Guggenheim Hermitage Museum
with Zaha Hadid Architects

Shanghai Expo with Heatherwick Studio

Heydar Aliyev Merkezi with Zaha Hadid Architects

Sawako Kaijima & Panagiotis Michalatos
Adams Kara Taylor

Adams Kara Taylor closely collaborates with architects in taking on innovative projects, stretching the envelope of what is possible today within the realm of digital technologies. We will present projects where our Computational Design Consultancy team developed custom plug-ins for rhino with real time interactive interfaces in order to solve different problems faced in each project. The projects include Vilnius Cultural Museum [Zaha Hadid Architects], Shanghai Expo [Heatherwick Studio], Heydar Aliyev Merkezi [Zaha Hadid Architects], and our in-house research on “Structural Patterns”[AKT.]

The computational design team within p.art AKT focuses on designing the integration methods for various concerns raised by different parties [architect, structural engineer, environmental engineer, fabricator, etc] involved in architectural projects. We develop custom software for each project with interactive interface so as to facilitate communication between the entire team as well as between different software tools [architecture modeling software, FEM analysis software] employed for the project. Our aim is to bridge the existing gap between the parties by stretching the envelope of what is possible today within the realm of digital technologies and pragmatically addressing contemporary design, structure and construction goals.

Sawako Kaijima studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where she received her Master's of Architecture. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Information majoring in Media Design from Keio University, Japan.

Panagiotis Michalatos studied Architecture at NTUA Athens Greece and graduated in 2001. He then went to Sweden to study at the art and technology course in Gothenburg a program jointly organized by Chalmers and IT-Universitet.