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

Vlad Tenu // Synthetic Nature

November 16, 2015 by bg-martin

Synthetic Nature is a collection of prototypes born of holistic research into the genesis of form and space.

Categories: Design, Fabrication • Tags: design, design research, fabrication, geometry

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

HygroSkin by Achim Menges

November 13, 2015 by bg-martin

HygroSkin – Meteosensitive Pavilion by Achim Menges Permanent Collection, FRAC Centre Orleans, France, 2011-13 Achim Menges in collaboration with Oliver David Krieg and Steffen Reichert “It is a question of surrendering to the wood, then following where it leads by connecting operations to a materiality, instead of imposing a form upon a matter” — Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari The project HygroSkin – Meteorosensitive Pavilion explores a novel mode of climate-responsive architecture. While most attempts towards environmental responsiveness heavily rely […]

Categories: Design Research, Installation • Tags: Achim Menges, design research, environment, installation

Oxymoron | Luca Pedrielli

October 26, 2015 by bg-martin

Oxymoron by Luca Pedrielli skyscraper project in Shenzhen, China | Bologna, Italy Oximoron is a research thesis in the field of computational aesthetics through the application of topology optimization strategies for a skyscraper design in Shenzhen (China); the figure of speech that combines contradictory terms better describes the thesis subject: the erosion, a sort of creative destruction, the construction of space through matter subtraction. The whole design process, from ideation to engineering, orbits around the Soft Kill Option (SKO), a […]

Categories: Academia, Design Research, Digital • Tags: architecture, design research, digital, mathematics, phD, soft kill option, topology, tower

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

Bloom | DOSU

October 22, 2015 by bg-martin

Bloom by DOSU Los Angeles, California | 2012 A sun-tracking instrument indexing time and temperature, “Bloom”, designed by Los Angeles-based DOSU studio architecture, stitches together material experimentation, structural innovation, and computational form/pattern-making into an environmentally responsive installation. Architecture has long been valued for its static nature and sense of permanence but lately that has changed and the focus is on making buildings more responsive to their uses and the climate. Although this has often accomplished through mechanical means, Doris Kim […]

Categories: DESIGNING, Installation • Tags: architecture, design research, DOSU, installations, material, materiality, pavillion

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