MADEinCALIFORNIA ///Co.De. architecture These are a series of experiments, in which the designer try to use parametric and digital method to realize these interesting optical illusion effects and generate 3d geometry or space rather than just 2d painting. Continue reading The design task of this project was to design a multifunctional theatre inside an old gasholder in the Hague the Netherlands. This project is a renovation of an old monumental building, we apply the new generation process, new material and manufacture method, new structure and construction logic to transfer the old building to a fire new thing with also new functions. In this project, our essential design emphasis focuses on organization of overall rule and open system, rather than on each segments of this project. The intention was to achieve highly varied heterogeneous spatial formations, catering to a wide variety of human activities and programmatic demands. This is a Workshop for Msc 2 Master student of Hyperbody.
Biomimetic Architecture Trabeculae by architects Dave Pigram, Iain Maxwell, Brad Rothenberg, and Ezio Blasetti is a new take at the general atrium solution to office buildings. the point of a central atrium (like in that of the Bradbury Building) is to allow light deep into a building, the Trebeculae team argues that if that’s the main point, why not have the atrium chase the sun? Explanation and more images… The team used a Heliotropic branching system to define the shape of the void that eats into the floors of the building. Heliotropism is the phenomena of plants growing over time in the direction of the sun to maximize their energy output. The team took a second pass at the void to create the structural mesh that would lay inside the void and took opportunities to create bridges and meeting rooms embedded off the inner lining of the structure. below is a close up of the more finer structure within. “In the Trabeculae tower, the algorithm represents a potential for difference. also featured on eVolo
NIC NAC :: Neoarchaic Design December 27th, 2010 | Published in Design, Objects Insert, Reverse, Repeat, Cross NIC NAC, a modular fabric, creates a system by which a small tow dimensionally packable module can be cut with minimum material waste and coupled together with only a small amount of surface area reduction in overlap. 3DVizART Ask Nature - the Biomimicry Design Portal: biomimetics, architecture, biology, innovation inspired by nature, industrial design - Ask Nature - the Biomimicry Design Portal: biomimetics, architecture, biology, innovation inspired by nature, industrial desi
transframing Earthscrapers, by Rael San Fratello Architects. Display table demonstrating the tools and outcomes of rapid manufacturing and rapid prototyping with concret Earthscrapers is an installation for the 2010 Biennial of the Americas that imagines the potential of employing CAD and CAM processes in the construction of a proto-architectural landscape—one where the building material source and the building itself are seamless. It also demonstrates the internal design, research and experimentation process by Rael San Fratello Architects in hacking a 3D printer to rapid prototype and rapid manufacture clays, ceramics and ultimately cement. A rapid manufactured concrete tower maquette: Linear and vertical modularity using rapid manufactured concrete 3D printed concrete form
Structures minimize materials, maximize strength: organisms "Cylinders curve in one direction, circumferentially--their lengthwise curvature is zero. Here we're talking about structures with their surfaces curved in two directions; and, as pointed out earlier (and implicit in Laplace's law), that double curvature gives greater strength and stiffness for a given investment of material. Maximization of internal volume for a given surface compounds the material economy--for that nothing beats a sphere, and a slight egg-shapedness (spheroidicity) doesn't make things much worse… Nature puts this shape to use in a number of places. Application Ideas: Modern amphorae with bottoms that "roll"; spherical durable packaging; spherical holding tanks to maximize volume for a given surface (reduces material use), communications, utilities, deployable structures. Industrial Sector(s) interested in this strategy: Ceramics, packaging, water supply/sewage treatment
arc532 Ming3D Structural composition provides strength in changing conditions: plants Plantae Plantae Learn more at Organism/taxonomy data provided by: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2008 Annual Checklist Application Ideas: Example of how elements that serve one purpose can be adapted or incorporated to serve a later functional purpose within the same context: e.g., scaffolding that becomes part of a building's frame or materials whose thickness can fluctuate based on changing temperatures or load-bearing requirements. Industrial Sector(s) interested in this strategy: Construction, structural engineering