The LAB comprises individual researchers that together represent a plurality of innovative perspectives on the topic of Tectonics in Architecture that we seek to nurture and cross feet mutually with the common aim:
To increase the quality and viability of the built environment through the development of a tectonic mindset, including theory, methods, and models applicable in conceiving technical principles as spatial gestures in architectural research, education, and practice.
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Primary Objective: I am an Architect Engineer focused at growing knowledge about how to uncover and expand the viable social, economic and environmental potential of architectural space itself as an integral expression of the techniques and resources applied in its realization. I study this tectonic challenge across research, teaching, and practice in TiA – Tectonics in Architecture LAB. I am Vice President of the International Association for Structures & Architecture, Co-Chair of the upcoming 5th International Conference on Structures & Architecture and Associate Editor of the new interdisciplinary Springer Journal Architecture, Structures, and Construction.
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Phone: 9940 7278
E-mail: mfri@create.aau.dk
PHD STUDENT
Primary objective: To study how architectural design ’solutions’ and design ‘problem’ processes can be investigated in co-evolution through developing adaptive robotic fabrication processes that interactively respond to human and material behaviour. Specific thematic interests: Data-driven and performance-based architecture with a specific focus on the potential of adaptive robotics and how these can influence creative cognitive design processes. This is being explored through development of both computational design algorithms and physical demonstrators.
Phone: 9940 9929
E-mail: mbje@create.aau.dk
PHD STUDENT
Primary objective: Exploring and investigating the relationship between architectural quality and socio-economic value creation for different stakeholders (users, developers, as well as society as a whole) in the built environment. Specific thematic interests: Describing and valuating architectural quality using tectonics as an overall theoretical framework across the disciplines of architecture, anthropology and economics to support the decision-making process in the architectural design phase, that contributes to the improvement of the design in the future, enabling architects to design with the highest possible added socio-economic value in their practice.
Phone: 4196 3520
E-mail: essa@create.aau.dk
PHD STUDENT
Primary Objective: Developing and Expanding Tectonic design theory into radically ecological directions by way of interdisciplinarity. Alongside, it is equally crucial to develop normative design methods while also providing more general elaboration of methodology of the tectonic approach to architecture and design.
The current research is dealing with linking tectonic theory to MFA-methodology and Ecological Design (forestry) – supported by the philosophy of phenomenology – to develop a new or different building culture with a new and radical approach to materials, along their use and consumption, without sidelining spatial and phenomenological qualities.
Phone:
E-mail: kust@create.aau.dk
Contact AAU
Aalborg University
Fredrik Bajers Vej 7KAalborg University
P.O. Box 159
DK-9100 Aalborg
Phone: +45 9940 9940
Mail: aau@aau.dk
CVRnr: 29102384
Eannr: EAN