houston TEXAS

DigiFAB@UHCoA with scott MARBLE and METALAB : this semester METALAB partners andrew VRANA and joe MEPPELINK taught with scott MARBLE at university of houston college of architecture in a visiting critics studio and digital fabrication seminar. the focus of the work has been on “designed assemblies” and the use of parametric software (grasshopper and paneling tools). the project was to design the jury space within the new student services center in the architecture building. The students have developed a ceiling cloud that is proposed to clip on to an modified suspended ceiling grid using lightweight folded aluminum panels that are designed to incrementally change dimension and drape into the space below. constraints and variables within the parametric models allowed for the extraction of 150 unique panels that are also perforated with their own individual pattern.

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tokyo JAPAN

spaceframe///aast installation for advanced architecture settimo tokyo exhibition

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

dG+aG: spaceframe structure is an installation of a 3d surface of flat triangular paper panels “massive” unrolled on plane and realized with lasercut technologies.

triangular panels create a 3d pyramid surface configuration with parametric holes in the interior faces that have dimensions wich follow distances from centroid areas faces and one point attractor defined by user.

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new castle UNITED KINGDOM

paulHOLLINGWORTH: it’s fair to say that type and ink only ever meet on a printed page. in this series of images, the two elements are presented to us in a way that is a little more unusual. images of black and white ink in water are accompanied by small typographical letters to generate strange yet captivating forms that appear to float effortlessly in the air.

a contemporary tribute to traditional methods of print.

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zurich SWITZERLAND

michaelHANSMEYER: in recent years, much of the discussion in the field of algorithmic architecture and generative art has focused on what is now termed complex systems. these are understood to be systems with multiple interaction between different components. they often involve the use of agents that behave according to predefined rules, and interact with each other and the environment to generate and emergent and perhaps unpredictable output. while we have no doubt that complex systems can produce intriguing results, our aim lies in creating simple processes to generate complex heterogeneous output. these simple processes have the advantage of more control. as they are highly determinable, their output is predictable and can therefor be easily refined through subsequent adjustments.

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san francisco CALIFORNIA

maxi SPINA: at a time when contemporary digital responses in architecture often emphasize the total erasure of the seam in favor of the smooth, continuous form -suggesting an apparent new type of continuous magical wrap for buildings that would enable them to become literally seamless- the work presented in reflective formations is an endeavor to articulate architecture’s corporeal presence and tectonic basis through a scalar system of subdivision, serialization, repetition and variation without at the same time weakening its capacity for representational values.

uc berkeley, college of environmental design exhibitions + symposia, spring 08. apr 9 - may 9

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peoria ILLINOIS

a multiplicity of color and form characterizes the new work of erik natzke. distortions of natural forms overlap and distort one another in generative stills and animations. through repetition and overlap, patterns emerge and are frozen by natzke’s eye. evolving from vector to image and back again, natzke’s images blur the boundary between line and solid and enable them to be viewed as a single technique.

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