May 18, 2009
The project is concerned with a museum typology informed by a very specific architectural language and experiential affect. This affect is based on tangential continuity as a spatial mediator and structural technique.
The connective relationships between the buildings functions have been developed through research focused upon the movement of people between museum spaces. The experiential affect is a product of the transition between the prismic geometry of the surrounding urban context, to which the building’s exterior skin is aligned, and the specific performative nature of the interconnected, tangentially continuous circulatory network.
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Mar 18, 2009
Shape to Fabrication have made available videos from their previous events:
In this presentation Tristan outlines how custom routines were written for Rhino to help in the construction and fabrication of the ‘Spacestation’sculpture by Antony Gormley.
Starting with a simple Rhino model ARUP created an extended geometric model followed by custom smoothing routines based on sub-division modelling resampled into nurbs patches.
Shrikant explains Rhino’s key role in several successful
projects by Buro Happold’s SMART team.
The next session in the Shape to Fabrication series will take place on the 15th of April 2009 in the Lecture Theatre at London Metropolitan University.
Jan 28, 2009
Chaoscope is a free windows based 3D strange attractors rendering software.
Have a look here for more on solids of strange attractors made with chaoscope data.
Dec 18, 2008
Seed archive by Brittany Bell, a student at Victoria University School of Design in Wellington, New Zealand.
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Nov 10, 2008
A stunning series of images of the GT and Hypnos concept cars at the Citroën Design Center by Laurent Nivalle
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Oct 20, 2008
Steven Ma, this year’s recipient of the best graduate thesis at SCI-Arc, deals specifically with affect. His thesis, titled Exuberant- Liminal Form & Calligraphical Aesthetics and advised by Hernan Diaz Alonso, is according to Steven:
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Oct 17, 2008
Algorithmic Botany is the website of the Biological Modeling and Visualization research group in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Calgary. The BMV group studies the modeling, simulation, and visualization of plants.
One of their primary focuses is the ongoing development of a suite of software tools for performing simulated experiments: the “Virtual Laboratory“. You can also read more about their research, see their publications, or read other documents, including The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants and Visual Models of Morphogenesis.
Oct 2, 2008
SuckerPunch is a fantastic blog that reviews the work of contemporary artists, architects and designers who offer the stunningly unexpected and beautiful, with links to their websites. Only wish they’d have an RSS feed
Oct 1, 2008
Advanced Beauty is an ongoing exploration of digital artworks born and influenced by sound, an ever-growing collaboration between programmers, artists, musicians, animators and architects.
The first collection is a series of audio-reactive ‘video sound sculptures’. Inspired by synasthesia, the rare, sensory experience of seeing sound or tasting colours, these videos are physical manifestations of sound, sculpted by volume, pitch or structure of the soundtrack.
The films embrace unusual video making processes, the visual programming language Processing, high-end audio analysis and fluid dynamic simulations alongside intuitive responses in traditional cell animation.
