The International Design Seminar is a biennial event and includes a workshop, lectures and excursions. Students from all over the world research a relevant topic that concerns the architectural discipline. Since its inception in 1962, INDESEM hosted internationally renowned architects including Aldo van Eijck, Jean Nouvel, Rem Koolhaas, Shigeru Ban and Herman Hertzberger.
INDESEM 2015 took place at the Faculty of Architecture from May 29 to June 5. With the theme “Re.Craft”, the event focused on recent developments in the manufacturing sector, such as robotic fabrication and additive manufacturing processes which hold great potential for immediate application in the building industry. We investigated these developments amplify the craft and process of the architect?
Our Robotics in construction Workshop was one of the most popular events because of its inherent relevance to contemporary design and construction methods. The workshop created an international environment where students, architects, theorists and teachers applied industrial robotics in contexts related to the built environment.
The event focused on applying design-to-robotic-production (D2RP) methods developed by the RB team to the design of an urban interface between the water and the building on a site in Rotterdam, the Fenix Dock. Programmatic use of the urban interface was defined in relationship to local urban analysis, global societal challenges, and D2P constraints.
The aim was to explore “hybridity”, “variation”, and “modularity” at different scales, ranging from micro levels, as material systems, to macro levels as spatial and architectural configurations.
Coordinators
Henriette Bier, Sina Mostafavi
Workshop Tutors
Henriette Bier, Sina Mostafavi, Ana Maria Anton, Serban Bodea, and Matteo Baldassari
Workshop Assistants
Marco Galli, Jeroen van Lith, Mohammad Jooshesh, Vasiliki Koliaki and MSc 2 D2RP students