French architect Marc Fornes, a pioneer and visionary of computational design based in Brooklyn, has designed and installed nonLin/Lin at the Frac Centre in Orleans France. Its an impressive pavilion design that, unlike many of the computationally driven constructions we’ve seen, attempts to resolve …
[ted id=1215] Skylar Tibbits talks at TED about the future of self replicating and naturally inspired robotic construction. Interesting insight into a rapidly developing field. Make sure to check out his work, great stuff. Below we’ve embedded some videos from his vimeo …
Dutch electronics powerhouse Philips released last December details about their innovative research in renewable and naturally inspired lighting. BioLight is a look into utilizing glowing bacteria to eventually light our homes without the use of electricity. The same way certain …
An excellent conference oppurtunity has come to our attention in Spain: 6th International Conference on Relating Design in Nature with Science and Engineering. It is scheduled for 11 – 13 June 2012 in A Coruña Spain. Anyone intersted can visit …
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=JnkMyfQ5YfY] [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8L1WF-Sxlg] You heard and saw correctly. Flight assembled architecture is a video showing small scale flying robotic agents assemble a wall over time by lifting bricks one by one and placing them in correct orientation due to pre programmed …
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=x7EioND7khc] Janine Benyus, inspiring update on biomimicry at TED. She mentions the Harare Building we already posted about earlier.
Inspired by the valvular pollination mechanism in the Strelitzia reginae flower (commonly known as the Bird-Of-Paradise) the flectofin is a hinge less louver system that is capable of shifting its fin 90 degrees by inducing bending stresses in the spine caused by displacement of a …
London-based design studio Minimaforms (brothers Stephen and Theodore Spyropoulos) question how architecture can facilitate new forms of communication. Through experimental architecture, they explore these questions in hopes to open up a dialogue about social and material interaction. Check out more pictures in …
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apBO9pujP5E] Watch this amazing Indian village participate in a century old tradition of weaving bridges from living tree roots to combat the monsoon season. Truly amazing.
Alghorithmic Design run by Ezio Blasseti is an online repository of code used to generate form with Python and Processing. Its a priceless tutorial and content resource dedicated to “computational craft,” definitely check it out, amazing graphics as well.
