Category: Fabrikator. InShare3 Smith|Allen’s 3D-printed forest refuge is inspired by the site’s patterning and historical cycle of deforestation and regeneration. When Brian Allen and Stephanie Smith first visited the sequoia forest in Gualala, California, they saw patterns everywhere. “We were really intrigued by patterning at many scales, from bark on the trees to light through the trees and also, at a micro scale, [the cells of] the sequioas,” said Allen.
Two months later the pair was back, this time with 580 sculptural bricks forming the world’s first 3D-printed architectural installation. Translucent white and 10 by 10 by 8 feet in size, Echoviren resembles a cross between a teepee and a tree stump, a mass made light by the organic porosity of the bricks. Echoviren is intimately tied to its site on the grounds of Project 387, the residency in which Smith|Allen participated last fall. Besides the sequioas’ patterning, the designers drew inspiration from the primitiveness of their surroundings. Jennifer Chang. Jorge Ayala’s Post-Digital Curiosities | arch_oo. A degree in landscape urbanism from London’s AA School, a passion for complex origami-like topographies and a graduation in the crisis year of 2008, which held little promise in terms of architectural commissions, – all of this together has triggered Jorge Ayala’s quest for applying architecture technologies to other domains. After having cooperated on Plasma Studio’s 37ha landscape design project in China, the architect has redirected his research towards designing for the human body.
Outcomes – or rather vectors of Ayala’s R&D – vary from actual clothing collections to an upcoming cooperation with Rem D Koolhaas, architect-turned-footwear innovator behind United Nude label, to HR Giger-some «post-digital curiosities» that will be exposed this September at the 9th ArchiLab series in FRAC Centre (Regional Contemporary Art Foundation) @ Orléans, France.
Leather and fabrics get transformed by moulding, thermoforming and chemical reactions rather than conventional cutting and sewing. Digital Grotesque - 日本語 (Japanese) Algorithmic design. Associative Design. Michael Hansmeyer: Building unimaginable shapes. ICAR 2012 - Kostas Terzidis. Kostas Terzidis is an Associate Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. His current GSD courses are Kinetic Architecture, Algorithmic Architecture, Digital Media I & II, Cinematic Architecture, and Design Research Methods. He holds a PhD in Architecture from the University of Michigan (1994), a Masters of Architecture from Ohio State University (1989) and a Diploma of Engineering from the Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, Greece (1986). He is a registered architect in Europe where he has designed and built several commercial and residential buildings. His research work focuses on creative experimentation within the threshold between arts, architecture, and computer science.
As a professional computer programmer he is the author of many computer applications on form-making, morphing, virtual reality, and self-organization. His most recent work is in the development of theories and techniques for algorithmic architecture. Mos.
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