Archinect: Sky is far from limit in NASA architecture project
A new partnership with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration brings an out-of-this-world opportunity for Cal Poly Pomona architecture students. Read more…
Arcdaily: Architecture in Space: NASA Seeks Architect’s Opinion on Habitat Design for Astronauts
Currently in the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, Interim Design Center parking lot, students are constructing a 30 foot experimental structure that expands on the notion of housing astronauts in space. Funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), …
NASA (CPP)
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 âdynamic envelopeâ …
Alloplastic Architecture (USC)
CLICK TO SEE PROJECT Amazing project by Behnaz Farahi (Michaels Student at USC which takes the Kinect / Arduino a way beyond the ACADIA project. Â One of the main contributions of this project is to explore how a physical environment …
Interactive Environments: âMotivationâ (HKPU)
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 …
Tangible Interaction: âComfortâ (HKPU)
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 …
Building Dynamics Symposium (BANFF)
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 â Here is the synopsis: We have seen over the past decade an increasing interest …
Bio-Robotic Building Facades (CPP)
CLICK TO SEE PROJECT A short class â 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 …
Carpal Skin – Neri Oxman
Carpal Skin is a glove designed by Assistant Professor Neri Oxman of the MIT Media Lab and was developed to aid the pain of those plagued by Carpal Tunnel Syndrome which is caused by the median nerve being compressed at the wrist leading to …
Skylar Tibbits – 4D Printing
Of late Skylar Tibbits’ research has been focused on self-assembling non-mechanical systems that are actuated not by a power source per say but rather by a material’s inherent properties and its programmable form.