Kivi Sotamaa
Director | ADDLAB Aalto Digital Design Laboratory
adj. Associate Professor | University of California Los Angeles UCLA Architecture & Urban Design
Principal | Sotamaa Design
Digital fabrication, design & materiality
Complexity
Simplicity
Calculus / Curves
Cartesian geometry
Simulation and analysis
Performance, lifecycle, carbon
footprint...
‘Genetic algorithms’
Recipe for a family of objects
Single idealised object
Design at multiple scales
Managing a complex assemblage
(BIM)
Simple repetetive whole
Biomorphic materiality
Mechanical materiality
Design driven/applied Research
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Basic Research
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New Business Models
Lectures, symposia
Discourse and dissemination
Project driven design research
Infrastructure
Digital Design
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Digital Fabrication
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New Materials
www.addlab.aalto.fi