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Human-Scale Spider Web

admin — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 09:26:24 +0000

Design team Numen/For Use transformed 700 rolls of clear packing tape into an incredible human-size inhabitable spider web at DMY Belin 2010. The weaving took place over four consecutive days inside of the Tempelhof former airport. 49,213 yards (45 km) of tape wrapped around constructed scaffolding posts allowed visitors to experience the installation by crawling around inside.
This is the 5th Tape Installation exhibited by Numen/For Use, and it is the only time a scaffolding construction support had to be constructed due to location restrictions. The installation took approximately 160 hours and was erected by six workers. Previous installations used up to 1000 rolls of tape costing approximately $620 US dollars (500 Euro) and were woven around structural components that already existed on site. The cocoon shape is realized through the design concept of dance performance. As dancers weave in, out, and around existing pillars, a trail of tape records the history of each dancer’s step. The entangled surfaces present a unique relationship between man-made materials and natural organisms inside an environment which encourages the visitor to engage with spatially. The mechanical and chemical construction qualities of tape combined with the amorphous nature of the organic structure unwinds a special narrative that is a beautiful showcase of bio-mimicry.

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Jorge Ayala Atelier recent works

admin — Fri, 07 May 2010 17:27:06 +0000

LANDSCAPING PARIS/

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.

© ESA Landscape Urbanism Archives

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

www.jorge-ayala.com

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Art615

admin — Fri, 07 May 2010 17:08:36 +0000

Art615 is a new installation/pavilion made by students of Aalborg University, DK during their 4 week workshop

program: Social Technologies 2010 at the Department of Architecture & Design.The students worked together with Dolle Trapper, they researched the link between CNC fabrication techniques and digital sketching tools, the workshop results were 7 architectural models and in the 1:1 pavilion Art615.

Description of Social Technologies 2010 ( from the site)

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

more info via designplaygrounds and socialtechnologies2010

Hong Kong Urban Adapter

admin — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 15:05:25 +0000

Rocker Lange Architects are participating in this year’s Hong Kong & Shenzhen bi-city biennale with their proposal for a new urban furniture concept.

Hong Kong’s urban furniture contains multiple functional objects. Each of them belongs to a different set of formal expression or is part of a different style. While variation is obvious in the style mix of Hong Kong’s public furniture, there is a lack of uniformity in the formal expression that could foster a unique Hong Kong identity..

This design proposal for a contemporary city bench seeks to understand the concept of street furniture as a holistic design problem. Instead of offering only one single static design, this scheme suggests multiple varying solutions that meet specific fitness criteria.

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The project “Urban Adapter” is based on a digital parametric model. At its core the model utilizes explicit site information and programmatic data to react and interact with its environment. That way the model’s DNA structure is capable of producing a variety of unique furniture results. Together they generate an endless family of new urban bench furniture.

Rather than having a fixed form the members of the family can adapt to different site conditions and programmatic needs. While all of the designs have the ability to serve as a seating element, some have additional programmatic values added, such as recycling containers, flower buckets or billboards serving for advertisement or educational purposes. The generated functional surface invites the user to new seating and communication arrangements and establishes a unique identity for the urban space of Hong Kong.

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plastic canopy

admin — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 09:52:52 +0000

One of the main principles of permaculture is that “the problem is the solution.” Problem: tons of waste cups created by attendees of the OutsideLands concert in San Francisco. Solution: a fabulous recycled cup canopy. BIOS Design Collective tapped a keg and invited their friends over for a canopy party, building a gorgeous wave of concave color at Stable Cafe just in time for Architecture and the City.

They started by stringing steel cable mesh above the Stable Cafe patio in equidistant lines. Designer Chris Chalmers created the layout for the cables using a definition created by Grasshopper, a graphical algorithm editor. Laminated cards depicting sections of the canopy helped volunteers to place their multi-colored cups in an artistic– and precisely algorithmic– fashion.

As the keg drained, revelers clipped the cups onto the cables with special, laser-cut plastic clips. We wonder what the next BIOS installation will be– plastic clip jewelry? Regardless, the resulting canopy was stunning in its form and precision. The BIOS blog boasts that the keg for the party cost more than the materials to create the canopy. We’ll drink to that.

info via www.inhabitat.com

The Twist bridge

admin — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:05:05 +0000

Andrew Tang, Project Architect presso l’ufficio West 8, afferma: “Dopo anni di studi tecnici e perfezionamento del progetto, lo scorso maggio 2009 si è finalmente inaugurata l’apertura del ponte. Usando come base il modello originale di Rhino, il progetto è stato tradotto nei disegni esecutivi finali per i vari componenti del ponte. Anche se ho [...]

architectural installation at the SCI-Arc Gallery

admin — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:31:53 +0000

Deegan Day Design, an architectural installation at the SCI-Arc Gallery in Los Angeles started on October 23 and will be available to everyone till December 13 with changing visual media throughout and public discussions with artists, architects and critics, including: An Te Liu, Bettina Korek, Andrea Fraser, Rhea Anastas, Bennett Simpson, Josh Melnick, Lauri Firstenberg, Sarah Morris Richard Massey, Eric Owen Moss, and Joe Day.

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info via archdaily

Sound Sculptures

admin — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:02:36 +0000

Cylinder [extraversion.co.uk] is a small collection of physical data sculptures based on STL file data captured by the analysis of sound samples from spaces, creating site specific sculptures reflecting the acoustic of an environment. A mapping of the frequency and time domains produced cylindrical forms that represent the specific spatial characteristics of the sound input. [...]

superTEX structure

admin — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 08:37:46 +0000

You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video superTEX structure at the institute for experimental architecture.hochbau university for architecture Innsbruck via Universitat Innsbruck

SuperDeluxe(tokyo)

admin — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 07:39:53 +0000

BAKOKO uses Generative Components

BAKOKO Pecha Kucha Vol. 64 – SuperDeluxe, Tokyo from BAKOKO on Vimeo.