Title: Materialize Information

Category: #formsgeneratedbysensing #visualdata #spatialdatavisualization

Author: Greg Nemes

Year: 2009

Url: http://www.gregnemes.com/materialize-information/

Description: This project is an exploration of the use of rhinoscripting – specifically in terms of data interpretation. The script takes data from a GPS, heart rate monitor, and stopwatch. During a 12 mile run, I tracked my heart rate, pace, latitude/longitude and elevation. This data was then interpreted by the script – generating a form that visualizes the relationship of the data to one another.

Title: Phototropia

Category: #smartmaterial #bioplastics #electro-active polymers

Author: Computer Aided Architectural Design, ETH Zurich

Year: 2012

Url: https://vimeo.com/materiability

Description: Phototropia is part of an ongoing series on the application of smart materials in an architectural context and was realized in April 2012 by the Master of Advanced Studies class at the Chair for CAAD. The project combines self-made electro-active polymers, screen-printed electroluminescent displays, eco-friendly bioplastics and thin-film dye-sensitized solar cells into an autonomous installation that produces its required energy from sunlight and - when charged - responds to user presence through moving and illuminating elements.

Title: Surface Tension. The Future of Water

Category: #designfordebate #art #science

Author: Science Gallery Exhibition

Year: 2012

Url: http://eyebeam.org/events/summer-exhibit-surface-tension

Description: The future of water is the subject of tension. Water is both disposable and sacred, a muse for artists and a necessity for life – a source of healing and of conflict. The Earth has abundant water, but only a very small proportion is available for human use. How should this be managed and sustained, and what would a water-scarce future look like?

The exhibition features innovative artworks, events, and a lab in the gallery, all of which explore the complex tensions surrounding the future of water.

Title: Murmuration

Category: #computationinnature #complexsystem

Author: Catherine Ulitsky

Year: 2011

Url: http://www.visualnews.com/2012/05/09/geometric-order-amidst-starling-chaos/

Description: A murmuration of starlings may seem random, but one artist has found the geometric order to this phenomenon of nature in her work. Catherine Ulitsky, an artist living in western Massachusetts, captured the unique flock patterns of the starling murmurations on camera and gave order to the seemingly random group by painting connections between the birds.

Title: Crystal Growth

Category: #self-growth #selfassembly

Author: Tokujin Yoshioka

Year: 2012

Url: http://electropatchwork.wordpress.com/2012/04/26/crystal-growth-by-tokujin/

http://www.domusweb.it/en/design/mother-of-invention-second-nature-by-tokujin/

Description: Tokujin Yoshioka does not sculpt his work, but grows it. His Venus chair was created by immersing a plastic mesh substrate into a tank filled with a chemical solution. Gradually crystals precipitate onto the substrate and give structure to the chair. It might not be the most comfortable place to take a seat, but it’s a great example of guided growth

Title: Approxymotion

Category: #roboticenvironments #responsiveenvironments

Author: Peter A Vikar

Year: 2012

Url: http://www.petervikar.com/

Description: Approxymotion is research project focusing on motion based forming. Its an attempt to apply the logic of digital design into the physical space. Traditionally in architecture forms are transferred from paper/virtual space to building through fixed shaped moulds or as an assembly of many elements. My goal was to set the mould into motion, while maintaining the parametric nature inherited from the digital model. The result is a motion-form that computes between the initial motion input, the built geometry and its material properties. The nested relation (corner cutting) from rough to smoothened layers display the gradient condition from the accuracy of robotic motion control to the averaging behavior of the elastic net.

Title: Reactive Acoustic Environments

Category: #responsiveenvironments

Author: Eric Ameres, Seth Edwards, Guillermo Bernal and Zackery Belanger

Year: 2012

Url: http://www.archdaily.com/226518/manta-installation/

Description: Manta is a surface that changes its form – and therefore acoustic character – in response to multimodal input including sound, stereoscopic vision, multi-touch, and brainwaves. While adaptable acoustics are common, Manta explores new levels of continuity and responsiveness, advancing acoustic systems beyond individual elements and corrective treatment.

Title: The R18 ULTRA CHAIR

Category: #interactivefabrication #responsiveenvironments

Author: Clemens Weisshaar and Reed Kram

Year: 2012

Url: http://r18ultrachair.com/

Description: It consists of three main components: a carbon composite seat, a carbon-rubber composite back rest and aluminium alloy legs which can be compacted and transported in a lightweight flat-pack box.  Its genesis incorporates crowd-sourced data acquired through thousands of testing sessions using advanced industrial sensors whose data is processed by custom algorithms to adjust the final geometry and construction of the end product accordingly.

Title: Hydro-Fold

Category: #selffolding

Author: Christophe Guberan

Year: 2012

Url: http://www.creativeapplications.net/other/hydro-fold-by-christophe-guberan-self-folding-inkjet-printed-paper/

Description: The inkjet printer prints patterns that contort pieces of paper into specific 3D forms. Dezeen reports that the modified printer uses a mixture of water and ink in the cartridge and causes the paper to fold along wet lines and humid areas. Different patterns, grids and shapes can be printed on paper using this specific liquid. While drying, the paper contorts, folds and retracts around the printed and humid areas, transforming it self from a 2-dimensional paper sheet to a 3-dimensional structure where lines become edges and surfaces become volumes.

Title: Knitectonics

Category: #digitalfabrication

Author: Sanhita Chaturvedi, Esteban Colmenares and Thiago Mundim, DRL AA

Year: 2011

Url:

Description: The research aimed at exploring digital fabrication systems that facilitate optimized, adaptive and specific integrated architectural solutions.  It is inspired by the beauty of nature systems with their inherent efficiency and performance. The project explored on-site fabrication of monocoques structures, thereby integrating skin and structure, along with services and infrastructure, with a household technique like knitting. It thus embodies a self organized micro system of textures and a macro system of structure. The book elaborates how the numeric aspects of a textile technique were used, first to digitally imitate the process of assembly and further exploited to develop and visualize a novel fabrication system, based on material research and technical experimentation. The digital machinic system was then deployed on a test site to demonstrate the tectonic capacity of the method developed.

Title: Responsive Architecture

Category: #responsivearchitecture

Author: Chin Koi Khoo

Year: 2012

Url: http://www.nzarchitecture.com/blog/index.php/2012/03/06/responsive-architect-koi-khoo/

Description: A materially responsive architecture. Suspended on an aluminum tensegrity frame, Khoo gets his architecture to sense, react, and move, by carefully composing material composites to naturally contract in certain weather, or illuminate in low light levels, or to sense the proximity of a human passing by.

Title: P&A Lab

Category: #generativesystems #emergentbehaviour #formsgeneratedbycode #agent based model

Author: P&A Lab

Year: 2012

Url: http://pandalabccc.blogspot.com.es/

Description: Programming and Architecture Lab