Projects in this area bring together architecture, engineering, biomimetics, materials science, digital design and fabrication for new expressions in design, and new theoretical understandings of the relationship between architecture, craft, and biological processes. Projects explore crafts, textiles, and fabrication. Work includes designing and conducting structural tests of connections and tectonics, materials testing, fabrication, and construction technologies and methodologies. Related areas include:
Publications:
(2019) Vernelle A. A. Noel. “Reviving a Craft through Architecture: Computational Making of a lightweight pavilion based on wire-bending techniques,” in Form and Force, Proceedings of the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures Annual Symposium 2019 – Structural Membranes 2019 – IASS, Barcelona, Spain. (October 2019).
(2017) Vernelle A. A. Noel. “From Costuming and Dancing Sculptures to Architecture: The Corporeal and Computational in Design and Fabrication of Lightweight Mobile Structures,” in Future Trajectories of Computation in Design. Proceedings of Computer Aided Architectural Design Futures Conference – CAAD Futures, Istanbul, Turkey. (June 2017): 22-41.