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

DrawDEL Strands | Nikita Troufanov + Gonzalo Padilla

August 23, 2015 by bg-martin

DrawDEL Strands: An Experiment in the Oscillation of Materiality Nikita Troufanov and Gonzalo Padilla SCI-Arc Los Angeles, California | 2010 “Representation can be thought of as the place of articulation between architectural practice and theory. It is precisely in such moments of change where critical thought and new theories are produced and practice is radically restructured. What makes representation a crucial field in the understanding of architecture is the mediated character of representation itself. — Stan Allen DrawDEL Strands // […]

Categories: Academia, Fabrication, Modelmaking • Tags: academia, fabrication, materiality, modelmaking, SCI-Arc