Bio-Robotic (CPP)

Explorations in Bio-robotic Building Facades Summary This 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 …

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NASA Handhold/Foothold

NASA sponsored Handhold/Foothold design done with Firefly and Arduino. This projects is the design of a handhold/foothold for a deep space mission that was done as part of a larger NASA funded project with students from Cal Poly Pomona The …

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Keynote Lecture at IE’13

Michael just returned from Athens where he gave a Keynote lecture at The 9th International Conference on Intelligent Environments – IE’13. This is a great conference which is a combination of those doing both Architecture and computer Science. Intelligent Environments (IE) refer …

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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 “dynamic envelope” …

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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.  One of the main contributions of this project is to explore how a physical environment …

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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 – Here is the synopsis: We have seen over the past decade an increasing interest …

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