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 …
[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 …
