Journals
Book Review ‘Printing Architecture’ Nan, C., 2019. Printing Architecture. Interiors, 9(2), pp.1–5. DOI: 10.1080/20419112.2019.1589692
Reducing Domestic Energy Consumption using Behavioural Economics, Evaluation of Three Systems Guzman Botero, A., Nan, I.C., Symposium on Simulation for Architecture and Urban Design (SimAUD) 2018, TU Delft
Emerging Territories of Digital Material Practice Nan, I. C., Patterson, C. & Pedreschi, R. 2017 RTD2017 Proceedings of the 3rd Biennial Research Through Design Conference. RTD
Digital Materialization: Additive and Robotical Manufacturing with Clay and Silicone Nan, I. C., Patterson, C. & Pedreschi, 2016, Herneoja, Aulikki; Toni Österlund and Piia Markkanen (eds.), Complexity & Simplicity - Proceedings of the 34th eCAADe Conference - Volume 1, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland, 22-26 August 2016, pp. 345-354
A New Machinecraft: A Critical Evaluation of Architectural Robots Nan, I. C. 16 Jun 2015 Computer-Aided Architectural Design The Next City - New Technologies and the Future of the Built Environment: 16th International Conference, CAAD Futures 2015 São Paulo, Brazil, July 8–10, 2015 Selected Papers. Springer-Verlag, p. 422-438
A New Machinecraft: Architectural Robots Nan, I. C. 2015 Emerging Experiences in the Past, Present and Future of Digital Architecture: Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA) 2015. Hong Kong: The Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA), Hong Kong
Emerging Territories of Digital Material Practice Nan, I. C., Patterson, C. & Pedreschi, R. 2017 RTD2017 Proceedings of the 3rd Biennial Research Through Design Conference. RTD
Emerging Territories of Digital Material Practice Nan, I. C., Patterson, C. & Pedreschi, R. 2017 RTD2017 Proceedings of the 3rd Biennial Research Through Design Conference. RTD
Events
100 Day Studio by Architecture Foundation 2020
Everything is interconnected, everything is linked. On a metaphorical level maybe, on a physical, material scale, surely. Oversized superinfrastructures, interlinked through logistical chains, define all aspects of our lives. We rarely think of them, we rarely know they even exist and most of the time we do not know how they operate. This flow of goods, data and humans is all enabled by Super-Infrastructures — networks of extraction, production and distribution, clusters such as data centres, container terminals, ports, auction markets, future transport and transit infrastructures such as drone terminals etc.
In this conversation we discuss the radical technologies that facilitate our globalised hyper-consumerism and the role and importance of super-infrastructures within our cities and for our everyday. Brought under increasing strain with the impact of COVID-19, it is vital to examine these forms of architecture for our current and future remote forms of living and working.
The lecture explores and highlights existing superinfrastructures alongside the work of Future Fields Think Tank and the research currently being undertaken.
Control. Code. Construct. Conference 2019
Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, University of Edinburgh
Prof. Arno Pronk, TU Eindhoven // Anna Liu, Tonkin Liu Architects // Prof. Chris Speed, Design Informatics, University of Edinburgh // Guan Lee, RCA + UCL Bartlett // Shereen Doumar, Founder of CAL // Lloyd Lee, Founder of Volume 64 // Prof. Remo Pedreschi, University of Edinburgh
Control. Code. Construct. explores the relationship between the adequacy of code, computation and the machine —computer, robot, drone etc.— and tacit knowledge, the type of knowledge that craftsmen or makers hold, accumulated through years of experience and which is hard to transfer into verbal communication, let alone code. Where does the boundary lie between implicit and explicit knowledge, in terms of architecture, construction and design? This question can be also transferred to other domains such as big data, artificial intelligence and smartness — where does computational decision making stop and where does human decision making begin?
Control. Code. Construct. addresses these complexities of making by describing, advancing and ultimately interrogating technical realities in relation to formulated strategies related to material, geometry, structure, data, evaluation, simulation and the used machines.
Computation and construction are closely related to the notion of the designer’s control over process. We wish to investigate the various forms and shapes control can take in the disciplines of architecture, design and engineering. Going beyond theoretical discourses, we explore the realities of making and construction of the creative industries.
Research Seminar Series — Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Enriqueta Llabres Vals, Relational Urbanism Bartlett B Pro // Ed Moseley, AKT II // Mario Carpo, UCL Bartlett // Michael Hensel // Sean Hanna, UCL Bartlett // Oliver Tessmann, TU Darmstadt // Phillipe Morel, XTree