress, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, 07.10.2011

Performative Architectural Morphology: Robotically Manufactured Biomimetic Finger-Joined Plate Structures, ECAADE Conference 2011, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, 22.09.2011

Interrelation of Experiment and Simulation in the Development of Aggregate Architectures, ALGODE Conference 2011, Online Lecture, Stuttgart/Tokyo,14.11.2011

2010

Material Computation in Architectural Aggregate Systems, ACADIA Conference 2010, Cooper Union, New York, 24.10.2010

Natural Aggregation Processes as Models for Architectural Material Systems, Design and Nature Conference, University of Pisa, Pisa, 28.06.2010

Induktive Materialprozesse, Bern University of the Arts, Bern, 26.03.2010

2009

Aggregations – Geomorphodynamic Microclimates, Ecobuild Symposium, Architectural Association School of Architecture, London, 06.03.2009

EXHIBITIONS

2021

Hyundai Motor Studio
“Hello, Robot. Design between Human and Machine”, ICD Aggregate Column 2017
Karola Dierichs, Achim Menges
South Korea, 03.08.2021 – 31.10.2021,

2020/21

Neues Museum Biel
“Hello, Robot. Design between Human and Machine”, ICD Aggregate Column 2017
Karola Dierichs, Achim Menges
Switzerland, 26.09.2020 – 03.01.2021

2019/20

V&A Dundee
“Hello, Robot. Design between Human and Machine”, ICD Aggregate Column 2017
Karola Dierichs, Achim Menges
Scotland, 02.11.2019 – 09.02.2020

2019

El Museo San Telmo
“Hello, Robot. Design between Human and Machine”, ICD Aggregate Column 2017
Karola Dierichs, Achim Menges
Spain, 22.06.2019 – 29.09.2019

2018

Gewerbemuseum Winterthur
“Hello, Robot. Design between Human and Machine”, ICD Aggregate Column 2017
Karola Dierichs, Achim Menges
Switzerland, 27.05.2018 – 04.11.2018

2017

Design Society
“Minding the Digital”, ICD Aggregate Wall 2017
Karola Dierichs, Achim Menges
China, 02.12.2017 – 03.06.2018

Design museum Gent
“Hello, Robot. Design between Human and Machine”, ICD Aggregate Column 2017
Karola Dierichs, Achim Menges
Belgium, 27.10.2017 – 15.04.2018

MAK
“Hello, Robot. Design between Human and Machine”, ICD Aggregate Column 2017
Karola Dierichs, Achim Menges
Austria, 21.06.2017 – 01.10.2017

Vitra Design Museum
“Hello, Robot. Design between Human and Machine”, ICD Aggregate Column 2017
Karola Dierichs, Achim Menges
Germany, 11.02.2017 – 14.05.2017

2013

M:AI Museum für Architektur und Ingenieurskunst
“Anything goes!: Die neue Lust am Material”
Project Team ICD/ITKE Research Pavilion 2010
Germany, 07.11.2013 – 15.12.2013

FRAC Centre Orleans
“ArchiLab 2013: Naturalizing Architecture”
Project Team ICD/ITKE Research Pavilion 2010
France, 14.09.2013 – 02.02.2014

2012

Gewerbemuseum Winterthur
“Wood Loop”
Project Team ICD/ITKE Research Pavilion 2010
Switzerland, 14.09.-21.10.2012

Mies van der Rohe Award 2011 Travelling Exhibition
Mies van der Rohe Award 2011
Project Team ICD/ITKE Research Pavilion Team 2010

2011

Mies van der Rohe Award 2011 Travelling Exhibition
Mies van der Rohe Award 2011
Project Team ICD/ITKE Research Pavilion Team 2010

Architectural Association School of Architecture
“Net Works”
Project Team ICD/ITKE Research Pavilion 2010
United Kingdom, 19.11.-14.12.2011

2005

Nederlands Architectuurinstituut (NAi)
“Architecture Biennale Rotterdam: Flow – Flood-Resistant Housing Prototype II”
Karola Dierichs
The Netherlands, 27.05.-21.08.2005

Nederlands Architectuurinstituut (NAi)
“Architecture Biennale Rotterdam: Flow – Flood-Resistant Housing Prototype I”
Karola Dierichs
The Netherlands, 27.05.-21.08.2005

AWARDS

2019

materialPREIS 2019
Anerkennung Studie & Vision
Karola Dierichs, Achim Menges, ICD Project Team

2014

International Holcim Awards for Sustainable Construction 2014
Acknowledgement Award Region Europe
Karola Dierichs, Achim Menges

2011

Mies van der Rohe Award 2011
Shortlist
Project Team ICD/ITKE Research Pavilion 2010

DETAIL Prize 2011
Category Research
Project Team ICD/ITKE Research Pavilion 2010

German Timber Construction Award 2011
Honourable Mention
Project Team ICD/ITKE Research Pavilion 2010

2010

Lightweight Construction Award 2010
Winner
Project Team ICD/ITKE Research Pavilion 2010

2005

International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam
Student Award
Project Team Masterclass Greg Lynn

1997

Architectural Association 150th Anniversary Competition
First Prize
Project Team Diploma Unit 4