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M. Rudy, J. Wolfsgruber, S. Jaksch:
"I Spy Something Round: On committing to cognitve and physical design form in an experimental sphere structure";
Talk: Conference: International Association of Societies of Design Research, Hong Kong; 2007-11-12 - 2007-11-15; in: "IASDR07 Proceedings: Emerging trends in design research", S. Poggenpohl (ed.); School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, (2007), ISBN: 988-99101-4-4; Paper ID 730, 21 pages.

Architecture and structural engineering design are closely related in their common focus on the built environment, but employ fundamentally different working methods in practice to address differing sets of design issues. With an aim to better bridge the problematic design-concern gap between these domains, a compact design challenge was conceived in an academic setting to focus the collaborative process on design criteria that hinge on the construction field as their interface: to build a large-scale object that is perceived as a spherical volume using a simple, yet innovative assem¬bly method in wood. Given the stringency of the prescribed constraints, the commitment to physical and social viability is what created the real challenge of the design experiment, during which a trans-disciplinary team designed and manufactured a "recognizably round" response. This paper traces multiple intertwining threads of design decisions in a narrative about the essen¬tial creative emergences leading to the final artifact.

construction design research

http://publik.tuwien.ac.at/files/pub-ar_8254.pdf

Project Head Margit Rudy:
Kugelstrukturen: Bauen einer sphärischen Holzrippenschale