Circuit Architecture // Santa Monica Car Showroom

November 21, 2015 by bg-martin

“ This project expands the function of standard car showroom and creates a facility that not only provides space for the display and sales of automobiles, but also serves as an educational tool to create awareness of Hydrogen Fuel Cell (HFC) cars. . . Santa Monica Car Showroom by Circuit Architecture Fajer AlQattan + John Torpy + Victor Nunez Pratt Institute | Brooklyn, NY, USA The interweaving of pedestrian circulation with an interior vehicle test track creates a dynamic and […]

Categories: Academia, Design Research • Tags: 3D Modelling, academia, architecture, cars, design research, M Arch, Pratt Institute, Rendering

Benjamin Ennemoser // MM: The Robot as an Architectural Element of Today

November 18, 2015 by bg-martin

This project is about the speculation on applied robotics in architecture. MM: The Robot as an Architectural Element of Today by Benjamin Ennemoser University of Innsbruck, Austria “ The robots are fully integrated building parts which behave like animated characters and change the topology and gestalt of the architecture over time. These processes are linked to our digital environment and should live up to the habits in popular culture and society. In the case of the Dinosaur Extension at the […]

Categories: Academia, Technology • Tags: academia, architecture, Benjamin Ennemoser, digital, MArch thesis, robotics, time, University of Innsbruck

MasterThesis MM – The Robot as an Architectural Element of Today

November 17, 2015 by bg-martin

  A project about the speculation on applied robotics in architecture. Read more about this project: Benjamin Ennemoser // MM: The Robot as an Architectural Element of Today

Categories: Academia, Videos • Tags: academia, architecture, MArch thesis, video

Joanna Pawlas // Audiocrete

November 13, 2015 by bg-martin

“ Audiocrete is a peronal amplifying surface tailored to specific frequencies. Audiocrete was generated by parameters directly corresponding to the range of wavelengths of frequencies identified in the recordings of my own voice. . .

Categories: Academia, Design Research • Tags: academia, design research, Marcos Cruz, Marjan Colletti, sound, The Bartlett

Theatre for Magicians | Sara Shafiei

November 9, 2015 by bg-martin

Theatre for Magicians | The National Botanical Gardens, Rome, Italy Sara Shafiei The Bartlett, London The project attempts to portray how magic and illusion can become an inherent part of the architectural design, which foregrounds the engagement of the user in the building. The proposal begins by exploring how Harry Houdini’s ‘Vanishing Elephant’ trick is manifested within Albrecht Dürer’s ‘cone of light and vision’ to merge showmanship, optics and illusion.The resultant building, a Theatre for Magicians, is located in the […]

Categories: Academia, Modelmaking • Tags: academia, modelmaking, Sara Shafiei, Saraben Studio, The Bartlett

Wireflies | Dimitra + Meropi + Vasiliki

October 23, 2015 by bg-martin

Wireflies by Angelopoulou Dimitra + Karantaki Meropi + Diamanti Vasiliki Bartlett School of Architecture | London, UK Wireflies explores the potentials of creating an architectural system through a playful design process. It is about user’s creative expression, who through decision making explores new strategies in architectural design. The idea is to create an open sandbox video game as a discrete kit of parts that could be assembled and disassembled, resulting in different aggregations. Wireflies game explores new building blogs of […]

Categories: Academia • Tags: academia, Angelopoulou Dimitra, design research, Diamanti Vasiliki, Jose Sanchez, Karantaki Meropi, prototype, The Bartlett, video game

Synesthetic Museum | Francois Mangion & Shuchi Agarwal

October 7, 2015 by bg-martin

Synesthetic Museum
 by Francois Mangion + Shuchi Agarwal MArch GAD, RC2 | Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL | 2012-13 Tutor: Prof. Marjan Colletti & Guan Lee Synesthetic Museum // site analysis Synesthetic Museum // master plan Synesthetic Museum // prop master plan Investigating how new digital fabrication techniques can be employed in construction with ice together with the study of light and sound, Caustic Architecture research gave birth to the Synesthetic Museum. Re-thinking how light can evolve into inhabitable spaces; […]

Categories: Academia, Digital • Tags: academia, digital, light, masters, The Bartlett

Augmented Skin | Doo + Miyamoto + Moudatsou

October 5, 2015 by bg-martin

Augmented Skin by Youngseok Doo, Kazushi Miyamoto & Theodora Maria Moudatsou Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL | GAD, Research Cluster 6 This project explores the design by unique crafting technique by wrapping sticks in stretchy fabric and utilizing them to cassette concrete. This project proposes a design using a unique crafting technique which is a customised, low-budget casting process for the creation of intricate objects and building parts. This technique utilizes different materials that have opposite characteristics, such as solid […]

Categories: Academia, DESIGNING, Digital • Tags: academia, design research, The Bartlett

The Bachelor’s Landscape | Adam Casey

October 4, 2015 by bg-martin

The Bachelor’s Landscape by Adam Casey | University of Nottingham | 2010 Details from 3rd year project completed at the University of Nottingham “A printing system for the exhibition of entropy and change within the motion across the landscape, which was inspired by phenomenological expressions of enclosure and described through Duchamp’s ‘Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors, Even’ as an analogy and spatial configuration for an architecture that deals with motion, light and density. The system extracts motion from the […]

Categories: Academia • Tags: academia, architecture, University of Nottingham