Fri. 24 Jan.]Architectural Informatics Guest Lecture 15:Ng Ming Shan
Realising Digital Design and Digital Fabrication

Ng Ming Shan,Kyoto Institute of Technology
Date and time: January 24, 2025 (Fri.) 18:30~20:00
Venue: KAJIMA HALL (Room15), Faculty of Engineering Building 1
Host: Yasushi Ikeda Architectural Informatics Research Lab.
In this lecture, she explains the research and practices of how different state-of-the-art digital fabrication technologies – including bespoke 3D printers, on-site robotic bending, CNC machinery and steel prefabrication – are being used to successfully fabricate bespoke complex geometry building components through Design for Digital Fabrication (DfDFAB) approach on existing construction projects in current practice. DfDFAB, as the key to success, fosters information integration (e.g. in BIM), stakeholder integration and process integration and enables design to target costing to avoid cost overrun. Existing construction projects are presented as examples. Moreover, the talk elaborates on the corresponding lean management (a.k.a. Toyota Production System from Japan) for implementing digital fabrication in construction, the investigation of how digital fabrication technologies can be used to foster circular construction in network studies, as well as how the industry envisions linked data management to foster sustainable development through the implementation of digital fabrication
Charmaine is currently a Full Professor at the Kyoto Institute of Technology in Japan. She received her bachelor’s and master’s in Architecture from ETH Zürich and her second master’s in Building History from the University of Cambridge. Moreover, she completed her PhD in Civil Engineering on Design and Construction Management for Digital Fabrication at ETH Zurich. Her research focuses on solving complex design problems with technologies and innovations to foster sustainable development. She gave many lectures on complex facade engineering, DfMA, sustainability and circular construction, BIM and project management etc. Besides, she has been practising for 10+ years. She is a chartered architect in Switzerland and the U.K., a LEED AP, as well as a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and the Architectural Institute of Japan. She worked for award-winning firms including Heatherwick Studio on many projects such as the Google Bay View and Singapore Changi Airport Terminal 5
Admission free, no reservation required. Lecture will be in English. Please contact the following address if you would like to watch the seminar online. Contact: Architectural Informatics Lab. arastoo@arch1.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp