Non Linear Systems at UPenn
Non-Linear Systems is a great resources for all design that is not linear aka emergent or generative. Roland Snooks and Jenny Sabin are highly involved in this research institute at UPenn run by Cecil Balmond.
CPP College of Environmental Design Magazine
Publication: Cal Poly Pomona College of Environmental Design Magazine Date: April 2007
NonLin/Lin Pavillion by Marc Fornes
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 …
Skylar Tibbits – TED Talk on Robotic Construction
[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 …
Listener – Behavioral Architectures
CITA is an innovative research environment part of the Royal Danish Academy of Architecture that explores the emergent intersections between architecture and digital technologies. Identifying core research questions into how space and technology can be probed, CITA seeks to investigate how the …
Philips Glowing Bacteria Bio Light – The Light Source of the Future
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 …
Design and Nature Conference 2012 in Spain
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 …
Flight Assembeled Architecture – Gramazio & Kohler and Raffaello D’Andrea
[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 …
Janine Benyus TED Speech on Biomimicry
[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.
Flectofin by the University of Stuttgart’s Institute of Building Structure and Structural Design
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 …