Design of Ultra Lightweight Building Systems 2

Course: Design of Ultra Lightweight Building Systems

Level: 2nd level - Master

Year/Period: 2017

Tutors: Prof. Alessandra Zanelli, Nebojsa Jakica, Salvatore Viscuso

Invited lecturers:

Arch. Marta Barozzi (Str.ucture intern)

Dott. Roberto Canobbio (CTO, Canobbio textile engineering)

Dott. Gianluca Giabardo (Designer, Dosso Fiorito)

Prof. PhD. Carol Monticelli (ABC Dept., PoliMi)

Eng. Simone Toso (Project manager, Taiyo Europe)

Dott. Cecile Wilquin (Serge Ferrari Textiles)

Tobias Walliser (LAVA)

Alessandro Liuti (University of Melbourne)

Riccardo La Magna (University of Berlin)

EXTREME LIVING PART(Assignment in two steps):

Students will be asked to deep some non-conventional living situations which can occur in our cities today (for tourism, temporary events, emergency situations, homeless users). These living needs require a special understanding of flexible functionalities, adaptive skins, easy and fast installation processes, and refer to non-conventional, ultra-lightweight materials and structural systems. Students will refer to different design approaches in order to overcome the current solution where the flexible layer of the skin is under-used as mere cladding surface instead of having a primary role of structural membrane. Possible design approaches are for example: Kinetic vs kinematic structures; multi-layered vs multi-functional membranes; active vs passive climatic system; active vs passive structural system.

This part of work is divided in two steps of delivery:

a preliminary delivery (deadline 29th March) which has to be intended as a self-evaluating phase for the students in order to understand which is the most suitable exercise path they can follow;

the final delivery  (deadline 26th April).

EXTREME PERFORMANCE PART(Assignment in a step)

Students will have to design a lightweight architecture (looking for a visual lightness, not only the minimization of the weight of the building system) and to find the most performing compromise in the relation to a set of requirements linked to an extreme climate situation.

the final delivery  (deadline 28th June).