Anutorn Polphong (Participant)

First of all I would like to thank you for an inspiring lecture. I also attended your lecture in Bangkok a few years back when you spoke in detailed about your project at the time, the sail and the lantern. Which for me was very clear and very interesting how you dealth with construction technology constraint then. In this lecture, you have shown us again the errors and uncontrolable factors occurs when natural material meets computational technology, and especially how you try to deal with it.  Towards the middle part, since there are now many knowns obstacles in term of construction using bamboo, I had a questions regarding how you have tried to coped with these known issues. And you seems to answer it towards the end with the VR technology. I would be interested to know still if there are any furthur known factors, now that you have built so many, that you would maybe find them interesting to get them resolved or to tackeled them, especially in this context where constuction technology may not get a rapid shift, and the digital world is advancing quite rapidly, what might architecture respond to this issue, to perhaps incoperate new form, new fuction, and have a say in the future society we may not know how it might turn out.  Thank you very much

@6 May 20, 11:34 AM

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Kristof Crolla 高仕棠 (Chairperson)

Dear Anuthorn Polphong,

Thanks for your question and for attending my lecture a second time!

Much of the work I showed this time overlaps with what I showed a year ago, but since then, indeed, the research has advanced. We are currently developing several digital tools that allow for a more informed conceptual design process, where e.g. bending strengths are automatically calculated and visualised in real-time, allowing architects to assess structural potential of their designs on the fly. Also, further automating the real-time generation of associated fabrication drawings helps overcome challenges if implementation. And indeed, there, AR/VR technology is incredibly promising as it will potentially soon remove a substantial bottleneck that makes manual implementation tricky.

Hopefully, I’ll be able to report soon on all the currently ongoing work in a future lecture in Thailand. The main goal of the work remains  to expand the locally feasible designs solutions through design computation and its integration in low-tech craft and construction. As we advance, step by step we'll discover the far greater untapped potential of novel form and function. 

All the best,

K

@11 May 20, 11:05 AM