spatialconnections » material http://www.spatialconnections.eu A "CREATIO MUNDI" IN ARCHITECTURE, IN PHOTOGRAPHER, IN DIGITAL ART Sun, 21 Aug 2011 00:27:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Solar Power glass http://www.spatialconnections.eu/2010/02/solar-power-glass/ http://www.spatialconnections.eu/2010/02/solar-power-glass/#comments Sun, 07 Feb 2010 09:06:58 +0000 admin http://www.spatialconnections.eu/?p=552 CASE’s receptors can be fitted to existing buildings or built into new designs. The concentrating solar cells are strung on wires with tracking mechanisms that turn the receptors in the direction of the sun throughout the day.

Since they are made from glass they are transparent and allow light to pass through windows, which makes them perfect for adding solar power to building facades while maximizing available daylight.

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.

via www.inhabitat.com

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]]> http://www.spatialconnections.eu/2010/02/solar-power-glass/feed/ 0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Corian® 3D Math Series http://www.spatialconnections.eu/2009/11/corian%c2%ae-3d-math-series/ http://www.spatialconnections.eu/2009/11/corian%c2%ae-3d-math-series/#comments Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:51:24 +0000 admin http://www.spatialconnections.eu/?p=491 La serie Corian® 3D Math Series è costituita da 6 pannelli diversi che traggono ispirazione da famosi matematici o note funzioni matematiche.

I pannelli sono stati progettati con Grasshopper da Alessio Erioli, Andrea Graziano e Corrado Tibaldi.

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I miei più sentiti complimenti in particolare rivolti all’Arch. Andrea Graziano, il quale ho avuto occasione di conoscere durante il workshop digitalMaya a Torino. Un lavoro eccezionale che unisce lo studio formale con l’analisi numerica e materica, producendo degli elementi con alto significato iconico!

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superTEX structure at the institute for experimental architecture.hochbau university for architecture Innsbruck

via Universitat Innsbruck

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]]> http://www.spatialconnections.eu/2009/09/deformations/feed/ 0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Digital Fabrications: Architectural and Material Techniques http://www.spatialconnections.eu/2009/07/digital-fabrications-book/ http://www.spatialconnections.eu/2009/07/digital-fabrications-book/#comments Tue, 21 Jul 2009 15:05:03 +0000 admin http://www.spatialconnections.eu/?p=286

Lisa Iwamoto
ISBN 9781568987903 (published 8/1/2009)
A PAPress publication; Series Architecture Briefs

From the publisher
Architectural pioneers such as Frank Gehry and Greg Lynn introduced the world to the extreme forms made possible by digital fabrication. It is now possible to transfer designs made on a computer to computer-controlled machinery that creates actual building components. This “file to factory” process not only enables architects to realize projects featuring complex or double-curved geometries, but also liberates architects from a dependence on off-the-shelf building components, enabling projects of previously unimaginable complexity.
Digital Fabrications, the second volume in our new Architecture Briefs series, celebrates the design ingenuity made possible by digital fabrication techniques. Author Lisa Iwamoto explores the methods architects use to calibrate digital designs with physical forms.
The book is organized according to five types of digital fabrication techniques: tessellating, sectioning, folding, contouring, and forming. Projects are shown both in their finished forms and in working drawings, templates, and prototypes, allowing the reader to watch the process of each fantastic construction unfold.
Digital Fabrications presents projects designed and built by emerging practices that pioneer techniques and experiment with fabrication processes on a small scale with a do-it-yourself attitude. Featured architects include AEDS/Ammar Eloueini, Atelier Manferdini, Brennan Buck, MOS, Office dA, Florencia Pita/MOD, Mafoombey, URBAN A+O (The bone wall), SYSTEMarchitects, Design 306, Andrew Kudless/Matsys, Iwamoto Scott, Atelier Hitoshi Abe, Chris Bosse, Tom Wiscombe/EMERGENT, Thom Faulders Architecture, Jeremy Ficca, SPAN (Gradient Scale + Housing in Vienna), GNUFORM, Heather Roberge, PATTERNS, Ruy Klein, servo and Alan Dempsey+Alvin Huang.
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