The Vertebrae Staircase was inspired by the spine of a whale and its design goes beyond being categorized as biomorphic where form is merely geometrically copied. The project explores the shaping and forming of a single vertebrae whose form was heavily influenced by structural …
This is and academic project that both Juintow and Michael have been working with students on through a grant from NASA to design and build a Deep Space Vertical Habitat. Â We will get more photos up soon.
Michael is in Hong Kong again doing double duty at HKPU (Asiasâ #1 Design School on the list of the Worlds Best Design Schools) teaching two workshops in Interactive Environments and Tangible interaction.
CLICK TO SEE PROJECT Michael received a NASA grant for âHabitation and Fabrication studies for Deep Space Missionsâ which is pretty much what we normally do in my topic studios, just not as rigorously.  We are very excited about this opportunity …
Michael Fox presents paper on Gestures with kinect and arduino with Sho Ikuta and Ally Polancic at Acadia Conference San Francisco: Synthetic Digital Ecologies 2012. Using a hacked Kinect to control architectural space with gestures. Project done with Michael Fox, Rodrigo …
In the world envisioned by science author Janine Benyus, a locust’s ability to avoid collision within a roiling cloud of its brethren informs the design of a crash-resistant car; a self-cleaning leaf inspires a new kind of paint, one that …
This short two week course explores a futuristic strain of architectural research that lies at the intersection of biology and robotics. Bio-robbotic Architecture focuses on naturally inspired and robotically augmented architecture that can adapt and evolve with the world around …
