Archives / 2014 / March

Digital Design courses finished at Oulu and Tampere

The two courses, taught by architect Toni Österlund have come to an ending. Digital Design & Research – workshop13 at the University of Oulu and the Digital Design in Sustainable Urbanism at the Tampere University of Technology were finished late last year. The two courses provided a lot of inspiration to both students and tutors as the dealt with the possibilities and design exploration of algorithm aided design methods and parametric modeling through the use of Rhino/Grasshopper.

 

Course results can be viewed in the Digital Design & Research’s Facebook page.

Oulu University funding for PhD research

Toni Österlund was granted two year research funding from the University of Oulu, uniOGS graduate school for finishing his doctoral thesis, working title: “Designing and Controlling Adaptive Lighting – Non-linear adaptive interactions of lighting”.

The funding was granted based on the Open-Res call for doctoral students. The funding period is from 2014 to 2015. The previous funding from the “Adaptive Urban Lighting – Algorithm Aided Lighting Design” project ended at the end of 2013.

Article about DigiWoodLab in PUU|WOOD|HOLZ|BOIS magazine

The Finnish PUU|WOOD|HOLZ|BOIS magazine presented the new DigiWoodLab project in 3/2013. The article text was written by Toni Österlund and Tuulikki Tanska. The article presented the pilot case study of the project, which is the diploma thesis of architect Tuulikki Tanska, titled: “Methods of Geometric Optimization in Architectural Design – Case: Sports center in Linnanmaa, Oulu”. 

DigiWoodLab is a project at the University of Oulu, Faculty of Architecture, to study and test the potential for Finnish wood architecture inherent in algorithm-aided design methods and computerised production. The project aims to develop structures and construction at the scale of public buildings, utilise new digital-design methods and the smart solutions enabled by them.

DigiWoodLab is funded by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry and led by Professor Matti Sanaksenaho. The project team consists of Toni Österlund and Tuulikki Tanska. The development work is being carried out in teaching sessions, workshops, diploma theses and exhibitions.

Read the whole magazine from HERE.