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martedì 15 dicembre 2009

Wilfing Architettura - intervista a E. Occhipinti

















Utilizzo questo post sia per segnalare il fantastico blog di Salvatore D'Agostino, che tanto sta facendo per promuovere il dibattito architettonico inerente la cultura digitale, e poi per segnalare una sua bellissima intervista ad Edmondo Occhipinti.

lunedì 14 dicembre 2009

NEWS 041










complexitys - Les entretiens de complexitys: Hugh Dutton contre le "branding" de l'architecture
ParaMod.net - Hydrophobic Surface Mapping
a-ngine - [Study] - Massing Feedback
eat-a-bug - Istanbul Street Parametrics
Generative Design Computing - Rhino + Grasshopper: Random Pipe Tower
Generative Design Computing - Rhino + Grasshopper: Variable Component
Generative Design Computing - Rhino + Grasshopper: Modulation
Generative Design Computing - Rhino + Grasshopper: Conditional Statement
Generative Design Computing - Rhino + Grasshopper: Attractor Point
Live Components - Project ; The Spiral
Modelab - ModeTools | 20091124 Beta Release
SoftRigid - ceiling2_02
MadeInCalifornia - StrangeAttractor 01
MadeInCalifornia - IsoCurveSurface 04
Ctrl-i - Vector Sketch – Maya Particles
Ctrl-i - Maya Simulations
core.form-ula - SOFTlab: pAlice
Geometry Gym - Weaire-Phelan intersecting a surface
object-e architecture - Sphere Packing vs Sphere Growth
object-e architecture - SKG in flux
Nathan Miller - Image Fabrication: Thanksgiving Turkey
ARKUO workroom - 3D2D
Arquitectura y Programacion - Patterns and conventions using Rhinoscripting language
ParaMod.net - The next project with John and Cezanne
ParaMod.net - Next iteration of the folding panel
Rhinoceros Report - Grasshopper Parametric Ship Hull Modeling
Beyond The Light Bulb - Organic Modeling - a different approach
ModeLab - Boole's Lattice
ModeLab - Isolite
Peer Produced Space - Evolve Ring Silver launches today

venerdì 11 dicembre 2009

DIA – Designing Interface Architecture [workshop]














Una delle iniziative che per modalità di organizzazione ed intenti mi pare fra le più interessanti ed innovative di quest'anno. Un personale plauso agli organizzatori FABberz and LaN
Link

venerdì 4 dicembre 2009

ModeTools | 20091124 Beta Release





















"Studio Mode is pleased to announce the beta release of ModeTools, a specialized toolbar with custom components for Grasshopper. The first release consists of BakeMaterial and BakeColor components that allow properties of objects developed in Grasshopper to persist after baking."
Link

RABBIT: tools for Grasshopper v.0.1.00














Per chi ancora non ne fosse a conoscenza lo studio MorphoCode ha rilasciato questa fantastica plug-in per Grasshopper.

"RABBIT provides a new toolbar with custom components that could solve specific design problems. RABBIT v.0.1.00 contains 6 new components that could produce multiple Cellular Automata variations such as: 2X2, 34 Life, Amoeba, Assimilation, Coagulations, Conway's Life(ghx included), Coral, Day&Night, Diamoeba, Flakes, Gnarl, HighLife, InverseLife, Long life, Maze, Mazectric, Move, Pseudo life, Replicator, Seeds (2), Stains, WalledCities…. The first release includes also a small list of pre-defined patterns."

Link

4of7 architecture - website

















Segnalo oltre all'ultimo post di Djordje Stojanovic "0910 Parametric Modeling Applied" relativo ad un progetto di una clinica pediatrica in africa sviluppato con Grasshopper anche il nuovo sito.

lunedì 9 novembre 2009

Six Scripts for Blossfeldt

















Interessantissimo elaborato pubblicato da P. Casey Mahon su Issuu.
"The project was to study the photographs of Karl Blossfeldt and to generate 6 definitions based on the geometric analysis of the plant forms"
Link al documento su Issuu
Link al post sul forum di Grasshopper

lunedì 2 novembre 2009

decod.es














Blog di un corso del Pratt Institute con numerosi post inerenti sia l'uso di grasshopper che alcune interessanti sperimentazioni.
Segnalo i post:
proposed skin_design301
T Allen PS2

theory to practice - lectures








Practice without theory is blind. Theory without practice is sterile. [Confucius]


Contemporary approach to architectural project cannot leave aside its intrinsic nature of a dynamic coagulation of matter, energy and information in several interlocking degrees of complexity within the dynamic evolutive reality continuum.
To that extent, project is a strongly stochastic act (statistic-probabilistic) in the attempt to manage the interplaying dynamics. The definition of Orbital, the fraction of space with highest probability to contain a particle within, gives a good description both of this stochastic condition and of the possibility to define an ehetrogeneity of possible approaches, trajectories traced from theory to practice. Theory that influences the act of practice, which is the necessary medium of the feedbacks by which theory itself nourishes and evolves. The invited hosts have all foun their own trajectory and thorugh their experience they will speak about aspects, potential, experiences, evolutions, criticalities.

L'approccio contemporaneo al progetto di architettura non può più prescindere dalla propria natura di organizzazione e coagulazione dinamica di energia, materia e informazioni in numerosi e intercalanti gradi di complessità nel flusso evolutivo continuo della realtà.


In questo panorama il progetto si presenta come un atto di natura fortemente stocastica (statistico-probabilistica) nel tentare di gestire le dinamiche in gioco. L'orbitale, ossia la parte dello spazio entro la quale è massima la probabilità di trovare una particella, ben descrive sia questa situazione sia la possibilità di individuare una eterogeneità di possibili approcci, traiettorie tracciate dalla teoria alla professione. Teoria che influenza l'agire nella professione, la quale è il necessario terreno di coltura dei feedback di cui la teoria stessa si nutre e da cui evolve.


Gli ospiti invitati hanno tutti individuato una propria traiettoria e attraverso la loro esperienza ne racconteranno aspetti, potenziale, esperienze, evoluzioni, criticità.


29.10 Matias del Campo _ SPAN Architects Vienna

09.11 Marco Vanucci _ O P E N S Y S T E M - AKT London

19.11 AI Studio _ Copenhagen

26.11 Filippo Innocenti _ Zaha Hadid Architects Roma

03.12 Ludovico Lombardi _ Zaha Hadid Architects London


t2p_poster_all_6.pdf

Con un (imperdonabile) ritardo segnalo questa serie di interessantissime lectures organizzate dal Prof. Alessio Erioli (Corso di Architettura e Composizione Architettonica 3 L-Z) presso la Facoltà di Ingegneria dell'Università di Bologna (DAPT - Dipartimento di Architettura e Pianicazione Territoriale). Lo scorso giovedì si è tenuta la prima "lecture" a cura di Matias del Campo - SPAN architects Vienna. Lascio giudicare a voi, leggendo i primi commenti postati sul social network del corso - "ar.ca3", quanto tali tematiche siano interessanti ed il relativo dibattito acceso e vivace ma sintomo di un fermento fra gli studenti e comunque di un panorama che molto lentamente sta inevitabilmente cambiando.

venerdì 30 ottobre 2009

"casadetodos" e Geo_Systems di Veronica Arcos















Da un po' di tempo seguivo "Geo_Systems" ovvero il blog di Veronica Arcos (architetto cileno) ed oggi voglio segnalare sia il suo blog ma soprattutto la sua realizzazione "casadetodos" pubblicata sia su ArchDaily che Plataforma Arquitectura.

nss::.












Blog di Bolojan Daniel con molti interessanti post relativi all'uso di grasshopper.
Link

lunedì 26 ottobre 2009

Alessandro Baricco: "I barbari e la mutazione"













"lunga lezione che Alessandro Baricco ha tenuto al cinema Anteo di Milano il 22 maggio su i barbari e la mutazione"
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Non credo sia un off-topic.
Una grande lezione riguardo i cambiamenti in atto.

Link al libro "I barbari: saggio sulla mutazione"
Link al video (8 parti)
Alessandro Baricco: "I barbari e la mutazione" - Puntata 1
Alessandro Baricco: "I barbari e la mutazione" - Puntata 2
Alessandro Baricco: "I barbari e la mutazione" - Puntata 3
Alessandro Baricco: "I barbari e la mutazione" - Puntata 4
Alessandro Baricco: "I barbari e la mutazione" - Puntata 5
Alessandro Baricco: "I barbari e la mutazione" - Puntata 6
Alessandro Baricco: "I barbari e la mutazione" - Puntata 7
Alessandro Baricco: "I barbari e la mutazione" - Puntata 8

NEWS 038










Space Symmetry Structure - Medial Axes / Voronoi skeletons
Space Symmetry Structure - Twisting branches
Geometry Gym - Extruding along Rhino Curves
Geometry Gym - Infinity Bridge - Supreme Award for Structural Engineering Excellence
neoarchaic - Randomizer
neoarchaic - Point the Way
wework4her - anything to add to fantastic mr.gaudi ?
Liquid tectonics - RhinoScript Plugin - Mesh/Texture Tools
yet another script? - Exploring computation [excerpts - under graduate thesis]
yet another script? - "Writing surfaces" [parametric variants - Mathcad]
Un Didi - Grasshopper Boids/Agents
SoftRigid - ornamental connectivity_bench
BIOS - Explorations in 3d Printing
Digital Futures - Digital Tracery: Lawrence Blough and Aaron White
eat-a-bug - Dreidle Urbanism
eat-a-bug - Armillary Sphere
Live Components - 8.3 Transformable Structure
LAN - Alternate Interface: Control Grasshopper from iPod
object-e.net - Protocol Infrastructure
g.d.e.s. - GenerativeComponents - EnergyPlus, Connection (wip)
isgstudio - 091025_isosurf

mercoledì 21 ottobre 2009

Book: Bootstrapping Complexity





















Kevin Kelly's "Out of Control" book remixed by Andreas Lloyd
Link alla pagina del download

Field Line Urbanism













"Journal on a team's investigation with Parametric Urbanism, A brief of the Design Research Laboratory at the Architectural Association."
Link

3ª Edition Premio PFC 2009
















Award Details

As in previous editions, the aim of this award is to encourage research and refection among architecture students. The present edition of 2009 wants to deepen in the double condition of our daily work: at the same time local and global. As architects, we work in a cross-cultural and diverse reality, using a big variety of media and tools. At the same time, we are affected by the homogenization process of globalization, digital technology and communication. The aim of this competition is to refect and to contrast all this complexity.The brief for the competition is free of topic. The jury will select Final Year
Diploma Projects that, taking into account specifc geographical and cultural issues, provide a creative and innovative architectural answer in the ambivalent feld of attention to local and global scales, from affordable technology to maximum possible innovation.

Organizers
ACXT Architects, is a team of professionals who aim to take a multi-disciplinary and cross-cultural approach to architecture. It is a part of the engineering group IDOM, from which it has inherited its philosophy of teamwork and action.
IDOM, is an international frm offering multi-disciplinary professional services. It has offces and professionals working worldwide, mainly specialising in Consultancy, Engineering and Architecture.

Link
Download Poster
Download Registration form

martedì 20 ottobre 2009

MORPHOCODE



















Interessante blog con una sezione LAB contenente materiale inerente Generative Components e Grasshopper.

Frikearq - Arquitectura Paramétrica




















Blog di Miguel Vidal con alcuni post inerenti grasshopper.

5st Workshop aast /// Design with Gehry Technologies Digital Project

evento legato a: AAST - Advanced Architecture Settimo Tokyo - Biennale 2009 - 2011





















Date & Tutors:
16, 17, 18 novembre
Gehry Technologies Tutors
19,20,21 novembre
Tutors:
- Federico Rossi (Zaha Hadid Architects, Technical Tutor in Diploma School at Architectural Association)
- Edmondo Occhipinti (Senior Project Consultant Gehry Tecnologies, edmondo occhipinti architect)

Luogo:
MusicLab, la Suoneria, Via Partigiani 4 - Settimo T.se (To)

Costi workshop:
- Studenti € 400,00
- Soci CASARTARC € 450,00
- Professionisti € 500,00

PREISCRIZIONE 20 gg prima l'inizio del workshop cui si intende partecipare di € 100,00
SALDO 8 gg prima del workshop prescelto
SCONTI a chi partecipa a più workshop:
10% della quota intera per l'iscrizione al secondo e terzo workshop (avendo frequentato il primo)
30% della quota intera per l'iscrizione al quarto e quinto workshop (avendo frequentato i primi tre)
Costo tessera CASARTARC € 15,00

Per iscrizioni:
CASARTARC - Casa delle Arti e dell'Architettura - La Giardinera
tel. 011.80.28.391
info@casartarc.org

complexitys - Geometrie et architecture complexe


















Recente ed interessante blog dello studio HDA Paris.
"This blog is a research platform about architecture and complex geometry. We would like to build a space for open debate on contemporary architecture and new technologies issues."

(I really like this words: "Like a small but growing number of other architecture offices, we believe that sharing content can be useful, productive and not anti-economic. In other words, we believe in an Open Culture.")

lunedì 19 ottobre 2009

AAET















"This site is a work in progress and provided to the web by the students from The School of Architecture in Copenhagen, Denmark – Department for Architecture, Experiment and Technology. The material provided here are student's works and the images and the text material is gathered or written by the stents during their studies and released under the CC-license (Creative Commons). "

Link

lunedì 5 ottobre 2009

paraPATRICists













Blog di Daniel Reist, Christoph Hermann e Alex Karaivanov presso la masterclass di zaha hadid alla
University for Applied Arts in Vienna.
Link

….yet another script?














Alcuni interessanti post relativi all'esplorazione matematica in grasshopper.
Link al blog di Karthik Dondeti, studente della Harvard University.

Live Components - NY





















"This is Hyoung-gul Kook(HG)'s blog about study of parametric design using Rhino Grasshopper".
Link

mercoledì 30 settembre 2009

e1nszue1ns
















"a research design study - the invertible cube "paul schatz wurfel" as a module of a algorithmic growing topology, different opening conditions and assembly possibilities provide an experimental structure for the public space"
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Link

echorost














"echorost resonance of architecture, design, computation & ecology"
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Blog degli architetti Martin Kaftan, Jaroslav Hulín e Jiří Pavlíček.
Link

mayation_















"Mayation is a research blog for A. Benjasem which offers algorithmic explorations using Maya Embedded Language".
Link

venerdì 18 settembre 2009

generative design computing

















"Generative Design Computing.net is a site that focuses on the utilization of computers in the design and fabrication of architecture, objects, installations, experimental work... The site primarily functions in support of several classes that I conduct at the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan. They are Arch 591: Generative Design Computing, Arch 571: Digital Fabrication, and Arch 421: Geometric Modeling in addition to Graduate Design Studios. The site is also both an archive of video tutorials generated from those courses and a digital sketchbook of student work and related digital productions."
Glenn Wilcox blog

giovedì 17 settembre 2009

martedì 15 settembre 2009

Explode_BReps @ UVa
















"Representational Research at the University of Virginia School of Architecture"
Moltissime risorse inerenti Grasshopper su questo interessantissimo blog.
Consiglio di sfogliarne tutti i post.
Link

Attitude Geometries















"Architecture Design Physics Math Sound Music by Joerg Guettgemanns"
Link

venerdì 11 settembre 2009

AA DRL Blog
















"This place could function as an alternative to simply emailing each other (or spamming each other!) and a place where we can upload Course stuff, course details, opinions and issues and if succesfull it could function as a daily updated blog."

Link

CANactions 2009

















This years CANactions will be held under the aegis of the «Architectural Club» in Kiev – a public organization which was established during the credit crunch. The main task of the Club is to form an architectural community, strengthen the Ukrainian architecture scene and raise its level to international standards.
The CANnaction conference will be followed by an exhibition of more then 25 practices from the Ukraine, Russia, Europe, China and the USA.
The exhibition will be accessible to the public from the 25.09.2009 – 10.10.2009.
In parallel the results of a student competition will be displayed.
The competition and the festival are supported and sponsored by the Dessau Institute of Architecture (DIA-Dessau).
The results of CANactions 2009 will be covered by the architectural magazine АСС and an online blog.

TOPIC
Topic of CANactions 2009 is – emerging design tools across generations. This years CANaction is examining the actions and connections between different generations of architects and their relationship to emerging tools. The leap will be made over almost 4 generations of architects culminating in a symposium for the next generation of upcoming Ukrainian architects. As a connection between the different generations of architects we are investigating the influence of architectural schools and mass media, emerging tools and external consultants. The connection between international operating universities such as DIA in Dessau and the mass media is probably the most striking. The universities pass over the knowledge and sometimes develop new tools. But in what way do external consultants such as environmental engineers, structural engineers and landscape architects pass over a certain amount of common knowledge and tools. It is these connections and dialogues to leading external professionals such as AKT, Bollinger+Grohmann, Topotek1 and Transsolar that will be examined and exposed. Due to the internet emerging tools and publications from universities are spread with a high speed worldwide but external specialists are clustered mainly in London and the south of Germany.
How does such lack of consultancy influence architectural practice in the Ukraine and what does it mean for the development of the next generation of architects?

Website link.
Guest, lectures, exhibition and other.

Thx to Daniel Dendra x the link

giovedì 10 settembre 2009

wetware 09
















Veramente interessanti i risultati del corso wetware di Alisa Andrasek presso l' AA DRL Studio.
Consiglio il link al video dell'applicazione "PROBOTICS APPLET V2.0"
Inoltre aggiungo i link ai blog dei due team di lavoro:
TEAM 1_THE UNDERGROUND
TEAM 2_PROBOTICS

venerdì 4 settembre 2009

mercoledì 2 settembre 2009

Deckhands' Blog








Una vasta collezione di rhinoscript, utili a chi volesse comprenderne la struttura, sono disponibili su questo blog legato al iniziativa DEC|K tenuta dal MIT.
Link

ALLABOUTCODE











Non ho parole per commentare i "tre" blog di questo architetto.
Consiglio solo di sfogliare tutti i suoi interessantissimi post.
ALLABOUTCODE
ALLABOUTARCH
ALLABOUTTHINK

martedì 1 settembre 2009

WeaverBird Beta - Giulio Piacentino















"This is an early release of WeaverBird (version 0.1.16), a plugin for topological transformations in Rhino.".
Giulio Piacentino ha reso disponibile questa interessantissima tool x Rhino 3D.
Link

Armadillo x Rhino 3d





















Interessantissima plug-in (prima denominata ArrayCrvPLUS) sviluppata da Jarek Bieda per Rhino 3d. Dal video si può valutare l'efficacia di questa nuova versione della tool ancora in fase di sviluppo.
Link

venerdì 21 agosto 2009

&other















Segnalo a chi fosse interessato che ho iniziato un altra avventura che si chiama "&other". Si tratta di un blog complementare a DigitAG& dove posto tutto ciò che vedo di interessante sulla grande rete ma non è strettamente inerente la ricerca architettonica digitale. Per comprendere ciò che dobbiamo progettare è necessario comprendere ciò che ci circonda, le sue dinamiche , i possibili sviluppi e magari tramite i nostri link svelarne le nostre utopie.
Link

Digital Architecture London













Segnalo l'evento "Digital Architecture London" e la relativa conferenza che si terrà a Londra il 21 Settembre 2009.
Link