Education 2008-2009 Semester 1

“I make it my business to extract from Nature whatever nutriment she can furnish me, though at the risk of endless iteration.”
(Henry David Thoreau, Journal, 1817-1862)

Got this from Neri Oxman’s site.

omg.. good youtube videos
here and here

and nytimes article on mars wrinkles

models are definitely more interesting than renderings, i think.
crease patterns and hinge designs next.

research:
From a study by Genzer and Groenewold
Soft Matter, 2006, 2, 310-323
The Royal Society of Chemistry 2006

understanding a script by ivo, published May 27, 2008
only works for a particular pattern. goal is to develop a couple of variations of my own.

playing with compressive forces.

conceptually the skin above is the hard layer, the people and activity below become the viscous layer. compressive forces make dimples in the surface. flexible radiators, lighting, and other building systems will follow. makes it responsive, but not in real time, the changes are seen more over a period of years.

jumping up in scale

note: need to work on presentation and details! brightness, material, hinges, etc..

time-line

piano desk

leaf structure

aggregation

workgroup

scale

aggregation

fan desks

shape experiments

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more soon…

dreaming of collapsible desks,

and inflatable conference rooms.

found some really interesting research here

you can download the pdf here (the first one)

The controlled folding and unfolding of maps,
space structures, wings, leaves, petals, and other
foldable laminae is potentially complicated by the
independence of individual folds; as their num-
ber increases, there is a combinatorial explo-
sion in the number of folded possibilities.

- Self-Organized Origami
L. Mahadevan and S. Rica

New diagrams of my project:

thoughts:

video here
pay attention particularly to the girl with the car that breaks down and collapses in into her purse.

image here
thoughts on scale.

process:

spatial studies:

TIME-BASED MEDIA AND RESPONSIVE ARCHITECTURE

If ‘interactive’ suggests a unidirectional relationship, with a
user performing tasks in an environment only flexible
within constraints, ‘responsive’ suggests mutual reaction
and exchange, with adjustments occurring continually on
both sides of the use equation.
-Responsive System / Appliance Architectures

Responsive environments can be described in many contexts. Some examples include artificial intelligence, robotics, and sensory interaction design. Responsive environments use of the virtual and the material with media and components, such as appliances, robotics, software and computer programming. Elastic environments are capable of adapting to user needs or any other factors desired by the designer. They absorb take, process, and reallocate information, matter, and forces. Temporally, these moving parts, interfaces, and electronic sensors work in real-time.

emphasis: lack of control, autonomy, velocity, acceleration and other time-based units, sensors
video here

emphasis: sometimes well planned out systems go awry. responsive systems transform the user. in this case it kills those it was originally made to assist.
video here

emphasis: emotion, facial recognition, voice recognition, artificial intelligence
video here

emphasis: “architecture no longer doomed to be static.”

emphasis: virtual reality as a bridge between the real and the virtual. inhabiting your own body architecturally. what kind of emotional impacts would this have on a cancer patient, if his environment was attacking him?

examples in architecture

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