melbourne AUSTRALIA

RMIT University
critic: Roland SNOOKS

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Cam NEWNHAM: This project attempts to use algorithmic means to imbue the intent of the designer into the project. . . .

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troy NEW YORK

“We are a generation of architects interested not in geometry, but in pattern. We create languages but have none we can call our own. Our explorations in computation have flattened history. . . .”

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princeton NEW JERSEY

Algorithmic design techniques have proliferated in recent years, invading architecture studios at institutions around the world like a swarm of bees taking up residence inside the walls of an old house. Specifically, a number of practitioners and their students have begun exploring the potential of agent-based models to derive a plethora of complex forms, patterns, and organizations that were previously inaccessible with the use of conventional modeling tools. In addition to their capacity for producing architectural effects, the ability to work with, understand, and control these systems has opened up a vast new territory of knowledge . . .

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2011

Digital technologies have changed architecture—the way it is taught, practiced, managed, and regulated. But if the digital has created a “paradigm shift” for architecture, which paradigm is shifting? In The Alphabet and the Algorithm, Mario Carpo points to one key practice of modernity: the making of identical copies. Carpo highlights two examples of identicality crucial to the shaping of architectural modernity: in the fifteenth century, Leon Battista Alberti’s invention of architectural design, according to which a building is an identical copy of the architect’s design; and, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the mass production of identical copies from mechanical master models, matrixes, imprints, or molds.

bologna & modena ITALY

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

DO THE MUTATION (Filippo NASSETTI & Alessandro ZOMPARELLI): COLLAGENE is a software written to create adaptive and customizable masks.

This project, developed by DO THE MUTATION, explores the border between physical and virtual, connecting computer code’s abstractions with the intimate, visceral dimension of body alteration brought by the mask theme. The topographic anatomy of the face acts as input for algorithms that generate the fibers that form the object, creating a material formation that after 3-D printing perfectly fits its territory, people’s faces.

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berlin GERMANY

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Holger LIPPMANN: The fractalScape and NoiseScape series are based on Processing code and work with Perlin noise and iteration functions. The iteration algorithm divides a shape down within a 7-9 level loop. Each repetition of the process is also called an “iteration.” The results of one iteration are used as starting point for the next iteration.

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berlin GERMANY

Generative processing works, realized using (2-3mm) wood engraving via laser. 50 x 80 cm. Ongoing project.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Holger LIPPMANN: The fractalScape and NoiseScape series are based on Processing code and work with Perlin noise and iteration functions. The iteration algorithm divides a shape down within a 7-9 level loop. Each repetition of the process is also called an “iteration.” The results of one iteration are used as starting point for the next iteration.

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berlin GERMANY

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Holger LIPPMANN: The fractalScape and NoiseScape series are based on Processing code and work with Perlin noise and iteration functions. The iteration algorithm divides a shape down within a 7-9 level loop. Each repetition of the process is also called an “iteration.” The results of one iteration are used as starting point for the next iteration.

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berlin GERMANY

Fractal Flower series, 51x51cm, deep laser engraving (6mm) MDF.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Holger LIPPMANN: The fractalScape and NoiseScape series are based on Processing code and work with Perlin noise and iteration functions. The iteration algorithm divides a shape down within a 7-9 level loop. Each repetition of the process is also called an “iteration.” The results of one iteration are used as starting point for the next iteration.

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berlin GERMANY

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Holger LIPPMANN: The fractalScape and NoiseScape series are based on Processing code and work with Perlin noise and iteration functions. The iteration algorithm divides a shape down within a 7-9 level loop. Each repetition of the process is also called an “iteration.” The results of one iteration are used as starting point for the next iteration.

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