Speaker Wanyu He & Tobias Klein
Date 13.3.2024
Time HKT 18:30
Location G/F, Atrium
Revolutionizing Architecture: AI-Driven Performative DFMA
The lecture explores how artificial intelligence is transforming architectural design and construction through intelligent Design for Manufacturing and Assembly (DFMA) processes. This lecture spotlights ground-breaking AI solutions pioneering this paradigm shift.
Generative AI empowers architects to create precise 2D images and optimized 3D models with data and rules, streamlining design workflows. Complementary AI technologies bridge the gap between design and manufacturing by leveraging DFMA principles, optimizing for cost-effectiveness, constructability, and seamless supply chain integration.
Attendees will gain insights into how these cutting-edge AI applications enhance collaboration, enabling sustainable, efficient structures while seamlessly transitioning from conceptual design to physical realization. Discover the boundless potential of AI-driven performative DFMA in revolutionizing architecture – where intelligent systems converge with human creativity to redefine the built environment.
Explore pioneering AI technologies transforming design, manufacturing, and construction through this intelligent, performative approach.
Wanyu He
Founder and CEO of XKool Techology, and LookX.ai. She was a former Senior Project Architect in OMA Rottermdam and HK for over 7 years, participating in notable projects, such as the Shenzhen Stock Exchange. She was the Adjunct assistant professor at the HKU MUD programme. She is a Ph.D. candidate in Artificial Intelligence and Spatial Architecture at Florida State University, and Ms in Architectural Design & Computer Algorithms at Berlage Insitute, Delft University of Technology.
Modi Operandi of a Digital Craft Practice
Augmented Materials discusses the development of new tools, methods, and material combinations to bridge the gap between the digital and physical realm and its expressions. This material-based practice is opposed by the cluster of Extended Realities, discussing notions of VR/AR and autostereoscopic media perceptions to construct new narratives and image spaces based on LIDAR scanning as a reinterpretation of traditional landscape painting. The third cluster articulates an operational Synthesis between digital and physical materials and tools as poetic (Poïesis) and technical (Technê) expressions as a new hybrid practice model – Digital Craftsmanship. This practice model opposes a dualistic separation of digital workflows and conventional making. Together, these form some modi Operandi for future applications of digital tools to design and art.
Tobias Klein (簡鳴謙), is a trained Architect. Through his works and writings, he established the notion of Digital Craftsmanship as an operational synthesis between digital and physical materials and tools as poetic (Poïesis) and technical (Technê) expressions, opposing a traditional dualistic separation of digital work-flows and analogue making and material understanding. His works have been internationally exhibited at venues such as the London Science Museum, the V&A, The Venice Architectural Biennale, the Science Gallery (Melbourne), the MoCA Taipei, Ars Electronica, and at Art Basel Hong Kong. In 2020, The University Museum and Art Gallery, Hong Kong, opened a retrospective exhibition of his works from the past 15 years, accompanied by a publication with the same title as the exhibition, Metamorphosis or Confrontation. Tobias Klein is an Associate Professor and Program Leader of the MFA at the School of Creative Media at City University of Hong Kong.
The lecture will be conducted in English. For non-CUHK participants, please register here.
