Perfect buildings: the maths of modern architecture March 2007 Architecture has in the past done great things for geometry. Together with the need to measure the land they lived on, it was people's need to build their buildings that caused them to first investigate the theory of form and shape. Interior Design Challenge - VRaySchool How exactly? During the next 3 weeks YOU are going to attend “Interior Design Challenge” for company named CUBICCO. And I’m going to lead you to your best result by giving you LIVE Feedback. So by the END of 3 weeks CUBICCO going to select winners that are going to get “iPad Mini” with ALL OUR “VRay Training” APPS! But if your work will not be selected, you still going to keep all the Knowledge, Video Tutorials, VRay Models AND COOL 3D Renders in your Portfolio. What’s in it for me?
Mediated Matter Neri Oxman and Steven Keating Functionally graded materials–materials with spatially varying composition or microstructure–are omnipresent in nature. From palm trees with radial density gradients, to the spongy trabeculae structure of bone, to the hardness gradient found in many types of beaks, graded materials offer material and structural efficiency.
xoio.de - architekturvisualisierung, animation, illustration Before they made it, they broke the mold. Pleated Shell Structures 1 – Part 1 of 2. Part 2, an interview with designer Shajay Bhooshan, will post on Thursday, Dec 6. The Pleated Shell Structures recently exhibited at SCIArc (Southern California Institute of Architecture) are a pair of free-standing, canopy-like structures made primarily of FRP. They are the product of an experiment in fabric-forming of FRP instead of using hard molds, a method that uses the stretching properties of fabrics to define a minimal surface meeting certain boundary conditions. Forms were fabricated and cast at Kreysler & Associates in American Canyon, CA, north of San Francisco, and the project was assembled onsite at SCIArc in Los Angeles, all in just 8 days.
VISCORBEL / Support for 3D Artists Associates - Transformable Design - abi The Adaptive Building Initiative (ABI), founded in 2008, is a joint venture between Buro Happold and Hoberman Associates dedicated to designing a new generation of buildings that optimize their configuration in real time by responding to environmental changes. Adaptation is essential to managing the problem of climate change. To meet this growing challenge, ABI creates the products, systems, and tools that achieve new levels of sustainable performance. ABI designs and produces adaptive façade and building envelopes. By controlling light levels, solar gain, and thermal performance, ABI’s adaptive systems reduce energy usage, enhance comfort, and increase the flexibility of the built environment.
Evermotion - 3D models, textures, tutorials, architecture, 3D graphic, vray, 3ds max Associates - Transformable Design - News POLA hosts Hoberman retrospective: Living Form POLA Museum Annex, Tokyo, Japan January-February 2010 The POLA Museum Annex is hosting an exhibition of Hoberman work. Titled ‘Living Form. The Transformable Work of Chuck Hoberman’, the show is a retrospective of some of the designs created by Hoberman in the past 20 years. The exhibition is held in the new Tokyo headquarters of Japanese cosmetics manufacturer POLA. The building opened in October 2009, and includes a transformable facade designed by Hoberman Associates and architects Yasuda Atelier and Nikken Sekkei.