Archive for the ‘ Competitions ’ Category

Fargo Competition

  I recently competed another competition.  This one was for a multi-use building in  Fargo, North Dakota.  The results were not what I would call interesting, but I was very happy with my own results.  I worked on this project mostly on my own, with some help from Dennis Park and Daniel Yep Taboada. &nbsp[ READ MORE ]

Taiwan Tower

We have finished work on the Taiwan Tower competition.  The winner for the this competition is Dorin Stefan.  In general the results were a bit crazier than what we proposed. The project was based on overlapping layers of a diagrid geometric pattern, created by rotating a fat triangle. The overlapping rotation created opportunities for different [ READ MORE ]

Hong Kong Border Crossing

The results for the Hong Kong – Macao Border Crossing have been released. While the projects are high quality I think we deserved more consideration.  The project we submitted was more developed than some of the those that were awarded. These are the panels that we submitted. Please feel free to compare for yourself and [ READ MORE ]

UCMR-ADA Second Place

This project that I did last September with Karol Markos & Westforth Architecture won second place in a revised competition.  After  being originally canceled, the competition was relaunched with slightly different parameters.  Our design didn’t change on the exterior, though some interior modifications were done to meet the new requirements. I think this means that [ READ MORE ]

Border Office

This is part of the competition that I just finished, but it doesn’t figure too much in the submission, so I think I can share it early. This was for offices in the passenger terminal. I had a short time to work and used very simple computational techniques which gave differentiation while also following structural [ READ MORE ]

Hong Kong Boundary Crossing Facilities (HKBCF)

Just started working on a competition with Tom Verebes, who was teaching at the DRL while I was there, and a couple of other former DRL students including Praneet Verma and Rochana Chaugule, who were in my year. The project is for a Customs point on a bridge that links Honk Kong with Macau.  Like [ READ MORE ]

Green 360 – Facade Process

The process of creating the tree like facades was developed using the Lindemayer System algorithm which is used to mimic plant life and is also the basis of many fractal patterns.  This type of algorithm was usefull because of the amount of parameters we could adjust. We controlled the number of branches, their length, the [ READ MORE ]

Green 360: The Results

The results for the competition that I finished in mid-December with Tudor Timotin and Karol Markos were announce recently (see the lower left corner of the site).  We did not win.  The winning proposal in all our opinions is pretty boring as are most of the other winning projects, with the exception of the Portuguese [ READ MORE ]

L-system Facade

OK, so I lied, I actually do have something to post.  But I didn’t have it earlier today. It’s something that I’m working on, just admire its prettiness for now.  I’ll explain its purpose later. It was made in Rhino, using grasshopper.  And is based on L-system geometry.  It is one algorithm in which the [ READ MORE ]

Log Cover Postcard

I just did a small competition for Log magazine.  They asked for post card and 100 word text for their cover.  I proposed a folding postcard instead of an image, the text argues why. Image-Less Architecture can no longer be truly represented through images.  In a society that is flooded every moment with countless images, [ READ MORE ]

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This blog is part of my work with computational architecture. I studied at the AA DRL and have been working with various collaborators on projects around the world since finishing in February 2009.

I am interested in how parametric design can be used to simultaneously distribute and articulate space. I try to achieve this through the processes of architecture from conception to construction.

MATEI DENES

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