Protocol Infrastructure attempts to approach the design of infrastructure in an alternative, bottom-up fashion, that is not based on master planning but instead on the development of a protocol that would allow infrastructure to ’self-organize’, adapting at the same time to the conditions that it encounters. The characteristics of such an approach are illustrated through the example of a structure, designed for the San Francisco Bay, which aims to the development of a system that ... Read Full Story
Noise is an unwanted random addition to a wanted signal [...] In Information Theory, however, noise is still considered to be information... (from wikipedia.org)I would add, that sometime noise is the information. In these images an array/field of boxes is created, using the noise3, noise 4 and fractalNoise functions that MaxScript provides. The function is affecting each time the scale of the boxes. Read Full Story
Algorithmic Design is a new book published in Japan that focuses on the integration of algorithmic processes in architectural design. It features a reference on the Pattern Formation class that I was teaching last year at Washington University, in the last part of the book that discuses algorithmic design and education. Read Full Story
I was playing with MaxScript, trying to see how I can rewrite the .mel ca script and at the end I came up with a much more elaborate version for 3ds max, that implements 18 different sets of rules.CA are quite critical for what I am researching right now (self-organization that is...). It is really impressive how different classes of rules produce different results, from quickly normalized ones to totally chaotic (rule 30).The script is available for downloading at the tools section. Read Full Story
Two events on the commons, An Architektur at Athens Bienniale 2009, July 3+4The notion of private property is crucial to capitalism. For the last 30 years the neoliberal agenda helped to transform the urban landscape into a field of commodities dominated by the claims of capitalist utilization: Its perpetual need to find further profitable terrains for capital accumulation resulted in the commodification and privatization of former public properties, services and spaces that had long been con... Read Full Story
This is a project, already quite old, that we presented at the 2005 UIA conference in Istanbul. It looks like it took some time but finally they published a selection from the presentations, including ours, under the title "Folding the Suburbs". I hope that it still makes some sense after five years... It was written and presented in collaboration with Vana Tentokali, Katerina Tryfonidou & Magdalena Pantazi. Read Full Story
Both Axi:Ome books are finally out! The first one (spacial practice) contains the earlier projects and the second one (damdi is.32 - between practice and education) the latest projects. It might sound strange coming from me, but I don't think that there are many practices with such quality and consistency of work, so these two books are really valuable!You can find the first one here and the damdi here. Read Full Story
I finally found some time to wrap the ca mel scripts with a UI and to upload the at the /tools section of the blog. The following images are some examples where I used the ca in orders to generate geometry; surfaces in these cases. Read Full Story
The design for a temporary gallery space. Dimensions 10’X20’X10’. It explores the idea of having two ‘layers’ of transparency. One defined by the transparency/translucency of the material of the panels; the other defined by the size of the holes of the panels.The grasshopper definition for the panels here. Read Full Story
