Sean Hanna of the University College of London has been working on the idea of responsive materials that could be inherently intelligent and respond to external forces in the environment, like the cells living in an organism. Although research on …
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJEMfAg5l2w&w=500&h=311] Researcher’s from Carnegie Mellon University and Intel Corporation have been working on a project called Claytronics. The idea is to have hundreds of thousands of nano processors form together to create new solid objects in any shape or size. …
Minimal complexity by Vlad Tenu is an award-winning project from the TEX -FAB competition. The self organizing proposal was superior on multiple counts. Aside from being technically stunning, drop-dead gorgeous, and meticulously detailed, the project embodies the ideas of emergence, …
The Esplanade theater and commercial district in Singapore by DP Architects and Michael Wilford hosts an elaborate skin inspired by the Durian plant. The external shading system is also responsive in that the triangular louvers adjust during the day to …
Trabeculae by architects Dave Pigram, Iain Maxwell, Brad Rothenberg, and Ezio Blasetti is a new take at the general atrium solution to office buildings. the point of a central atrium (like in that of the Bradbury Building) is to allow …
Iwamoto-Scott, a SF based architecture firm has designed the Jellyfish house. They argue that similar to the sea-creature, their building coexists with its environment as a set of distributed, networked senses and responses. Similar to the organism, the house attempts …
Emergence – the process by which new and coherent structures, patterns and properties ‘emerge’ from within complex systems Michael Hensel, Achim Menges, and Michael Weinstock (currently teaching at the AA) have recently published a MUCH recommended book about research and …
After reading up on our blog Mohammad Yazdi, a research student at the University of Tehran, was enthusiastic about sharing his biomimetic research as part of the masters of architecture program he is currently enrolled in. His project involves researching …
Earlier we posted a story about the studies of Dragon Fly Wings with research out of the AA. Maria Mingallon who was involved in that project suggested we would be interested in looking into her team’s final thesis project from …
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 …
