Jerzy Wojtowicz

University of British Columbia | UBC

Technological development generates social changes while providing new tools that can be implemented in the fields of architecture and urban design. It creates the need to enrich architects’ competencies with knowledge and experience, enabling the conscious use of technology in designing future functional solutions for responsive space and the opti...

Today more than half of the world’s population lives in cities not yet ready for the massive growth and adaptation required to meet global urbanization predicted for the next decades. The planning, design, and urban governance must urgently evolve. Future cities should become more efficient, inclusive, and sustainable. The intelligent town we antic...

Contemporary architecture can be seen as a dynamic system that changes in response to its environment and even as a system that can modify itself. Interactive or responsive environments are not totally new to architecture; however, the possibilities in architecture have only begun to be examined. To look at the possibilities in this emerging field...

Computer dependent design space is illustrated with the recent international competition project for Kowloon Arts Center. The spatial condition of design resulted from the deployment of Euclidian geometry and use of the nonrational, complex surfaces. Another aspect of computer dependent space was rooted in the contemporary work situation where arch...

This article reports on the recent, geographically and temporally distributed, intercollegiate Virtual Design Studio based on the 1998 implementation Phase(x) environment. Students participating in this workshop had to create a place to wait in the form of a folly. This design task was cut in five logical parts, called phases. Every phase had to be...

A design problem shared over the Internet raises issues of how digital media and group dynamics affect networked design collaborations. This paper describes how to conduct a long-distance studio and compares asynchronous and synchronous collaborative techniques. Digital methods are discussed in relationship to both the creative process and design c...

Computer dependent design space is illustrated with the recent international competition project for Kowloon Arts Center. The spatial condition of design resulted from the deployment of Euclidian geometry and use of the non-rational, complex surfaces. Another aspect of computer dependent space was rooted in the contemporary work situation where arc...

Computer culture creates new demands on the process of making architecture. Both academia and practice are undergoing rapid changes due to the impact of information technology, and one of the most significant phenomena which has resulted from this transformation is collaborative design in a networked environment. Many researchers in the field have...

The engagement of the digital media in any given design universe can trigger the discussion on the nature of creativity. What are digital media limits and opportunities in design? How best to tap its creative powers? I will illustrate some of those issues with my own work, as well as design of my students and colleagues at the end of this address.

Continually being redeveloped since its inception six years ago, Virtual Design Studio (VDS) represents a new method of practicing and teaching design. This paper focuses on a recent project which used VDS in a professional context: a design competition entry for the 2006 Winter Olympic Games. Separated by six time zones, the authors offer distinct...

The imitation process and the 3D digitizer deployed in conceptual design.

This chapter is concerned with illustrating the potential and limitations of structured, "long distance"' design collaboration utilizing computational and telecommunication tools. Digital design collaboration makes new demands on both the computational tools and the process of making architecture.

Distributed design over networks is rapidly emerging as the new mode of architectural practice. Recent digital working environment of virtual studio is illustrated with three case studies. Projects highlight the social importance and advocate remote delivery of studio education and design practice in the sheared digital space.

Thesis (Doctoral)--Harvard University, 1990. Includes bibliographical references.

Contemporary architecture can be seen as a dynamic system that causes change to its environment, or even as system that can modify itself. Interactive or responsive environments are not totally new to architecture however the possibilities in architecture have only been lightly referred to. This interdisciplinary design studio, with mechatronics en...

The future of urban infrastructure is no doubt a future of control systems. An architecture that engages infrastructure can engage control systems to not only improve efficiency and mediate contested urban space but also to modifying spaces for different uses, buffer environmental factors and respond to occupation or use. The use of mechatronics in...