Posts Tagged ‘ facade ’

sun facades

  • April 30th, 2010
  • Posted in Work

Here are a couple of massing models for the towers I’m currently working on.  The facades I’m developing are based on their orientation toward the sun, with south facing sides being 50% opaque to cut down on heat gain. You can see how the panels change in the video below: I am working toward creating [ READ MORE ]

Tower Power

  • April 21st, 2010
  • Posted in Work

Here are some early studies for a parametric tower that I am doing at work. It is a twisting tapering thing with cross brace structure. What I like about it right now is the accidental relationship between the facade and the structure. This reminds me of something that Patrick Schumacher was talking about at the [ 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 ]

Models

In parallel to the digital work we have been doing we have also been working in model form, trying to create physical manifestations of the digital proposals.  This has led us to many discoveries, especially in terms of how, structurally, the space “wants” to be deformed. The first models we tried were layers of cardboard [ 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.

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