8/5/16 Update:
The award-winning “Revamp the Camp” efforts by Cal Poly Pomona Architecture students will soon be open to the public! Visit Spring Lake Regional Park campground in northern California this fall to experience the modern “Wedge Cabins” that Juintow Lin and her students collaborated on together.
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Archimorph is an amazing website related to everything we are interested about. You can lost in the extensive archive they’ve collected. Definitely check them out, some stuff gets a little theoretical but always relevant.
Computation has enabled designers to manifest virtually any structure from the impossibly intricate to the most complexly curved surfaces we can conceive. Of course our Achilles heel is manufacturing these forms. Up to this point architects have had to achieve this by subtractive means (e.g. CNC …
[ted id=1215] Skylar Tibbits talks at TED about the future of self replicating and naturally inspired robotic construction. Interesting insight into a rapidly developing field. Make sure to check out his work, great stuff. Below we’ve embedded some videos from his vimeo …
Dutch electronics powerhouse Philips released last December details about their innovative research in renewable and naturally inspired lighting. BioLight is a look into utilizing glowing bacteria to eventually light our homes without the use of electricity. The same way certain …
An excellent conference oppurtunity has come to our attention in Spain: 6th International Conference on Relating Design in Nature with Science and Engineering. It is scheduled for 11 – 13 June 2012 in A Coruña Spain. Anyone intersted can visit …
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=JnkMyfQ5YfY] [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8L1WF-Sxlg] You heard and saw correctly. Flight assembled architecture is a video showing small scale flying robotic agents assemble a wall over time by lifting bricks one by one and placing them in correct orientation due to pre programmed …
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apBO9pujP5E] Watch this amazing Indian village participate in a century old tradition of weaving bridges from living tree roots to combat the monsoon season. Truly amazing.
Alghorithmic Design run by Ezio Blasseti is an online repository of code used to generate form with Python and Processing. Its a priceless tutorial and content resource dedicated to “computational craft,” definitely check it out, amazing graphics as well.
