Sebastian Gatz

Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation · Centre for Information Technology and Architecture

In response to global challenges of resource scarcity, increasing attention is being paid to bio-based materials - a domain that covers familiar materials such as timber and emerging materials such as bio-plastics and mycelium composites. The ability to observe, analyse, simulate, and design with their interior heterogeneity and behaviour over time...

This paper examines the use of machine learning in creating digitally integrated design-to-fabrication workflows. As computational design allows for new methods of material specification and fabrication, it enables direct functional grading of material at high detail thereby tuning the design performance in response to performance criteria. However...

Machine Learning (ML) is opening new perspectives for architectural fabrication, as it holds the potential for the profession to shortcut the currently tedious and costly setup of digital integrated design to fabrication workflows and make these more adaptable. To establish and alter these workflows rapidly becomes a main concern with the advent of...

This project speculates about a public bathhouse for a possible / nearby (dystopian) future, developed around the two UN Goals - “Climate Action & Good Health” and “Well- Being” (Desa, 2016). The proposal is called “Protective Skins”, and it is about a divided but related architecture: a private suit and a public bathhouse - both protecting the hum...

In this paper, we present a novel, speculative design approach for a bio-hybrid architectural system. The Living Weaves system seeks to harness the material accumulation capacity of climbing plants and steer this growth into an interlaced configuration with a diagrid scaffold to produce a structural Kagome weave. The concept is described through a...