los angeles CALIFORNIA

SCI-ARc, ESTm
critics: Marcelo SPINA
instructors, Robot House: Brandon KRUYSMAN & Jonathan PROTO

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Peter VIKAR & Al ATAIDE: “Flight Forms” revisits early-’90s animation ideas of architecture in the Robotic Simulation environment of SCI-Arc. Inspired by Thomas Eakins’s Chronophotography studies of moving bodies in space our initial starting point was a “drone” that can fly independently. Based on its motion, nature of behavior, and momentum we have created a 3-D visual catalog, and motion library. This library was then placed in the robotic simulation environment where the flight paths were controlled to generate forms.

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