The XXL Workshop is an elective course held at the Faculty of Architecture of Delft University of Technology. It is concerned with the design, computation, engineering, and production of a horizontal large span building structure. This design process is done as a collaborative digital design in a multidisciplinary group of students in which each student has his/her own different responsibility. The collaborative digital design requires an integrated 3D approach based on BIM (Building Information Modeling) principles, performance analysis, and file to factory processes.

Coordination: Bige Tuncer / Michela Turrin. Instructors: Architectural Design: Prof.ir. K. Oosterhuis; Dr.ir. H.H. Bier; ir. Jelle Feringa. Structural Design: Dr.ir. J. Paul; ir. A. Borgart. Cladding and Construction: ir. T. Klein. Digital and Computational Design: Arch. M. Turrin; ir. S. Mulders, ir. P. Nourian. Sustainable Design: Dr.ir. A. van Timmeren; Dr.ir. M. Tenpierik; Ing. A.K. Lassen; ir.G.Mangone. Adaptive Building Systems: Prof.dr.ing. P. Teuffel; Dipl.Ing. F. Heinzelmann. Invited Reviewers: B. Burgers (De Kuip), F. Werner (KCAP), S. Wilbrenninck (BAM), A. Habraken (Arup), B.Wubben (dS+V, Rotterdam).
Contact: M.Turrin@tudelft.nl

1.3.11

Week 4 - general tasks

Dear students,

During the first 3 weeks, the course encouraged each group to broadly explore various design directions. The presentations on the 17th of February aimed at selecting one clear design direction for each group. We hope the comments helped you in addressing one specific design direction, which should have few very well focused aspects. It is time now to focus on the selected aspects only, by narrowing down the design exploration and strongly reducing its complexity. Please, from now on, you should develop your design by focusing only on the key drivers of the design direction you have chosen.

Just to further remember it, the design drivers of your project are meant to address the 2 main design tasks: the 24/7 use of the stadium by means of adaptability (reconfigurability) and the sustainability (mainly passive and active use of renewable energies). Each of you within the team (4 disciplines) has to work to achieve the 2 tasks by further developing your design concept based on the few selected clear design drivers you have chosen.

To reach this goal, it is time now to start verifying the performances you are aiming at, by means of cycles of performance simulations - feededback to your design solutions, as a support of your decision making process. Particularly, here following some specific tasks you should aim at this week:

1) Simulation support and design development - with iterative design development using numeric simulation and development cycles
2) Reinforce the integrated multidisciplinary design
3) Make physical working models when they support your design process

At this phase, your own role within the team has to be even more specific than before - please, each of your should act as responsible of his/her field.
For the computational design experts, this week is a crucial step of the process. Please, based on the interdisciplinary discussion with your team, select/identify meaningful independent parameters of your geometry, and set the loops of the needed performance analysis over the parametric models.

Let me know if there are doubts,
Michela

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