Maria Mingallon who graduated from the AA and its currently a professor at McGill University, along with students Jheny Nieto, Sakthivel Ramaswamy and Konstantinos Karatzas, study the architectural applications of the dragonfly wing. Videos, more images and potential architectural applications …
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLOVdo_Qu3E&fs=1&hl=en_US] Mondospider is an amazing diesel-powered mobile spider vehicle designed by a team of engineers and architects for the Burning Man Festival of 2009. Images below, this thing looks like too much fun.
[ted id=698] We previously posted on Magnus Larsson‘s work on the sand dunes and desertification in Africa in our post entitled: Biologically Constructed Architecture. Check out his new video explaining it from A to Z, amazing concept.
Faulder’s Studio has a design proposal that hosts a facade built to host the growth of moss. Similar to our previous Geotube post on Faulder’s work in Dubai, the building aims to have a “life of its own” and develop …
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 …
