Alexander McQueen (1969-2010) was one of the most influential and provocative designers of his generation. His clothing challenged the generic and conventional parameters of fashion to express culture, politics, identity. McQueen saw beyond clothing design physical constraints its ideological and conceptual possibilities, addressing questions related to race, gender, religion, sexuality and environment. During AA School Paris Spring 2012, McQueen’s evolutionary design will act as prompts for embryos’ naissance within the [Fashion+Architecture] body of work.

Within a framework of 10 days-germination, AA school Paris participants will take part of a collective embryo-genesis engaging McQueen’s DNA and legacy onto a novel and crucial debate about fashion in the Post-McQueen Era.
Featuring the most iconic and radical designs of his prolific career, AA embryos will grow and develop a self-intelligent état d’âme informed by a set of social, contextual, operational and performative parameters, such as: mass production driven by advanced capitalism; temperature variations in the globe, clothes’ adaptability in urban milieus, among other.

Post-McQueen Embryos seeks to eradicate the non-responsiveness within clothing design by reviewing Alexander McQueen’s alienated proportions, aiming at busting fashion design out of its commercial destination. Intended to become a design research laboratory, AA School Paris ultimate target is to keep growing the potential for meshing both disciplines [Fashion+Architecture] onto a digital/ physical cross-over studio helping to reaffirm AA School Paris research material.

The Paris Experience
Discussions, debates and lectures will take place on site with expertise on a day to day basis. By placing fashion designers at the centre of the process, the workshop seeks to challenge much more than just clothing design. At the core of Spring 2012 our solely goal is of consolidating the AA emerging discipline: bodily-architecture.
The AA Paris Fashion School will take in an exclusive insightful retrospective at the Exhibition ‘MARC JACOBS- LOUIS VUITTON’, to be held at the Les Arts Décoratifs- AA Paris Headquarters.
Post Mc-Queen Embryos is strengthened by a large network of Parisian Patronage, from industrial, publishing and collaborative links, taking the form of sponsoring inputs to the course.
The workshop is open to current architecture and design students, PhD candidates and young professionals. All applicants should submit a CV and portfolio to Jorge Ayala at info@ayarchitecture.com

Links:
Website: http://aaschoolparis.tumblr.com/
AA School Microsite: http://www.aaschool.ac.uk/STUDY/VISITING/Paris-part2
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/AA-School-Paris/175947042439516

Applications Link:

https://www.aaschool.ac.uk/STUDY/ONLINEAPPLICATION/visitingApplication.php?schoolID=68

Faculty:
Jorge Ayala, Director and Founder at [Ay]Architects
Isaïe Bloch, Collaborator Designer at Iris Van Herpen
Riyad Joucka, AA MA Emergent Techonogies Graduate
Santosh Kumar, Architect, Hernan Diaz Alonso Studio EXCESSIVE, Die Angewandte University, Vienna
Kibwe Tavares, Director and Founder at FACTORYFIFTEEN
and more.

For this project an interactive tool was created using processing and all animations are exported without the need of post production. A wide range of t processing libraries were used like toxiclibs for the fluid and GLGraphics to make shading possible, as well as Lee Byrons meshLib and the Ani Tweaning Library by Benedikt Groß for the mesh and its animation and ControlP5 and ProScene for camera and control.

BUILDING FASHION topics are concerned with the acquisition of appropriate knowledge and understanding of the in-vogue association [FASHION+ARCHITECTURE], supported by the mastery of essential digital skills which will equip and prepare AA Paris participants toward physical experimentations. To this extend, Building Fashion will develop a two-fold laboratoire: Computational and Physical Investigations.
The Computational Investigations Lab is an interdisciplinary design-research laboratory where -through digital based investigations- students will engage with the study of generative and evolutionary design strategies in fashion. The Physical Investigations Lab focuses on the study of physical performance and manufacturing of novel spatial repertoires. Physical prototyping will become an important instrument to the understanding of processual design- its improvement from the outset and along all phases of development.
Alongside our intensive design input, the workshop is addressed by a series of lectures, debates and presentations by guest designers, entrepreneurs and internationally renowned participants.

Unit 2 :
SELF-ASSEMBLED PRÊT-A-PORTER by JORGE AYALA AND RIYAD JOUCKA

Self-assembled Prêt-à-Porter will develop a new kind of skin operating as responsive systems to the contemporary needs of the human body, society and technology. 
Confronting the currently existing ‘capitalism comfort zones’ in fashion industry (mass- distribution primarily) this studio seeks to engage self-assembled protocols as dynamic landscapes to generate architectonic surfaces. Aided by handcrafted and software-generated physical modelling, the unit will experiment with form finding methods and prototyping in order to achieve a design proposal.

During week 1 the workshop will commence by researching the possibility of integrating natural systems within contemporary design disciplines, fashion and architecture. Participants will examine biological systems found in nature, from sea flora and fauna, like sponges, to all common-structure vertebrates and reptiles. The aim of the initial research is to draw inspiration to biomimic the local intelligence and structural systems of these creatures. 
During week 2 participants will be introduced to methods of creating feedback loops between their physical experiments and digital tools. Computation is used as means to facilitate multi-scalar design: from landscaped bodies and tectonics to experimental fashion design.

Fashion is a unique creative platform that must undergo onto mutation. Self-assembled Prêt-à-Porter Unit seeks to raise awareness within architectural education to avoid processes of ‘pop’ aestheticisation and thereby, preventing the risk of anaesthetisation of our society.

ONLINE APPLICATIONS

2011 Core Tutors: Evan Greenberg (AA), Christina Doumpioti (AA), Jason Kelly Johnson (FCL/CCA), Andrew Kudless (Matsys/CCA)
Studio Tutors: Andrew Payne (Harvard/Lift), Ronnie Parsons (Mode/Pratt), Gil Akos (Mode/Pratt)
AA Visiting Tutors: Michael Weinstock (AA), Toni Kotnik (AA/ETH)
Workshop Tutors: Rip DeLeon, Ben Golder, David Shook (SOM), Scott Minneman, Michael Shiloh, Nick Riddle
2011 Guest Lecturers: Thom Faulders (CCA), David Gissen (CCA), Mark Sarkisian and David Shook (SOM), Bill Kreysler

2011 Sponsors: McNeel & Associates (Seattle, WA); SOM (Skidmore Owings and Merrill); Kreysler & Associates Digital Fabrication.
Special Thanks: CCA Fabrication Lab and Workshop Staff and Students; Andrew Sparks

Software Links: Rhino/Grasshopper, Firefly, Arduino, Kangaroo, Karamba

El taller afortunadamente ha tenido muy buen recibimiento y nos quedan muy pocos lugares en caso de estar interesado no dudes en ponerte en contacto cuanto antes.

Detalles:
Instructores: Rodrigo Medina | Daniel Camiro

Lugar: Plataforma de Arquitectura http://plataforma.com.mx/

Senda del Amanecer No. 151 Milenio III, Querétaro, Qro. México

Fechas: 29,30,31 de julio 2011

Cupo: Limitado a 15 plazas

Costos:
Estudiantes: $2,800

Profesionales: $3,400

Fecha límite de pago: miércoles 27 de julio 2011

Importante:
Todos los niveles de experiencia son bienvenidos el único requisito es tener un entendimiento básico de los programas CAD y una actitud positiva hacia el aprendizaje de dichas herramientas.

*Los participantes deberán traer su propia laptop con todo el software y actualizaciones (originales o versiones de demostración oficiales) previamente instaladas.(se fijara una fecha unos días antes para revisar que todos los equipos estén en orden y listos para trabajar).Si planeas venir de fuera de la ciudad avisanos y te pondremos en contacto con otras personas que también vayan a hacerlo para en caso de desearlo puedan compartir su lugar de estancia.

Contacto

info@chidostudio,com

Jesus Méndez 4421869813

Daniel Camiro 4422472424

SIM_2011 is a custom physics simulation software for tensile structures created by ESC-Stuido (Enrique Ramos, Silivia Polito yCiriaco Castro).This project sets out to generate and evolve different structural topologies within an environment in which physical laws are simulated, allowing for structural performance to be measured.
Two distinct sets of structures have been studied:

- Predefined topologies: Structures defined by pre-set topologies, using the physical simulation engine to reach the equilibrium state defining the final form of the structure.
- Evolutionary Topologies: A genetic algorithm defines the parameters of a constrained spring system that generates populations of structures evolving towards an optimised solution.

The implemented architecture of nodes and links with embedded metadata containing the physical properties of the elements permitted the measurement of the total weight of the structures, maximum deflections, horizontal displacements and number of elements. These data were later used to determine the fitness of the individuals in the population.

Bodily Interarticulations |AA School Paris/ Spring 2011
Architectural Association
The Architectural Association School of Architecture, one of the world’s most respected and ambitious pedagogical laboratories for architectural design and spatial research, offer a 10 day international visiting programme in Paris running twice per year.

Agenda
Within the framework of fashion, designers recognize the value of innovation and surprise in clothing designs and spectacle within seductive displays of retail to attract press, clientele and capital to continue this same endless process season after season.
Fashion scene today is not only a collection of captured images, but rather an ensemble of socio-morphological forces connecting people, catalyzing experimental, open-ended design. Fashion and its affinity for transformation is a complex terrain of architectural identities, scenery and performance. These dynamic spaces are the field where vanguard ideas incubate.

From right within fashion’s creative nexus Bodily Interarticulations foster ‘integral spatial qualities’ by harnessing the surprising typolo¬gies intrinsic to temporal bodies, fluid matter(s), and singular proportions. On the edge of couture’s technologi¬cal transformation, we rapid prototype templates that stage sharp, raw, urban, experimental and alien spatial apparel logics. Bodily Interarticulations work towards a mutual understanding of various couture forms so that we can computationally adjust their spatial characteristics. On the edge of couture’s technological transformation, we rapid prototype templates that stage sharp, raw, urban, experimental and alien spatial apparel logics.

Students S/S 2011
Team 1. Nicolas Pajerski/ Yinghao Lin
Team 2. Marja Mia Kolendic/ Petra Zaninovic/ Tamara Trumbic
Team 3. Vinita Tejapaibul/ Tadyanee Koranee/ Kamkan Supabanpot
Team 4. Ayami Takada/ Ming Yin/ Fai Sasimanas Hoonsuwan

Director: Jorge Ayala
Tutors: Marco Verde, Marc Fornes, Christoph Eppacher
Assistants: Brice Maurin, Geoffroy de Riberolles, Mario Saenz
Location: Musée des Arts Décoratifs, 107-111 rue de Rivoli, Paris 75001

Symposium Context:
Recent years have seen the development of common digital platforms creating new collaborations between architecture, engineering and construction. The consolidation of new interfaces between design and fabrication has lead to a more variegated design practice and the exploration of new structural systems.

The first Digital Crafting symposium asks how the integration of design, analysis and fabrication challenges the knowledge spaces of design, engineering and craft. The symposium presents new models of collaboration between the partners of the built environment and discuss how these can lead to new building practices.

The symposium invites leading practitioners and researchers from fields critical to the profession. The symposium is run in three sessions. Each foregrounds a particular aspect of change, towards which presenters from different yet linked domains build a cross disciplinary perspective.

The DigitalCrafting symposium addresses practitioners, researchers and students from the fields of architecture, engineering and construction. The symposium is open to the public.

Some of the lectures :

Enric Ruiz Geli (Cloud9) at the Digital Crafting Symposium 1 from CITA on Vimeo.

Michael Meredith (MOS office) at the Digital Crafting Symposium 1 from CITA on Vimeo.

Sean Ahlquist (Proces2/ICD University Stuttgart) at the Digital Crafting Symposium 1 from CITA on Vimeo.

The subjects of these new pieces are two iconic paintings from the Prado Museum’s collection: “Las Meninas” of Velazquez and “L’ Immacolata Concezione” of Tiepolo. Following the rules behind their visual composition and colours, the two masterpieces have prescription online been transformed into digital fabrications through the use of a custom software. Topologies consist in the exploration of the digital objects created by this transformation process.

Topologies (Excerpt) – Velazquez from Quayola on Vimeo.

Malgorzata Mozolewska´s degree piece is in fact about research. On the one hand, it attempts to come up with a new technique of intelligent algorithmic designing and, as a result, to create a new material. On the other hand it just looks for contemporary ornament which acts at the same time as structure of an object. The project relies upon assumptions stemming from detailed analysis of the history of ornament, from a search for new technologies as well as from observation of phenomena and processes of nature. Another assumption was to push forward dynamic growth of 3D print technologies, very promising in terms of bringing lower process of objects created.

Michal Piasecki was the responsible of the software development created in processing. It usesan arbitrary shaped mesh as an input. The user is then able to assign the forces. The software then conducts a series of steps to generate a 3d printable infill responsive to the forces present. First is a structural analysis using a direct stiffness method. An outcome of this is a 3-dimensional array of voxels, each containing data on the forces and displacement. This data is used to generate a grid of points which becomes denser where forces are greater. Then the infill is generated based on this grid, thus it becomes responsive to the forces present.

Below is an excerpt from Malgorzata’s description:
“Structural ornament arises on the verge of order and chaos, mathematic calculation and chance, but once achieved, it may serve to shape any object you like. It is generated by a purpose-made software that takes into account the shape of a desired object, loads and pressures therein and adds a component of chance so that the structure obtained, while functional, is different each and every time and not entirely foreseeable. Preparation of the software was preceded by painstaking analysis of the history and transformation of ornament over time, helping to precisely channel my search and to find my own way of creating the structural ornament which is firmly rooted in history, inspired by processes seen in nature, but created using order drugs without prescription modern technologies.”