Pavlos Schizas, a member of the msms research team, has graciously agreed to share some details with us about his research at the AA as part of the Emergent Technologies program. This project, which was in partnership with other fine …
Faulders Studio from Berkeley California has created a facade system for a building proposal in Dubai that builds itself over time, a “living-building” of sorts. A seemingly transparent mesh is actively sprayed with water from the Persian Gulf (some of …
The Bio-Robotics lab at Carnegie Mellon is responsible for designing various robots that are inspired by animals to perform actions that mimic the motor capabilities found in nature. Check below for links to videos from their latest research.
Dr. Barbara Imhof and Dr. Petra Gruber have started the Biornametics art-based research project exploring “Architecture defined by natural patterns.” They are collaborating with the University of Reading Center for Biomimetics as well as the Institute of Micro-engineering and Nanoelectronics, …
Matsys, a design firm based in San Francisco California is responsible for the Manifold Installation, an architectural application aiming to integrate design and performance similar to the structure of natural forms resulting from evolutionary forces. Images and diagrams below illustrate …
Researchers at Yale are looking into the computational organization of the bacterium E Coli to see why thinking systems in nature dont crash like thinking systems designed my man. Very interesting findings from century-hightech…
AA student Magnus Larsson won the Holcim Foundation’s Awards for Sustainable Construction for his proposal to stop the sprawl of the Sahara desert by stabilizing it with the introduction of bacterium that could potentially convert large parts of the desert …
MAD Architects have designed a tower and hotel to be built in Beijing inspired by the honeycomb nature of beehives. What seems like an undulating facade from far away is actually a regular grid of equally sized hexagons but with …
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQukt36Gew0&hl=en_US&fs=1&] The History Channel challenged architects to create a vision for future infrastructure in major cities around the world. Xefirotarch submitted the above video for their vision of Los Angeles with help from film studio Imaginary Forces. We admit its …
