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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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’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

[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.

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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.

via blog.it.rhino3d.com,

via co-de-it.com

DuPont™ Corian® 3D – Math series: PDF…

_parametric Fourier

_parametric Gauss

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

reportaje a parametrica en TVN from diego Pinochet on Vimeo.

The manual includes detailed description of paneling process, commands and options. The new release has the following additions and fixes:

• Fixed a bug when creating flat faces. They used to fail when selecting a base surface.
• Added ptShiftGrid button to the toolbar and menu.
• Added grouped serialized mesh faces instead of one mesh when using AddMesh option in ptPanelGrid command.
• Added preceding zeros to objects names in ptSerializeObjects command for better numeric ordering.
• Fixed crash in ptUnrollEdges command when edges are outside the reference surface or polysurface.
• Fixed a crash bug in ptPanelSurface and ptPanelGrid commands.
• Fixed a crash bug when paneling with “Iso” option.
• Toolbar commands now cancel current command when calling them.