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he pink-tinted structure, built as part of the London Festival of Architecture, is a follow-up project to the OR single-surface solar roof structure. OR2 is translucent while in the shade, but it quickly fills in with color when exposed to sunlight.

According to the designers, OR and OR2 are the first structures to use photo-reactive technology at an architectural scale. The designers explain, “The beauty of OR2 is its constant interaction with the elements, at each moment of the day OR’s appearance is unique.”

Want to check out OR2 in person? It’s on display until July 4 at the Italian Cultural Institute in London.

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Résultants d’une importante activité industrielle passée, les espaces résiduels, terrains vagues, sols et eaux sont fortement pollués.

Ecosystèmes Modulables est construit comme une hyper-structure paysagère. Stratégiquement identifiable, elle est planifiée pour sauvegarder divers processus appartenant au paysage naturel-biologique et artificiel local.

Le projet fonctionne comme un instrument efficace de croissance remédiant l’urbanisation informelle et irrégulière, contexte de la banlieue parisienne. Etienne Gozard spécule et vise à planifier en projetant des scénarios plausibles, en anticipant sur l’échelle, le contexte et la configuration des futurs patrons morphologiques urbains.

Ecosystèmes Modulables est une stratégie d’aménagement du sol capable d’exploiter la surface réduite de l’Ile Saint Denis tout en préservant de manière efficace les écosystèmes locaux (flore et faune) et en mettant au service de la population les cycles naturels de l’ile.

Jorge Ayala Academic Unit_ ESA Paris

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Edouard Molinari develops a prototypical urban fabric for Gennevilliers (Hauts de Seine) having as main strategy to tackle the social housing issue, one of the biggest realities the Greater Paris region faces up to date.

Gennevilliers represents also one of the 4 biggest trade harbours in regional Paris, today lacking an overall masterplan responding to urgent demands like carriage, transport and dwellings.

Based on the low density ratios of Gennevillers context, Edouard proliferate a mesh within the residual space and terrains vagues left over after the Industrial Era.

Enhancing its land value, this hexagonal spatial organization acquires depth and thickness proposing new typologies for housing, leisure, public venues and tourism.

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Landscape Strategies Workshop

Alghero, Sardegna
Landscape Strategies è la formula scelta per indicare la struttura del workshop di Jorge Ayala, che intende verificare l’applicabilità della metodologia del Landscape Urbanism nei suoi limiti spaziali.

Nei due giorni di workshop è stata impostata una indagine relativa a differenti condizioni spaziali attraverso l’esplorazione di assemblaggi materiali modellati come risposta ai seguenti parametri: diamonding, weaving, twisting e branching (forma di diamante, onda, torsione, biforcazione).

Il workshop si è incentrato sulla registrazione, cernita e prova digitale di queste infrastrutture come base per il materiale, le informazioni e le idee per la produzione di modelli fisici.

Le condizioni ambientali hanno costituito le regole che hanno informato la produzione dei plastici costruiti durante il workshop. Questi modelli hanno operato come identità elastiche, apparentemente in espansione, accessibili in modo neutrale e auto-regolantesi, giungendo ad essere progressivamente complesse.

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>>nel presente e nel successivo post ho voluto pubblicare due interessanti ricerche tenute dall’amico Jorge Ayala (professore di Landascape Urbanism presso ESA Paris), che gentilmente mi ha inviato il materiale ora qui esposto.

PARIS AND ITS LANDSCAPE URBANISM

Paris and its suburbs represent a working population of 5.5 million people. More than 11 million inhabitants are distributed within 12,000 square kilometers, out of those, 2 million people live within 105 square kilometers.

Topographic conditions, cultural and social interaction, political problems and a constantly increasing unprivileged population limit the transformation of Paris into a 21^st century major city, requiring urgent solutions.

The Landscape Urbanism Studio at the Ecole Spéciale d’Architecture aims to reformulate both -existing and proposed projects- the Parisian suburbia is engaged with, by trying to question them. The studio led by Jorge Ayala proposes systems of organization seeking to find methods and strategies in order to inform the development of this region.

The Paris Agenda starts proposing a series of actions capable of coordinating new modes of urban transformation by the reconfiguration of activities considered as “social or environmental threats”.

These physical models are the exploration of spatial configurations suggesting several levels of engagement with existing conditions: topography, rainfall flows, ground conditions and residual landscape, among others. These models have become a medium through which new urban logics appear and proliferate, becoming the structure of each of the students’ proposals.

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Jorge leads the Landscape Urbanism Seminar at the Ecole Spéciale d’Architecture de Paris/ Grand Paris Agenda – French Government Major Urban Project.

Label: Landscape Urbanism

Author: Jorge Ayala, Landscape Urbanism professor, Paris

Credits: ESA Landscape Urbanism 2010

Link: www.paysageurbanisme.com

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If you’ve played with Grasshopper then you know how much fun it can be to throw the sliders back and forth and watch your geometry change.  What if you wanted to get analysis data for everyone of those iterations?  Parametric modeling eases the task of generating multiple iterations, but it can be a bit laborious to feed everyone of those iterations to a simulation analysis software.  Instead of stepping through the same set of steps for each iteration its helpful to shorten or automate the process required to achieve feedback.

This is one of our first explorations into creating connections between Grasshopper and other simulation analysis software, specifically the structural analysis software ANSYS.  This connection is being created through the use of four vb script components which are responsible for writing the ANSYS macro, exporting IGES files, creating the ANSYS input file, and retrieving the ANSYS output file.

Once the ON button is set, it takes about 5 seconds for the analysis results to appear in Grasshopper.  The output file contains results for each analysis that was specified within the ANSYS macro.  In the following example of a space frame structure, the element axial stresses and the node displacements were analyzed and the results were then used to color the Grasshopper geometry as well as displace the nodes.   It is then possible to take advantage of the rendering tools within Rhino to create more compelling graphics than the ANSYS vector graphics.  Another, more powerful possibility is to use the ANSYS results to begin to size members in response analysis results such as the diameter of a pipe.  In the below image, members experiencing compression forces are blue and tension forces are red.  The diameter of the pipe also increases in response to the intensity of forces.

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Alessio Erioli, Andrea Graziano, Davide Del Giudice

Roma – 41°51′42.00″N 12°28′52.43″E

07.06-11.06.2010

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Conditional Proliferations

Grasshopper workshop Level I – parametric & generative design _ Co-de-iT _ Roma _ 07-11 giugno 2010

[.] Descrizione

La proliferazione è una modalità di occupazione dello spazio. In dipendenza dal proprio modo di interazione ambientale, gli edifici possono essere distrubuiti e/o aggregati in modalità appropriate in modo da accumulare o disperdere gli effetti della loro interazione e il proprio impatto sull’evoluzione delle relazioni future. A livelli più bassi si può, ad esempio, considerare la distribuzione di componenti o caratteristiche lungo un involucro.
Approcci basati su unità funzionali operano una proliferazione basata sulla ripetizione indifferenziata e insensibile all’ambiente, risultando in una discretizzazione di matrice convenzionale e nella separazione tra edifici, edifici e contesto o spazi interni ed esterni; un diverso tipo di approccio, basato sulla condizione (termine usato nella sua doppia accezione di indicatore dinamico della tendenza di sviluppo dell’ecosistema e in quella causale – if a then b), introduce una forma di proliferazione che sfida e scioglie la dicotomia artificiale: molte piante crescono ovunque le condizioni portino ad esse beneficio, senza riguardo per limiti codificati nello spazio in cui si sviluppano. Le implicazioni sulla negoziazione dello spazio e sulla definizione di soglia sono notevoli; il sistema produce un campo armonicamente articolato e differenziato di fenotipi a partire dal genotipo attraverso un processo di “estetica delle forze” guidata attraverso lo strumento digitale.
A livello urbano questo può tradursi nella proliferazione di infrastrutture o di spazi che mettono in discussione la concezione statica di “confine” e “unità” in favore di modelli in grado di generare una gamma più estesa di inflessioni tra livelli di complessità e indirizzarli per abilitare e rendere accessibili potenzialità d’uso a loro volta articolate e complesse.
Il tema sarà dipanato attraverso le giornate del workshop sviluppando aspetti teorici e tecnici dell’approccio parametrico generativo, con particolare attenzione a strategie di design urbano basate su caratteristiche endogene (vincoli interni del sistema) ed esogene (fattori ambientali) allo scopo di stimolare l’esplorazione di soluzioni sistemiche innovative.

Il numero dei partecipanti è stabilito tra le 15 e le 20 persone per offrire un tutoraggio proficuo ed una effettiva esperienza di learning ad ogni iscritto.

[.] Temi

. teoria

. condizione, genotipo/fenotipi, transizione, mappatura, eleganza, sensibilità, spazio

. tecnica

. dati:gestione, manipolazione, visualizzazione
. generazione di geometria da dati
. logiche parametriche applicate al design
. genotipo/fenotipi
. attrattori, mappers, drivers e tecniche di modulazione

[.] Dettagli

Istruttori: Alessio Erioli + Andrea Graziano + Davide Del Giudice – Co-de-iT (GH & design tutors).

Si richiede esperienza di base nella modellazione in Rhino (equivalente a Rhino training Level 1, il Level 2 è gradito – la documentazione per il training è disponibile gratuitamente all’indirizzo: http://download.rhino3d.com/download.asp?id=Rhino4Training&language=it).

Luogo : presso NETFORM – via Alessandro Cialdi 7, Roma

Orario : 9.00-18.00.

info: info@a-m-u-r-i.it  | +39 338 4201162

iscrizioni: www.cesarch.it | tel. 06.97604590

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The workshop ‘Social Technologies’ explores the basic exercise in the development of dynamic architectural concepts and computer-generated geometry. The vision was to challenge the complex programs of the urban field and to explore the inherent potentials of new digital tools. Working with two main focus areas the workshop simultaneously aimed at developing advanced spatial systems for organizing and articulating new social complexities, and at utilizing and adapting different advanced digital design methods for exploring various principles of form generation and advanced production. The workshop was divided into five phases: registration and analysis, geometry generation, lighting control, synthesis, and exhibition.

In collaboration with architects, CNC-manufacturing companies, media artists, sociologist and the Danish National Crime preventing council the students participating in the workshop sought to explore the ways in which advanced digital design methods can generate new alternatives for the existing anti-crime initiatives, where technology is often being used to identify guilty persons. The workshop encourage research in the crossing between performative formations and interactive light systems, thus enabling discussions on local culture production and social potentialities in form.

During the workshop the students were among other things introduces to: the development of dynamic architectural concepts, digital tools as Grasshopper for Rhino and RhinoScripting, the utilization of sensor technology and dynamic light control in the software vvvv, and to work with digital technologies and interactive urban environments on a conceptual level.
The workshop is developed into 4 parts:

1. Concept

2. Sensor technology and Light control (vvvv)

3. Advanced geometries and rapid manufacturing (Grasshopper)

4. Synthesis

In the 3 first weeks the students develops individual projects in week 4, 7 projects is selected and groups will finalize 7 projects. One is selected to be realized in 1:1.

Digital Design Team
Mads Brath, Sune Petersen & Esben Skouboe Poulsen
Department for Architecture, Design & Media Technology.
Aalborg University, DK

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The glass pyramid shape actually serves to magnify light and increase the natural lighting inside a building while decreasing the need for artificial light. The design is also meant to capture thermal energy trapped inside the glass pyramids that is not converted into electricity to be used for heating and cooling systems.

The receptors aren’t commercially available just yet, but a manufacturer has been lined up and the hope is to bring these cells to market as soon as the manufacturing process is finalized. The estimated cost return is less than two and a half years in a sunny place like Los Angeles and less than a decade in a foggy place like San Francisco.

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