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Skylar Tibbits: Tesselion is a project by Skylar Tibbits which proposes a system of flat panel tessellation derived from complex surfaces to enable ease in constructability and a directly evolved spatial environment through lighting, programmatic adaptation and structural simplicity. Each panel’s uniqueness is afforded by the efficiency of digital fabrication while coded parametric relationships allow an emergent structural efficiency, from a single panel to the complete adaptability of the surface as a whole. read more
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Fractal Table is a table piece which derives from studies into fractal growth patterns. Treelike stems grow into smaller branches until they get very dense towards the top. Fractal Table, developed by Platform Wertel Oberfell together with Matthias Bär, is impossible to manufacture unless rapid prototyped. via platform read more
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3rd floor interior rendering
The semester finished with the work at a level of development corresponding to the following images and drawings. read more
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Brooklyn - McCarren Park Aquatic Center
Interior Perspective Rendering of the Diving Pool. read more
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An electron micrograph reveals sharkskin’s secret to speed: tooth-like scales called dermal denticles. Water “races through the microgrooves without tumbling,” says shark researcher George Burgess, reducing friction. “It’s like a fast-moving river current versus the gurgling turbulence of a shallow stream.” The scales also discourage barnacles and algae from glomming on—an inspiration for synthetic coatings that may soon be applied to Navy ship hulls to reduce such biofouling.
What has fins like a whale, skin like a lizard, and eyes like a moth? The future of engineering.
via> National Geographic (April 2008)
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Section Through Landscape_1A: Olympic Pool, Spectator Seating, Training Areas_ Such a section starts to suggest different program elements which occupy the same space. read more
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The skin structure is formed by arched bracing and plates that dance above and below the datum of the large arches. It follows down to the ground where areas of extended programmatic lines taken from the original bivalve shell have been pulled up to create layering where the programs are housed. This is used to help take the load of the skin structure above. read more
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Rigid (grey) arches support overlayer shell (green), which is pulled into tension by anchoring cables (blue), between which the underlayer (purple) is stretched. read more
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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.
Taken from the systemicprocess site:
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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A sketch model of the library with the core book wall at the west side of the site , service block in the middle and reading spaces on the east side.
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