The project is also showcased in suckerPUNCH! Congratulation!

Smartgeometry is a week long, two part event which consists of a workshop and a conference, bringing together practitioners, specialists and students to explore the ever-expanding possibilities of digital fabrication and parametricism. Teams or ‘clusters’ were formed from the 100 participants, each with a different agenda. I was enrolled with the cluster which was exploring Parametric Acoustic Surfaces. See Photos for more details of the other Clusters.

During the four day workshop the ‘Acoustic’ cluster , lead by Brady Peters and Martin Tamke of CITA, designed and produced a 1:1 installation which explored the performance of acoustic panelling.  The participants were able to design their own panels using Generative Components or other digital means. These were constructed using the CNC machine and laser cutter available at IaaC, and collated on a single form. Orange acoustic foam was used to absorb sound and Di-bond and plywood were used to reflect and scatter sound.

The overall form of the ‘Sound Installation’ had been designed to incorporate a façade which focused sound due to its parabolic curvature, a façade which scattered sound, and an enclosed space which isolated the user from the outside environment, performing acoustically as an absorbent or dull space.

The following attachments detail the design process SoundBox01 SoundBox02

Brady Peters also put together a book of this project which can be previewed here

Our end of year catalogue has just been published. You can download the DS13 section here.

OPEN 2009
An exhibition of student work from  the Department of Architecture
In the studios on the 4th and 5th floor at Marylebone Campus
OPEN 2009 PREVIEW  11 June 6 –9pm
OPEN 2009  12 – 28 June 10am to 9pm everyday

The Summer Show is the annual celebration of student work at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. Over 450 students show innovative drawings, models, devices, texts, animations and installations.

Exhibition opening night and party
Main Quadrangle and Slade Galleries of UCL, Gower St, London WC1

Official show opening by Massimiliano Fuksas
Friday 26 June, 19.00

Exhibition open to the public
Saturday 27 June, 10.00 – 20.30
Sunday 28 June, 10.00 – 17.30
Monday 29 June, 10.00 – 20.30
Tuesday 30 June, 10.00 – 18.00
Wednesday 1 & Thursday 2 July, 10.00 – 17.00
Friday 3 July, 10.00 – 20.30
Saturday 4 July, 10.00 – 17.00 (show closes)

Guided exhibition tour by the Bartlett Professors of Architecture
Tuesday 30 June, please arrive at 6.30pm for 6.45pm start, tour duration approximately 1 hour.

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.

More here.

The organizers of the 36th International Conference and Exhibition of Computer Graphics and Techniques are looking for exceptional works of art, completed in the last two years, by artists who engage technology and the natural world in their creative process. Their aim is to gather a compelling and varied group of creative projects that relate to the SIGGRAPH 2009 Juried Art Gallery theme: BioLogic: A Natural History of Digital Life.

Works exhibited in BioLogic are published in a special issue of Leonardo, The Journal of the International Society of the Arts, Sciences and Technology. The issue also includes publication of the SIGGRAPH 2009 Art Papers. Publication of this special issue coincides with SIGGRAPH 2009.

Deadline for BioLogic Art submission is Wednesday, 18 February 2009.

For more info go here:
http://www.siggraph.org/s2009/galleries_experiences/biologic_art/index.php
http://www.siggraph.org/s2009/submissions/art_gallery/index.php

Digital Cities looks at how digital technology helps us understand and improve the planning and experience of our city. It looks at the impact on movement in cities: how communication and information technologies enhance a persons experience of place; how people interpret cities with the use of technology; and how mapping influences the design and planning of cities. It also discusses some of the ‘big brother’ issues such as privacy and security.

The exhibition is presented through a number of research and commercial projects which use technology to provide planning and design and communication tool for the city. It contains live and interactive presentations in a number of digital media, showcasing work by Aedas, atmos, BT, Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, Cityware, Colin Buchanan, Farrells, GMJ, Hank Haeusler, Intelligent Space, Minimaforms, Ordnance Survey, Proboscis, SENSEable, Smartslab, Space Syntax, UCL, Zmapping

Private View: Thursday 20 November 18.30-21.00
( rsvp digitalcities@buildingcentre.co.uk )

Digital Cities: London’s Future

http://www.buildingcentre.co.uk/digitalcities

The Building Centre, Store Street, London WC1E 7BT
21 November – 24 January 2009

Pompidou Center South Gallery
November 20 2008 – March 16 2009
11h00 – 21h00

For the first time in France, the Centre Pompidou is devoting a monograph to the British industrial designer and architect Ron Arad.

His work is represented today by several works in the Design collection of the Musée national d’art moderne/Centre de création industrielle. Since its foundation, the Centre Pompidou has been a pioneering space for the presentation of the most outstanding contemporary designers, with many exhibitions devoted to key figures such as Ettore Sottsass, Philippe Starck, Charlotte Perriand…and, today, Ron Arad.

Born in Tel Aviv and trained at the Jerusalem Academy of Art, followed by the Architectural Association School in London, Ron Arad settled in London in 1973, where he has since produced a very varied range of creative objects based on sinusoidal, elliptical and oval forms, as unique pieces, limited series and mass-produced objects.

The name of Ron Arad immediately conjures up pieces such as the Bookworm bookcase (1993) and the Tom Vac chair (1997), but his surprising work goes beyond any easy classification and expresses a free creative spirit working without constrictions or frontiers in design, architecture and the plastic arts. Ron Arad defines himself as belonging to “No discipline”.

The retrospective of his work proposed by the Centre Pompidou presents major and emblematic works, prototypes accompanied by audiovisual documents, limited series and mass-produced objects, along with numerous architectural projects.