The biomorphic Endless House was Kiesler's vision of a free-form, continuous, human-centered living space synthesizing painting, sculpture, architecture, and the environment. This case study explored methods of fabrication and precise construction of non-rational forms and double curvatures surfaces.Stephen Nieto
This project was presented at the SmartGeometries Conference 2008. This project investigated the interface cabability of computational fluid dynamic analysis software and Generative Components Parametric Modeling software. The binary information was exported from RealFlow than used as inout information in Generative Components to inform a surface component with openings based on particle densities. Programming by Francis AishGerman W Aparicio Jr.
PARAMETRIC BUILDING SYSTEM
Work performed by by Lucas Reames
Presented at the 2008 SmartGeometry Conference by Axel Kilian
GOALS
1. CREATE AN INFRASTRUCTURE TO ACCOMODATE DESIGN AND FABRICATION CONCURRENTLY
2. INVOLVE FABRICATION TECHNOLOGIES IN THE BEGINNING OF THE PROCESS
3. HAVE A PHILOSOPHY OF INFORMED BUILDING THROUGH COLLABORATIVE NEGOTIATION
4. USE AN ITERATIVE, POSSIBLY BRANCHING, SYSTEM FOR VERSIONING
I.D. Chair and peer-to-peer network
The worlds first chair fully integrated with Skype or any other messaging software such as ICQ, AIM, MSN, Etc.
TRANSCENDENCE SERIES, by Lucas Reames, is a generative design project comprising of 16 households, 37 people, 2 countries and 4 states. more info
Entropy + Interface
The significance of my thesis lies in the conception of a synthesis of complex systems as an interface to exchange information. Architecture becomes a vehicle for exchange. My interest is to look at how systems communicate with each other and create both material and virtual applications in society. I feel that behavioral studies will gain strength in the profession as they gain importance with the humanization of technologies and machines. Through my experience and research I have observed that not only is our world composed of complex systems, but we choose to ignore them as designers. A single entity communicates with others of its kind as well as entities dissimilar from itself. Architectural systems can now take advantage of dynamic data processing which allows for the reevaluation of the architectural environment. When dynamic data processing is combined with component networking, the architectural system is given the ability to assess and interpret its surroundings. Architecture is missing exchange! Lucas Reames [DEC 2006]
Embedded computational infrastructures can facilitate multi-uses negotiate between complex environmental changes and one day assist with everyday living. My interests in embedded computational infrastructures include space transformation, networked environments and human and environmental interactions. These investigations include ubiquitous computing agents built from micro-controllers, focusing on building new physical senses and developing interactive objects. Using programmable devices to negotiate between complex environmental changes can transform spaces, optimizing the use of your environment. In addition to transforming spaces, I am interested in networking these devices to communicate with each other at both a local and global level. These interests include the development of new types of location based virtual communities whose users share a physical social space, like an apartment, cafe, or office, and an information space, like a community wiki, blog, message board, and Internet access. Merging both virtual and physical spaces through ubiquitous computing would help create future intelligent environments. Other works include hardware base projects and suite of network services for the development of I/O devices. These devices can communicate with each other, or with network-based applications and computation. Users can configure and program their hardware remotely, and interact with similar hardware devices around the world.– German W Aparicio Jr.
Sustainable architectural design is an ever more pressing issue. Governmental policies are requiring more buildings to be energy efficient and reduce the amount of carbon pollution. My research in sustainable growth includes the application of nanotechnology and biotechnology in architecture as a future solution to energy and carbon related issues. Tissue culture and Tissue engineering allow scientist and artist to grow living tissues using animal cells. My work explores how similarly, building components can be grown and display characteristics before possible only in nature such as photosynthesis, respiration, and transformation. Growing environments require the computation of large amounts of interactions. My senior thesis at Cal Poly Pomona defined these growth interactions through computational fluid dynamic software. I was able to simulate the growth of these components and define parameters for their evolution. My senior thesis also explored the use of smart materials in architecture. Smart materials with one or more properties that can be significantly altered by external stimuli, such as stress, temperature, moisture, pH, electric or magnetic fields can be used as sensory input for intelligent and growing environments. The future application of nanotechnology and biotechnology show great potential for future design and environmental solutions. German W Aparicio Jr.
Paracloud Parametric Investigations (stephen nieto)
[ Goal ] = [ Radiolaria ]more info
Active Matter +1400 visits from around the globe ClusterMaps link
Active Matter Participates in TC&A workshop at Machine Project
The Tissue Culture & Art project (TC&A) that began in 1996 as an R&D project into the use of tissue technologies as a medium for artistic expression. Some of TC&A’s projects include the Pig Wings, Semi-living Worry Dolls, Disembodied Cuisine (the first time that tissue engineered meat have been grown and eaten), victimless Leather, Extra Ear 1/4 Scale (in collaboration with Stelarc) and NoArk. The workshop sidcussed work by SymbioticA, A unique laboratory dedicated to the research and critic of the life sciences form an artistic perspective, located at the School of Anatomy & Human Biology, University of Western Australia.
Parametric Skins through ParaCloud more info
Inflatable Structure Zurich, Switzerland
“Epistemologically, two features characterize our scientific and technological understanding of the world: first, the atomic, or the concern with how the world is assembled from ever smaller elements at each relevant scale, be they m-branes, strings, quarks, molecules, cells, neutrons, or bits, and second, the algorithmic or the concern with how it is that these elements are brought together…” – Marcos Novak
Current advances in science and technology have changed the way that we envision the world. Nanotechnology and Biotechnology are concerned with the control of matter and living organisms on the scale below one billionths of a meter. My thesis explored the growth of architecture of which the physical or chemical properties reversibly can be changed on demand. This concept includes the ability to program matter itself, to manipulate it through computational methods with the potential of self-replication through borrowed technologies in nanotechnology and biotechnology in an attempt to find an alternate approach to design.
This project combines the simple technologies of a vegetated component with a passive cooling system, optimizing the performance of proven passive, low-tech principles of ventilation. This combination is further optimized by the development of combined distributed sensing, physical transformations, and computer control algorithms, enabling dynamic management of ventilation in response to changing environmental conditions in real time. The addition of a microcontroller and distributed temperature sensing, together with optimized control algorithms, create a product for sustainable growth and development.
This project explores the use of computer fans as low-tech solutions.
ALL CAPS
The ambition of this project was to outline a parametrically driven process through the use of Generative Components, a parametric and associative design system. These systems allow for models based on components and inter-component relationships. A component is a value of a complex expression linking a number of parameters driving properties of geometries. The data is treated as an event and sets and subsets of filters are applied as a process using analytic models in order to produce the evolution of the design.