For some time the terms “generative manufacturing”, “rapid prototyping”, “stereolithography” or simply “3D printing” are no longer solely known by experts.
The project brings together disparate disciplines like architecture, sound and the visual arts which influence one another to such a degree that it is impossible to separate them.
A project related to the exploration through DIY design and production of structures made of MANY parts.
4of7 architects have conducted several workshops to explore structural capabilities of ‘inconsistent’ building materials, 12 kg of yellow rubber bands were employed as construction components of a complex spatial structure.
Designed by Akihisa Hirata, the Bloomberg Pavilion Project is located at the entrance of the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo.
Versus is a sound installation consisting of two kinetic sculptures placed face to face.
Created by Swiss architects Gramazio & Kohler and Raffaello D’Andrea, the mobile machines will lift, transport and assemble 1500 polystyrene foam bricks to build a 3.5 metre wide structure.
Sci-Arc faculty member and students prepare a temporary pavilion for the annual graduation ceremony.
Digital Matter was inspired by development of digital nanomaterials, parallel to rapid innovations in computer graphics. An approximation of a rococo console with voxels (3d pixels)
The artwork consists of two elements – delicate linear structures and amorphous bodies – which visualize the characteristics of the brand watches
At the core of the project is an open source app, written in Processing, that translates designs made using the intuitive 3D design interface called Grasshopper into working Processing code.
KNITECTONICS is a research aimed at exploring digital fabrication systems that facilitate optimized, adaptive and specific integrated architectural solutions.
The work folds for the Lindenau Museum (Altenburg, Germany) may be understood as a rapprochement with the history of the museum’s collection of plaster casts
Commissioned by Artwise Curators, UVA have created Linnaeus, consisting of two murals for the Capability Brown restaurant in Syon Park, London.
The media facade piece isn’t projected, it consits of LEDs.Its 42,000 LEDs fixed into Spanish terracotta tiles which cover the entire 19 floors of the Seoul Square building.
SOFTlab has come up with a new large outdoor installation for The San Gennaro North Gate .
Dodecaudion is a spatial audiovisual controller based on such technologies as infrared distance sensors, arduino, bluetooth, processing and osc.
Dynamic Performance of Nature is a permanent media wall for the Leonardo, science museum of Salt Lake City. It is scheduled to be released for public in October, 2011.
This is a guest post from Daniel Davis in this post he investigates the Evolute´s moves to patent whole toplogies of shapes.
Aggregated Porosity is an exploration of digital fabrication and fluid forms structures
Students from Visualization, Architecture, Landscape and Urban Planning, and English teamed up with Atelier Manferdini, to construct a large scale, permanent installation for Azimuth Cafe.
Processing tool that enables the targeted creation of graphic images based on photographs, visual information contained in the tool is translated into graphic elements such as pointsand curves.
Black Mirror is an installation createrd by Robert Seidel consisting of a projection sculpture created by laser-cut paper and projection images.
nonLin/Lin Pavilion is a prototype created by Marc Fornes/THEVERYMANY which engages in a series of architectural experiments referred to as text based morphologies.