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The magnetic maelstrom of matter

2008-10-21T02:43:00.004+02:00

Close-ups, animations and a lot more on the Sun's surface: mesmerizing.

And I have always wanted to write a tabloid-type title.

Homing

2008-10-21T02:39:00.001+02:00

"In yet other words: bees are projectiles, and humans, cruise missiles."
Friedrich Kittler, in "Gramophone, Film ,Typewriter", 1986 - Stanford Univ. Press, 1999

More Kittler here.

The elegance of a 13 ton digger

2008-10-21T01:34:00.007+02:00

This lovely pair has been performing recently around several places in London. Check here to see whether they might be heading somewhere near you.

aesthetics of turbulence

2008-06-10T23:57:00.004+02:00

Magnetic Movie

Alyson Shotz

What do these different manifestations have in common? Have to come up with something better than the title sometime. Infosthetics has more on the first.

shape shifting

2008-06-10T23:44:00.001+02:00

More conventional than it looks, but seductive nonetheless:
http://blog.wired.com/cars/2008/06/bmw-builds-a-ca.html

BigDog

2008-04-25T11:30:00.001+02:00

http://www.bostondynamics.com/

Threading lightly

2008-02-28T21:43:00.002+01:00

More AA related stuff. This time, a pedestrian bridge whose foundations are the trees existing on site. An informal yet precise structural network is woven with a minimum impact on its setting.
From BDOnline.

Prototype instances

2008-02-25T01:38:00.006+01:00

Pictured: the [C] Space pavillion, under construction as the DRL exhibition on its ten years of existence was inaugurated.
(By the way: rembember this other pavillion, also at Bedford Square?)

Meanwhile, other AA graduates are working on the Fibrous Room project/ prototype (also depicted here).

Related: Brett Steele's new domain.

Making in China

2007-11-05T01:50:00.001+01:00

A fascinating report of what is actually happening in the world of industrial production, focusing on China's evolving role and connections: "China Makes, The World Takes".

Well worth reading.
Some bits: "Supply chain is intellectual property" and "People think China is cheap, but really, it’s fast."

Sustainable turbulence

2007-10-18T00:45:00.000+02:00

Fish gather together in shoals for more than safety in numbers: their bodies are able to extract kinetic energy from vortices and eddies created by objects in water or other fish.

This has led some researchers to investigate how these same processes could be reproduced in devices capable of generating electricity from turbulence in liquid flows (unlike in conventional turbines, for which turbulence is a hindrance), as described in this article.

An example: this project from Princeton.

This is interesting, beyond the issues of efficiency and renewable energy production – architectural skins could be reworked so as to use wind forces productively, instead of merely resisting them.

you can also know how to build

2007-09-16T16:14:00.000+02:00

I just got a link to some pictures by Fernando Guerra of the latest built project of JSTC: the school of Medicine of Braga, Portugal. They are worth seeing, José and Teresa are really great at getting their thoughts all the way thru construction. The know how to build.
You can't tell from the pictures, but there is a wall made with 4 stories height perforated metal shutters that slide open electronically

de-generative architecture

2007-08-31T15:54:00.000+02:00

Alireza just sent me a great picture of Pessac (Corbu)

WIND PARK

2007-08-29T10:11:00.001+02:00

coming back from the construction site a couple of days ago.
I had to stop and wonder around those giants.

VORONOI DEV.

2007-08-29T10:03:00.000+02:00

interesting voronoi developments

from Made in California

and from Object-e-architecture

Potential Exhibiton Wall Inspiration

2007-08-27T18:14:00.000+02:00

Traditional architecture and some Olafur Eliasson

Digital Garbage

2007-08-24T23:26:00.000+02:00

it is common in the research produce and develop a lot of files(scripts, models, images)that we will never use.
Here there is a selection of digital garbage made this August.

GRAVITATIONAL VORONOI EXHIBITION WALL II

2007-08-23T23:35:00.000+02:00

Phisical model of the wall

Multi-touch

2007-08-23T12:26:00.000+02:00

Can you imagine what you can do with a screen?
Also interesting, Obscura Digital

MAS VORONOI

2007-08-22T08:58:00.001+02:00

artwork by Golan Levin

and a voronoi aplication as audio visualizer from Flight404

but here is a smart one, voronoi is used to define the path of minimal chance of hitting obstacle for travel routes. further info here

GENERACIÓN DE MALLAS TRIDIMENSIONALES POR MÉTODOS DUALES

2007-08-21T17:16:00.000+02:00

A thesis by Nestor Alberto Calvo that has reminded me of S. Pivar's theory on patterngenesis (right now in the eye of the hurricane, although I have to say that I find appealing the idea behind his "crazy theory")

I still have to read it carefully but it seems promising.

plus, geometry in action a compiling site from ICS Theory Group

BRANKO KOLAREVIC PRESENTATION

2007-08-21T14:06:00.000+02:00

This is a power point presentation called "Digital Fabrication" of Branko Kolarevic, professor of the University of Pennsylvania

NEH-01 GLACIER HABITAT

2007-08-20T23:10:00.000+02:00

"This research study explores the potential of space-dividing algorithms and their integration in built architecture.
The project aims on forming an integrated and generative design strategy based on a biomimetic approach to architectural design and fabrication.
The development of a software-tool that allows to simulate dynamic spatial relationships and its implementation on a given architectonical problem forms the integral part of this study.The application of the tool on various scales and hierarchies aims on a high degree of integration between design and fabrication of the final project."

gravitational voronoi exhibition wall

2007-08-16T16:31:00.001+02:00

next step for the wall
going away from the conitnuous surface and getting a sense for the boxes

Rhizome

2007-08-16T11:10:00.000+02:00

Here there are two more interesting links, one of them is in Spanish from Urbanism in SouthAmerica.

Seven, Six, Five
Plataforma Urbana

voronoitom

2007-08-16T09:59:00.001+02:00

Voronoitom is an AA Research Project 0607 (Diploma 16 :: Architecture in Extreme) Environment
by Tom Ostinato

an interesting catalog of voronois generation patterns. here in flickr album

Generative audio visualization

2007-08-16T05:10:00.001+02:00

Seelenlose Automaten is a generative music visualization with an unusal approach: Instead of analyzing the music for cues for visual change, MIDI control messages are sent simultaneously to the sound and image generators. Each mapping to a specific visual or sound effect, these messages are a vocabulary of rules giving structure to the composition. All change can be precisely predicted, and as a result the entire composition is perfectly synchronized.

Random numbers, Probability, Perlin Noise

2007-08-16T04:51:00.000+02:00

Some codes done with processing that might interest you. The Nature of Code by Daniel Shiffman at NYU. I found this one and this one quite interesting.

PROGRAM

2007-08-15T16:02:00.001+02:00

Nonspheres IV
Luis Berríos-Negrón

"PROGRAM is a nonprofit project aimed at testing the disciplinary boundaries of architecture through collaborations with other fields. Initiated in 2006 by Carson Chan and Fotini Lazaridou-Hatzigoga, PROGRAM provides a discursive platform for artists, architects, critics and curators to explore ideas through exhibitions, performances, workshops, lectures, and residencies...."

voronoi research - in progress

2007-08-14T17:25:00.001+02:00

Here is the process (the dead corpses) of scripting a voronoi diagram that would take in consideration gravitational forces between the points. so the division lines would not longer be at the center of the line that connects two cores.

and here is a voronoi on a square grid with gravitational forces on the points in an increasing sequence.

and here is a series of balaced gravitational grids.
we are starting to see some light after all.
:)

sdk sigle position on latin order

2007-08-13T17:10:00.001+02:00

this is a series of voronoi diagrams based on sdk with a latin square order thanks to a small generating device by José Ortiz.

here is the superimposition of all 9 pieces.

DeLanda on multiplicities

2007-08-13T11:58:00.000+02:00

"multiplicities specify the structure of spaces of possibilities, spaces which, in turn, explain the regularities exhibited by morphogenetic processes"
Intensive science and virtual philosophy

The importance of data

2007-08-12T21:50:00.000+02:00

Going back to our early info-visualization concerns,
here is a great video from hans rosling.

sdk double and triple position

2007-08-12T20:35:00.001+02:00

same sdk gen, but using double and triple concentric point definition.

sdk single position

2007-08-12T15:11:00.000+02:00

Here is a first attempt to build a geometrical order far beyond the eye's perception. we are trying to figure out proportional values for a common structure independently of the individual formal status, which could be at anytime switched around within a certain boundary, reconfiguring the overall pattern to better meet the criteria.

In a sense, is a dynamic grid tool, a kind of a geometrical automata. still using a sdk base as a gen to define the boundaries and relationship of the different points of the grid.

so far we are using a voronoi diagram, however this is just a simple way to go for now.

superimposition of the previous single diagrams.

aplication 1. (exhibition space. see opr.net for more info)

Solucar

2007-08-12T13:44:00.000+02:00

The new tower of the Solucar Solar Energy Station in Seville is under construction, and it would double the size of the first one.

mesmerizing

Osuna project

2007-08-10T02:07:00.000+02:00

I forgot to post the results of the osuna voronoi exercise.
here is a link to our site where you can see some of the images we issue for DD

Rip Curl Canyon

2007-08-07T16:57:00.000+02:00

Rip Curl Canyon by Benjamin Ball and Gaston Nogues

a bit old but worth seen it anyway.
their site has also a few gems

Octupus Surface

2007-07-17T21:56:00.001+02:00

Este script identifica una superficie cualquiera e imprime sobre ella una matriz de puntos con los cuales construye una especie de ventana que por un lado tiene una seccion circular y por otro una sección cuadrada. el eje de está ventana es un punto especifico de la matriz por la cúal se calculo la Normal.

dentro del script se han declarado más de 20 variables, todas ellas están relacionadas entre si por lo que una modificación en cualquiera de ellas afecta a todo el conjuunto.
El valor de los cambio es exponencial esto quiere decir que modificar el valor de la variable 1 en una unidad, influriá al final de las Iteraciones en una modificación mucho mayor que la unidad original. de este modo el sistema depende de sus propias reglas.

ver más imagenes en: http://designemergentesudamericano.blogspot.com/2007/07/superficie-reactiva-2.html

Voromuro form Ofice DA

2007-07-17T17:08:00.001+02:00

more from de GSD

“Voromuro, 2007.
created by Professor of Architecture Monica Ponce de Leon and Adjunct Professor Nader Tehrani and exhibited on Georges Island, is an intricate structure made with translucent acrylic installed in the elegant interior of the fort’s powder magazine"

I remember a work of Tehrani in 2001 at NY MOMA called "Fabricating Coincidences".
very inspiring.

Picon on Tech Thought

2007-07-16T17:56:00.000+02:00

Alireza Razavi just sent me a couple of articles of Antoine Picon.

Since I am now doing a bit of historical research reframing industrial vs. digital thought, I found this one particularly helpful.

"Towards a History of Technological Thought"
(Article published in Robert Fox (éd.), Technological change. Methods and themes in the history of technology, London, Harwood Academic Publishers, 1996, pp. 37-49)

Raphael Navot 2

2007-07-16T10:57:00.000+02:00

Nuno,
Looking for a previous work of Navot I discovered this
which imidiatly brought to my mind something you were working on.
funny.

3d voronoi - patio

2007-07-14T15:06:00.000+02:00

Here is what we ar doing now, for the Osuna project.
we are dividing the courtyard into smaller spatial cells and assigning a certain density of points to each one of them depending of certain parameters that have to do with the program requirement, light and privacy issues between the different uses that share the space.
then we run the scrip to generate a 3d voronoi, and finally we extract surfaces or volumes from that road map to generate each element needed in the space.
I will post the result of the patio in a week since we have to submit it.
and then you will see, but for now, here is the generic and previous exercise

c.

Voronoi on sdk

2007-07-12T10:13:00.000+02:00

This is our first attempt to program the deformation of a voronoi subdivision on a sdk surface.
so far is only a double projection of a flat voronoi, but we are working on a script to be applied directly to any surface
Yimei, I though you would like this

Voronoi-skylight

2007-07-11T20:28:00.000+02:00

First application of voronoi in the Osuna Project. we are creating a skylight. these are just some of the process work. I will post some more images soon, specially of the prototype we plan to built in a couple of weeks to control the lighting impact on the interior surface.
(w/ DeLab)
c.

Time, presence, absence: house-projects

2007-07-08T15:36:00.000+02:00

The house-projects are time-based events that occur in public spaces, in which a group of builders slowly assemble and disassemble an amount of bricks (and the necessary scaffolds) in a period of ten days. They follow a plan of a whole building that is fully accomplished throughout the given period, yet only a part of it is actually built at a given moment. Interactions may occur with passers-by.
Time-lapsed photographs and videos document the process.

By Wolfgang Weileder.

Interactive open-air market

2007-07-07T18:13:00.000+02:00

During an interval at the s.o.f. conference, someone showed this video of a good example of interactive architecture in Thailand.

networked dripping

2007-07-03T00:55:00.000+02:00

Newsdrip will be an installation translating keywords and occurrences from online news into water droplets over a semi-drowned mapa-mundi. A beautiful example of how the conceptual and the aesthetic may be inseparable.

By Anneke Pettican and Spencer Roberts.
Other collaborative work involving Anneke can be found at www.brassart.org.uk

Future conflicts

2007-06-29T00:16:00.000+02:00

FLC is a loose, collective practice based in Belgium that attempts to not only rethink the way a design/ architectural practice might act, but also its very ambit of intervention. They consider the arena of future conflicts (in an extended sense) as the realm of (spatial) negotiation. Great stuff, particulary the "bittersweet projectile" which Marc Godts presented at the s.o.f conference. They have their blog.

Bonus points if you can guess what FLC stands for.

Flowing from the north

2007-06-24T23:14:00.000+02:00

Just got back from the "space of flows" conference at the Culture Lab/ Newcastle University.
It was a great event.
I was able to meet an impressive number of both clever, talented and kind people (a rare combination), and to learn a lot from them.
The Culture Lab in itself is already quite a one-of-a-kind institution, to keep an eye on in the future.
In the next posts, I'll try to describe and link to some of the work that I was able to see there.

electroactive polymers

2007-06-24T23:02:00.000+02:00

This is fascinating: making an airship's surface contract and expand so as to enable it to "swim" through the atmosphere. These artificial muscles are made of polymers which deform when subjected to an electrical field.

Wikipedia entry for electroactive polymers

Dynamic terrain

2007-06-24T22:55:00.000+02:00

A kind of low-brow, but interesting, version of the Hyposurface, this time to roll over:
DYTE, by Janis Pönisch

911 attack simulation

2007-06-21T21:29:00.000+02:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cddIgb1nGJ8

Wind Sculpture

2007-05-10T07:46:00.000+02:00

Beautiful!

Watch this video!

Model homes built in 8 hours

2007-04-24T22:46:00.001+02:00

http://www.livinghomes.net/viewStory.html?id=5

On agitation, turbulence, desire, architectural optimism and Constant's New Babylon

2007-04-12T22:30:00.000+02:00

image: Constant Nieuwenhuis' New Babylon

The always bedazzling BLDBLG has been running some great interviews lately:
this one with Ole Bouman, and particularly this one with Mark Wigley are outstanding.
Wigley is, as always, a delight to read-hear, and it is worth checking the whole thing through, they even get to talk about Constant's New Babylon in the end.
But the best part of their conversation could be described as this: the major, real task of architects would be to invent new, unsolicited forms of optimism.

Color Shift

2007-03-25T15:15:00.001+02:00

They are back, and this time is with "an urban-scaled art project made by inputting a continuous stream of alternating colors into the FreshDirect video billboard, the largest in the country."

by Benjamin Aranda & Chris Lasch, terraswarm

about control rooms

2007-03-25T13:39:00.000+02:00

Super Versailles
from prunned
don't miss - any ideas come to mind for the e-palpit skin?

by the way, happy bithday to all of you.

Camouflaged octopus

2007-03-21T23:04:00.000+01:00

An octopus changing the texture, patterns and coulours of its skin.
By the way, this blog is one year old.

Electronic poem

2007-03-15T20:00:00.000+01:00

From 1958, Xénakis/ Varèse/ Le Corbusier's work poème electronique.

More scripting (and other stuff) links

2007-02-17T19:00:00.000+01:00

Our links column surely needs an update:

Ruy/ Klein

cOdes

McNeel's RhinoScript Wiki

futurefeeder

Somewhere in Alentejo

2007-02-16T22:38:00.000+01:00

A protective wrapping for hay or some other agricultural product ended up making this found-sculptural/ architectural-object, in a nice bucolic setting (eat your heart out, minimalists, Christo).

Wondering if they'll let us take a peek

2006-12-14T22:02:00.000+01:00

Birds, amongst other animals, already see more than us puny simian mammals.
But, more and more, there are new entities glimpsing through the spectrum:
"Handheld device sees more colours than humans"

hacking google maps

2006-12-10T23:33:00.000+01:00

This is a beautiful script that allows (at least allowed, I have not tried yet) to build large maps from google.
also in Noah Vawter (a huge gray area project)
he also has a beautiful master thesis at MIT that has just gotten some publicity on making music out of urban noise, you can check it out here.
I am thrill with the idea of being high on noise.
I wonder if you can also get a pair of glasses
that combination should be called the "i-pot"

New Scripting links

2006-12-07T08:36:00.000+01:00

Find some new links on scripting. Smart geometry. A school named Stevens Insitute of Technology and this guy Axel Kilian at MIT.

The expanded classroom

2006-12-05T01:28:00.000+01:00

Webcasts have still a long way to go, in terms of quality (sound, etc), access and availability.
But some are really worth it:

from the GSD website (via archinect), take, for instance, Jeff Kipnis, Keller Easterling, and many others;

from the EDA/UCLA archive, there's this Kwinter lecture, and a Marcos Novak one from a series led by Casey Reas, and an impressive list of many others;

and from the Tate archive, don't miss (again, among many others) this great one from Manuel De Landa: Nature Space Society.

Update:
from the MIT Museum, check the "Soap Box" series, from which I strongly recommend this one on energy: "The Role of New Technologies in a Sustainable Energy Economy". The first 20 minutes are a must - clear, informative, mind-boggling.

Gazprom City - St. Petersburg

2006-12-02T11:16:00.000+01:00

Six internationally known architects have submitted their designs.

Herzog de Meuron

Rem Koolhaas

Libeskind

Urban Cactus

2006-12-02T11:01:00.000+01:00

Urban Cactus is a housing project in the Vuurplaat section of Rotterdam by UCX Architects / Ben Huygen and Jasper Jaegers and done for Vestia Rotterdam Feijenoord/Estrade Projecten.

Geogreetings

2006-12-01T07:17:00.000+01:00

Had this been posted before?? Just for fun!

Virtual Earth 3D

2006-12-01T07:08:00.000+01:00

In addition to Photosynth that was posted earlier, Microsoft also launched online 3D mapping. Here is the article and the link to download. In commercial applications, there is something called Second Life which is a also total virtual world.

Giant robots

2006-11-30T07:16:00.000+01:00

Interesting studio by Greg Lynn on aesthetic culture of robots to produce new forms of architectural spectacle. Watch this video.

2006-11-29T16:25:00.000+01:00

Cecil Balmond's Architecture

An Engineering Magician, Then (Presto) He’s an Architect
NY Times interview

Photosynth

2006-11-19T08:48:00.000+01:00

You might have heard of this already... Photosynth by Microsoft Live Labs. Watch this video. It would be interesting to see different applications into architecture.

Glass house with nanotechnology

2006-11-19T08:40:00.000+01:00

In case you haven't noticed

2006-11-18T17:43:00.000+01:00

This blog has been running in hybernation mode.

Let's see when spring arrives.

Telegraphic post of the week

2006-11-14T01:24:00.000+01:00

For the love of _______ [insert your own deity here], go and check this great text by Stuart Kauffman and J. Lanier's wisecrack response to it.

More Kauffman here (this time on economics).
Update: forgot to add this other great text of his: "The Sciences of Complexity and 'Origins of Order'".

On one hand, on the other hand

2006-11-03T21:20:00.000+01:00

"The Dichotomy of Design and Evolution" on The J Curve.

via the indefatigable Resarch. The dichotomy thing reminded me of this B. Steele article, that played around with the dichotomy/simmetry themes as well. And speaking of simmetry...

biovertigo

2006-11-03T18:01:00.000+01:00

Where would you begin, if you wanted to set up a panorama of "bio everything" today?
Just merely attempting it is enough to make one dizzy...

Biomi metics (or bionics or even biomimicry or...) is fast becoming, or so it seems, an established field in its own right. It can also be understood as phenotropics. And what about synthetic biology? Check one of their wikis, for instance.

Is this going to affect material production, as we know and practice it, right away? Perhaps.

On nature and technique, part IX

2006-10-31T01:46:00.000+01:00

It's the second time I refer to John Walker's site in this series, but "Seventh Industrial Revolution: Replicating Machines", part of a larger text and written back in 1990, is well worth checking out.

frontdesign - from sketches to life

2006-10-29T22:16:00.000+01:00

interesting furniture designer's demonstration of sketching. watch this video.

KrazyDad

2006-10-29T22:04:00.000+01:00

This guy is a programmer-artist and he has some fun projects to look at. The most impressive in his series is the Whitney music box and the color picker. The color picker also extends into a flickr series of mosaic images collection like this one and this one for halloween. More coverpops can be found here. His new book flikr hacks is on sale at amazon.

One more for the agenda

2006-10-21T03:05:00.000+02:00

This year's edition of Art Futura doesn't have Theo Jansen or Usman Haque as it did last year.
But it is always an event worth experimenting, if you happen to be in Barcelona from the 26th to the 29th October.
This year, they bring us the infosthetics guy for a talk, they will show "A scanner darkly", and much, much more...

photovoltaic interlude, part IV

2006-10-17T16:25:00.000+02:00

Little by little, more promising news regarding photovoltaics are appearing, such as breakthroughs in efficiency, and, hopefully more than just a P.R. move, Google going solar. (googleblog post here. these guys were involved)

The architecture of cloud computing

2006-10-10T13:30:00.000+02:00

A single word invoking more than a thousand images: cloudware.
(this is only a nice article on the upcoming changes in computing/networks and the like. But the key word is just beautiful. it's also interesting to check how many times the word architecture is used)

Faraday's wave garden

2006-10-10T09:51:00.000+02:00

Faraday's wave experiment,
from Pruned, by Alexander Trevi
must see the video.

Is better than the milk drop experiments

On nature and technique, part VIII

2006-10-09T02:33:00.000+02:00

Everything Computes: an eminently readable essay by Peter Bentley. (there are many other good texts and relevant information in his site. He also authored and edited several books, such as this one)

Scalae Podcast Barcelona

2006-10-08T01:17:00.000+02:00

An interview by Felix Arranz at the Scalae BCN podcast on Barcelona architecture.

Just some shockwave fun

2006-10-02T00:37:00.000+02:00

In telegraphic mode, just a few promising toys (the respective sites are also worth checking): soundmap and doodle.

Container Home Kit

2006-10-01T07:56:00.000+02:00

Interesting prefab by LOT-EK. Take a look at the video.

"Many, because orchids"

2006-09-28T20:30:00.000+02:00

Half a century later, it is impressive how Reyner Banham's text "A Throw-away Aesthetic" is still one of the most important insights on design in our time.

there's something too perfect in the kingdom of denmark

2006-09-27T22:51:00.000+02:00

Following on Yimei's post on Bruce Mau, it is adequate to check again the "Too perfect" project/exhibition he curated in 2004. This is described as a set of "pragmatic utopias" shaping possible futures for Denmark. With contributions by Mau's studio, and danish firms Arkitema, Kontrapunkt, NORD, SRL Arkitekter and (the irresistible) PLOT.

A bit of Pynchon

2006-09-26T00:54:00.000+02:00

Regarding the previous post, some characters with a "Dr." prefix may come to mind (Frankestein, Octopus, the like), as well as distopian and technophobic themes and stories.
But things are never as simple as we would like them to be. Maybe this text (from 1984) by Thomas Pynchon is adequate for our meditations on these issues:
Is it O.K. to be a Luddite?

(file under obscure)

On nature and technique, part VII

2006-09-21T22:02:00.000+02:00

Maybe it is just me, but it seems that the amount of news regarding experiments and research that blur the distinctions or frontiers between the organic and the technical is growing a lot lately.

Roland Piquepaille writes about the first "bionic woman"; researchers at Princeton and the University of Cambridge are developing a stretchable electronic skin; and researchers at Harvard are working on hybrid structures of neurons and nanowires.

(Quote from this article: "The neurons grew on the chip and made connections with the nanowires". And these are only a few examples.)

Bruce Mau

2006-09-18T08:29:00.000+02:00

One hour interview about Massive Change on The Connection.

photovoltaic interlude, part III

2006-09-17T23:36:00.000+02:00

"Solar Cells for Cheap" is a quite interesting interview with Michael Grätzel (from EPFL) on what might happen soon (next couple of years) in the realm of photovoltaic systems.

Algorithms at work

2006-09-14T09:23:00.000+02:00

Some hands on algorithms for construction elements.
architectural finishes (column covers, walls and ceiling systemns) using AlgoRhythm technologies to efficiently bend sheets of metals into complex forms, by Haresh Lalvani (Pratt institute).

On dynamic arch

2006-09-12T10:14:00.000+02:00

As always, just dropping the thing
here is an inspiring animation of the inner life of a cell

"Nuclei, proteins and lipids move with bug-like authority, slithering, gliding and twisting through 3D space"

On nature and technique, part VI

2006-09-12T00:50:00.000+02:00

The theme of swarms deserves its own series around here (one of these days). But this project is too interesting to be left out of our current focus: Swarm-bots (pdf).
More info here.

(on a related note, I also like the shrimp)

NodeBox

2006-09-11T19:15:00.000+02:00

No time really to post, sorry
I just found this site by chance and had no time to go thru
but it looks promising
http://research.nodebox.net/Index

Under 6,000,000 m3 of concrete

2006-09-07T23:55:00.000+02:00

Pictured: Andrea Bassi, Fabian and some guy called Carlos.

All under this unique place.

Bliki

2006-09-01T16:58:00.001+02:00

blog + wiki = bliki
I was thinking of the possible potential for a hybrid between these two apparently opposite approaches to web publishing when... I found it is well developed already.
Then I thought of PROTO.lab and the possibility of organising the class in a bliki format.

Belated thoughts on blogs and wikis by J. Tauber, the founder of Leonardo, a Python based bliki server