We are very happy to have contributed two chapters in the newly published book ‘Design Transactions: Rethinking Information Modeling for a New Material Age’ edited by Bob Sheil, Mette Ramsgaard Thompsen, Martin Tamke and Sean Hanna, published by UCL Press London. The chapters feature among others the Acoustic Limestone Wall Project and discussions on new material performances. The printed book can be purchased online, just as an open-access digital copy can be downloaded here.

Our project on Acoustic Tiles has been published in the architectural journal ARKITEKTEN as an interview focused on architectural acoustics and architectural innovations. The three page interview is in Danish with the title ‘Tile and Sound’ (Tegl og lyd) by Birgitte Kleis. The project can be found here and copies of the journal can be found here.

Interview in the printed magazine ‘Byggeri + Arkitektur’ on our studies and two projects focused on the relationships between architecture, acoustics and design processes with the title ‘One can close the eyes, but not the ears’.

Acoustic Tiles Project featured at the 'Forbundet for Arkitekter og Designere' website. Thank you for showcasing the project and putting focus on acoustics in early architectural design phases. See article (Danish) on here.

We are extremely delighted to launch the innovation project Acoustic Tiles. The project is based on powerful collaborations between architecture, acoustics, robotics, structures and material building industries, including the project partners AREA, ODICO, JHA and Strøjer Tegl, and supported by Realdania, Aalborg University and Copenhagen School of Design and Technology. See project here.

We are very excited to have been invited to Los Angeles, by Nordic La, to show and discuss our work on architecture, design, research and innovation in front of a broad group of leading people in the LA creative industry. Nordic La is spearheaded by Nephew guitarist Kristian Riis, with the event supported by the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Culture, Danish Growth Fund and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines. Also invited to speak at the event is Kathrin Gimmel from JaJa Architects and Lasse Anderson from the Utzon Center. In addition, the second issue of the ARK Journal will be launched at the venue. It will be a packed and thrilling group of creatives coming together to increase the bond between DK and US architecture and design.

We are delighted to have presented our architectural design research on material studies for thermal responsive envelopes at the International eCAADe Conference in Porto, Portugal. The published paper is entitled ‘Material Studies for Thermal Responsive Composite Envelopes’ and can be downloaded as open-access directly from the CUMINCAD database, here.

We are delighted to have presented our research on hybrid adaptive envelopes based on material-microprocessor based systems, with the conference article contribution title ‘A Hybrid Adaptive Composite Based Auxiliary Envelope’. The proceedings are published by Taylor & Francis.

The research is part of the Sense V project, which is a collaboration between AREA, Aalborg University, Copenhagen School of Design and Technology (Material Design Lab) and Aarhus School of Architecture. The project has also received funding from the COWI Foundation to realise the experimental research.

Across several months we have been investigating the thermal and atmospheric environment of kindergartens. The data shows both very interesting and alarming conditions for the children. We will keep measuring and look to share and suggest new ways to construct daycare buildings.

We are currently collecting system and occupancy behavioural information from sensors and observations, for understanding the impact on people from the adaptive auxiliary membrane installed in the Copenhagen School of Design and Technology.

We are delighted to have been invited by FABB, Burcu Bicer Saner and Efe Gözen, to contribute to the Istanbul Design Biennale 2018. In collaboration with Aalborg University and Copenhagen School of Design and Technology we have developed an acoustically informed design method, a robot based double-sided limestone wall assembly and a full-size demonstrator for the Biennale. The project was furthermore selected for presentation at the Innochain Conference 2018 in Copenhagen, November 2018 with the title “Acoustic Wall: A Collaborative Robot Based Acoustic Wall Assembly. More about the project will be featured later on the website. Photo credits AREA.

It is with great pleasure that the single sculler computational and hand-craft project, Solo, has finished with a test on balance, water line, displacement properties before a full series of testing is conducted in the Spring 2019.