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Judit Kimpian, Director of Sustainable Architecture and Research and Christian Derix, Director of Computational Design Research at Aedas will be presenting at the AA School of Architecture’s AD… | read more
Apr 2, 2012 - Mapping Controversies in Architecture by Dr. Albena Yaneva
The Computational Design group’s work has been featured in Dr. Albena Yaneva recently published book; ‘Mapping Controversies in Architecture’. The book looks at how controversy mapping allows us… | read more
Apr 1, 2012 - Aedas R&D to present at EcoBuild China 2012 | 9th – 12th April 2012
Judit Kimpian Director of Sustainable Architecture and Research (London) and Benny Chow Director of Sustainability (Hong Kong) at Aedas R&D will be presenting at this year’s EcoBuild China… | read more
Mar 9, 2012 - Guest Lecture at the Bartlett Graduate Studies, UCL, Mar 2012
Prarthana Jagannath, Computational Design Researcher at Aedas International has been invited to speak to the students of the M.Sc. Adaptive Architecture and Computation course at the Bartlett Graduate… | read more
Mar 6, 2012 - Aedas R&D shortlisted for a GreenBuild Award 2012
Aedas have been shortlisted to receive a GreenBuild Award (2012) in the category of Workplace Building of the Year for Pool Innovation Centre. The winner of this category… | read more
Mar 6, 2012 - Aedas R&D to present at EcoBuild 2012 | 20th - 22nd March 2012
Judit Kimpian Director of Sustainable Architecture and Research at Aedas R&D will be presenting at this year’s EcoBuild 2012 on Tuesday 20th and Thursday 22nd March 2012. Tuesday… | read more
Dec 11, 2011 - Wired article: Office design by Tetris
The Computational Design Group’s work on the ADEC project, developing a semi-automated layout model, is the focus of an article ‘Office Design by Tetris’. The article, by Tim… | read more
Dec 6, 2011 - Aedas R&D shortlisted for the CIBSE Building Performance Award 2012
Aedas have been shortlisted to receive a CIBSE Building Performance Award (2012) in the category of New Build Project of the Year (Public Sector) for Pool Innovation Centre,… | read more
Nov 20, 2011 - Christian Derix becomes Visiting Professor at Technical University Munich
Christian Derix, Director of Computational Design Research at Aedas R&D becomes Visiting Professor at the Technical University Munich (TUM) at the Chair for Emergent Technologies; School of Architecture… | read more
Nov 20, 2011 - Spatial Design Simulation workshop at Hyperbody | TU Delft | 28 - 30th November 2011
Anders Holden Deleuran and Christian Derix will be holding a Spatial Design Simulation workshop at Hyperbody of TU Delft from the 28th – 30th November 2011. Anders Holden… | read more
Nov 16, 2011 - CarbonBuzz Latest News - November 2011
Virtual Information Models in Low Carbon Design | University of Roma Tre, Rome, Italy | 25th November 2011 Judit Kimpian, Director of Sustainable Architecture and Research, will be… | read more
Nov 15, 2011 - DETAIL publishes Future Construction ‘Virtual Building Simulator’
DETAIL publishes Future Construction ‘Virtual Building Simulator’: collaborative research and development between Fraunhofer Institute and CDR, based on building planning simulations conducted in immersive virtual reality. CDR designed… | read more
Lucy Helme, Senior Designer in the Computational Design Research group, will be speaking at the Sheffield School of Architecture’s Theory Forum 2011, on Tuesday 15th November. The theme… | read more
Aedas R&D Researcher Sophie Chisholm, will be giving a talk on CarbonBuzz as well as post occupancy and building performance evaluation to MSc students at Oxford Brookes University… | read more
Oct 18, 2011 - CarbonBuzz Latest News - October 2011
Dan Rigamonti, Greig Paterson and Judit Kimpian of Aedas R&D have written an article entitled “Occupant Orientated Design: Professional Research into the Pragmatic Use of Data to Inform… | read more
Oct 16, 2011 - Hybrid Symposium | UdK Berlin | 4th November 2011
The computational design team will be presenting their work at the Hybrid Symposium in UdK Berlin on 4th November 2011. The Symposium will focus on the significance of,… | read more
Åsmund Gamlesæter, Senior Designer of the Computational Design and Research group at Aedas R&D will be presenting at the International Conference on Construction Applications of Virtual Reality 2011… | read more
As part of the Open City’s Green Sky Thinking event, Aedas hosted an informative Pecha Kucha style evening at their office in London to showcase projects from practices… | read more
Aedas R&D will be exhibiting at this year’s Innovate ‘11* held at The Building Centre on Tuesday 11th October hosted by The Technology Strategy Board. The team will… | read more
Sep 19, 2011 - Planning Network-Geo-Innovation | 4th International Symposium
Christian Derix, Director of Computational Design and Research at Aedas, will be speaking at the 4th International Symposium of PNGI ( planning network-geo-innovation ) on Wednesday, the 21st… | read more
Sep 11, 2011 - Open City Green Sky Thinking, Pecha Kucha | Aedas London | 19th September 2011
As part of Open City’s Green Sky Thinking* events, Aedas R&D would like to invite you and your associates for a Pecha Kucha and drinks reception at our… | read more
Åsmund Gamlesæter and Anders Holden Deleuran form part of the teaching team for a course in digital representation and technique to all third year students at the KTH… | read more
Aug 12, 2011 - CarbonBuzz awarded further funding under the Technology Strategy Board Metadata Call
Global practice Aedas is the only architectural firm to be awarded under the TSB’s Metadata Call for the Creative Industries. In recent years Aedas has instigated a number… | read more
Aug 12, 2011 - Carbonbuzz Latest News - August 2011
CarbonBuzz has been awarded further funding under the TSB’s Metadata Call for the Creative Industries. Existing CarbonBuzz consortium partners Aedas, Aecom, BRE and CIBSE will match the TSB… | read more
Christian Derix, Director of Computational Design and Research at Aedas, has been invited by the IE University to demonstrate how simulation can be used as a vehicle to… | read more
Jul 7, 2011 - Digital Processes seminar | Open Glasstudios, Wiesbaden, Germany | 16th July 2011
Christian Derix, Director of Computational Design and Research at Aedas, will be giving a talk based on the practices of Computation as a design material at the Digital… | read more
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The Computational Design and Research [CDR] group will be presenting their data visualization and generative design work and leading interactive sessions at the DesignMeetsData workshop in Berlin, on… | read more
Christian Derix, Director of Computational Design and Research [CDR] at Aedas R&D will be presenting a lecture at the MediaLab of Sciences Po, University of Political Sciences, Paris,… | read more
Jun 7, 2011 - CarbonBuzz Latest News - June 2011
Sophie Crisholm, Guest Lecture at the PLEA 2011 Conference Sophie Chisholm, researcher at Aedas R&D, will be presenting the CarbonBuzz project at the PLEA 2011, her paper titled… | read more
Jun 6, 2011 - SPRING 2011 Lecture Series, Princeton, Lecture Video
Christian Derix, Head of the Computational Design and Research group at Aedas R&D recently spoke at Princeton University, School of Architecture, for the Spring 2011 Lecture Series organised… | read more
Jun 1, 2011 - Spatial Design Support : GIS-based analysis tools for planning
Prarthana Jagannath, member of Computational Design and Research group at Aedas R&D, will be presenting work done by the CDR in the field of Digital Masterplanning at the… | read more
May 20, 2011 - CarbonBuzz Latest News - May 2011
Judit Kimpian’s article on Reality Check: Sustainability has been published in the May 2011 issue of the RIBA Journal. It discusses the mismatch between expected and actual energy… | read more
May 17, 2011 - 22nd ADI Compasso d'Oro Award, Rome, May, 2011
The Vita modular shelving system designed by the Computational Design and Research group at Aedas|R&D, in collaboration with Massimo Mariani has been nominated for the prestigious quadrennial Compasso… | read more
May 13, 2011 - Design for Future Climate Conference 2011 | Harris Academy | 18th May, 2011
Dan Rigamonti, a sustainable design specialist at Aedas R&D presenting recent R&D input into the design of Harris Academy, Purley at the Coin Street Neighbourhood Centre. The presentation… | read more
May 13, 2011 - Digital Transformations | Processing Complexity | May 18th, 2011
Christian Derix, Head of the Computational Design and Research group at Aedas R&D will be speaking at the spring session of the Digital Transformations Symposium on the 18th… | read more
May 1, 2011 - Sustainability Now Conference | 19th May 2011
Judit Kimpian, Head of Sustainability and Advance Modelling at Aedas R&D will be speaking at the Sustainability now conference on the 19th May 2011 together with Ant Wilson,… | read more
Apr 15, 2011 - Lecture at Havard University, Graduate School of Design, Apr 18th, 2011.
Christian Derix, Head of the Computational Design and Research group at Aedas R&D will be presenting a lecture at Havard University’s Graduate School of Design on the 18th… | read more
Apr 6, 2011 - CarbonBuzz Latest News - April 2011
The AJ has published an article on Bridging the Gap: Post Occupancy Evaluation with references to how CarbonBuzz is helping to shape the argument for more robust energy… | read more
Mar 9, 2011 - Judit Kimpian Letter to AJ Editor: Post Occupancy Evaluations feature
In discussing the discrepancies between forecast and actual emissions in Martin Spring’s POE feature of AJ 24.2.11, I am quoted saying that contributors’ design data and CIBSE’s benchmarks… | read more
Mar 3, 2011 - Cycle to Cannes: Energy Well Spent
Aedas, the main sponsor of the 2011 Cycle to Cannes’ ride, has been using the resources of its in-house Research and Development Group to model the data generated… | read more
Feb 23, 2011 - SPRING 2011 Lecture Series, Princeton University, April 2011
Christian Derix, Head of the Computational Design and Research group at Aedas R&D will be speaking at Princeton’s Spring 2011 Lecture Series organised by Axel Kilian, at Betts… | read more
Feb 22, 2011 - Christian Derix, Guest Lecture at ACADIA 2010 Conference
The ACADIA 2010 conference in New York focussed on the changing nature of information and its impact on architectural education, research and practice. It featured a series of… | read more
Feb 21, 2011 - Guest Lecture at MARC, Manchester University, March 2011
Christian Derix, Head of Computational Design and Research group and Lucy Helme, Computational Design Researcher at Aedas R&D, will be giving a lecture at the Manchester Architecture Research… | read more
Feb 18, 2011 - Guest Lecture at the Bartlett Graduate Studies, UCL, Mar 2011
Christian Derix, Head of Computational Design Group at Aedas International has been invited to speak to the students of the M.Sc. Adaptive Architecture and Computation course at the… | read more
Feb 14, 2011 - Aedas R&D secures Technology Strategy Board Funding
The government-backed Technology Strategy Board announced on 21 December details of successful projects that were awarded funding to carry out detailed building performance evaluation studies. During the first… | read more
Feb 14, 2011 - Christian Derix at University of Freiburg, Spatial Cognition, Feb 2011
Christian Derix, Head of Computational Design and Research Group at Aedas R&D will be presenting a discussion of post-parametric computational methods for spatial design to the SFB/TR 8… | read more
Jan 24, 2011 - Aedas CDR and Fraunhofer IAO at BAU 2011, Munich, Jan 2011
The Computational Design and Research | Aedas R&D [CDR] group collaborated with the Fraunhofer Building Innovation Alliance to develop a Future Construction Demonstrator that was displayed at the… | read more
Jan 24, 2011 - Fourth Digital Crafting Seminar, Jan 2011
Christian Derix, Head of Computational Design and Research and Åsmund Gamlesaeter, Computational design Researcher at Aedas R&D spoke at the Fourth Digital Crafting Workshop held at the Aarhus… | read more
Nov 8, 2010 - MARC Autumn Lecture Series, Manchester University, Oct 2010
Christian Derix, Head of Computational Design and Research at Aedas R&D, was invited by Albena Yaneva to give a lecture as part of Manchester Architecture Research Centre (MARC)… | read more
Nov 4, 2010 - Careers - Computational Design Researcher
Aedas’ Computational Design & Research Group is at the forefront of computational design in the UK and is responsible for developing in-house design simulations that help to generate,… | read more
Oct 20, 2010 - Aedas R&D commendation - RIBA President's Awards for Research
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) announced today the winners for the annual RIBA President’s Awards for Research 2010. The awards reward and encourage outstanding research in… | read more
Sep 20, 2010 - Christian Derix guest chair: AA Concrete Geometries Symposium 2010
Christian Derix, Head of Computational Design and Research at Aedas R&D, will be chairing the ‘Perception and Cognition’ roundtable discussion at the AA Concrete Geometries Symposium on 15… | read more
Sep 6, 2010 - Synthetic Search: Mediating Analogue and Artificial Design Heuristics
Lecture on 12 October at The Manchester Architecture Research Centre (MARC), Manchester School of Architecture. Christian Derix’s presentation will illustrate some examples of the architectural purpose of computation.… | read more
Mar 10, 2010 - Judit Kimpian presents as part of UK Trade & Industry Mission
UKTI’s trade mission in Qatar and Abu Dhabi brought industry leaders together to promote UK businesses in the region. Judit Kimpian, Aedas Head of Sustainability and Advanced Modelling,… | read more
Feb 26, 2010 - Peter Oborn presents at CTBUH Mumbai 2010 World Conference
Peter Oborn – Deputy Chairman, Aedas Europe – presented “Dynamic facades and parametrics; creating a new vernacular?” at CTBUH Mumbai 2010: Remaking Sustainable Cities in the Vertical Age.… | read more
Feb 10, 2010 - CarbonBuzz awarded 3-year grant from the Technology Strategy Board
CarbonBuzz, the architectural and building services engineering community’s carbon management scheme that provides an online platform to benchmark and track project energy use from design to operation, has… | read more
Oct 30, 2009 - Aedas CDR team present paper at ACADIA09, Chicago
ACADIA09: reForm() is a world class event that brings together a wide collection of participants to shape and grow their own skills in the areas of architectural technology… | read more
Recent Publications
Digital Masterplanning: Computing Urban Design - ICE paper
Christian Derix, Director of Computational Design Research has written a paper titled ‘Digital masterplanning: computing urban design’ for the Institute of Civil Engineering. _This paper was first published…
Building Performance in Working Progress
Aedas' Director of Sustainable Architecture and Research, Judit Kimpian and EngD research engineer Esfandiar Burman have written article on the progression of post-occupancy evaluation on existing educational buildings…
Judit Kimpian has written an article exploring the difference between Building Information Modelling (BIM) and Virtual Information Modelling (VIM) and the impact these IT systems have on design…
