Mania Aghaei Meibodi

Practiced based Architect, Designer, Researcher and Educator Mania Aghaei Meibodi is PhD candidate of Architecture at the LTU. She explores the architectural potential of the use of digital technologies in design, engineering and manufacturing that mediate the relation between form, matter, structure, flow and force to radically transform the design and construction of buildings and the built environment. Mania’s aim is to find the better solutions for design and construction of our built environments by systematic investigation of design and making, making. She consults the design conception and making, with why and how things work in nature of the specific site.

Mania is the founder and main tutor of Design & Making (D&M) studio, given in Luleå University of Technology, and pursues her PhD in the Architecture group at department of Civil, Environmental and Natural Resources Engineering, LTU. She has been published internationally, and is an active member of editorial group of Urban Future group KKH. Previously she was tutor at Generative Component (GC) design workshops in KTH 2007, lecturer in Geometrical Rationalization for Fabrication course 2006-2007 in KTH, designer and architect at Artiulek 2006-2008, the active member of research and development at LUCT 2003-2004.

The architecture studio, Design & Making seeks the contemporary architecture as a constructional craft. The aim of the studio is to investigate the continuity between form and construction through the hybrid, digital and physical, tectonics in architecture. Through the concept of tectonics, this studio integrates the knowledge of material property, skill, technology, and construction in architectural design. Mania Aghaei Meibodi together with Hamia Aghaiemeybodi from KTH School of Architecture, teach the studio.

Investigate the Potential of “Digital” in Architecture and Production

• Exploring Architectural Potential Through Contemporary Means Of Computational Aided Design (CAD), Computational Aided Engineering (CAE) And Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAM).
• Parametric-Algorithmic Methodology In Design And Production  
• Embedding Material Behavior In Generative Design Process
• Performative Design: Relation Between Force, Form And Performance In Architecture
• Digital Manufacturing Process For Design: Forming Technology, Cutting Technology, Joining Technology, Finishing Technology And Materials
• Prototyping: Synergies Between Physical And Digital
• Reintroduction Of Ornamentation Into Building Industry  
• Simulation Driven Design: Building Or Urban Design Base On Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) For Wind And Snow  
• Wood: Material Properties And Strength Gain Over Time
• Industrial Architecture
• Computational Geometry: NURBS surfaces
• Reverse engineering in Architectural design

Syntonic Architecture

• Climatic responsive form: Urban and building form in relation to climate
• Suitable building’s material and form for the cold climate
• Environmental feedback in design model
• Environmental constrain in the cold climate and building performance
• Architecture and nature: Learning from nature through bio mimicry, bionic