As resource efficiency becomes a dominant driver in future construction it is essential to link building technological developments with an exploration of their architectural design implications. While building industry fosters incremental improvements of established construction technology, academic research environments offer the opportunity for bottom up investigations of radically new design and construction strategies. The lecture presents a series of interdisciplinary developed research prototypes which explore a novel architectural design and construction repertoire through integrated design and fabrication methods for fiber composite lightweight structures. Harnessing the materials structural performance and unique architectural expression allows for simultaneous advancements in building culture and construction technology.
Moritz Dörstelmann explores integrated computational design and fabrication strategies for novel fiber composite building systems. He realized a series of internationally published and exhibited fibrous lightweight structures which achieve simultaneous advancement of building culture and technology. He has been invited studio critic and gave lectures and workshops at various international institutions.
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