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DigitalTree_VittoriLAB WORKSHOP

admin — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 23:48:26 +0000

Giovedì 2 dicembre
9.00-9.30
Il tema del Workshop e le dinamiche del suo svolgimento saranno introdotte dal prof. Arturo
Vittori. Durante la presentazione verrà illustrato, inoltre, l’itinerario didattico che sarà seguito
nell’arco delle 3 giornate in programma.
9.30-10.00
Dario Donato, architectural engineer at SpatialConnection(s), introdurrà agli studenti
partecipanti la modellazione algoritmica parametrica con Grasshopper.
10.00-18.00 (pausa pranzo dalle 13.30 alle 15.00)
Gli studenti selezionati verranno suddivisi in 5 gruppi di 4 componenti, a ciascuno dei quali
verrà af”dato uno speci”co tema da sviluppare inerente alle linee guida del progetto.
Grazie alla tecnica del BrainStorming i partecipanti faranno emergere le loro idee per
rispondere alla questione principale posta come tema. Al termine di questa fase (considerata la
più produttiva delle tre giornate), si passerà all’ideazione vera e propria del progetto.
I partecipanti seguiranno l’iter progettuale aiutati da strumenti d’avanguardia, utilizzando la
modellazione con Grasshopper e supportati dai collaboratori , che saranno costantemente a
disposizione in tutte le fasi del workshop.
Venerdì 3 dicembre
9.00-13.30
In questa prima parte della giornata i partecipanti si dedicheranno allo studio e alla scelta delle
proprietà interattive che desidereranno apportare al progetto.
La fase successiva vedrà gli studenti impegnati nella programmazione della parte elettronica e
nel successivo utilizzo della piattaforma Arduino. Questa sarà a tutti gli effetti il “cuore
interattivo” del progetto stesso, ovvero la parte che permetterà di rispondere a tutte quelle
esigenze e a tutti quegli obiettivi pre”ssati durante la fase progettuale.
15.00-18.00
Finita la fase progettuale, nel prosieguo del pomeriggio gli studenti potranno iniziare la fase di
prototipazione.
Saranno messi a disposizione tutti gli strumenti e i materiali idonei alla realizzazione del
progetto vero e proprio in tutte le sue componenti. Si procederà, quindi, con la scelta dei
materiali da utilizzare, il successivo il taglio degli stessi a seguire con una prima fase di
assemblaggio.
Sabato 4 dicembre
9.00-13.30
L’intera mattinata sarà dedicata alla fase di assemblaggio “nale di tutte le parti del progetto.
Potendo, dunque, usufruire del prototipo ormai terminato, i partecipanti avranno il tempo di
veri”care il corretto funzionamento di ciascuna delle parti elettroniche e di apportare, qualora
fosse ritenuto necessario, le ultime modi”che in vista dell’esposizione “nale.
15.00-18.00
Alcuni partecipanti avranno il compito di proseguire nella veri”ca “nale che il progetto si
dimostri conforme a quelle che sono state le premesse alla base del workshop e che inoltre
risponda correttamente a tutti i requisiti richiesti.
La restante parte degli studenti si occuperà della preparazione della presentazione del progetto
e del successivo allestimento della mostra che si svolgerà in serata.
18.00-21.00
Presentazione “nale e mostra del lavoro svolto dagli studenti durante il Workshop.

VittoriLAB_DESIGN AND DIGITAL FABRICATION wp1

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CHROMAtex.me

admin — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 18:49:36 +0000

SOFTlab is one of the most talented design studios in New York; they recently won the New Practices New York Award and they need your help to produce an installation at the Bridgegallery in the lower east side of Manhattan. The continuous surface of gradient colors was constructed with more than 5000 individual panels, each one of a different color. It is really interesting how SOFTlab is creating complex geometries out of everyday materials. In this case the project only utilizes ink, photo-paper and paper clips. Each individual panel was laser cut and engraved with the sponsor’s name. The project was possible through the sponsorship of hundreds of individuals willing to see a gallery filled with color.

via evolo1; via evolo2

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Ecosystèmes Modulables

admin — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 09:24:07 +0000

Seule commune insulaire du Grand Paris, l’Ile Saint-Denis compte aujourd’hui une population de soixante douze mille habitants.

L’île s’étend sur huit kilomètres de long et deux cent mètres de large, néanmoins soixante dix sept hectares du territoire de l’île sont des terres submergées, soit plus de quarante pour cent de la commune.

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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Jorge Ayala_Studio Project

admin — Mon, 24 May 2010 07:01:10 +0000

Prototypical Gennevilliers, Landscape Urbanism Paris

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.

© ESA Landscape Urbanism Archives

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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.

via rocker-lange

Getaheart installation 1.0

admin — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 17:12:27 +0000

A heart:

[some] sensations

[some] sounds

[some] visions

[some] smells

[one] material

A heart which is an expression of the multiples “senses” within of the place, projection and identification from to beginning.

It’s an attractive immersive installation but also repulsion of the urbanscape.

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Un cuore,

delle sensazioni, dei rumori, delle visioni, degli odori,…un materiale.

Installazione immersiva attrattiva e repulsiva di un arredo urbano; un cuore come espressione dei “sensi” di un luogo, identificazione e proiezione delle origini.

Studio dell’analisi per l’ottimizzazione formale attraverso il tool MathSurface, attraverso l’implementazione delle variabili spaziali e la relativa esplicazione dell’andamento della funzione.

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