Publications

OCEAN Exhibition Catalogues

2008 OCEAN Conception Performative @ FRAC, Orleans, France.
1996 OCEAN Urban Surfaces @ Architectural Association, London, UK.

BOOKS authored or edited by OCEAN partners

Hensel M. Ed. (2016) Design Innovation for the Built Environment – Research by Design and the Renovation of Practice. Harbin: Harbin Institute of Technology Press. Chinese Edition.
Hensel M. & Turko J.P. (2015) Grounds and Envelopes – Reshaping Architecture and the Built Environment. London: Routledge.
Hensel M. Ed. (2012) Design Innovation for the Built Environment – Research by Design and the Renovation of Practice. London: Routledge.
Hensel M., Hight C. & Menges A. Eds. (2009) Space Reader – Heterogeneous Space in Architecture. London: John Wiley and Sons.
Hensel M. & Menges A. Eds. (2006) Morpho-Ecologies. London: AA Publications.
Hensel M. & Sevaldson B. Eds. (2002) The Space of Extremes. Oslo: AHO Oslo School of Architecture and Design.

Book Chapters written by OCEAN Partners

2020

Hensel M. & Sunguroğlu Hensel D. (2020) ‘Performances of Architectures and Environments – A Framework’. In Kanaani M. Ed. The Routledge Companion to Performativity in Design and Architecture: Using Time to Craft an Enduring, Resilient and Relevant Architecture. London: Routledge. 1-17.

Hensel M. & Sunguroğlu Hensel D. (2020) ‘Embedded Architectures – An Overarching Approach to Compound Sustainability Problems including Urban Climate Mitigation’. In Battisti A. & Santucci D. Eds. Urban Climate Mitigation for Activating Public Space. Munich: Technical University Munich. 55-63. 

2019

Hensel M. (2019) ‘Sustainability and Complexity’. Munich: Technical University Munich. 176-181.

Hensel M. (2019) ‘Developing Research Cultures in Architecture’. Research Cultures in Architecture. Basel: Birkhäuser. 135-141.

Hensel M. (2019) ‘Evolving Contours in Rethinking, Reskilling, Retooling – Life-long Learning, Research Capacities and Lateral Networking’ The Changing Shape of Architecture – Further Cases of Integrating Research and Design in Practice. London: Routledge. 43-58.

Hensel M. & Stangeland S. (2019) ‘The Relational Designs of Helen & Hard’. The Changing Shape of Architecture – Further Cases of Integrating Research and Design in Practice. London: Routledge. 69-91.

Hensel M. (2019) ‘In <> Out of the Void’. The Changing Shape of Architecture – Further Cases of Integrating Research and Design in Practice. London: Routledge. 147-155.

2018

Hensel M. (2018) ‘The Changing Shape of Practice – A multi-level Project’. Unterrainer W. Ed. Emerging Architectures – The Changing Shape of Architectural Practices. Aarhus: Arkitektskolens Forlag, 116-120.

2017

Hensel M. (2017) ‘Farewell Architecture – Rest in Pieces? Means of Overcoming The Impact of Architectural Education as Risk-Diminishing Service Industry’ Mimari Tasarim Eğitimine Çağdas Önermeler. Istanbul: YEM Yayin, 47-60.

2016

Hensel M. & Sunguroğlu Hensel, D. (2016) ‘The Future Practices of OCEAN’. The Changing Shape of Practice – Integrating Research and Design in Architecture. London: Routledge, 168-180.

2013

Turko J., Sunguroğlu Hensel D. & Sevaldson, B. (2013). ‘OCEAN’. Performalism – Form and Performance in Digital Architecture. London: Routledge, 143-149.

2012

Hensel M. (2012) ‘Unforeseen Trajectories – The Architectural Journeys of Helen & Hard’. Helen & Hard. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 225-232.

Hensel M., Sunguroğlu Hensel D. & Turko J. (2012) ‘Research in the context of the OCEAN Design Research Association’. Design Innovation for the Built Environment – Research by Design and the Renovation of Practice, London: Routledge, 91-106.

Hensel M. (2012) ‘Performance-oriented Design as a Framework for Research by Design’. Design Innovation for the Built Environment – Research by Design and the Renovation of Practice, London: Routledge, 121-143.

Hensel M. (2012) ‘The Research Centre for Architecture and Tectonics at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design’. Design Innovation for the Built Environment – Research by Design and the Renovation of Practice, London: Routledge, 145-160.

Hensel M. (2012) ‘Modelling Modelling – Trajectories in Developing Instrumental Design Processes’. Persistent Modelling. London: Routledge, 71-80.

Hensel M. (2012) ‘Performance-oriented Design from a Material Perspective – Domains of Agency and the Spatial Material Organisation Complex’. Performalism, London: Routledge, pp. 43-48.

Hensel M., Menges A. & Weinstock M. (2012 [2004]) ‘Morphogenesis and Emergence’. AD Reader – The Digital Turn in Architecture 1992-2012, London: Wiley, 160-164.

2010

Hensel M. (2010). ‘Material Systems and Environmental Feedback Dynamics’. Emergent Technologies and Design: A Biological Paradigm for Architecture, London: Routledge, 63-81.

2009

Hensel M. (2009) ‘Performance-oriented Design’. Arquitecturas Geneticas III – Genetic Architectures III, Santa Fe NM: SITES Books, 136-149.

Hensel M. & Menges A. (2009) ‘The Heterogeneous Space of Morpho-Ecologies’. Heterogeneous Space in Architecture: A Reader, London: John Wiley & Sons, 195-215.

Hensel M., Hight C. & Menges A. (2009) ‘En route: Towards a Discourse on Heterogeneous Space beyond Modernist Space-Time and Post-modernist Social Geography’. Heterogeneous Space in Architecture: A Reader, London: John Wiley & Sons, 09-37.

2007

Hensel M. & Menges A. (2007) ‘Nested Capacities, Gradient Thresholds and Modulated Environments: Towards differentiated multi-performative Architectures’. Softspace: From a Representation of Form to a Simulation of Space, London: Routledge, 52-65.

2006

Hensel, M. & Menges, A. (2006) ’Morpho-Ecologies: Towards an inclusive Discourse of Heterogeneous Space’. Morpho-Ecologies, London: AA Publications, 16-60.

Sunguroğlu Hensel D., (2006). ‘Complex Brick Assemblies’. In Hensel M. & Menges A. (eds.) Morpho-Ecologies. London: AA Publications, 86-99.

2003

Hensel M. (2003) ‘OCEAN NORTH – Surface Ecologies’. Landscape Urbanism – A Manual for the Machinic Landscape. London: AA Publications.

2000

Hensel M. (2000) ‘Ruptures, Fluctuations and Exchange: Speculations on Gradient Threshold Models’. Strategic Space – Urbanity in the twenty-first Century. Frankfurt: Anabas Verlag, 157-161.

Scientific journal articles written by OCEAN partners

2020

Hensel M. Santucci D., Sunguroğlu Hensel D. & Auer T. (2020) ‘The Lampedusa Studio: A multi-method pedagogy for tackling compound sustainability problems in architecture, landscape architecture and urban design education’. Sustainability 12(11): 4369. DOI: 10.3390/su12114369

Sunguroğlu Hensel D. (2020) ‘Ecological Prototypes – Initiating Design Innovation in Green Construction’. Sustainability 12 (14): 5865 DOI: 10.3390/su12145865

Li Z., Nawratil G., Rist F. & Hensel M. (2020) ‘Invertible Paradoxically Loop Structures for Transformable Design’. Computer Graphics Forum 39 (2). DOI: 10.1111/cgf.13928

2019

Hensel M. (2019) ‘The Rights to Ground: Integrating Human and Non-Human Perspectives in an Inclusive Approach to Sustainability’. Sustainable Development 27: 245-251. DOI: 10.1002/sd.1883

Hensel M. & Sørensen S. (2019) ‘Performance-oriented Architecture and Urban Design – Relating Information-based Design and Systems-thinking in Architecture’. FORMAkademisk 12 (2): 1-17. DOI: 10.7577/formakademisk.2963

2018

Hensel M., Sunguroğlu Hensel D. & Sørensen S.S. (2018) ‘Embedded Architectures: Inquiries into Architectures, Diffuse Heritage and Natural Environments in Search for better informed Design Approaches to Sustainability’. Time + Architecture 3 Vol. 161: 42-45.

2017

Hensel M. (2017) ‘Loci of Disruptiveness: Reflections on Ethics at the Dawn of the Technocene’. TAD Technology | Architecture + Design 1 (1): 6-8. DOI: 10.1080/24751448.2017.1292786

2015

Hensel M. & Hermansen Cordua C. (2015) ‘Introduction – Relating Perceptions of Constructions, Experimental, and Local’. Constructions – An Experimental Approach to Intensely Local Architectures. AD Architectural Design Vol. 85 (2): 8-15.

Hensel M. & Hermansen Cordua C. (2015) ‘Present and Past Trajectories of Experimental Architectures’. Constructions – An Experimental Approach to Intensely Local Architectures. AD Architectural Design Vol. 85 (2): 16-23.

Hensel M. & Hermansen Cordua C. (2015) ‘The Scarcity and Creativity Studio – Architecture by Latitude and Locality’. Constructions – An Experimental Approach to Intensely Local Architectures. AD Architectural Design Vol. 85 (2): 48-57.

Hensel M. & Hermansen Cordua C. (2015) ‘Outlook – En Route to Intensely Local Architectures and Tectonics’. Constructions – An Experimental Approach to Intensely Local Architectures. AD Architectural Design Vol. 85 (2): 132-135.

Hensel M., Hermansen Cordua C., & Jolly Monge D. (2015) ‘The Open City and the e[ad] School of Architecture and Design’. Constructions – An Experimental Approach to Intensely Local Architectures. AD Architectural Design Vol. 85 (2): 34-39.

Hensel M. (2015) ‘The Rural Studio – Incarnations of a Design and Build Programme’. Constructions – An Experimental Approach to Intensely Local Architectures. AD Architectural Design Vol. 85 (2): 40-47.

Hensel M. (2015) ‘Studio Mumbai – The Practice of Making’. Constructions – An Experimental Approach to Intensely Local Architectures. AD Architectural Design Vol. 85 (2): 94-101.

Hensel M. (2015) ‘Auxiliary Architectures: Augmenting Existing Architectures with Performative Capacities’. Constructions – An Experimental Approach to Intensely Local Architectures. AD Architectural Design Vol. 85 (2): 116-119.

Hensel M. (2015). ‘Thoughts and Experiments en Route to Intensely Local Architectures’. Nordic Journal of Architectural Research 27(1): 61-83.

Sunguroğlu Hensel D. & Vincent J.F.V. (2015). ‘Evolutionary inventive problem-solving in biology and architecture: ArchiTRIZ and Material-Ontology’. Intelligent Buildings International 8 (2): 118-137. DOI: 10.1080/17508975.2015.1014462

Sunguroğlu Hensel D. (2015) ‘Developmental route to functional and adaptive integration’. International Journal of Design Sciences and Technology 21(2): 153-178.

Sunguroğlu Hensel D. & Baraut Bover G. (2015). ‘A Developmental Route to Local Specificity: Nested Catenaries’. Constructions: An Experimental Approach to Intensely Local Architectures. AD Architectural Design 85(2): 120-127.

2014

Hensel M. & Sørensen S. (2014). ‘Intersecting Knowledge Fields and Integrating Data-Driven Computational Design en Route to Performance-oriented and Intensely Local Architectures’. Footprint 15: 59-74. DOI: 10.7480/footprint.8.2.812

2013

Hensel M. & Sørensen, S. (2013) ‘En route to Performance-oriented Architecture – The Research Centre for Architecture and Tectonics: Integrating Architectural Education with Research by Design along a practice-oriented Perspective’. SAJ Serbian Architecture Journal 5 (2): 106-131.

Sunguroğlu Hensel D. & Baraut Bover G. (2013). ‘Nested Catenaries’. Journal of the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures 54(1): 39-55.

2012

Hensel M. (2012) ‘Sustainability from a Performance-oriented Architecture Perspective – Alternative Approaches to Questions regarding the Sustainability of the Built Environment’. Sustainable Development 20 (3): 146-154. DOI: 10.1002/sd.1531

Hensel M. (2012) ‘Confronting the Crisis of Architectural Education’. Nordic Journal of Architecture 1 (2): 85-89.

Hensel M. & Gharleghi M. (2012) ‘Iran – Past, Present and Future’. Iran – Past, Present and Futures. AD Architectural Design Vol. 82 (3): 16-25.

Hensel M., Sunguroğlu Hensel D., Gharleghi M. & Craig S. (2012) ‘Towards an Architectural History of Performance: Auxiliarity, Performance and Provision in Historical Persian Architectures’. Iran – Past, Present and Futures. AD Architectural Design Vol. 82 (3): 26-37.

Hensel M. (2012) ‘Practices Abroad: Today’s Diaspora – Tomorrow’s Architecture’. Iran – Past, Present and Futures. AD Architectural Design Vol. 82 (3): 104-119.

Hensel M. (2012) ‘Latent Futures of Iranian Architecture’. Iran – Past, Present and Futures. AD Architectural Design Vol. 82 (3): 120-127.

2011

Hensel M. (2011) ‘Type? What Type? Further Reflections on the Extended Threshold’. Typological Urbanism – Projective Cities. AD Architectural Design Vol. 81 (1): 56-65.

Hensel M. (2011) ‘Performance-oriented Architecture and the Spatial and Material Organisation Complex – Rethinking the Definition, Role and Performative Capacity of the Spatial and Material Boundaries of the Built Environment’. FORMAkademisk 4 (1): 3-23. DOI: 10.7577/formakademisk.125

2010

Hensel M. (2010) ‘Performance-oriented Architecture – Towards a Biological Paradigm for Architectural Design and the Built Environment’. FORMAkademisk 3 (1): 36-56. DOI: 10.7577/formakademisk.138

Ertas H., Hensel M. & Sunguroğlu Hensel D. (2010) ‘Turkey – At the Threshold’. Turkey: At the Threshold, AD Architectural Design Vol. 80 (1): 6-13.

Hensel M. & Sunguroğlu Hensel D. (2010) ‘Extended Thresholds I: Nomadism, Settlements and the Defiance of Figure-Ground’. Turkey: At the Threshold, AD Architectural Design Vol. 80 (1): 14-19.

Hensel M. & Sunguroğlu Hensel D. (2010). ‘Extended Thresholds II: The Articulated Threshold’. Turkey: At the Threshold, AD Architectural Design Vol. 80 (1): 20-25.

Hensel M. & Sunguroğlu Hensel D. (2010) ‘Extended Thresholds III: Auxiliary Architectures’. Turkey: At the Threshold, AD Architectural Design Vol. 80 (1): 76-83.

2009

Hensel M. & Menges A. (2009) ‘Patterns in Performance-oriented Design – An Approach towards Pattern Recognition, Generation and Instrumentalization’, AD Pattern in Architecture, AD Architectural Design Vol. 79, 6: 88-93.

2008

Hensel M. & Menges A. (2008) ‘Versatility and Vicissitude: An Introduction to Performance in Morpho-Ecological Design’. Versatility and Vicissitude – Performance in Morpho-Ecological Design, Architectural Design Vol. 78 (2): 6-11.

Hensel M. & Sunguroğlu D. (2008) ‘Material Performance’. Versatility and Vicissitude – Performance in Morpho-Ecological Design, Architectural Design Vol. 78 (2): 34-38.

Hensel M. & Menges A. (2008) ‘Inclusive Performance: Efficiency versus Effectiveness’. Versatility and Vicissitude – Performance in Morpho-Ecological Design, Architectural Design Vol. 78 (2): 54-63.

Hensel M. & Menges A. (2008) ‘Membrane Spaces’, Versatility and Vicissitude – Performance in Morpho-Ecological Design, Architectural Design Vol. 78 (2): 74-79.

Hensel M. & Menges A. (2008) ‘Aggregates’. Versatility and Vicissitude – Performance in Morpho-Ecological Design, Architectural Design Vol. 78 (2): 80-87.

Hensel M. & Menges A. (2008) ‘Designing Morpho-Ecologies – Versatility and Vicissitude of Heterogeneous Space’, Versatility and Vicissitude – Performance in Morpho-Ecological Design, Architectural Design Vol. 78 (2): 102-111.

Sunguroğlu D. (2008). ‘Complex Brick Assemblies’. Versatility and Vicissitude – Performance in Morpho-Ecological Design, AD Architectural Design 78(2): 64-73.

2006

Hensel M. (2006) ‘Towards Self-organisational and Multi-Performance Capacity in Architecture’. Techniques and Technologies in Morphogenetic Design, AD Architectural Design Vol. 76 (2): 05-11.

Hensel M. (2006) ‘Computing Self-organisation: Environmentally Sensitive Growth Modelling’. Techniques and Technologies in Morphogenetic Design, AD Architectural Design Vol. 76 (2): 12-17.

Hensel M. (2006) ‘{Synthetic} Life-Architectures – Ramifications and Potentials of a literal Biological Paradigm for Architectural Design’. Techniques and Technologies in Morphogenetic Design, AD Architectural Design Vol. 76 (2): 18-25.

Hensel M. & Menges A. (2006) ‘Differentiation and Performance: Multi-Performance Architectures and Modulated Environments’. Techniques and Technologies in Morphogenetic Design, AD Architectural Design Vol. 76 (2): 60-69.

Hensel M. & Menges A. (2006) ‘Material and Digital Design Synthesis: Integrating material self-organisation, digital morphogenesis, associative parametric modelling and computer-aided manufacturing’. Techniques and Technologies in Morphogenetic Design, AD Architectural Design Vol. 76 (2): 88-95.

Hensel, M. (2006) ‘Evolving Synergy: OCEAN currents, Current OCEANs and Why Networks must displace Themselves’, Collective Intelligence in Design, AD Architectural Design Vol. 76 (5): 104-108.

2004

Hensel M., Menges A. & Weinstock M. (2004) ‘Emergence in Architecture’. Emergence: Morphogenetic Design Strategies, AD Architectural Design Vol. 74 (3): 06-09.

Hensel M., Menges A. & Weinstock M. (2004) ‘Frei Otto in Conversation with the Emergence and Design Group’. Emergence: Morphogenetic Design Strategies, AD Architectural Design Vol. 74 (3): 18-25.

Hensel M. (2004) ‘Finding Exotic Form: An Evolution of Form-finding as a Design Method’. Emergence: Morphogenetic Design Strategies, AD Architectural Design Vol. 74 (3): 26-33.

Hensel M., Menges A. & Weinstock M. (2004) ‘Types, Styles and Phylogenesis: Foreign Office in Conversation with the Emergence and Design Group’. Emergence: Morphogenetic Design Strategies, AD Architectural Design Vol. 74 (3): 34-39.

Hensel M., Menges A. & Weinstock M. (2004) ‘Fit Fabric: Versatility through Redundancy and Differentiation’. Emergence: Morphogenetic Design Strategies, AD Architectural Design Vol. 74 (3): 40-45.

Hensel M., Menges A. & Weinstock M. (2004) ‘Engineering Design: Working with Advanced Geometries: Charles Walker in Conversation with the Emergence and Design Group’. Emergence: Morphogenetic Design Strategies, AD Architectural Design Vol. 74 (3): 65- 71.

Hensel M., Menges A. & Weinstock M. (2004) ‘Manufacturing Complexity: Johann Sischka in Conversation with the Emergence and Design Group’. Emergence: Morphogenetic Design Strategies, AD Architectural Design Vol. 74 (3): 72-79.

Hensel M. (2004) ‘Digital Architectures: Are We Ready to Compute?’, Digital Tectonics, London: Wiley-Academy, 120-126.

2003

Hensel M. (2003) ‘Re: Cognition – Approaching the Generative Function of the Unfamiliar’. Communication & Cognition Vol. 36 (3&4): 243-261.

2002

Hensel M. & Sotamaa K. (2002). ‘Vigorous Environments’. Contemporary Techniques in Architecture, AD Architectural Design Vol. 72, 1: 34-41.

2001

Bettum J. & Hensel M. (2000) ‘Channelling Systems: Dynamic Processes and Digital Time-Based Methods in Urban Design’, Contemporary Processes in Architecture, AD Architectural Design Vol. 70 (3): 36-41.