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Biomimetic Shading Techniques of the Esplanade Theatre
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: Not your regular office building
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 …
Jellyfish House by Iwamoto-Scott
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 …
Emergent Technologies and Design Book Released
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 …
Mohammad Yazdi's Walnut Strength Analysis
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 …
Fiber Composite Adaptive Architecture
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 …
Architecture of the Dragonfly Wing
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 …
Introducing Mondospider
[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.
Magnus Larsson Featured on TED
[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.