Threading lightly

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

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

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

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

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

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

WIND PARK

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

VORONOI DEV.

interesting voronoi developments


from Made in California


and from Object-e-architecture

Potential Exhibiton Wall Inspiration

Traditional architecture and some Olafur Eliasson

Digital Garbage

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

Phisical model of the wall

Multi-touch

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

MAS VORONOI

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

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

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

NEH-01 GLACIER HABITAT

"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

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

Rhizome

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

Seven, Six, Five
Plataforma Urbana

voronoitom

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

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.