"12 Ways To Move Forward" | Lecture by Kas Oosterhuis

Adaptive Architecture: "12 Ways To Move Forward"

Lecture by Kas Oosterhuis

"12 Ways To Move Forward"

As part of the module Emerging Fields in Architecture (++), HB2, TU Vienna

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The Emerging Fields in Architecture module conveys current knowledge from new research fields in architecture - and engineering disciplines, with the aim of addressing current and future design challenges in a broader social context in an interdisciplinary and fundamental way. The lectures impart knowledge about different and interdisciplinary approaches to design, current developments and results in materials and construction method research, about planning and building under/in extreme conditions as well as about structures that change or develop due to changing parameters.

In this context, strategies for design development (from the initial idea to implementation) are questioned in an interdisciplinary discourse, and the question of how the path from idea to realization can be shaped and to what extent it is possible to be systematically creative is examined.< /p>

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Kas Oosterhuis is an innovator, a writer, an educator, and a practicing designer, leading the innovation studio ONL [Oosterhuis_Lénárd], which he runs together with his partner in life and business visual artist Ilona Lénárd has been a professor from practice at the chair of Digital Architecture [Hyperbody] at the TU Delft from 2000 to 2016, a professor at Qatar University from 2017 to 2019, and a visiting professor at INDA Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand from 2023 to 2024.

The leading theme for the design studio ONL [established 1989] has been from the beginning of the fusion of art and architecture on a digital platform, and the leading research topics at Hyperbody TU Delft, are complex nonstandard geometry, interactive architecture, and robotics.

Bespoke projects are the Saltwater Pavilion, the Web of North-Holland, the A2 Cockpit showroom in Utrecht, the Bálna mixed-use cultural center in Budapest, and the LIWA tower in Abu Dhabi. In these realized works, ONL has developed a unique and cost-efficient digital file-to-factory method, linking parametric design directly to the CNC production and assembly of the constituting components.

In his book “Towards a New Kind of Building, a Designers Guide to Nonstandard Architecture” [2011] Oosterhuis reveals the fundamentals of his personal design universe, embracing the paradigm shift from standard mass-produced to nonstandard mass-customized architecture and from static to interactive environments.

Kas Oosterhuis's most recent book is titled “The Component, A Personal Odyssey Towards Another Normal”, a 500+ page techno-social exposé of his design principles, put in the context of his contemporaries, artists, architects, politicians, and scientists alike. Instead of illustrations the concept of the book is scan the 800+ QR codes linking to images, videos, websites, providing extensive background information.