Nikolas Weinstein Studios is a glass sculpture studio in San Francisco with worldwide installations and a penchant for combining art and technology into site-specific glass installations.
found via Rhino Blog
We strongly envourage you to visit nikolas.net to discover their amazing works.
You can also follow them via their blog.
PHOTO ABOVE: Dynamic Solar Shading sketch model. Advances in Architectural Geometry 2010 / SOURCE : robofold.com
We often wrote in this blog about developability of complex surfaces.
In one of our post about geometries of bending I said: developability is a key concept you have to understand if you are trying to construct very complex forms that are easy to draw but difficult to build.
But why? Because if you can develop a surface, then you can build it.
Now, robots from ROBOFOLD are saying something similar: if you can fold it, we can build it.
READ MOREThe first time I “met” Ion Cuervas-Mons was on twitter, when he still was in Shanghai to direct the construction of Madrid Pavilion for Shanghai Expo. The second time I’ve heard of him it was because he was working on relationships between parametric design and games and we started exchanging a lot of interesting ideas - here is an article in French .
Once Ion invited me to a meeting to discuss a project called OPENARCH.
He absolutely wanted to design and build a house to create a new model of living, strongly connected to the Internet and inspired by the open-source philosophy.That idea has now turned into a real appartement, located next to Bilbao – map.
The project has been officially launched last friday 25th of November at openarch.ccDo you want to visit this prototype ? Just ask Ion at info@thinkbig-factory.com
photo ci-dessus: modèlisation paramétrique pour le projet JIANG TAI WINTER GARDEN
Nous présentons aujourd’hui un article de Aurélie de Boissieu, une doctorante qui travaille sur la modélisation paramétrique.
Nous remercions énormément sa contribution à ce blog. Pour nous, le travail en réseaux avec des étudiants, des chercheurs et des différents professionnels est un point fondamentale de notre demarche.
“Travailler de façon ouverte avec nos lecteurs”, voici en quelques mots l’enthousiasmante – et réussie – intention du blog d’HDA complexitys.com dont je me réjouis d’ajouter “mon papier” à l’édifice. Doctorante à l’Ariam-Larea, j’ai été amenée, naturellement, à rencontrer HDA lors de mes recherches. En effet, les agences qui utilisent la modélisation paramétrique et/ou la programmation ne sont pas si nombreuses ; celles qui ouvrent leurs portes le sont encore moins. Je les remercie aujourd’hui de m’accueillir et espère pouvoir, à mon tour, travailler de façon ouverte.
J’approche les usages de la modélisation paramétrique, dans le cadre de ma thèse, d’un point de vue cognitif. Autrement dit, je m’interroge sur les opérations mentales mises en œuvre par un architecte lorsqu’il utilise des environnements de modélisation paramétrique. Ce sujet cherche à mettre en lumière les liens cognitifs entre modélisation paramétrique et conception architecturale, objets encore mal connus des architectes.
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After several months of blood, sweat and tears, we are very happy to share with you a free download of our CAD Standards, the Electronic File Naming Convention and the Project Folder Organisation we will be using at HDA, with immediate effect.
We are a hybrid team of architects, designers and engineers. Even though we strongly believe in this interdisciplinary approach, we understand that it presents difficulties in achieving coherence and clarity in our management systems. The files we are sharing today with our readers are the first outcome of a thorough review and coordination process intended to make our different design tools and activities more coherent.
As noted elsewhere on this blog, at HDA we believe in an open culture, that sharing content can be useful, productive and not anti-economic, and therefore offer these free to download in the hope that they may be useful to others.
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From Wednesday to Sunday we were in Turin to coordinate one of the group of international Smart Building Workshop.
In this post we share the proposal developed by the participants of our group: we have called the project RESPONSIVE PARAMETRIC INFRASTRUCTURE.
Thank you very much to the city of Turin for inviting HDA, and thanks also to the whole organization team for the great work of coordination. Thanks also to the partners of the event and, above all, thanks to Federico Borello, Grazia Carioscia, Aurelio David, Chiara Rizzi, Giuseppe Roccasalva, Antonio Spinelli, Edoardo Trossero for working so hard for the project.
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A creative and technical team from HDA | Hugh Dutton Associés will be in Turin next week to direct and coordinate one of the group of international Smart Building Workshop in the context of Turin’s nomination for the European Smart Cities project.
The following key people from HDA are composing the team for the workshop:
Hugh Dutton | architect and designer, director of HDA | Hugh Dutton Associés
Gaetan Kohler | architect, co-founder of OZ collective
Sebastien Perrault | engineer and architect, sebastienperrault.com
Francesco Cingolani | architect, communication and urban strategy consultant, immaginoteca.com
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Pubblichiamo oggi alcuni disegni tecnici che mostrano il progresso del progetto Pylons of the future – Dancing with Nature – risultato vincitore del premio Terna per i piloni elettrici del futuro. A breve pubblicheremo informazioni dettagliato su questo progetto di architettura parametrica che rappresenta, per HDA, una grande sfida di architettura e ingegneria.
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SMAAD is the abbreviated form of “Smart Material Aided Architectural Design” or “Shape Memory Alloy Aided Architectural Design”. SMAAD Surface is a fabric input/output device that uses fibrous shape memory alloy (SMA).
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image credit: q2xro.blogspot.com
image credit: Garamond Powerline by Daniel Adolph via q2xro.blogspot.com
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A few weeks ago there was a real buzz around electric pylons, their design and their future relationship with the landscape. On twitter, @ballardian, @ethel_baraona were tweeting links, contents and ideas about this topic and at the same time Hugh Dutton sent me this link and Dezeen was asking for high-resolution images for a publication of Pylons of the future – Dancing with Nature -, a project that we are building in Italy for Terna company (images below).
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