White Making Sense of Computational Design and Structural Engineering


This seminar program took place at White Arkitekter in Stockholm Friday 9 December 2016:
Making Sense of Computational Design and Structural Engineering was initiated by Professor Jonas Runberger, architect and head of Dsearch at White arkitekter, and supported by ARQ, as it provides a common platform for design related practices, to explore and futher develop informed design with digital support in architecture. The exchange of experience and knowledge between architects and structural engineers is a key to future collaborations and further development of methods and processes.

Computational Design allows intuitive design decisions to be informed during the architectural process. By adding structural analysis to our computational design toolbox,
we close the circle of quantified structural tests and qualified design decisions. White invites you to learn from the experience of peak practitioners in this field,
to find new forms of collaboration between Scandinavian architects and structural engineers, through the use of computational design. The seminar featured three keynote lecturers: Cecilie Brandt-Olsen – Engineer/Design Technologist at Format Engineers, Julian Lienhard – Director and Founder, str.ucture, Germany and Visiting Professor HCU Hamburg, and Karl-Gunnar Olsson – Professor in Architecture and Engineering, Department of Architecture, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg.

To meet the need to develop practice in relation to research and development, White introduced the seminar series White Making Sense in 2016. This seminar format unfolds in three steps; an open lecture, a hands-on workshop, and a complementary discussion.

Dsearch is a development environment within White arkitekter AB, associated to White Research Lab. Dsearch develops computational design strategies for implementation
in projects. A core team of architects with computational specialism leads the way, in close collaboration with a distributed network of architects and engineers throughout
the company. The strong tie to live projects ensure relevance of development, and allows dissemination of new concepts and methods to our general practitioners. Parallel engagement in academic research environments keep core team up to date on the front of development at an international level. Jonas Runberger directs Dsearch, and is an Artistic Professor in Digital Design at Chalmers Department of Architecture.