Nadja Gaudillière-Jami

• Doctor of Architecture
• Assistant Professor at Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation

The ongoing development of digital design and fabrication techniques has explicitly changed the way architecture is thought, designed and produced. 3D Concrete Printing Technology personifies best the long-lasting pursuit of non-standard production in architecture. A recently established tendency of systematic recourse to optimization algorithms fo...

The present papers aims at contributing to an history of computational design and to an historiography of the field, by proposing a study of the development of sociotechnical networks of computation in architecture between 1965 and 2020 as shown in AD magazine. The research focuses on two aspects : a methodological approach for the constitution of...

With the digital revolution, new design methods appeared in architecture from the 1960s onwards, leading to a series of experimental projects, with the use of algorithms and programming tools as a common feature - a set of projects that can be grouped together under the common name of computational design. However, the use of a procedural, computat...

By mapping material properties that influence mechanical performance across the timber resource at a high spatial resolution and matching them to digitally simulated performance demands in designed glulam elements (Fig. 1), work-flows such as the RawLam Experiments hint towards the ability to use material stocks usually unemployed in glulam manufac...

Life-cycle assessment (LCA) stands as a vital tool in gauging the environmental impacts of building endeavors. Extending LCA to emerging research practices like advanced digital manufacturing of bio-based materials becomes pivotal for refining materials, appraising outcomes, and steering architecture toward sustainable development and circularity g...

Cette contribution s’intéresse à la relation entre médium et objet à travers le prisme des algorithmes. Partant du constat de leur existence en tant qu’objets du design de la part des informaticiennes et programmeuses, avant de devenir médiums du design pour d’autres professions, nous présentons dans un premier temps les traces concrètes laissées p...

You’re outside. You want to build. There’s earth. There’s twigs and logs. There’s stones. There’s all you need. Our research proposes to leverage 3D-printing and computational design strategies to use matter as met, i.e., matter as found on site in building processes. Combined into a design method enabling disassembly and reassembly, this approach...

Machine learning (ML) has not only become increasingly popular in the fields of computer science and AI since the 1990s, it also has become increasingly used in architectural design in the past few years. While some experimentations deal with fabrication or engineering issues and performance prediction, others deal with layout generation. As in any...

The increasing experimental investigations of Mycelium-Based Composites (MBC) in design and architecture necessitate efforts from pedagogues to find ways to transmit knowledge and support regarding the guiding principles of mycology so as to empower students in their investigations and study. The adoption of MBC craft in arts and applied arts offer...

Design in Translation is based on an observation shared by the professors and researchers who teach design in French or French-speaking universities. As far as the theoretical fundamentals of design are concerned, the equivalent of Anglo-Saxon readers hardly exist. Between works never translated into French, translated but never published, publishe...

Numerous researches dedicated to the gross exist in psychology, focusing notably on the sense of otherness behind this reaction of disgust and fascination. Furthermore, many grotesque works of art have been achieved, in particular in the XXth and XXIth centuries, in attempts to challenge prevailing social and moral models. Contemporary design pract...

Based on the assumption that socio-technical networks of computation in architecture exist and must be analyzed deeper in order to understand the impact of algorithmic tools on the design process, the present paper offers a foray into it, drawing on science studies methodologies. The research explores in what regard multi-agent systems (MAS) are re...

The present research proposes a comprehensive methodology of investigation of algorithmic typologies currently in use in the computational field in architecture, focusing on three elements : practitioners, tools and projects. The methodology has been applied to evolutionary design tools in order to investigate the technical and epistemological opti...

Fab City aims at fostering the social resilience of urban areas by structuring networks of Fab Labs and third-places. This research paper reviews the ontology of this initiative and provides with an understanding of the articulation between networks of interests and communities of values so to enhance Fab City's potential for territorial resilience...

The present research proposes a method to analyse computational tools at the architect's disposal and the potential technical bias they induce in architectural design. Six case studies will be used as a demonstration of the method's ability to highlight those biases and how architects and designers manipulate those tools to translate their architec...

In the present paper a new additive manufacturing processing route is introduced to produce ultra-high-performance concrete complex architectonic elements, by printing integrated formwork. Interdisciplinary work involving material science, computation, robotics, architecture and design resulted in the development of an innovative way of 3D printing...