architectual experiments. “Wetware ’ 09 is Alisa Andrasek’s DRL Studio this 2009.”
Juried exhibition, biological processes and computation. Image: Fiber Composite Structures: Growth under Stress, Christina Doumpioti, Architectural Association, Emergent Technologies + Design. “The core idea of this research, entitled “Fibre Composite Structures: Growth Under Stress”, is the incorporation of the morphogenetic principles found in natural systems in order to generate a fibre-composite structure. The aim is the integration of form, material, structure and program into a multi-performative system that will satisfy simultaneously several objectives.”
via mrPrudence
new books
1 Modular Structures by Asterios Agkathidis. ”this book examines morphogenetic processes based on a combination of digital and analogue modelling and manufacturing techniques. The introduction of the module, as the main instrument of geometric and structural determination, becomes crucial.”
2 Bio-structural. Analogues in architecture by Joseph Lim. “This book seeks to discover the architectural potential of biological structures as they can be found in nature. The structures that give biological forms strength, movement, firmness, and flexibility are studied, illustrated, and used as an inspiration for a huge number of design experiments of which the thinking, working, and final prototyping process are shown.”
by Carsten Nicolai, 2009. “Grid Index is the first comprehensive visual lexicon of patterns and grid systems. It is an essential reference book for designers, visual artists, architects, researchers and mathematicians.” Gestalten Verlag. short interview at XLR8R. Carsten Nicolai: Gridlocked.
by Eva Schindling, 2009. A fluid dynamics simulation using sound as input. Using various soft- and hardware applications, a phyiscal three dimensional object results at the end of the transformation chain.
related frozen
by minimaforms, 2008. “Minimaforms was invited by Archigram’s David Greene to rethink and evolve his seminal projects the Living Pod and High-Rise Tower as part of a show called Imperfect works.” Exhibited at Mega-Structures Reloaded, Berlin (2008) / Imperfect Works, London (2008).
via minimaforms
by hoberman, transformable design, 1991, New Jersey, USA. “The Expanding Geodesic Dome blossoms open from a 1.5-meter cluster to a 6-meter structural dome when pulled open from its base. When deployed it has the same shape and triangulated pattern as Buckminster Fuller’s static, geodesic dome, taking this seminal historic structure into the 21st century.”
Models 45 / Westminster DS 13 on flickr. Effectual Prototypes.
a workshop by Paul Loh and Tobias Schwinn that examines spatial and geometric construct through a topological set of ‘glasses’; exploring property of connectivity and directionality which is outside the language of Euclidian geometry. Through Rhino scripts, we generated variation starting with basic ‘species’; using simple operation like folding / weaving / field bundling / mobius, looking for point of singularity within each successive generation of computational parameters”. Unit 4, School of Architecture and the Visual Arts University of East London.
”[..] buildings that could very well be machines. [..] His work is experimental architecture in its most powerful, and politically provocative, sense.” bldgblog
In 1998 Woods founded riea, the Research Institute for Experimental Architecture - “a non-profit institution with the purpose of advancing experimentation and research in the field of architecture, in response to changing political, economic, technological and cultural conditions in the contemporary world.”
blog with a growing list of publications and texts, amazon booklist, bldgblog interview, lebbeuswoods.net.
environmetally responsive textiles. by studio loop.ph, synetic textile architecture modeled on biological molecular structures.
via hcgilje
“Synetics is a system of construction which utilizes the compressive properties of structural materials to the fullest advantage. It may be employed in a wide variety of shapes, particularly “pneumatic” shapes and lattices. Synetic also refers to a tension-compression modeling system used to teach and explore principles of dynamic forces which apply to intangible and invisible structures. Synetics models the dynamics of structure in pure angle and frequency, in minimal, energetic and self-coordinating terms.” via Frederick G. Flowerday
by michael hansmeyer, who asks “what method, what system does an architect use to design a building? how are programmatic needs and context - with their degrees of freedon and constrains - translated into architectual design?” His algorithmic experiments, including 2d and 3d subdivision, L-systems, and parametrization explore the possibilities to answer these questions.
Image above: Subdivision of a cube. Inspired by Ernst Haeckel’s ‘Kunstformen der Natur’. Generated using processing.
i like antiVJ. always inspired by their usage of light, space and moving images. see antiVJ’s different approaches of illuminating different spaces, how videos are mapped onto various shapes and constructs in space, how flat becomes spatial. shackleton video, live painting, light sculpture, 3detruct
