NASA sponsored Handhold/Foothold design done with Firefly and Arduino. This projects is the design of a handhold/foothold for a deep space mission that was done as part of a larger NASA funded project with students from Cal Poly Pomona The …
Michael just returned from Athens where he gave a Keynote lecture at The 9th International Conference on Intelligent Environments – IE’13. This is a great conference which is a combination of those doing both Architecture and computer Science. Intelligent Environments (IE) refer …
We just closed on our A-Frame in Big Bear. We are fixing it up and plan to rent it out. The place is great but requires a lot of work. Ron helped us move in – thankfully as I’m not …
Mama got a new camera! Couple that with maternity leave and a new babe…….. and voila: Michael’s note to his family – who were patiently waiting info…….. Sorry for the lack of details – it was a pretty much no-technology …
CLICK TO SEE PROJECT Working with students on through a grant from NASA to design and build a Deep Space Vertical Habitat. The design challenge of a vertically-oriented habitat is to work with the volumetric constraints and the “dynamic envelope” …
CLICK TO SEE PROJECT Amazing project by Behnaz Farahi (Michaels Student at USC which takes the Kinect / Arduino a way beyond the ACADIA project. One of the main contributions of this project is to explore how a physical environment …
CLICK TO SEE PROJECT As communication technology unfolds, our designed environments will be so inextricably tied to our living trends that both will ultimately and simultaneously respond to, and define each other in a corresponding manner. In this course we …
CLICK TO SEE PROJECT As communication technology unfolds, our designed environments will be so inextricably tied to our living trends that both will ultimately and simultaneously respond to, and define each other in a corresponding manner. In this course we …
Amazing collection of speakers set up by Branko Kolarevic and and Vera Parlac http://buildingdynamics.org/ Michael had to cancel because of incoming baby in the family – Here is the synopsis: We have seen over the past decade an increasing interest …
CLICK TO SEE PROJECT A short class – Not the best models but some very interesting ideas: Synopsis: We have seen over the past decade an increasing interest in the capacity of built spaces to respond dynamically to changes in …
