Technical Part of Final Report

(2 October 2002 – 2 January 2005)

 

 

 

 

Contract reference N. ASI/B7-301/98/679-10 (Asia-Link Programme)

Project Title: Euro-China Exchange: Technology and Culture of Generative Design Approach

Name of Beneficiary: Politecnico di Milano, Coordinator Prof. Celestino Soddu

Period covered by this Interim Report: 2 October 2002 – 2 January 2005.

Due date of this Interim Report:  2 July 2005

 

 

 

 

 

Executive Summary

 

The Asia-link program “Euro-China exchange, Technology and Culture of Generative Design Approach was started the 2nd of October 2002 and was implemented, following the accepted schedule, until the 2nd of January 2005. Activities were decelerated in the spring of 2003 when, because of Sars emergence, all the meetings between European and Chinese people were interrupted also for the strong will of involved European Universities that had forbidden holding meeting with Chinese together with European Students inside the Universities.

This caused the stop of the most of program activities until the summer 2003. The establishment of the remote activities, with videoconferences and Internet forums, was not enough to realize the requested results. In particular we needed to postpone the meetings in China planned for May related to establish applied projects and case studies for workshops and the summer courses in Europe planned for July.

Starting with September 2003, with the end of this sanitary emergence, all the activities were strongly implemented. Because of that reason, the length of the program was extended until January 2005 (3 months more) and all activities were implemented for reaching the planned aims.

Workshops in China, Summer (and Winter) courses in Europe, seminars in China and Europe, conferences and thesis supervisions were implemented following the new accepted schedule and action plan. Interesting feedbacks in more important Chinese magazines in the field of architecture and design were a really interesting (overcoming the expectations) result of these activities. This, together with demonstrations of interest in European magazines (annexed “Il Congresso”, a diplomatic/politic magazine of Italian delegation in European Parliament), and the interest of other Chinese universities (like Tsinghua and BCLU in Beijing, Hunan University, Xi’an University and Shanghai University) to participate to the activities of the program, gave us the opportunity to consider the program as a success. The applied projects, activity n. 6, involving European and Chinese partners were the most difficult activities to manage but, starting from the second year of the program, some common projects was implemented.

 

The program started up the October 2nd 2002 with the preparation of the meeting of December and the participation of all the partners to the international conference "Generative Art 2002" organized by the coordinator of the project Prof. Celestino Soddu.

First activity has been the presentation of our Asia-Link program to the meeting among the persons responsible of the Italy-China exchange activities, among which the coordinator of the program Celestino Soddu, with the rector of the Polytechnic in Milan, with Jun Han, Scientific Adviser of the embassy of the Chinese Popular Republic in Italy, with Mario Zanone Poma, President of the Chamber of Commerce Italian-Chinese and with Mr. Rosso, delegated of the foreign office of Italy, where the opportunities of implementation of the program are been identified. 

Subsequently (October-November 2002) the region Lombardia has proposed its participation to the program, through its formative activities office, supporting the amplification of the laboratory of generative design. 

In November 2002 the coordinator, Prof. Celestino Soddu was invited as guest speaker to the Asia Cities Summit in Singapore and he, with the manager of the project Enrica Colabella, presented some proposals and the running Asia-link program as important reality of mutual cooperation in the field of urban quality.

All the partners have participated in the meeting of December 10th 2002 in Milan for starting up the activities. The treated items have been: 

1. Finality and structure of the program and definition of the schedule of the activities and of their times of activation and implementation. 

2. Activation of the Laboratories of Generative Design in the centers of Kassel, Eindhoven, Shanghai and Tianjin. Laboratories have been activated in the following months, according to the program. 

3. Times and ways of realization of the first session of seminars in Europe that has been programmed for July 2003 to Eindhoven, Kassel and Milan following the program of the activity 3 and the results of the previous meetings. (Seminars were postponed to November/December 2003 because of Sars emergence, following the request of involved European universities)

4. Times and modes of realization of the workshops in China, programmed for September 2003 following the program of the activity 4 (the workshop was implemented the 15-28 September 2003)

5. Times and modes of the creation of the website of the program that will be active within April 2003. (The website was realized and it is actually working http://www.generativedesign.com/asialink/asialink.htm) 

6. Convocation of the next operational meeting, to activate the operational projects foreseen by the activity 6.  The meetings for implementing the activity 6 were held three times each year for all the duration of the program.

Starting from December 2002, all the partner’s delegations have participated to the international Generative Art conferences. The first in December 2002 and then in December 2003 and December 2004, contributing with papers and speeches in the round tables. The contributions of the Asia-link partners were published in the conference proceedings (the electronic version is in the website www.generativeart.com and the paper versions were published each year by the GDLab of Milan Polytechnic University). 

The 12 December 2002 the program Asia-Link was introduced to the participants to the Generative Art Conference and the themes and their operational potentialities have been discussed with a panel of international people expert in the program’s involved fields

The subsequent months, following the SARS emergence, all activities that needed direct contact were suspended but, using videoconferences, the preparation of common researches, common supervisions to master and PhD thesis and all concerning running activities was implemented.

In September 2003 the planned workshops in China were implemented with a one-week-workshop in Shanghai followed by one-week-workshop in Tianjin.

On November/December 2003 was held, in Milan, the “winter” course. It was the activity that, cause SARS, was not possible to hold in July 2003. The participation of all delegations and the structure of subsequent workshops: the 1st managed by Kassel GDLab and the 2nd by Milan GDLab with an “internal competition of mixed groups of master students from Europe and China, saw a success and the results (annexed) were really interesting.

On December 2003 the running activities of Asia-link program were presented as operative structure and as researches in progress to the GA2003 participants.

2004 was a full year of activities. In April was established a seminar “Identity&Design” in China and it was held in Beijing in the Italian Embassy, together with an exhibition of architectural design works concerning Chinese and European cities. The seminar was followed by a workshop about generative approach in Town identity and in Industrial production identity and quality. The participation involved not only the partners but also some European guests and other Chinese universities like Tsinghua and BLCU of Beijing, Shanghai University, Xi’an University and Hunan University. The proceedings, with papers concerning the common activities of the program, were published  (annexed).

In July 2004 a second moment of meeting all together, involving guests and European-Chinese postgraduate students, was the summer course held in Rome with the seminar  “De Identitate” and the subsequent workshop hosted in the spaces of the University of Rome La Sapienza.

In October 2004 a series of lectures and short workshops was held in Shanghai and Beijing together with meetings for implementing activity 6 and with the participation to the design week in Wuxi. The results were the acceleration of this activity focusing opportunities and constrains. This activity was supported by the previous report made by the management of the program (annexed)

On December 2004 the partner’s delegation meet in Milan to valuate the results of research activities, Master and PhD thesis involved in the program and all other activities made in the last two years.

On 15 December 2004 the final results of the Asia-link program were successful presented to a panel of participants to GA2004 international conference for final valuation of the activities.

The program ended the 2nd January 2005. Subsequent meetings between European partners focused this evaluation and concurred to prepare the final report.

 

According to the original project proposal, the activities were implemented:

Activity 1: Generative Design Labs.

GDLabs were established and fully worked with different projects and identified participants. Their activity is going ahead going over the end of the program.

Activity 2: Thesis supervision. The exchange supervision among all the partners was established. It was realized with meetings and with remote interchanges. Further collaborations are established between European and Chinese universities and this activity is going ahead also after the program ended. The results of these theses were presented in the last GA international conferences.

Activity 3: Summer courses in Europe. The planned courses were two. Following the accepted schedule, the 1st Summer Course (July 2003) was postponed cause Sars to 29 November 2003 (it was a Winter Course). The second Summer Course was held in July 2004.

Activity 4: Workshops in China and Europe. The program planned two workshops in China. The 1st workshop was held the 15 September in Shanghai and 22 September in Tianjin. In the same period meetings activity with Tsinghua University in Beijing were implemented too with the support of Tianjin staff. A second workshop was held in April 2004 in Beijing for involving all Chinese (Shanghai and Tianjin) partners together.  It was extended to Changsha (Hunan university) and Xi’an University that supported the related expenses. A 3rd workshop in China was implemented in October 2004 in Shanghai at Tongji and Shanghai Universities, followed by a meeting in Beijing and in Wuxi.

Activity 5: Joint Research programs for PhD and Master. The scheduled activities were implemented and some research programs, established between Milan-Tianjin, Eindhoven-Shanghai, Kassel-Shanghai involving professors and young researchers, are going ahead through the end of the program 

Also if not directly planned in the program, a Master (PhD level) course was designed by Milan and Kassel GDLab in Macau for all Chinese postgraduates about the generative approach to Town Identity management. It is not yet operative but its preparation is going ahead together with Macau University and it will start in September 2005.

Activity 6: Applied projects in China. Proposals were made by Shanghai and Tianjin for applied projects of Architecture and Town planning. The meetings in Shanghai and Tianjin identified some projects. The first one, a project for a new town in the north of China, was discussed together with government officers. Other projects, like the new Austro-Ungarian district and Italian district bin Tianjin, were planned, discussed but not yet implemented. Architectural projects in Shanghai, Tianjin and Beijing was made by the GDLabs of Tongji and Milan and presented in seminars and exhibitions. The last one, the new tower in Tianjin, was a project realized by Milan and Tianjin partners together and presented to the local administration officers.

Activity 7: The International Conferences Generative Art GA2002, GA2003 and GA2004, made by the Milan Generative Design Lab in December 2002, 2003 and 2004 was the occasion to communicate to an international audience the activities of the Asia-link program and the common researches of its partners. The programs and the proceedings of these conferences (annexed) show a strong participation, with interesting printed papers, of all the partners and of other people from Asian Universities.

Activity 8: the Website of Asia-link program was established and upgraded. http://www.generativedesign.com/asialink/asialink.htm.  Exhibitions on Generative Design were realized in China (Beijing and Hong Kong) and in Europe (Milan). The participation, November 2002, of the coordinator of the program, Prof. Celestino Soddu, to the Asian City Summit in Singapore as invited speaker, was important to communicate the aims and the interest of this Asia-link program. The proceedings of Generative Art Conference, with the contribution of all the partners, were published in 2002, 2003 and 2004. The seminar in Beijing (Identity and Design) produced interesting papers and has implemented the common researches and the (annexed) published proceedings of the Summer seminar in Rome (De identitate) has confirmed the work in progress established by the Asia-link program. Some articles in European magazines and in important Chinese newspapers and magazines (Design magazine and Architecture magazine) were published (annexed) and some other will be published following the interest of this program that is going ahead after the end of Asia-link support.

 

 

I.                   Introduction

 

Ø       The overall internal conditions for the general project’s implementation were good and all partners participated to the activities with professors directly involved in the program and with post-graduates and doctorate students that participated to seminars, workshops and worked for their thesis with shared supervisions by European and Chinese professors. The Chinese partners appreciated the results and other Chinese universities asked to be involved to the program.

Ø       The external conditions were signed by the SARS problem in the period of February-July 2003. In this period the activities was implemented by remote meetings using videoconferences and by Internet. This partial interruption of activities is the reason for enlarging the project schedule from 24 months to 27 months sliding the end from 2 October 2004 to 2 January 2005.

Ø       Achievements (referring to overall objectives of the program):

Aligned with the overall objective of the Asia-Link Program, this project promoted multilateral networking of architecture and design education staff and advanced relationships among Politecnico di Milano University in Italy, University of Kassel in Germany, Eindhoven University of Technology in The Netherlands, Tongji University and Tianjin University in China, enlarged successful to other Chinese Universities like Tsinghua and BLCU, Shanghai University, Xi’an University and Hunan University. The project developed Europe-China co-operation, first of all among the participating universities to fostering and promoting mutual awareness and understanding especially in the area of technology and methodology of generative approaches in creative building and cities design

The activities implementation has:

A.           Upgraded and enhanced the skills and mobility of teaching, research staff and postgraduate students of the participating universities, particularly in the field of architectural and industrial design, through (1) collaborative meetings and design competitions, (2) seminars in Europe and China, (3) workshops of special design project focuses in China, and (4) creation of joint research groups with specific themes among habitat identity and quality, industrial design and intelligent production, teaching methodology for evolutionary architecture, housing and industrial design;

B.           Promoted the exchange of experiences and encourage mutual knowledge and recognition of study programs and reciprocal exposure and access to higher education through the means listed above. The results of this activity promoted the involvement of Chinese postgraduates to European Universities (like Sun Chengyu, from Tongji University that is now at Eindhoven University) and the involvement of European professors in the teaching activity in China (like Celestino Soddu from Milan Polytechnic University that is now Honorary professor of Xi’an University and Shanghai University);

C.           Promoted networking between European and Chinese design education communities by extending to these new partners the existing network of Generative Design community, sustained by the international GA conference held annually in Politecnico di Milano University for the last 7 years;

D.           Enhanced the attractiveness of European design education within its higher education system among Chinese communities through the comprehensive cultural exchange and common experience in this collaborative project; The generative approach to design has been experimented by Chinese university partners and this experimentation has strongly connected Chinese and European teaching approach to design. The common interest, that will be presented in the papers in next GA conference, is the main part of the references that changed the design teaching approach in the involved partners;

E.          Experimented the mutual opportunities in the design and construction sectors and created opportunities of future extended co-operations for mutual economic benefits by introducing the most advanced technologies of intelligent design and industrial production in China. To fit these opportunities, the program has done an analysis of the opportunities in Europe-China development of generative approach for industrial production. This operative research and business plan will be presented successfully in the 2003 GA conference and was used to enhance the activity 6 of this program;

 

The project achieved the following multilaterally benefits:

1. The dissemination, diffusion and expansion in China of the latest development of an innovative approach to design and design education that has been developed to a mature level of leading stage for European and western design culture (generative design and its related tools, methods and applications);

2. The recognition and application of the generative design teaching model, and the development of a new operable and effective European-Chinese design education model based on the same technology and methodology;

3. The development, exchange, establishment and application of a new design methodology and practices that comparatively fuses and integrates the European formalization of design synthesis with Chinese dialectic analysis of design and evolutionary design process;

4. The diffusion and expansion of the technology and the philosophy of intelligent industrial production in the fields of building and industrial design, where this approach has as reference the European culture instead of US culture.

5.           Established the possibility of European-Chinese mutual opportunities for human resources in the field of professional design activities, in construction industry and emerging intelligent industrial production manufacturing industry.

 

Ø       Achievements (particular issues):

1.       Seminars, workshops, summer courses and the 3 international conferences gave the mutual opportunity to know how European and Chinese universities operate in the field of creative and innovative education systems. Exchanges will be done and now people from Chinese universities has consolidated European references and people from European universities has consolidate teaching and research activities in China;

2.       The cultural approach to design processes and, particularly the generative design processes, following the experiences and cultural heritage of Europe, has been known by Chinese partners and has changed the teaching approach in the involved Chinese universities and in other universities of China;

3.       The mutual opportunities to develop, with common teams, projects in the building and construction sector, which today is growing in China, were developed only partially. This because of problems linked to the loss of rules concerning intellectual property and difficulties linked to the organization of the process Design-Investment-Construction in China:

4.       Real good exchange has been realized in the field of design approaches for increasing quality and identity of local environments. This topic is strongly connected with the European tradition and was the main topic of two seminars, one in Beijing “Identity&Design” and the other in Rome “De Identitate”. This field is now, in the main field of Architecture and Town design, one of the most interesting topics for Chinese universities in connecting with European Universities.

5.       In the field of Intelligent Industrial production with generative approach, that is a particular European advanced operative research, the Chinese universities, particularly Tongji University (a partner) and Hunan university (that asked to be involved) extended their activities and doctorate thesis in this field. Articles regarding this topic and the Asia-link program and interviews to the coordinator of this program in Chinese magazines confirm this interest.

Ø       Constrains:

1.       The main constrain was in developing common design activities (as indicated in the point 3 of previous paragraph) because of the loss of rules concerning intellectual property in China and because of the structure of the process of building and town construction that limited the possibility to develop common design projects. But, in any case, some projects were made, also if only as proposals to the city government or inside common participation to design competitions.

 

II.                             Implementation of Activities

 

The activity of each partner was planned in the first two month of the program and developed, subsequently to the 1st meeting in Milan in December 2002 following the established program.

The Generative Design Labs (GDLabs) were established in Kassel, Eindhoven, Shanghai (Tongji Univ) and Tianjin and the activities started up in January 2003.

In April 2003, following the need to re-schedule in fall/winter the meetings in China with the leader of the program and the summer courses in Europe, planned for July 2003, we fixed the planned September 2003 workshops in China and rescheduled the seminars from July to November 2003, before the scheduled participation to the Generative Art International Conference, GA2003. In the meantime the coordinator asked to the EC to enlarge the duration of the project from 24 to 27 months with the same cost.

The second year of activities was implemented following the schedule and upgrading each event for fitting the planned results. In particular,

A.     Following the suggestions of the meeting with the monitoring team, we worked to implement the activity 6, that was not enough implemented in the 1st year. In particular the Chinese partners have found out some interesting applied projects in the field of architecture and town design. These projects will be implemented jointing the Generative Design Labs teams, European and Chinese together. We have identified and approved some study cases in Town design, architecture and Industrial design and we used them in the Workshop made in April 2004 in Beijing, in the summer course in July 2004 and in meetings and workshops in September and November 2004.

B.     The Generative Design Lab of Politecnico di Milano implemented the development of a structured study for the promotion and management of operative projects based on generative design approach. The study programme cover from a business plan related to generative design opportunities in China until the using of the study results. This implemented study was useful to pursue the aims of the program.

C.     Developing academic mutual exchange in research and thesis supervision:

-           We identified and developed some fields of research together with the European and Chinese GDLabs.

-           We identified and discussed the researches running in the involved GDLabs and the presentation to international conferences. The participation of all the Labs involved in the Asia-link projects will be really good and the international participants to the conferences appreciated the work done together with European and Chinese involved universities.

D.     Workshops in China and in Europe and summer/winter courses were implemented as scheduled.

1.       Meetings, lectures and workshops in Shanghai, Tongji University, and in Tianjin University (14 September – 2 October 2003 and in Shanghai in October 2004)

2.       Meetings, lectures in Xi’an, Changsha (Hunan University) and Beijing (March-April 2004)

3.       Workshop and seminar in Beijing (April 2004)

4.       Summer course in Rome (July 2004)

5.       A sequence of meetings with Government and University people in Shanghai, Tianjin and Beijing for establishing applied projects regarding the restoring of old buildings using generative advanced approaches, new architectures, the rebuilding of historical quarters and the project of new towns. (September 2003 in Tianjin and Shanghai, April 2004 in Xi’an, Changsha, Shanghai and Beijing, June 2004 in Shengzhen, October 2004 in Shanghai and Wuxi, November 2004 in Shanghai and Beijing)

E.     Meetings with other Chinese Universities (Tsinghua University September 2003, Xi’an University, Hunan University and Shanghai University April 2004, October and November 2004) to enlarge and establish new research activities jointing European and Chinese partners.

F.      The 5th, 6th and 7th Generative Art Conference GA2002, GA2003 and GA2004. We made and sent the call for papers and all GDLabs worked to prepare and present their papers.

G.      We implemented the videoconferencing activity and Internet forums to enhance suggestions and discussion among partners, especially during the SARS emergency.

H.     The website http://www.generativedesign.com/asialink/asialink.htm was implemented and upgraded.

I.        Meeting with all partners was done in China and in Europe. Dates were December 2002, September 2003, December 2003, April 2004, October 2004 and December 2004. During SARS emergency (spring 2003) we used videoconferencing.

J.       This activity was self-sustainable because it will be supported by Macau administration. The Milan and Kassel GDLabs made a sequence of meetings in Macau with local Government, University of Macau, Arcasia architects association and IEEM that established the starting up of a PHD level Master (Master IDEAS) on the topics of Generative Approach, opened to post graduated people of China and other Asian countries. The starting time is to fall 2005. The topic is the Generative Approach in the management of Town Identity.

 

Description of each planned Activity

 

Ø       Activity 1, Generative Design Labs.

The 5 Generative Design Labs, GDLabs of Milan, Eindhoven, Kassel, Shanghai and Tianjin were established soon after the starting of the program. Their activity was planned in the first meeting in Milan December 2002 and they worked together during the all time of the program. Each of them has established its website and the activity of each GDLabs was presented in all the seminars (Beijing 2004 and Rome 2004) and in all the international conferences (GA2002, GA2003 and GA2004) with papers and posters. Their activity is going ahead after the end of the program.

1.       GDLab Milan. This Lab, directed by the coordinator of the program, planned the most of the scheduled activities. Particularly the 3 international conferences GA2002, GA2003 and GA2004, the seminar “Identity&Design” in Beijing, the “winter” course in Milan, the summer course in Rome, the European workshops in Milan, with lectures in Changsha, Xi’an, Shanghai, Beijing and meetings in Wuxi and Shengsen and some other events like the exhibitions about Generative Design in Rome, Beijing, Hong Kong, Los Angeles, Washington DC. The involved staff was: Celestino Soddu, Quinsan Ciao, Enrica Colabella, Giovanni Luca Soddu, Marco Longatti, Li Zhang, Alessandro Balducci, GFG Partners, Aleadesign srl, Gangemi Ed, Daniele Gugelmo, Viviana Basilico and the master students.

2.       GDLab Kassel. This Lab, directed by Hans Dehlinger, had a relevant position in research common activities in the field of industrial design linking its research with the staff of Tongji univ. and planning and implementing the activity in China, particularly the workshops (activity 4) and the activities 5 and 6.  This GDLab presented their research reports and papers in all the activities done by the program. The involved staff was: Hans Dehlinger, Marcus Shein, Oliver Endemann, Ole Werner and other postgraduate students.

3.       GDLab Eindhoven. This Lab, directed by Bouke de Vries, had a strong work concerning generative approach in Architectural design particularly in activities 2 and 5 concerning master thesis and common research. The involved master students, like Sun Chengyu from Tongji Univ, has established academic relationship with this Lab continuing after the end of the program.  This GDLab presented their research reports and papers in most activities done by the program. The involved staff was: Bouke de Vries, Aant van der Zee, Daan Willems and other postgraduate students.

4.       GDLab Tongji Shanghai. This Lab, directed by Wang BoWei, associate-director Zhong Tang, had a relevant activity in Thesis supervision (Activity 2) and research programs for PhD and Master students (Activity 5) in the field of architecture and industrial design, presenting these activities in all the seminars and workshops implemented by the program. More, this Lab organized the Shanghai workshops and meetings for discussing thesis and research activities. The involved staff is:  Wang Bowei, Xiang Wang, Hong Wu, Le-Yan Zhang, Meng Wang, Ji-wei Lu, Yi-Jie Zhang, Ming Dai, Cheng-yu Sun, Yong-yi Lu, Xing-Yu Yang, Zhen-yu Li, Xi Xu, Zhao-Xi Liu, Yi Chen ,Kai-fend Wang, Xiao-Sheng Huang, Yao-dong Zhang, Jing-Wen Gu, Jie Wu, Zhong Tang.

 

In the image the GDLab of Tongji University in Shanghai.

 

5.       GDLab Tianjin. This Lab, directed by Yang Changming had a relevant activity in one of the more difficult field, the applied projects in China (activity 6) realizing with the Milan Lab some common teams for applied projects in Tianjin (the Austro-Ungarian district, the new city near Tianjin and a new tower in the city). The activity of this lab was also applied to the other fields, like research programs, thesis supervision and organization of the workshop in Tianjin University. The common design activity between this Lab and the Lab in Milan is going ahead over the end of the program. The involved staff was: Chang-Ming Yang, Hua Zhang, Fan-Wei Zhang, Jie Cai, Jun Ren, Xi-Xin Chen, Lin Tian, Jing Bai, Li-Jun Zheng, Jin-Song Zhao, Li Yan, Xiao-Bing Wang.

 

In the image the GDLab of Tianjin University.

 

Ø       Activity 2, Thesis supervision.

The involved thesis were:

1.       European: PhD thesis of Marcus Shein and master thesis of Ole Werner guided by Prof. Hans Dehlinger in the field of industrial generative design, Master thesis of Daan Willems under the guide of Prof. Bauke de Vries in the field of Architectural Design Management Systems, doctorate Li Zhang and master students Michael Zamblera, Cesare Balossi,  Davide Ghisleni, Federica Guerra, Gianluca Pesenti under the supervision of Prof. Celestino Soddu and Prof. Enrica Colabella in the field of Architectural Generative Design.

2.       Chinese: Master candidates Xiang Wang, Hong Wu, Le-Yan Zhang, worked on the inherited generation mechanisms of university campuses and similar type of architectural complexes led by Professor Bo-Wei Wang; Master candidate Meng Wang, guided by the advisor Professor Ji-wei Lu, made a thesis on the inherited generation mechanisms of urban public spaces; Ph.D. candidates Yi-Jie Zhang and Ming Dai joint by Master candidate Cheng-yu Sun, under the guidance of Professor Yong-yi Lu, identified the inherited generation mechanisms in Chinese historical architecture preservation; Master candidate Xing-Yu Yang, guided by the advisor Associate Professor Zhen-yu Li, worked on the inherited generation mechanisms of various urban housing; Master candidate Xi Xu and Zhao-Xi Liu, guided by their advisors Associate Professor Yi Chen and Lecturer Kai-fend Wang on generation mechanisms of Chinese traditional and ancient furniture design; Ph.D. candidate Xiao-Sheng Huang and Master candidate Yao-dong Zhang, guided by their advisors Professor Jing-Wen Gu and Lecturer Jie Wu, on computer implementation of shape and body representation governed by various generation mechanisms; Xi-Xin Chen, Ph.D. candidate, Jing Bai, Ph.D. candidate, Li-Jun Zheng, Ph.D. candidate, Jin-Song Zhao, Ph.D. candidate, Li Yan, Ph.D. candidate, Xiao-Bing Wang, Master candidate, on architecture and Lin Tian, Ph.D. candidate, on Ancient Architecture Preservation, under the supervision of Prof. Chang-Ming Yang, Prof. Hua Zhang, Prof. Fan-Wei Zhang and Prof. Jie Cai.

3.       Title of thesis with official shared supervisors:

- Li Yan, Ph.D. candidate, “Generative Design and Grids” (Tianjin, Milan, Kassel)

- Rong Lin, Master candidate, “Generative design and Codes of Roofs and Doors”, (Tianjin, Milan, Kassel)

- XinXin Chen, Ph.D. candidate, “Generative Approach in architecture restoring”, (Tianjin, Milan)

- Zhang Yijie, Ph.D. candidate, “Generative design of Chinese Pagodas”, (Tongji, Milan)

- Sun Chengui, Master candidate, “Higher or Denser?”, (Tongji, Eindhoven)

- Dai Ming, Ph.D. candidate, “Urban Generative design”, (Tongji, Milan)

- Liu Zhao Xi, Xu Xi, “Forniture generative design”, (Tongji, Milan, Kassel)

 

Ø       Activity 3 Summer (winter) courses and workshops in Europe

1.       Winter course in Milan (December 2003) realized together with a design competition for the participation of common European-Chinese teams that worked together. (Annexed results)

This workshop was improved with the competition “Idea as Code” that was created and implemented during the workshop in Milan in December 2003 by the manager of the program Enrica Colabella.  We defined research teams with together European and Chinese postgraduates and doctorate students. The results-posters of these collaboration and of the common research approach are also in the website. The results-posters of these joint researches were also presented to the Generative Art Exhibition in the exhibition hall of Politecnico di Milano University during the GA2003 International Conference (annexed results). Using this experience, we defined the international competition “Idea as Code” opened to international students. The call for proposals was launched in the website www.generativeart.com with the deadline of the end of August 2004 and as price, for European and Chinese participants, was the participation to GA2004 conference and exhibition in Italy. The winner was a German student but the first 5 students, 3 European and 3 Asian, were invited to present their work and they came to GA2004 conference/exhibition.

Hans Dehlinger, GDLab of Kassel University, managed a further workshop in the “winter course” in Milan. The results of the Workshop "from arbitrary starting point via generator to result" are annexed.

Participants to the winter course in Milan 2003:

first name

Celestino

last name

Soddu

occupation

Professor

e-mail

celestino.soddu@polimi.it

msn

N/A

university

Polytecnic / Milano

 

first name

Enrica

last name

Colabella

occupation

Professor

e-mail

enrica.colabella@polimi.it

msn

N/A

university

Polytecnic / Milano

 

first name

Michael

last name

Zamblera

occupation

Master Student

e-mail

somavica@libero.it

msn

N/A

university

Polytecnic / Milano

 

 

 

 

 

 

first name

Cesare

last name

Balossi

occupation

Master Student

e-mail

cesare.bergamo@libero.it

msn

N/A

university

Polytecnic / Milano

 

first name

Davide

last name

Ghisleni

occupation

Master Student

e-mail

ghizlo@libero.it

msn

N/A

university

Polytecnic / Milano

 

first name

Chiara

last name

Gimagalli

occupation

Master Student

e-mail

arsenico.c@virgilio.it

msn

N/A

university

Polytecnic / Milano

  

first name

Federica

last name

Guerra

occupation

Master Student

e-mail

peterpan_bg@hotmail.com

msn

N/A

university

Polytecnic / Milano

 

first name

Gianluca

last name

Pesenti

occupation

Master Student

e-mail

jean80@inwind.it

msn

N/A

university

Polytecnic / Milano

 

first name

Marco

last name

Longatti

occupation

Architect

e-mail

m_arc@arkham.it

msn

N/A

university

Polytecnic / Milano

 

first name

Li

last name

Zhang

occupation

Designer

e-mail

emizhang@sina.com

msn

emilyzhang_1@hotmail.com

university

Shougang Central Designing Institute

 

 

 

 

first name

Hans

last name

Dehlinger

occupation

Professor

e-mail

dehling@uni-kassel.de

msn

N/A

university

Kassel

 

first name

Ole

last name

Werner

occupation

Master Graduate (dipl.des)

e-mail

ole_Werner@web.de

msn

N/A

university

Kassel

 

first name

Olivier

last name

Endemann

occupation

Master Graduate (dipl.des)

e-mail

oe@genestics.de

msn

N/A

university

Kassel

 

first name

Daan

last name

Willems

occupation

Student (Master)

e-mail

d.h.willems@student.tue.nl

msn

d3vlin@hotmail.com

university

TU/e / Eindhoven

 

first name

Kun

last name

Zhang

occupation

doctor

e-mail

doctorkun@hotmail.com

msn

doctorkun@hotmail.com

university

Tong ji / Shanghai

 

first name

Zhong

last name

Tang

occupation

Senior Engineer

e-mail

tangzzzk@online.sh.cn

msn

tangzzzk@hotmail.com

university

Tong ji / Shanghai

 

first name

Chaotsi

last name

Leu

occupation

Student (Master)

e-mail

liuzhaoxiiii@sohu.com

msn

Liuzhaoxi2003@hotmail.com

university

Tong ji / Shanghai

 

 

 

 

first name

Sun

last name

Chengyu

occupation

Student(Master)

e-mail

apolloc@online.sh.cn

msn

ibund@163.com

university

Tong ji / Shanghai

 

first name

Wang

last name

Xiang

occupation

Student (Master)

e-mail

xixiy12@163.net

msn

wang_xiang1979@hotmail.com

university

Tong ji / Shanghai

 

first name

Leyan

last name

Zhang

occupation

Student(master)

e-mail

zhangleyan66@163.com

msn

zhangleyan1979@hotmail.com

university

Tong ji / Shanghai

  

first name

Qi

last name

Zhao

occupation

Master Student

e-mail

emilyzhao@sh163.net

msn

emilyzhao@sh163.net

university

Tong ji / Shanghai

       

first name

Yisui

last name

Wang

occupation

Student (Master)

e-mail

wangyisui@163.net

msn

wangyisui@hotmail.com

university

Tong ji / Shanghai

 

first name

Chang ming

last name

Yang

occupation

Professor

e-mail

27407575@163.com

msn

N/A

university

Tianjin / Tianjin

 

 

 

 

first name

Wei

last name

Zhang

occupation

Phd. / Associate Professor

e-mail

zhangwei@tju.edu.cn

msn

tju_zhangwei@hotmail.com

university

Tianjin / Tianjin

 

first name

Li

last name

Yan

occupation

Phd. / Doctorate

e-mail

tdyanli@eyou.com

msn

N/A

university

Tianjin / Tianjin

 

first name

Xinxin

last name

Chen

occupation

Phd. Student

e-mail

chaoschen@hotmail.com

msn

chaoschen@hotmail.com

university

Tianjin / Tianjin

 

first name

Rong

last name

Lin

occupation

Student (Master)

e-mail

Linrong3585@sina.com.cn

msn

N/A

university

Tianjin / Tianjin

 

 

2.       Summer course in Rome (23 July – 2 August 2004) realized with the seminar “De Identitate” and the subsequent common workshop. (Annexed proceedings).

de identitate Poster of the seminar

Participants to seminar and subsequent workshop:
Prof. Celestino Soddu    Politecnico Milano Univ.
Prof. Enrica Colabella    Politecnico Milano Univ.
Prof. Zhao Xy    BLCU, Beijing University
Prof. John Frazer   Prof. and Researcher, Belfast
Prof. Yang Changming    Tianjin University
Prof. Zhang Linwei    Tongji University
Prof. Zhang Kun    Tongji University
Prof. Tian Yun Qing    Shanghai University
Prof. Linan Liu    Xi'an University
Prof. Thomas Fischer    Kassel University
Prof. Hans Dehlinger    Kassel University
Prof. Bauke de Vries    Eindhoven University
Prof. He Renke    Hunan University
Mr.Christian Tognela    Politecnico Milano Univ.
Mr.Chen Li    Tianjin University
Mr.Zhao Jinsong    Tianjin University
Mr. Xu Zongwu    Tianjin University
Miss. Li Henan    Tianjin University
Miss. Liang Hanglin    Tianjin University
Mr. Sun Chengyu    Tongji University
Mr.Cao Peng    Tongji University
Mr.Xie Liwei    Tongji University
Miss Mi  Jia      Tongji University
Mr.Shi Daohong    Tongji University
Mr. Ole Werner    Kassel University
Mr. Daan Willems    Eindhoven University
Mr.Wang Wei    Hunan University
Mr.Tan Hao    Hunan University
Mr.Marco Longatti    Politecnico Milano Univ.
Mrs Candy Herr    Kassel University
Mrs Vicki Chan    Designer, Shanghai

Workshop in Rome, following the seminar.

 

Program of seminar: DE IDENTITATE, Rome, 26-27 July 2004

Monday 26 July 2004, 9:00 AM

Opening, Celestino Soddu, coordinator of Asia-link program “Euro-China exchange, technology and Culture of Generative Design approach.

Digital code scripts for generative and evolutionary design: De Identitate

John Hamilton Frazer

Autotectonica, UK

Identity of Generated Objects – Gain and Loss Along Transformational Chains.

H. Dehlinger

O. Werner

GDLab Kassel, Department of Product Design, Kunsthochschule Kassel, Kassel, Deutschland.

Humanistic origins of Creative Architecture

Giuliana Limiti

Universita’ di Roma III, Italy

Dutch Dwellings

B. de Vries, A. van der Zee

Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning,

GDLab Eindhoven, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands.

Visionary Variations of Milano. Generative Projects Designing the Identity of Milano.

Celestino Soddu

GDLab Milan, Politecnico di Milano University, Italy

Identity beyond Vision: Discover the Cultural Genes of Yuelu Academy

HE Renke,YUAN Xiang

School of Design, Hunan University, Changsha, China

 

Some participants to the seminar “De Identitate” in Rome 2004. The space used was given by CRUI, the Italian Universities Rectors Conference.

 

Monday 26 July 2004, 14:00 AM

Shanghai Keeps its Identity in the City Renewal

Tian YunQing, MArch

Department of Art & Design, Shanghai University

Identity, a double vision in a generative process

Enrica Colabella

GDLab Milan, Generative Design Lab, Department of Architecture and Planning

Politecnico di Milano University, Italy

The Identities of Watertown Shaoxing

Zhang Linwei

GDLab Tongji, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

Italian Identity and Chinese Identity

Zhao XiuYing,

BLCU Beijing

The Extreme Generative Approach and the Acquisition of Identity

Zhao.Jinsong

School of Architecture Tianjin University, Tanjin.

Yang.Changming

GDLab Tianjin, The Academy of Architectural Design and City Planning of Tianjin University, Tianjin

Historic Urban Morphology and Continuous Influence on Nowaday City

Linan Liu

Xi’an Universiuty of Architecture and Technology

 

Tuesday 27 July 2004, 9:00AM

Identity Crisis and High-Speed Urbanism. Form and Morphogenetic Process as Generators of Design Identity

Thomas Fisher, Kassel University and Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Christiane M. Herr, Kassel University and The University of Hong Kong

Generative Design – Programmed Identity

Hans Dehlinger

Ulf C. Cadenbach, Henrik Hornung, Tobias O. Schelkes

GDLab Kassel, School of Art, University of Kassel, Germany

Image of JNSX and Generative Design

Cao Peng

GDLab Tongji University, Shanghai, China

Space-time Idea Contained In the Mysterious Figure Of Primitive Era

Zhang Yu-kun, Li He-nan, Li zheng

School of Architecture, Tianjin University, China

Don’t Lose the History Again. The Forming, Developing and Crisis of the Identity of Tsingtao City

Chen Li,, Yang Changming

GDLab Tianjin, School of Architecture, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China

Spatial Forms Generated From Shao Xing Culture

Zhang Kun, Wang Bowei

GDLab Tongji, College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University, Shanghai

 

Tuesday 27 July 2004, 14:00AM

The Becoming of Form. Morphogenesis as Paradigm to preserve Identity in Complex Architecture

Daan Willems

Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning,

GDLab Eindhoven, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Nederlands

The Identifiable Spacial Designs Bred by the Architect and Apollo

SUN Chengyu

GDLab Tongji, Architecture Department, Tongji University, Shanghai, PR China

Knowledge Transformation in Conceptual Design: An Approach to Build a Model of CAID Knowledge System

TAN Hao , ZHAO Jianghong

School of Design, Hunan University, Changsha, China

Meta-knowledge: A Method to Encode and Decode Products’ DNA in Knowledge Lifecycle

WANG Wie, ZHAO Jianghong,

School of Design, Hunan University, Changsha, China

The Study of Waterfront Modality of Shaoxing

Mi Jia

GDLab Tongji, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

The design For Old areas of Shaoxing

Xie Liwei

GDLab Tongji, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

 

3.       Workshop in Milan (December 2004) realized before the GA conference to work about common research activities and master thesis. The involved people are from Milan GDLab, Kassel GDLab and Tianjin GDLab.

Ø       Activity 4 Workshops in China

1.       Workshop in Shanghai September 2003. The workshop was planned by Tongji University and its dean Wang Bowei together with the manager of the program Quinsan Ciao that went to Shanghai before the workshop. The workshop involved 4 people from Europe (2 from Milan and 2 from Kassel), 4 professors from Tongji and 21 postgraduate students of Shanghai.

Image of people involved in the workshop in Tongji University in September 2003.

 

2.       Workshop in Tianjin September 2003. Tianjin University and its dean Chang Ming Yang planned the workshop. The workshop involved 4 people from Europe (2 from Milan and 2 from Kassel), 4 professors from Tianjin and 24 postgraduate students of Tianjin. The Tianjin staff involved people of Tsinghua University and all together we went to Tsinghua University for extending workshop and holding a meeting and lecture.

 

Visit to Tianjin monuments during the Tianjin workshop and a lecture of the coordinator Prof. C. Soddu at Tianjin University’ Postgraduate students.

 

 

3.       Workshop in Beijing April 2004, together with the seminar “Identity and Design”. The Milan GDLab planned the seminar with its managers E. Colabella and Q. Ciao in the Italian Embassy in Beijing. Chinese partners from Tongji University and Tianjin University were involved in the preparation of the workshop – seminar involving other universities (especially the deans of Xi’an, Hunan, BLCU, and Shanghai Univ.) for planning an operative meeting about the program and its benefits.

participants
Participants:
Celestino Soddu, Coordinator Asia-link program, Politecnico di Milano University
Enrica Colabella, Manager of Asia-link program, Politecnico di Milano University
Quinsan Ciao, Manager of Asia-link program
Wang Bo Wei, Head of the Faculty of Architecture, Tongji University,Shanghai
Yang Chang Ming, Head of the Faculty of Architecture, Tianjin University
Linan Liu, Vice Head of the Faculty of Architecture, Xi'an University
Sally Beardsley, Designer, Denmark
Karina Moraes Zarzar, Delft University of Technology, Holland
Luigi Gazzola, 1st Faculty of Architecture, Rome La Sapienza University
Gu Jun, China Architecture Design & Research Institute
Tang Zhong, Tongji University
Zhang Kun, Tongji University
Ole Werner, Kassel University
Zhao XiuYing, BLCU Beijing
Ji Tie, Design&Management Institute, Hunan University
Ming Xi Tang, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
He Renke  dean, school of art and design, Hunan University
Tian Yuanqing  Art department, shanghai university
Zhang Wei, Tianjin University
Zhang Yukung, Tianjin University
Yan Li, Tianjin University
Chen Li, Tianjin University
Song Yuhui, Tianjin University
Lin Rong, Tianjin University
Li Shu, Tianjin University
Liang Hanglin, Tianjin University
Yisui Wang, Tongji University, Shanghai
Qi Zhao, Tongji University, Shanghai
Leyan Zhang, Tongji University, Shanghai
Wang Xiang, Tongji University, Shanghai
Sun Chengyu, Tongji University, Shanghai

Chaotsi Leu, Tongji University, Shanghai


participants

 

The study cases for these workshops were real applied occasion of Town design, architecture and industrial design proposed by the partners:

1.         The design, with generative approach, of the Austro-Ungarian consulate and related quarter in Tianjin.

2.         The generative design of furniture using Ming Codes

3.         The Reconstruction of Haihe Lou (a traditional Chinese style multi-storied building near the Haihe River in Tianjin which was a famous scene and a temporary palace of the emperors in the Qing Dynasty);

4.         The design of restoration of Italian Quarter in Tianjin with the identification of Chinese / Italian identity codes of this environment.

 

4.       Other workshop/lectures/meetings in China in 2004. Over the first workshop in Beijing (April 2004) there have been other workshops in China in 2004. Workshops were held in Shanghai University (23 April 2004 with 2 people from EU, two professors and 12 postgraduate students and 21 October with 2 EU Professors, 3 professors and 14 postgraduate students), in Xi’an University (April 2004 with 2 Prof. From Eu, 4 Prof. And 18 doctorates and PhD) and in Hunan University (21 April 2004 with 2 Prof. from EU, the dean, 4 professors and 28 postgraduate students). We held two meetings / workshops in Tongji University (19 April with 2 from EU, the dean and 5 doctorate, Phd and the 21 October 2004 with 2 from EU, the dean, two professors and 4 doctorate/postgraduates)

Workshop in Shanghai, extension to Shanghai University

 

Ø       Activity 5 Research programs.

Identified common research activities in the topics:

-          Generative Design of Roofs (Tongji, Tianjin, Kassel, Milan)

-          Generative Design: Ming Paradigm of Design as a design starting point for the generation of contemporary furniture and other contemporary design objects (Kassel, Tongji, Milan)

-          Generative new Town Design (Tianjin, Milan)

-          Generative approach to Historical Chinese places representation (Tianjin, Shanghai and Milan)

-          Cities Identity management and design (Tianjin, Shanghai, Eindhoven and Milan)

-          The Ph.D. and Master level graduate research program in generative design “The Generative Mechanism of Chinese Nomads Architecture and Its Interpretation in Cultural Anthropology” (Tianjin, Eindhoven, Milan).

-          Research and analyze typical patterns in Chinese and European tradition. Based on the extraction and isolation of archetypes, generative programs will be implemented as “pattern – generators”. The patterns derived from Chinese sources will be restructured to fit the European market and vice versa, the patterns of European origin will be restructured to fit the Chinese market. (Kassel, Milan, Tianjin)

-          Analysis of typical elements of Chinese and European “formal languages” as displayed by specific ranges of products (e.g.: kitchen, bathroom). Identification of basic formal building blocks and characteristics. Development of Generators (programs), which allow a mix of elements. (Kassel, Milan, Tongji)

-          Identity codes and design approach. Shaoxing city safeguard, recovery and renovation. (Tongji, Milan)

-          Identity codes and design approach. Tsingtao. (Tianjin, Milan)

The results of these research activities are explained in the subsequent documents, organized in 3 groups:

 

1.       Generative Design for Cities Identity, a research program proposed by the Milan GDLab involved the Chinese partners with discussions and common proposals for Shanghai, Beijing, Tianjin, Xi’an,  Shaoxing, Quingdao.

Related Papers was presented at seminars and conferences of the program (annexed)

 

2.       Generative Furniture Design, a research program proposed by Milan and Kassel GDLabs involved Tongji GTLab with operative results presented in international conferences.

Related Papers was presented at seminars and conferences of the program (annexed)

 

3.       Generative Architectural Design, a research program proposed by Milan and Eindhoven GDLabs involved Tianjin and Tongji GDLabs with interesting research results presented in the international conferences and in the seminars of the program.

Related Papers was presented at seminars and conferences of the program (annexed)

 

 

Ø       Activity 6 Applied Projects in China

First meetings in Shanghai and in Tianjin were able to identify problems and opportunities. In particular a first applied project was established: a new town of 400.000 inhabitants near Tianjin, to be designed using the identity codes of Chinese tradition together with Italian tradition. The delegation of Tianjin University, Milan Polytechnic University and Kassel University visited the identified site with the Government delegation and the first approach to designing the town was established. This activity is self-sustainable because is supported by the Chinese Government.

Operative workshop in Tianjin for the Austro-Hungarian district renovation.

 

In Tianjin, more, a common design opportunity was identified in the Austro-Ungarian district and discussed for defining a common proposal to the government.

A common project was realized for a new tower in Tianjin and for the way to support Tianjin Identity in its actual strong increasing complexity.

 

Two variations of the project for a cultural centre in Beijing

Tianjin Tower project (Milan and Tianjin GDLabs)

 

A project was identified with Government Officer in Shanghai for an applied research on the Shanghai identity, working with generative approach in a particular block of Shanghai city. The letter of interest is not yet received from Shanghai Government but some design proposals were prepared and were discussed in Shanghai and during the Beijing seminar “Identity&Design”. More, the Tongji GDLab opened a discussion on the Architectural Design for The International Expo 2010 to be held in Shanghai and proposed it for study case of the workshop.

A project managed by Tongji University and that involved other Chinese and European partners was the renovation of historical city of Shaoxing, which had a common discussion and proposal during the workshop in Rome 2004 together with other projects involving the Identity of the cities Tsingtao and Xi’an

In the field of Industrial Intelligent production, an operative research “Approach for the realization of a business plan related to Generative Design opportunities in China” was established to verify the real opportunities of implementing this activity. This research was implemented for the GDLab of Milan by GFG partners. The study program, with a business plan related to generative design opportunities in China, was presented and discussed in the 6th Generative Art conference in Milan in December 2003.Subsequent meetings were done in Shanghai (April and October 2004), Changsha (April 2004), Wuxi (October 2004, participating to “Chinese design week” and meetings with Chinese companies and professors), Shengsen (June 2004) for going ahead with industrial production following the path identified by this document.

 

Two projects for the Tianjin University Campus

 

                 

A-      New Pagoda in Beijing

B-      Residence Tower near Tongji university in Shanghai

Two projects of new buildings in Tianjin downtown with the aim of increasing Tianjin identity. An office building and a research department.

 

Ø       Activity 7 Generative Art International Conference:

 

1.    GA2002

Papers of Asia-link involved partners and of other Asian universities:

 

“La citta’ ideale”, Generative Codes Design Identity

Celestino Soddu

Director of Generative Design Lab, DiAP

Politecnico di Milano University, Italy

          

Instance and System: a Figure and its 218 Variations

H. E. Dehlinger

Director of Kassel generative design Lab

Kunsthochschule Kassel, University of Kassel, Germany

 

Generative and Evolutionary Techniques for Building Envelope Design

John Frazer, Tang Mingxi, Patrick Janssen

Design Technology Research Centre, School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China SAR,

Julia Frazer

Architectural Association, School of Architecture, London

Liu Xiyu

DTRC and Shandong Normal University, PRC

 

Generative Design: Rule-Based Reasoning in Design Process

Quinsan Ciao

Generative Design Lab, DiAP

Politecnico di Milano University, Italy

Ball State Univ. US

 

Figura, Aura uniqueness

Enrica Colabella

Generative Design Lab, DiAP

Politecnico di Milano University, Italy

 

The generate method of Multi-storey Chinese Pagodas

Tang Zhong, Zhang Yijie

Tongji University, Shanghai, China

 

A generative design system based on evolutionary and mathematical functions

Liu Xiyu

Design Technology Research Centre, School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

and

School of Information and Management, Shandong Normal University, P.R. China

John Hamilton Frazer

Director of the Design Technology Research Centre, School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Tang Ming Xi

Design Technology Research Centre, School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

 

Design from Known to New -Issues of Generative Architecture under Digital Environment-

Shuenn.-Ren Liou

Department of Architecture, Tunghai University, Taichung, Taiwan.

 

Applied Generative Procedures in Furniture Design

Markus Schein

GDLab Kassel

Department of Product-Design, University of Kassel, Germany

 

Euro-China exchange: technology and culture of Generative Design approach

Presentation of the Program financially supported by European Commission

Celestino Soddu

Coordinator of the program, Generative Design Lab, DiAP, Politecnico di Milano

Quinsan Ciao

Co-coordinator, Generative Design Lab, DiAP, Politecnico di Milano

Enrica Colabella

Manager, Generative Design Lab, DiAP, Politecnico di Milano

Hans Dehlinger

Partner, Kassel University

Wang Bowei

Partner, Dean of Tongji University, Shanghai, China

Changming Yang

Partner, Dean of Tianjin University, China

Aant van der Zee

Eindhoven Technological University

Giancarlo Spinelli

Director of CRI, Politecnico di Milano University

Dora Longoni

CRI, Politecnico di Milano University

 

Computation-Universal Voxel Automata as Material for Generative Design Education

Thomas Fischer

School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

 

Generative Architectural Design and Complexity Theory

Christiane M. Herr

Department of Architecture, Hong Kong University.

 

Computer Aided Evolutionary Architectural design

Aant van de Zee, B. de Vries

Faculty of Building and Architecture, Design Systems Group, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, the Netherlands.

 

Using Social Interaction in Generative Design of  Shared Virtual Spaces

Nicole Schadewitz, Timothy Jachna

School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

 

A collaborative platform supporting graphic pattern design and reuse of design knowledge

Wu Yingfei, Tang Mingxi, John Hamilton Frazer,

Design Technology Research Centre, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HKSAR, PRC

Sun Shouqian, PanYunhe

Modern Industry Design Institute, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, PRC

 

Pursuing New Urban Living Environment In The New Millennium: Projecting The Future Of High-Rise And High Density Living In Hong Kong

Wang Xu, Lau Siu Yu

Center for Architecture & Urban Design, Department of Architecture, University of Hong Kong

 

Creative Multimedia: the commodity of the 21st

Ahmad Rafi M. E

Faculty of Creative Multimedia, Multimedia University, 63100 Cyberjaya, Malaysia.

 

2.    GA2003 papers of involved partners:

 

The scientific Activities of all Labs are presented in the papers published in the proceedings of GA2003 and in the website www.generativeart.com

In particular:

Visionary Aesthetics and Architecture Variations

Celestino Soddu

Director of Generative Design Lab, DiAP , Politecnico di Milano University, Italy, and coordinator of Asia-link programme n. 10

 

Checking interactive generated design against distributed objectives

Aant van der Zee

Bouke de Vries.

Gerative design Lab., Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, the Netherlands.

 

Very small Elements in very large Arrays

Prof. H. E. Dehlinger, Dipl.-Ing., M. Arch., PhD.

Kunsthochschule Kassel, Generative Design Lab, University of Kassel, Germany.

 

A Step towards a General Tool for Generative Design

Dipl. Inform. Univ. Guenther Doerner

Genestics - Germany

Dipl. Des. Univ. Oliver Endemann

Genestics – Germany

 

Evaluation of opportunities in applying generative design approach for unique objects production

Giovanni L. Soddu,

Sergio Rossi

GFG Partners, Rome, Italy.

For Asia-link program, Generative Design Lab, Politecnico di Milano University

 

“Estágio”

Daniele Gugelmo Dias, Ms

Stage in Generative Design Lab, Politecnico di Milano University

Assistant Professor - School of Music- University of Rio Grande do Norte/Brasil

 

Code, a password to infinite

Prof. Enrica Colabella.

Generative Design Lab. Politecnico di Milano, Italy

 

Preservation of urban historical region with generative design

Dai Ming, Ph.D Candidate

Generative Design Lab, College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University

  

Random Digital Clouds – A Generative Art Approach

Dipl.Des. Markus Schein (PhD cand.)

Generative Design Lab, Department of Product Design, University of Kassel, Germany

Christine Krüger

Department of Product Design, University of Kassel, Germany

 

Breeding new designs. The use of morphing algorithms in design computation

Dipl. Des. Ole Werner

Generative Design Lab, Department of Product-Design, University of Kassel , Germany.

  

Research on the Object on GD Application in Furnature-Designing Area

Liu Zhaoxi

Generative Design Lab, Tongji University, Shanghai,China

 

Higher or Denser? A Debate Aided by GD on the Historic Urban Texture Conservation of a Typical Commercial Region in Shanghai

SUN Chengyu

Generative Design Lab, Campus of Architecture & Urban Planning, Tongji University, Shanghai, PR China

 

Ganerative Design Of Chinese Pagodas

Zhang Yijie Doctorand

Tang Zhong Senior Engineer

Generative Design Lab, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

 

An Automatic Generation System of Hip Roof

Building and Case Study

Prof. Wang Bowei

Generative Design Lab, College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

Zhang Leyan, Master

Generative Design Lab, College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

 

3.    GA2004 papers of involved partners, of other Asian universities and of the winners of the (post-graduated) competition  “Idea as code” launched by the program:

 

Meta-Code, Identity’s Borders. Visionary Variations of Milano

Generative Projects Designing the Identity of Milano

Celestino Soddu

Director of Generative Design Lab, DiAP, Politecnico di Milano University, Italy

 

Dutch Dwellings

Prof.dr.ir. B. de Vries, A. van der Zee, MSc, J. Carp, MSc.

Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands

 

Selective Extraction of Point Sets from Photographs as Starting Events of Generative-Art Line Drawings

Prof. H. E. Dehlinger, PhD.

Kunsthochschule Kassel, Generative Design Lab, University of Kassel, Germany

 

Generative and Evolutionary Design in Design Education

Dipl.Des. Markus Schein (PhD cand.), Dipl.Des. Ole Werner

University of Kassel, Generative Design Lab, Germany

 

Enemy Character Design in Computer Games Using Generative Approach

Yen-Feng Wu

National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Douliu, Taiwan, R.O.C.

Sheng-Fen Chien

National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.

 

Numbering, a Resonant Silence

Enrica Colabella

Generative Design Lab, Politecnico di Milano University

 

Transit Space: nomads mobile place

An urban nomads lifestyle evolution

Widianto Utomo

Designer, Indonesia

 

Draftmaker: a design thinking generator in ICAID

WANG Wei, Ph.D, Prof. ZHAO Jianghong

School of Design, Hunan University, Changsha, China

 

Knowledge-Based Design Innovation: A Method to Generate New Knowledge in Design

TAN Hao, PhD. Candidate, Prof. ZHAO Jianghong

School of Design, Hunan University, Changsha, China

 

Integration of 3D Simulated Set And Background

Design To Create Effective Photorealistic 3D Rendering For Film & Animation

Jong Sze Joon, Soon Eu Hui

Faculty of Creative Multimedia, Multimedia University, Cyberjaya, Malaysia

 

Odyssey of the Boat Ritualized/digitalized -----

Transforming within Generative Vehicle

Yan chung-hsien , Associate professor

Department of Architecture Design, Shih-Chien University, Taiwan

 

Spatial Forms Generated From Shao Xing Culture

Zhang Kun, Wang Bowei

College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University, Shanghai

 

Shanghai Keeps its Identity in the City Renewal

Prof. Tian YunQing, MArch

Department of Art & Design, Shanghai University

 

From Competition “Idea as Code” 2004:

 

Computer-generated urban Structures

Reinhard König, Dipl. Ing. (Arch), Christian Bauriedel, Dipl. Ing. (Arch)

Department of Architecture, bauko1, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany

 

TAJ MAHAL-THE MEMORIAL OF LOVE

PUNEET GUPTA

Dewan Public School, Meerut, India

 

“At the Dawn of the 21st Century: A View-Thought ‘The Red Window’”

(“The Critical Time of the World Civilization”)

Sarawut Chutiwongpeti

Bangkok, Thailand

 

Expanses (a generative soundscape)

Thanos Chrysakis

Department of Music, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK

Nick Fuller

Electronic Arts, Middlesex University, London, UK

 

«Wordnews»

Benjamin Fischer

Fine Arts Department, State Academy of Art and Design, Stuttgart, Germany

 

N.E.S.T. Network examination of serendipitous transfer.

Leon Cullinane B.A. , Benjamin Delarre BSc.

MSc at Chalmers, Goteborg, Sweden.

 

Buklod: Collaborative Morphogenesis Towards Generative Design via Global Web Services

Peter Martin D. Gomez

Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines

 

GenoTyp

An experiment about genetic typography

Michael Schmitz, Student of Digital Media Design

Department of Visual Communication, University of Arts Berlin, Berlin, Germany

 

 

Ø       Activity 8 Communication

Ø        

1.       Website www.generativedesign.com/asialink.htm (annexed with cd)

2.       Exhibitions in Europe and China

Rome, University of Rome La Sapienza (March 2004)

Changsha, Hunan University (April 2004)

Beijing, Italian Embassy (April 2004)

Hong Kong, International Finance Centre (June 2004)

Milan, Politecnico di Milano University (each year, 2002,2003 and 2004)

3.       Lectures in Asia presenting Asia-link program by coordinator and managers / partners  in Singapore, Macau, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Changsha, Xi’an, Beijing, Tianjin.

4.       Proceedings:

a-       GA2002 proceedings, poster and program (annexed)

b-       GA2003 proceedings, poster and program (annexed)

c-       “De Identitate” proceedings and poster (annexed)

d-      GA2004 proceedings, poster and program (annexed)

5.       Depliants, posters and material of the seminars

Generative Art Cenferences, seminar and Asia-link program presentation. (annexed)

 

6.       Articles in Chinese magazines and European magazines (annexed)

Covers of two Chinese magazines,” Architect” and “Designer” where the activities of the program are focused. In the “Designer” magazine the cover has the photo of the coordinator of the program, Prof. Celestino Soddu, during the interview.

 

 

III. Partnership

 

The individual work of each Generative Design Labs is summarized in the following sub-sections, respectively.

 

Politecnico di Milano University, Generative Design Lab 

 

Main Activities:

-          Realization of the Generative Art Conference 2002 (11-12-13 December 2002)

-          Realization of the Generative Art Exhibition at Milan Polytechnic University (9-14 December)

-          Realization of Generative Performance Festival at Aula Magna of Milan Polytechnic the 12th and 13th December 2002.

-          Realization and publishing of the book of proceedings of Generative Art Conference 2002. The book was printed in time for the conference.

-          Participation to institutional meetings concerning Italy-China exchanges.

-          Preparing and managing the meeting of Asia-Link partners in Milan Polytechnic University the 10th December 2002.