Kate Orff Suggests Oysters to Rebuild New York Harbor
[ted id=1064] Interesting project suggesting to rebuild the New York Harbor’s ecology with introducing artificial reefs harvesting oysters. Project website here.
Vincent Callebaut's Coral Village
Vincent Callebaut has designed a proposal for the crisis stricken nation of Haiti in the form of a carbon neutral Utopian village inspired by coral. The project, entitled Coral Reef, would be made of modular units stacked on top of …
Michael Pawlyn of Exploration on Biomimicry Applied to Architecture
[ted id=1072] Michael Pawlyn, the director at Exploration Architecture recently informed us of his TED speech on biomimicry applied to architecture. Great video, a must watch. We posted about the Eden Project he was involved with many months ago, a …
Hart Marlow and Leaf Venation
Hart Marlow is an architectural designer from Brooklyn New York scheduled to participate in the Biodynamic Structures Workshop with the AA this coming July along with Michael Mccune. We recently got in contact with him and he shared some insight …
Matsys Design: Voronoi Morphologies
Voronoi Morphologies is the latest development in an ongoing area of research into cellular aggregate structures by Matsys Design. The voronoi algorithm is used in a wide range of fields including satellite navigation, animal habitat mapping, and urban planning as …
Biodynamic Structures Workshop: AA meets CCA
The AA is acting as a visiting school to the California College of the Arts this summer with a intense summer studio entitled Biodynamic Structures Workshop. More information about the application process below
University of Dammam Hosts "Sustainability Through Biomimicry" Conference
The University of Dammam in Saudi Arabia is hosting a conference entitled “Sustainability Through Biomimicry” at their main campus next November. They are currently looking for submissions and their themes and topics seem very interesting. You can visit the conference …
The Radiolaria Project
The Radiolaria Project out of the University of Kassel by Christian Troche and Gregor Zimmermann is one of those projects that simply cant be summarized in one post, but as usual we’ll attempt anyway. Anyone interested in understanding this valiant …
Decker Yeadon's Homeostatic Facade System
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CThFRt95aI] Decker Yeadon, a studio out of New York City, has devised a beautiful contemporary double-skin glass facade system for large buildings. Whereas the current model of curtain wall double skins has a simple air cavity embedded with louvers, this …
Revano Satria: Cellular Solid Morphologies
Revano Satria’s thesis dissertation at the AA involves looking into cellular solids and manipulating them to be more responsive to external forces in their immediate environment. Cellular solids occur frequently in nature, examples include the more porous centers of human …