Institute of Architectural Algorithms & Applications 建筑运算与应用研究所 School of Architecture, Southeast University, Nanjing
Digital Chain
Digital tools innovate design methods. The undergraduate workshop ‘Digital Chain’ led by Prof. Li Biao and Hao Hua made the techniques of computer programming, computational geometry, and CNC fabrication accessible to the students. The workshop pursues a seamless digital chain covering form-finding, material research, tectonic design, and NC production. The essential course of design lies […]
High Resolution Fabrication
Southeast University Team: Li Ce（李策）, Yao Sheng（姚升）, Wu Mingxuan（伍铭萱）, Qiao Jiongchen（乔炯辰） ，Zhang Xinyi（张幸怡），Wang Junemay（王君美），Li Pingyuan（李平原） Tutor: Michael Hansmeyer Coordinator: Li Biao(李飚), Hua Hao(华好) Assistant:Wu Longjie (吴龙杰)，Wang Jusen（王居森）, Ji Yunzhu（季云竹） Time: Nov 2014-Jan 2015 The 8-week design studio explored the conception and design of architectural objects based on generative computational processes. It […]
Robotic Machining
Multiple axis robots have brought a lot of inspirations to free-form surface fabrication. One strategy assembles materials to construct complex structures, for instance, robotic 3D printing and robotic masonry. The other chooses material-removal process. For example, the TRI_V project of Lab.AAA cut polystyrene boards with hot wire to produce shell components. While the ‘Generative Surface Machining’ project […]
Tooling
The digital fabrication studio ‘Tooling’ seeks synergy between codes, design, materials and fabrication. The Processing IDE is employed as a tool for transforming inputs, developing designs and producing CNC data. We emphasize a digital chain from early-stage design to final production. Digital tooling does not only pursue precision and productivity but also motivates methodological innovations in […]
Assign Ji
This project mainly deals with the problems of the reconstruction of the HuiZhou Village,Ji Cun. It realizes a Huizhou Style residential space generating system, including both village planning and architectural designing. The main concern of the generation system is the self-organizing mechanism of village and pattern extraction of the HuiZhou Style residence. It extracts […]
国际风情街 南京2014青奥工程
The real estate building will work for YOG (Nanjing 2014). Lab. AAA designed the facade of the building. Employed the principle of sucking datum from image pixels, all the detail of 5000 drawings (*.dwg files) may be generated within a short time. Year: 2014 国际风情街 南京青奥 Designer: Li Biao(李飚), Guo Zifeng(郭梓峰) [Cooperated with Jiangsu Generative Architectural Design Office CO., LTD] […]
Pixel Replica
Pixel Replica is a self-organizing map that replicates any images on various scales. The program “tiles” the sample image by simulating the implicit patterns inside the image rather than by copying the image. Furthermore, this “learning” process could mimic the image with voxels, in other words, invent a 3D version of the 2D image. The “mimicking” […]
Rectangular Division
There are any algorithms for spatial subdivision, for example: Voronoi divides space into convex hull of polygons, which unmatched too much to normal architectural spaces. The research employs model of multi-agent system, and each plot works as a simple agent similar to rectangle, yet the whole dynamic system presents achievement which couldn’t be implemented by […]
Angle_X
The pavilion named “Angle_X” was one of the earliest works for Lab. AAA. It was generated by pure java program. Simple Genetic Algorithm was employed and more than 10 rules were set for optimizing the structure of the pavilion. Course: Generative Design and Digital Fabrication, School of Architecture, Southeast University Team Member: Xu Wen, […]
manyFolds
How do virtual dimensions relate with real spaces? This experiment investigates topological manifolds and Euclidean space. As we know, a 1-dimensional manifold in 2-dimensional space can be projected to a 1-dimensional map (line). Likewise, a 2d manifold in 3d space can be mapped as a 2d map (surface). In order to explore the freedom of […]
Block Apartment Generating
The government of Xuzhou, China decided to build a new town for local farmers, that, the living area of the farmers will be gathered in this new town, while the land is accumulated as well, outside of it. This project is a computer generated version of the apartments region of the new town. (based on […]
“Tri_V” – KUKA Architectural Fabrication
In this experiment, in designing and fabricating this “Tri_V”(Triangulated Vault) construction, we tested the way of architectural generative design and the process of the digital chain. The physique data was generated by program(Processing – Java), and then transformed to manufactural data according to rules, thus the machine code was acquired to run the KUKA robot […]
