FOREWORD

The proceeding contains core papers of the DADA2015 International Conference on Digital Architecture, which is a part of the series of events of DADA2015 under the theme of Digital Factory.

Digital Architecture Design Association (DADA) is an official organization under the Architect Association of the Architectural Society of China. Founded in October, 2012 by 23 domestic architects and scholars who work in the realm of digital architecture, DADA aims to unite architects, scholars, enterprises, institutions and academic organizations in the building industry in China that works in the realm of digital architecture, to facilitate domestic and international academic exchanges on digital architectural design, to propel digital architectural research and practice, to promote the dissemination of digital architectural knowledge and technologies; at the same time, actively guide the communication and connection of different area in the building industry, including design, production, construction and operation, and contribute to the building industry in its process of integrated promotion into a new sustainable industrial chain.

Digital Factory is a metaphor that indicates a series of contents including Digital Workshop, Digital Design Studio, Building Intelligent Construction. The core members of DADA committed Tongji University to host DADA2015 series of events early in 2014 at Shenzhen, and the topic Digital Factory is also decided then. As the topic of event series, it contains multi-layers of meanings. First of all, it is DADA's intention to promote the application of digital technology to develop from digital design to digital construction. Secondly, architecture industry should target its upgrades at the digital fabrication. Thirdly, the digital fabrication of architecture should respond to the emerging trend of Industry 4.0, and search into the path of building intelligent. Lastly, architects should lead the wave of the new round of industrial revolution, and nurture the birth and development of Digital Architecture Industry.

The series events of DADA2015 Digital Factory include lecture series, digital fabrication workshop, digital architecture exhibition, International Conference on Digital Architecture. etc. The events are endorsed by Tongji University College of Architecture and Urban Planning and organized by the Tongji Architecture Design Research Institute, facilitated by Tsinghua University School of Architecture and Nanjing University School of Architecture and Urban Planning. The digital fabrication workshops curated by Philip Yuan consists of 12 projects including Robotic Wood Tectonics (Achim Menges), Robot Team Fabrication (Roland Snooks), Autonomous Tectonics (Matias del Campo), Concrete Silk (Xu Weiguo & Yu Lei), Robotic Architectural Modelling (Johannes Braumann & Sigrid Brell-Cokcan), Wind Tunnel and Environment Performance Morphologies (Philip Yuan), Robotic Ceramic Printing (Philip Yuan & Meng Hao), Digital 3d Bending (Wang Zhenfei, Wang Luming), 3D Printing Wearable/Fashion Design (Steven Ma & Rem D. Koolhaas), Simplex Carpentry (Gao Yan), Digital Craftsmanship (Song Gang & Xiong Lu), CNC Suspended Tensegrity Structure (Zhong Huaying). Digital architecture exhibition includes Digital Fabrication Workshop Exhibition (curated by Philip Yuan) and DADA2015 International Student Architectural Design Exhibition (curated by Xu Weiguo & Neil Leach).

DADA2015 International Conference on Digital Architecture started to call for papers among domestic and international experts and scholars at the beginning of 2015. The process including phases such as abstract submission, full paper submission and camera ready paper submission. All abstract submissions are subjected to double peer-review by DADA committee members, and all full paper submission are subjected to double peer-review by international review committee members. We have received totally 161 submissions, and finally 53 full papers (including 40 Chinese papers and 13 English papers) are accepted by the conference and included in this proceedings. In addition to the papers above, 22 selected papers and 2 additional related papers are also included. The topics of the papers involve multiple field related to digital architecture, including digital architecture design, building performance simulation and optimization, computer numerical controlled fabrication and construction, interactive architecture and design. etc.

We hereby would like to express our gratitude to all those who contributed to DADA2013 conference and the editing of this proceeding. We sincerely thank DADA committee members and international review committee members for the hard working in reviewing phases, and Tongji University College of Architecture and Urban Planning for hosting the events. We also profoundly grateful for the Architect Association of the Architectural Society of China, and Association of Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA) for helping us announcing the conference information to the world.

Weiguo Xu