Bio
Shajay Bhooshan currently, heads the research activities of the
Computation and Design (co|de) group at Zaha Hadid Architects, London
and works as a studio master at the AA DRL Masters program. He
completed his Masters Degree AA School of Architecture, London in 2006.His current responsibilities include developing design research and and maintaining computational platforms for the same at ZHA. He has taught and presented work at various events and institutions including Tensinet Istanbul '13, ICFF Bath ‘12 , Designers Gallery AU ’11, Design computation symposium AU ‘10 , simAUD ‘10 , Siggraph ‘08, Beyond Media Florence Frozen festival Amsterdam , Yale University , Universities of Applied Arts in Vienna, and Experimental Architecture in Innsbruck, and Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia. Previously whilst at Populous, he played an active role in the completion of the 02 Arena within the Millennium Dome, Greenwich London, as also in the development of various design proposals for the Oval cricket stadium, London.
His Master’s thesis project, swarm city, was awarded the Royal Society of Arts (London) Head Trust award in 2006. His work has been published in various publications including simAUD 2011 proceedings , International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques (ACM SIGGRAPH 2008 art gallery), RSA Design Directions 2005/06 competition winners publication and Journal of Indian Institute of Architects.
http://drl.aaschool.ac.uk/
http://www.zha-code-education.org/
http://data-tribe.net/wework4her/
He will run EM1 studio Statics-aware robotic printing with Johannes Ladinig.
Research
agenda
The studio will pursue research agenda combining
technologies related industrial robotics arms and 3d printing. This itself
is not novel as can be seen by the recent spate of interest amongst researchers
and professionals alike. The usual method in all such endeavours is to print
using a horizontal build-up of material. This approach, whilst being
generically and widely applicable to a variety of geometries, often requires
the integration of support structures that are removed subsequent to the
printing. Thus the general applicability comes at the cost of printing time and
also material inefficiencies. Alternatively, we pursue an approach similar to
the recent proof-of-concept by Joris Laarman studio and IAAC, which prints
spatially along a 3d curve. The further development of such an approach
immediately necessitates research into geometric patterning and stable
build-sequences to ensure structural equilibrium both during and after the
printing process. This then will the research agenda of the studio.
Design
agenda
We will seek to produce structurally motivated,
spatial networks or graphs, by
developing algorithms that learn from nutrient transport strategies employed by
the simplest organisms such as slime-mold, roots and braches of plants etc.
Such procedurally generated graphs
will be augmented and refined against the research findings above.
The eventual goal of the studio will be to produce an
appropriately scaled (1-1.5 m in height), physical prototype to demonstrate the
feasibility of the research.
Shajay Bhooshan
Bio
Shajay Bhooshan currently, heads the research activities of the
Computation and Design (co|de) group at Zaha Hadid Architects, London
and works as a studio master at the AA DRL Masters program. He
completed his Masters Degree AA School of Architecture, London in 2006.His current responsibilities include developing design research and and maintaining computational platforms for the same at ZHA. He has taught and presented work at various events and institutions including Tensinet Istanbul '13, ICFF Bath ‘12 , Designers Gallery AU ’11, Design computation symposium AU ‘10 , simAUD ‘10 , Siggraph ‘08, Beyond Media Florence Frozen festival Amsterdam , Yale University , Universities of Applied Arts in Vienna, and Experimental Architecture in Innsbruck, and Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia. Previously whilst at Populous, he played an active role in the completion of the 02 Arena within the Millennium Dome, Greenwich London, as also in the development of various design proposals for the Oval cricket stadium, London.
His Master’s thesis project, swarm city, was awarded the Royal Society of Arts (London) Head Trust award in 2006. His work has been published in various publications including simAUD 2011 proceedings , International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques (ACM SIGGRAPH 2008 art gallery), RSA Design Directions 2005/06 competition winners publication and Journal of Indian Institute of Architects.
http://drl.aaschool.ac.uk/
http://www.zha-code-education.org/
http://data-tribe.net/wework4her/
