Kate Orff Suggests Oysters to Rebuild New York Harbor
[ted id=1064] Interesting project suggesting to rebuild the New York Harbor’s ecology with introducing artificial reefs harvesting oysters. Project website here.
Vincent Callebaut's Coral Village
Vincent Callebaut has designed a proposal for the crisis stricken nation of Haiti in the form of a carbon neutral Utopian village inspired by coral. The project, entitled Coral Reef, would be made of modular units stacked on top of …
Michael Pawlyn of Exploration on Biomimicry Applied to Architecture
[ted id=1072] Michael Pawlyn, the director at Exploration Architecture recently informed us of his TED speech on biomimicry applied to architecture. Great video, a must watch. We posted about the Eden Project he was involved with many months ago, a …
Hart Marlow and Leaf Venation
Hart Marlow is an architectural designer from Brooklyn New York scheduled to participate in the Biodynamic Structures Workshop with the AA this coming July along with Michael Mccune. We recently got in contact with him and he shared some insight …
Matsys Design: Voronoi Morphologies
Voronoi Morphologies is the latest development in an ongoing area of research into cellular aggregate structures by Matsys Design. The voronoi algorithm is used in a wide range of fields including satellite navigation, animal habitat mapping, and urban planning as …
Biodynamic Structures Workshop: AA meets CCA
The AA is acting as a visiting school to the California College of the Arts this summer with a intense summer studio entitled Biodynamic Structures Workshop. More information about the application process below
Michael Weinstock Speaking at USC Architecture
Michael Weinstock is delivering a lecture Metabolism of the City at USC tomorrow January 26th 2011 at 6:00 pm. The event is open to all. Weinstock is one of the founders of the Emergent Technologies Program at the AA and …
Autonomous Robot Built Structures from GRASP Lab University of Pennsylvania
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W18Z3UnnS_0&feature=player_embedded#at=18] Teams of quadrotors autonomously build tower-like cubic structures from laid out modular parts. The project is by Quentin Lindsey, Daniel Mellinger, and Vijay Kumar at the GRASP Lab, University of Pennsylvania. Similar ideas are being researched on a much …
Michael McCune and Casidy Keim's Modulated Lattice 5
Michael McCune and Casidy Keim of Lousiana Tech explore the translation between digital modeling, cnc production and fabrication in their project entitled Modulated Lattice 5. Unlike some other more strictly theoretical projects we’ve seen, the students made an effort to …
University of Dammam Hosts "Sustainability Through Biomimicry" Conference
The University of Dammam in Saudi Arabia is hosting a conference entitled “Sustainability Through Biomimicry” at their main campus next November. They are currently looking for submissions and their themes and topics seem very interesting. You can visit the conference …