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

LakeForms | Futures North

December 16, 2012 by bg-martin

Featuring: LakeForms LakeForms is a project proposal by Futures North for the Minneapolis Creative City Challenge. “Experience Minneapolis’s urban lakes as a digitally fabricated pavilion that emerges from the Convention Center plaza. Inside the pavilion, learn about the lakes’ ecology and summer uses in an immersive sensory environment, consisting of real-time audio and visual information collected from “smart buoys” installed in the city’s lakes.” Project proposal LakeForms is a dynamic interactive public pavilion that invites residents and visitors into the Convention Center plaza, where they can […]

Categories: Design, Digital, Landscape • Tags: creative city challenge, Futures North, LakeForms, landscape design, pavillion