Archive for January, 2009
development
Tuesday, January 6th, 2009“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
