Rethinking Prototyping: Proceedings of the Design Modelling Symposium, Berlin 2013

Hardcover, ix + 662 pages, copiously illustrated with colour images, NOT ex-library. Weight 1330g. Minor handling wear, book is clean and bright with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Issued without a dust jacket. -- Contents: -- Structural Design -- Physical and Numerical Prototyping for Integrated Bending and Form-Active Textile Hybrid Structures; From Shape to Shell: A Design Tool to Materialise Free-Form Shapes Using Gridshell Structures; Designing Regular and Irregular Elastic Gridshells by Six DOF Dynamic Relaxation; Shaping Structural Systems; Bridging the Gap; Funicular Funnel Shells; From Structural Purity to Site Specificity: New Canopies for the Entrance Gates of the Messe Frankfurt; -- Architectural Design -- DesignScript: A Learning Environment for Design Computation; Frequencies of Wood: Designing in Abstract Domains; Enhancing Free-Form Architecture with Conical Panels; Embodied Prototypes: The Interaction of Material System and Environment; Combined Self-Organising Systems for Spatial Net Structures; A Framework for Flexible Search and Optimisation in Parametric Design; Operative Diagramatology: Structural Folding for Architectural Design; The Materiability Research; Ascending Curve: Digital Realisation of Shanghai Tower; MIKADOweb: Innovative Light-Weight Structure; Fuzzy Modelling with Self-Organising Maps; ALIVE: Designing with Aggregate Behaviour in Self-Aware Systems; Integrated Design Methods for the Simulation of Fibre-Based Structures; -- Complex Geometry -- Behavioural Prototyping: An Approach to Agent-Based Computational Design Driven by Fabrication Characteristics and Material Constraints; From Generic to Specific: Prototyping a Computational Growth Model; Linear Folded V-shaped Stripes; Free-Form Shading and Lighting Systems from Planar Quads; -- Climate Design -- Optimisation of the Building Skin Geometry to Maximise Solar Energy Collection; Analysing the Performance-Based Computational Design Process: A Data Study; Climate-Specific Mass-Customisation of Low-Technology Architecture as Part of a High-Technology Process; -- Digital Fabrication -- Examples for Tool Integration in Design Concepts and Production Methods of Load Carrying Structures; Unlocking Robotic Design Visual Robot Programming for Fabricating Large-Scale Sculptures; Autonomous Tectonics: A Research into Emergent Robotic Construction Methods; Material Products: How Data is Successfully Transformed into Real-World Objects; Design Carport: Prototyping Matter; Sketch-Based Pipeline for Mass Customization; Prototyping Robotic Production: Development of Elastically-Bent Wood-Plate Morphologies with Curved Finger-Joint Seams; Design and Manufacturing of Self-Supporting Folded Structures Using Incremental Sheet Forming; -- Prototyping -- Architectural "Making" Modes in Relation to Prototype Notions; Blended Prototyping Design for Mobile Applications; Design Workflows for Digitally Calibrated Heterogenous Building Elements; Sustainability-Open: Why Every Building Will Be Sustainable in the Future; Prototyping Helixator; Validation Framework for Urban Mobility Product-Service Systems by Smart Hybrid Prototyping; Porsche Pavilion: Designing the World's Largest Seamless Monocoque Shell; The Generator 2.0; A Process where Performance Drives the Physical Design; Gradient Grid: A Spring Mesh with Different Zones of Flexibility; Serial and Persistent Prototyping Addressing Architectural Acoustics. …