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Kivi Sotamaa

Director | ADDLAB Aalto Digital Design Laboratory

adj. Associate Professor | University of California Los Angeles UCLA Architecture & Urban Design

Principal | Sotamaa Design

Paradigm shift

Digital fabrication, design & materiality

1. Fabrication

Iterations

Copies

Complexity

Simplicity

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2. Design

Calculus / Curves

Cartesian geometry

Simulation and analysis

Performance, lifecycle, carbon

footprint...

‘Genetic algorithms’

Recipe for a family of objects

Single idealised object

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Design at multiple scales

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Managing a complex assemblage

(BIM)

Simple repetetive whole

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3. Materiality

Biomorphic materiality

Mechanical materiality

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Design driven/applied Research

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Basic Research

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New Business Models

Space

Lectures, symposia

Courses

Discourse and dissemination

Project driven design research

Infrastructure

Digital Design

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Digital Fabrication

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New Materials

Reciprocity

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