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Incheon Airport Competition | Press-Kit

By: Francesco

16-08-2011

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As we have already announce a few weeks ago, HDA | Hugh Dutton Associés is part of the design team led by Heerim Architects & Planners that won first prize for the design competition of PASSENGER TERMINAL 2 for the Incheon Int. Airport.

You can find below the press-kit material, both in English and French.
If you want to download the entire press-kit in a unique ZIP file, please follow the links below using the following:
username: complexitys
password: HDAparis1

Incheon Airport Competition | PRESS-KIT | English

Incheon Airport Competition | PRESS-KIT | French

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“A future more beatiful…” | What do you think about this talk?

By: Francesco

23-05-2011

complexitys culture, design, english

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A future more beautiful? Architect Thomas Heatherwick shows five recent projects featuring ingenious bio-inspired designs. Some are remakes of the ordinary: a bus, a bridge, a power station … And one is an extraordinary pavilion, the Seed Cathedral, a celebration of growth and light | www.ted.com
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TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world’s leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the “Sixth Sense” wearable tech, and “Lost” producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at www.ted.com/translate

La Roche-sur-Yon footbridge featured on Condé Nast Traveller

By: Francesco

25-04-2011

design, english, projects, we like

“Some people travel simply to enjoy sunshine, sea and sand, some for cultural or culinary adventures; others choose to focus on seeing the world’s natural wonders. Regardless of where and why you travel, the experience is enhanced by design and innovative thinking: applied to airplanes, trains, museums and restaurants, the shops we seek out, the gadgets we tap on or tune into.” Condé Nast Traveller

We are happy to announce you that our La Roche-sur-Yon Footbridge (Bernard Tschumi & Hugh Dutton Associates) has been shortlisted in the Infrastructure category in Condé Nast Traveller’s Innovation and Design Awards 2011.

Performance-Driven Design by Neri Oxman

By: Francesco

11-04-2011

complexitys culture, design, Engineering, english

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photo: PopTech 2009 presenters, day 3 – 198 by Ed Yourdon on Flickr
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The video below presents the design thinking of the architect and researcher Neri Oxman, who is proposing a different way of thinking about the design of things around us: instead of thinking about forms of objects she suggests to understand first their performance and “how they should or need to behave in space as most natural systems do, such as trees”.

These purposes are especially interesting for us as in a past article titled Methodology of complexity (in French) we have defined form as “the spatial configuration of a physical object that is responsible for the relations between that object and the environment”.

wishes _ xxx

By: Francesco

21-12-2010

art, english, we like

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Credits: Heatherwick Studio and Sara Fanelli

Fashion Design and Complex (Un)Folded Geometries

By: Francesco

21-09-2010

concept, design, english, geometry

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Photo: Folded fabric, ready to enter the third (and fifth) dimension. Photo from Women’s Wear Daily.
Source: changeobserver.designobserver.com

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How are new design tools and software changing design of clothes and fashion accessories?
As we are always interested in exploring the boundaries of architecture and 3D design, we have found that some fashion designers may use the same softwares that we use in HDA.

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Defining #parametric #design and #architecture

By: Francesco

14-09-2010

concept, design, english, geometry

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image: Wikipedia

Recently we have been often asked “What is Parametric Design and Architecture?”

Even if we are daily working with this notions, the answer is not so easy.
We’ll now start thinking about how we designers and architecture could give a comprehensive defintion of such concepts.

Formation Grasshopper / Atelier d’Architecture Paramétrique / #gh3D #Paris Septembre 2010

By: Francesco

08-07-2010

downloads, français, geometry

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Comme nous avions déjà annoncé en Mai, et comme il est annoncé sur le site de Rhinoceros, HDA démarre une nouvelle activité en collaboration avec Rhinoforyou, et organise des formations Grasshopper intégrant un Atelier pratique d’Architecture Parametrique.
Un de ces cours de formation est prévu à Paris du 20 au 22 septembre. Nous souhaitons proposer les 3 formules suivantes en fonction des besoins des stagiaires:

- 3 jours ( Initiation+Atelier ) : du lundi 20 septembre au mercredi 22 septembre
- 2 jours ( Initiation ) : lundi 20 et mardi 21 septembre
- 1 jour ( Atelier ) : mercredi 22 septembre

Che lavoro fai?

By: Francesco

08-06-2010

complexitys culture, design, Engineering, français

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Nanni Moretti est assez connu en France mais je pense que Ecce Bombo, peut-être un de ses films les plus révélateur de la société italienne, est un peu resté dans l’oubli. Dans une des scènes, Moretti il pose avec insistance la question qui titre ce post ( quel travail fait-tu? ) à une jeune pseudo-hippie qui vit sans vraiment travailler. Elle répond alors “je sais pas…je fais des trucs, je vois des gens…” (en italien “faccio cose vedo gente”).

ARCHITECTURE HYBRIDE 8/10 : LA DÉMARCHE DE CONCEPTION HYBRIDE

By: Francesco

03-06-2010

complexitys culture, concept, design, français

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Nous avons déjà commencé à parler des outils des conception que nous utilisons dans notre travail. Par la suite nous allons focaliser le discours sur le rôle des différents outils et logiciels.

Dans notre démarche quotidienne, une maquette virtuelle 3D (Rhinoceros ou Autocad) est développée à partir des premiers croquis réalisés normalement à la main. Le logiciel Rhinoceros représente aujourd’hui un véritable phénomène dans le monde de l’architecture. Conçu à la base pour les métiers du design d’objets (en particulier pour le dessin de bijoux) le logiciel s’est transformé dans les cinq dernières années en un véritable standard pour les agences d’architecture. La raison de ce succès est principalement liée à la grande facilité de générer, décrire et modifier des formes complexes.