Parametrically varying double curved panels can enhance structural stiffness and express a high aesthetic value. However, fabricating many uniquely shaped double curved panels is justifiable within only the most exclusive budgets. This work explores new efficient methods of producing doubly curved concrete panels by utilizing a reusable and quickly reconfigurable moulding system.

Faisal Al Barazi
Georgios Bitsianis
Stanley Carroll
Amro Kabbara

Parametrically varying double curved panels can enhance structural stiffness and express a high aesthetic value. However, fabricating many uniquely shaped double curved panels is justifiable within only the most exclusive budgets. This work explores new efficient methods of producing doubly curved concrete panels by utilizing a reusable and quickly reconfigurable moulding system.

Faisal Al Barazi
Georgios Bitsianis
Stanley Carroll
Amro Kabbara

Parametrically varying double curved panels can enhance structural stiffness and express a high aesthetic value. However, fabricating many uniquely shaped double curved panels is justifiable within only the most exclusive budgets. This work explores new efficient methods of producing doubly curved concrete panels by utilizing a reusable and quickly reconfigurable moulding system.

Faisal Al Barazi
Georgios Bitsianis
Stanley Carroll
Amro Kabbara

Parametrically varying double curved panels can enhance structural stiffness and express a high aesthetic value. However, fabricating many uniquely shaped double curved panels is justifiable within only the most exclusive budgets. This work explores new efficient methods of producing doubly curved concrete panels by utilizing a reusable and quickly reconfigurable moulding system.

Faisal Al Barazi
Georgios Bitsianis
Stanley Carroll
Amro Kabbara

We propose an urban resilient system which is able to perform under critical coastal flooding condition. By shaping the landscape, the water which reaches the record level is slowed down, redirected and detered from the land. The urban settlement is designed in order to interact with and take advantage of the water.

Diagram of Ho Chi Minh City and site

Alessandra Fabbri
Jose Garcia
Suhash Patel
Alessandra Lazzoni

We propose an urban resilient system which is able to perform under critical coastal flooding condition. By shaping the landscape, the water which reaches the record level is slowed down, redirected and detered from the land. The urban settlement is designed in order to interact with and take advantage of the water.

Diagram of the programme and water network distribution

Alessandra Fabbri
Jose Garcia
Suhash Patel
Alessandra Lazzoni

Through self-organisation, informal settlements respond to changes in population and climate. However, poor construction methods deter their built spatial and structural quality. Focusing on the informal settlement of Dharavi, Mumbai, the goal is to design a responsive growth system. Informed by the existing social structure and climate, through the implementation of a low-cost low-tech material system from locally sourced cardboard, the system's growth will improve spatial quality, enhancing the symbiotic relationship with the formal city.

Antiopi Koronaki
Rachelle Spiteri
Radhika Amin
Samidha Kowli

Through self-organisation, informal settlements respond to changes in population and climate. However, poor construction methods deter their built spatial and structural quality. Focusing on the informal settlement of Dharavi, Mumbai, the goal is to design a responsive growth system. Informed by the existing social structure and climate, through the implementation of a low-cost low-tech material system from locally sourced cardboard, the system's growth will improve spatial quality, enhancing the symbiotic relationship with the formal city.

Antiopi Koronaki
Rachelle Spiteri
Radhika Amin
Samidha Kowli

Focusing on regions of hot-arid climate, this research aims to develop an integrated Urban Farming system to: provide food locally, improve micro climate, enhance social environments and improve urban quality.

Considering the location of the project, the form and morphology of the farms will be driven by the local urban configuration and morphology as well as production cycle, existing and proposed transportation and water networks and other social logics.

Arghavan Arjmand Nik
Surbhi Bansal

Focusing on regions of hot-arid climate, this research aims to develop an integrated Urban Farming system to: provide food locally, improve micro climate, enhance social environments and improve urban quality.

Considering the location of the project, the form and morphology of the farms will be driven by the local urban configuration and morphology as well as production cycle, existing and proposed transportation and water networks and other social logics.

Arghavan Arjmand Nik
Surbhi Bansal

Focusing on regions of hot-arid climate, this research aims to develop an integrated Urban Farming system to: provide food locally, improve micro climate, enhance social environments and improve urban quality.

Considering the location of the project, the form and morphology of the farms will be driven by the local urban configuration and morphology as well as production cycle, existing and proposed transportation and water networks and other social logics.

Arghavan Arjmand Nik
Surbhi Bansal

This thesis looks at a new earth building typology for rural settings in South East China, shifting the attention from the big urban centres to the village. The research will develop an evolutionary computational model, which generates an adaptive topology in relation to material properties, building physics, topography and social structure. Material prototypes will be developed as the basis for the new building type, challenging structural performance, constructibility and material efficiency. The model will then be systemically distributed on an urban scale, in relation to a specific agricultural context and infrastructure.

Lei Zheng
Min-Kai Yang
Alessandro Guidetti

This thesis looks at a new earth building typology for rural settings in South East China, shifting the attention from the big urban centres to the village. The research will develop an evolutionary computational model, which generates an adaptive topology in relation to material properties, building physics, topography and social structure. Material prototypes will be developed as the basis for the new building type, challenging structural performance, constructibility and material efficiency. The model will then be systemically distributed on an urban scale, in relation to a specific agricultural context and infrastructure.

Lei Zheng
Min-Kai Yang
Alessandro Guidetti

The thesis explores the possibility of densifying an existing urban tissue in Istanbul, Turkey, by using a comprehensive urban infill strategy. The local cultural, environmental and spatial characteristics are abstracted and quantified in order to propose a new model for densification, based on information, which grows within the existing negative space.

Olga Kravchenko
Daniel Zaldivar
Zeynep Aksoz

The thesis explores the possibility of densifying an existing urban tissue in Istanbul, Turkey, by using a comprehensive urban infill strategy. The local cultural, environmental and spatial characteristics are abstracted and quantified in order to propose a new model for densification, based on information, which grows within the existing negative space.

Olga Kravchenko
Daniel Zaldivar
Zeynep Aksoz

The design proposal will focus on the spread phenomena of informal rooftop villages in the high density district of Sham Shui Po, in Hong Kong, China, and translating its spatial and cultural identity into a set of rules and code for densification. The main target will be to develop an urban intelligence in the long term by improving the quality of the existing urban spaces through the emergence of public green areas, socio-cultural amenities integrated in the existing building morphologies, and the improvement of local environmental conditions, such as natural wind ventilation and water treatment, at different operational scales.

Mafe Chaparro
Silvia Daurelio

The well-being of urban population will be achieved by creating a vivid cityscape within coexistence of multiple functions that allows social organisations and through the integration between built environment and greenery.

Mafe Chaparro
Silvia Daurelio

The main target will be to develop an urban intelligence in the long term by improving the quality of the existing urban spaces through the emergence of public green areas, socio-cultural amenities integrated in the existing building morphologies, and the improvement of local environmental conditions, such as natural wind ventilation and water treatment, at different operational scales. The well-being of urban population will be achieved by creating a vivid cityscape within coexistence of multiple functions that allows social organisations and through the integration between built environment and greenery.

Mafe Chaparro
Silvia Daurelio