Grasshopper « Attitude Geometries Cellular Automata Building Propotional studies of a building facade. These videos shows an animation how to use the generative design methods in architecture and design. Methods: Synthesis, Celluar Automata, zelluläre Automaten, Parametrics There are different initial cells at the bottom. There are different types boxes. Used Software: Rhinoceros, Grasshopper, RhinoScripting ( get the Cellular Automata component on My shared Grasshopper files ) Cylinder – Developable surfaces Developable surfaces are easy to use in the production process. Three cylindres intersect in one point. Component Pyramid on Surface Pyramids are placed and oriented on a surface. Lissajous 3D Figures Sine functions were plotted on x,y,z axis. Constant Cellular Automata Generator Constant Cellular Automata by multiplying a constant. You see diameters of the circles are changing. Get the Grasshopper ghx here: My shared Grasshopper files
DIY Urban Furniture Experiment March 6, 2011 / Filed under: Benches / France / Installations / Wood / See all projects by: CollectifETC / 12,485 / by Collectif etc «In Strasburg, France, studies are being conducted to rethink the organization of the whole university campus. Show in Google Maps LaN / LIVE ARCHITECTURE NETWORK E-TOMB – Tomb With Social Networks by Huang Jianbo, Zhao Ting, Wang Yushan, Ran Xiangfei & Mo Ran Tweet and Like Me Even When I’m Dead! I guess the E-Tomb makes complete sense for people like me who spend endless hours tweeting, Facebook-ing and blogging. It’s the kinda tombstone with Bluetooth and solar panels and stores your logs; friends and family can come over and access your virtual life from it and keep each other updated with anecdotes about you by uploading their stories to the tombstone. Sounds a bit spooky right now, but since RFID Tags for this are already popular, the next best thing has to be updates from the gave, and the world beyond! E-Tomb is a 2010 red dot award: design concept winner. Designers: Huang Jianbo, Zhao Ting, Wang Yushan, Ran Xiangfei & Mo Ran
AKT (Sawako & Panagiotis) « Scriptedbypurpose Sawako and Panagiotis at AKT Currently they are working as computational design researchers in Adams Kara Taylor based in London. They have worked on projects by well known architectural practices in the United Kingdom including Zaha Hadid Architects, Future Systems, and Foreign Office Architects in the development of architectural design involving complicated geometries. Panagiotis Michalatos Studied Architecture at NTUA Athens Greece and graduated in 2001. Panagiotis worked as a programmer in the fields of interaction design and architecture and developed experimental computer games. Sawako Kaijima In 2005, she graduated with a Master of Architecture from Massachusetts Institute of Technology after having previously studied in Keio University, Japan, where she earned her Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Information majoring in Media Design. Sawako has worked in a variety of fields including architecture, engineering, product design, and advertisement industries.
Google creating its own social game using Google Maps Watch out, Facebook. Google is making its own game for Google+ … and it involves maps. Yesterday, the company released a video of the new game, which takes advantage of its Google Maps product. The video shows a cube with a map overlay. A small blue ball travels through the map based on the spinning and tilting of the cube. Judging by the video, it seems players will have to move through the map, hitting certain destinations to collect points along the way. Google introduced games to its social network Google+ in August. Facebook does not create games of its own. This game seems pretty lackluster at first: help a ball through an interactive map, woo. Yeah, let that one sink in. via The Next Web Don't let cyber attacks kill your game!
Achim Menges Design Research Architecture Product Design In 2010, the Institute for Computational Design (ICD) and the Institute of Building Structures and Structural Design (ITKE) designed and constructed a temporary research pavilion. The innovative structure demonstrates the latest developments in material-oriented computational design, simulation, and production processes in architecture. The result is a bending-active structure made entirely of extremely thin, elastically-bent plywood strips. Material computes. The research pavilion demonstrates an alternative approach to computational design: here, the computational generation of form is directly driven and informed by physical behavior and material characteristics. The computational design model is based on embedding the relevant material behavioral features in parametric principles. The structural analysis model is based on a FEM simulation. Scientific DevelopmentInstitute for Computational Design – Prof. Institute of Building Structures and Structural Design – Prof.
Before I Die & Candy Chang - StumbleUpon What matters most to you Interactive public art project that invites people to share their personal aspirations in public. After losing someone she loved and falling into depression, Chang created this experiment on an abandoned house in her neighborhood to create an anonymous place to help restore perspective and share intimately with her neighbors. The project gained global attention and thanks to passionate people around the world, over 1000 Before I Die walls have now been created in over 70 countries, including Kazakhstan, Iraq, Haiti, China, Ukraine, Portugal, Japan, Denmark, Argentina, and South Africa. The walls are an honest mess of the longing, pain, joy, insecurity, gratitude, fear, and wonder you find in every community, and they reimagine public spaces that nurture honesty, vulnerability, trust and understanding. 2011, New Orleans, LA. Cordoba, Argentina. Najaf, Iraq. Brooklyn, NY. Almaty, Kazakhstan Savannah, GA. Pohang City, South-Korea. San Francisco, CA.
2011 SM Computer Methods Pratt Institute , GAUD | Summer 2011 About: The course is a dense introduction to a suite/package of digital tools in the definition, generation and articulation towards the creation an architectural product. Students question how and why we use digital media in the practice of architecture (in both the profession and academia). Furniture Design Informed by Gaudi’s Parabolic Structures / Studio Bram Geenen The design follows methods used by Gaudi for his church projects. This specific approach involved hanging the chains upside-down, showing the most opportune rib disposition and letting the gravity determine the strongest shape for the future building. Used in the chair design, the chain-models are combined with a software script to generate the structure of the ribs, informing of the complexity of the forces in a chair’s backrest. The chair is created by Studio Bram Geenen, for their online Open Design Platform. The project was developed as part of the Furnistructures initiative, which involves extensive researches into structural systems, as found in nature and architecture, and the possibilities of designing lightweight furniture using such systems. To commemorate the 9th Annual Skyscraper Competition, eVolo is publishing the Limited Edition Book "eVolo Skyscrapers 2" which is the follow-up to its highly acclaimed book “eVolo Skyscrapers”. -> EVOLO SKYSCRAPERS 2 - Limited Edition Book
10 Design Zmianatematu by xm3 The timber stalactites of an undulating cave-like ceiling bear down around the bar of a coffee shop in Łódź, Poland. Light bulbs dangle from between the curved plywood ribs of the Zmianatematu cafe, which was designed by Polish architects xm3. Shelves are slotted between ridges in the wall, behind a bar that is also made from the ribbed timber. Patches of plaster are visible on walls, which are intentionally left unfinished. See our archive feature on unfinished interiors here. Planes of glass atop wavy plywood grids provide coffee tables. Other interiors on Dezeen featuring slatted timber ceilings include a restaurant with a fanning tree-like canopy and a ski resort cafe with timber lattice partitions. Photography is by Paulina Sasinowska. Here are some more details from xm3: Restaurant: "zmianatematu.”, Piotrkowska 144, Łódź The city of Łódź located in the centre of Poland is one of three biggest cities in the country. The building itself dates to the end of XIX century.
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