Ramsey Yassa from BD reviews DS13 end of year show.

The Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge (HZMB) is an unprecedented important strategic road corridor which links up three regions in the Pearl River Delta, China. In mid 2009, Highways Department initiated to organize an International Design Ideas Competition for its development.

Under the Same Roof – a project by Paul Mui Kui Chen, Benny Lee Chiu Ming and Agnes Hung Oi Kee –  received first prize in the competition. An indoor winter garden also acts to replenish the air with fresh oxygen improving the air quality of the very busy transportation hub. Algae tubes located mounted on the roof utilize sunlight to create even more oxygen. Meanwhile natural ventilation is facilitated through the stack effect and operable panels to release air and exhaust.
Read more: First Prize Design For Stategic Hong Kong Transportation Hub | Inhabitat – Green Design Will Save the World

Via UFO-au:

Topostruct is a program for structural topology optimization written by Sawako Kaijima and Michalatos Panagiotis.  It’s development was influenced by the ideas and methods discussed in the book “Topology Optimization, Theory, Methods and Applications” written by M.P. Bendsoe and O. Sigmund.

The software is intended primarily towards designers and non engineers that want to familiarize with topology optimization as well as develop their intuition regarding the structural behaviour of materials.
Topostruct supports both two and three dimensional models.   The user will input the dimensions and resolution of an orthogonal region in space which will be assigned certain material density.  The user must then place different support conditions and applied loads within this region and finally run the optimizer which will yield a distribution of material that best meets these conditions.

Topostruct is available from kaijima & panagiotis’s website http://sawapan.eu/ which has a number of other generative design applets for download.

Smartgeometry 2010 was held at  IaaC in Barcelona this year. The workshop was entitled ‘Working Prototypes’

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Tips on computational tools and fabrication equipment from students at Ball State.

Check out a couple of interesting entries on vray settings and lasercutting techniques.

algorithmicdesign.net have published a series of rhino based tutorials on computational morphogenesis.

Evolo have published the second edition of their magazine called Skyscrapers of the Future. It’s available here.

ASGVIS – the makers of V-Ray for Rhino have released a series of previously recorded tutorials. Included is a session on using T-Splines with V-Ray.

AA have started posting videos of their lectures. Check out Tom Wiscombe’s Extreme Integration lecture.

Four noteworthy publications on digital architecture are now out:

• Digital Cities AD: Architectural Design Edited by Neil Leich, articles by Michael Batty, Benjamin Bratton, Alain Chiaradia, Manuel DeLanda, Vicente Guallart and Peter Trummer.
• Research & Design: The Architecture of Variation by Lars Spuybroek
• The Patterns of Architecture: Architectural Design Edited by Mark Garcia, articles by Hanif Kara, Patrik Schumacher and Alejandro Zaera–Polo.
• Digital Fabrications: Architectural and Material Techniques (Architecture Briefs) by Lisa Iwamoto

You can get them from Amazon by clicking on the links above or from our bookshop.

Dear all,

Hope you all enjoyed the session, I post here the ghx file for the tutorial we have gone through. Feel free to post some questions and we can discuss from here.

Tom

Demo01: sorting and Components created on a field

Demo01: ghx

demo01: 091026-DEMO-sortingcompoment

Demo02: surface tessellation with components

Demo02: ghx

demo02: 091026-DEMO-surf-tess

Collated research on emergent techniques for poured aggregates.

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Interesting tower study from fluxi-z – an aadrl team from the Parametric Urbanism 3 program.

Spatial and energy connectivity