IoA Sliver Lecture - Achim Menges

Computation, in its most basic meaning, refers to
the processing of information. In this way, both
mechanic processes operating in the binary realm
of the digital, as well as material processes operating
in the complex domain of the physical can be
considered computational. The lecture will introduce
Achim Menges’ work on exploring the territory
where machine computation and material
computation potentially overlap, where they not
simply co-exist but intensely interact in the design
process. He will present the related design research
of his institute at the University Stuttgart along
a series of constructed prototype buildings. This
will include the institute’s latest research pavilion,
which was entirely constructed by robotic carbon
and glass fibre filament winding processes.