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Horizon: Computing a Sustainable Surface by Dave Mans + Matthew Standeven

Between the earth’s ever-changing surface and the performative light of the sky there exists a reciprocity of horizon. The house here operates as a moment between two systems, a covariant derivative between light and ground. Within the natural system that is life, energy exchange is essential and cyclical. Energy is consumed in order that it may further consume, stored only to be later utilized, and emitted back into a ubiquitous system for retrieval at another time. Its use is multifaceted, yet its essence is singular. Horizon House provides a rhythm and a structure against which all other systems are measured. read more

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Ritual Flux by Adrian Lo + Peter VanHage

Ritual Flux reflects the synthetic nature of ideas, technology, and the reciprocal relationships between the body and the built environment. The anatomy of any domestic terrain requires an ingrained flexibility to sustain the broad spectrum of generic processes shared by all humans, while maintaining certain cultural or regional specificity. read more

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This is the last weekend to see Design and the Elastic Mind at the MoMA.

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Paul Seletsky has been generous enough to share his essay entitled “The Digital Design Ecosystem:Toward a Pre-Rational Architecture” with core.form-ula. It is examination on how digital technology has and will impact the architectural practice.

Paul Seletsky, Associate AIA, is the Senior Manager of Digital Design for Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP in New York. He presides over strategic implementation of the Digital Design process, as well as research and development initiatives. He chairs the AIANY Technology Committee as curator of a monthly lecture series highlighting technology and its impact on practice, and his work and writings have fostered critical discussion and awareness in this realm. Mr. Seletsky received his degree in architecture from Cooper Union in New York, has managed Digital Design in both the public and private sectors, and lectures actively within academic and professional venues.

enjoy> The Digital Design Ecosystem:Toward a Pre-Rational Architecture

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[C]space is the winning competition entry in the ‘AADRLTen’ Pavilion project, an advanced technology concrete structure that will be erected in Bedford Square,London. The AADRL10 exhibition will open on the 22 February 2008 and the Pavilion will officialy open on 13 March 2008 along with the release of the DRL10 Book. The structure is being designed and developed by Alan Dempsey and Alvin Huang with Adams Kara Taylor and members of the DRL.

via> c space pavilion blogspot

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There is some beautiful work coming from Michael Harris + David Jaubert over @ systemicprocess. They are working w/ a series of existing tools as well as their own custom user interfaces to allow for a higher degree of flexibility and a much more precise work flow. Take a look at some of the videos. They do an amazing job of allowing one into the process and the spaces that these lattices occupy.

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systemicprocess is the collaboration of David Jaubert and Michael Harris. The working methodology of systemicprocess utilizes a wide coterie of tools from digital modeling and scripting to digital fabrication as a means of removing the barrier between the conceptualization of ideas and the palpability of realization. read more

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So our midterm is coming up a week from monday, and I justwrote a cool script to grow a differntiated set of apartment typologies, programmed solely on localized neighborhood conditions. This couples with the other research my partner, oliver, and I have been working on with Cellular Automata as a computational tool for organization of dwellings.

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This is a quick/dirty structure analysis of a tubular space frame. This should be seen as a proof of concept and will be developed to a further extent over the rest of the semester. I apologize for the quality of the video but it is beginning to reveal through its displacement, members that performing and others that are failing. Dimensions are approx (100′h x 200′d x 5′w) the material is a 6″ dia tube aluminum w/ a .25″ wall thickness. More to come over the weekend. read more