Over the next 30 years, by 2050, nearly 10 billion people will live on the planet. And two-thirds of us will live in cities. All of these people will need housing along with the necessary infrastructure to support a widening population. With so many people living in cities we’re going to need to make them smarter and more responsive to the needs of their residents. BIM practitioners own much of the responsibility for building out the commercial, residential, social and economic spaces for the global population. How will accomodate the increase in population? Alex Tessier will speak on the trend of building construction using pre-fabrication and modular building techniques. Autodesk is helping to forge a new generation of designers that will bring cutting edge techniques like 3D printing and robotics to enable pre-fabrication and generative design to the construction site.
Ray Wang is a Senior Research Scientist and Associate with Autodesk Research and The Living. He is interested in how advances in technologies can open up new methods of exploring architectural ideas and narratives, with a focus on generative design, A.I., mixed-reality, and bio-sensing. Ray has led a wide range of design projects from the scale of museum installations to corporate headquarters. His work with The Living has been published and exhibited in a variety of outlets including Wired, Architectural Record and the Chicago Architecture Biennial. Ray's research has been published at conferences such as SimAUD, SmartGeometry and ACADIA. Ray is also an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School for Architecture, Planning and Preservation, in New York City, where he teaches architecture design studios.
Over the next 30 years, by 2050, nearly 10 billion people will live on the planet. And two-thirds of us will live in cities. All of these people will need housing along with the necessary infrastructure to support a widening population. With so many people living in cities we’re going to need to make them smarter and more responsive to the needs of their residents. BIM practitioners own much of the responsibility for building out the commercial, residential, social and economic spaces for the global population. How will accomodate the increase in population? Alex Tessier will speak on the trend of building construction using pre-fabrication and modular building techniques. Autodesk is helping to forge a new generation of designers that will bring cutting edge techniques like 3D printing and robotics to enable pre-fabrication and generative design to the construction site.
