Model A’la Experiment by Rasmus Svingel, model with movable surfaces as part of architectural study.

Experiment process model from Rasmus Svingel on Vimeo.

lichtscheibe

The "lichtscheibe" is a fascinating little illustration of colour theory: rotate the discs in their primary colours (red, blue and yellow) and combine them with each other to create the secondary colours (purple, orange and green). The suction cup allows you to fix the discs to a window and thus catch and play with the light coming from outside.

http://taet-tat.ch/produkte_detail_en.cfm?ID=190&kat=5

Random Geometry

http://www.namarococo.com/collection.html

wings

Suture Chair

Date: 2005
Description: An extension of the Honeycomb Morphologies/Manifold research project, the Suture Chair project uses a double-layer honeycomb system to provide both strength and flexibility to the chair. The shape of the chair itself is developed through multiple sources. The chair is designed to enable rocking and also multiple seating configurations. The outside boundary of the chair is in the shape of a suture curve, the same curve used to stitch tennis balls and baseballs together. This ring provides a boundary on which a mathematically defined minimal surface known as a Enneper surface spans. Through an iterative process whereby different variables were used within the equation, a design was established which had a desired maximum thickness at the edges and a minimum thickness at the center. Thus, where the honeycomb is the least dense, its cell depth is greatest. Likewise, the center of the chair has the highest density of honeycomb members and thus requires the least amount of structural depth in the cell.

http://matsysdesign.com/category/projects/suture-chair/

Year: 2008
Location : Berkeley Art Museum

Description: From artists such as Naum Gabo to architects such as Antoni Gaudi, Felix Candela, and Frei Otto, the geometric entity known as a hyperbolic paraboloid has emerged as something that is both formally evocative and easily constructible. Although composed of only straight lines, the hyperbolic paraboloid traces a complexly curved surface. For this installation, the central space of the Berkeley Art Museum is tied together with a series of HyPar surfaces that emerge from the upper levels and then bifurcate at each balcony, framing a series of video projections.

The installation was created to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Matrix, the contemporary art department of the Berkeley Art Museum. Although it was only commissioned for a one-night party on April 25, 2008, the curators of the museum decided to keep it up for a few months. The installation consists of around 15,000′ of nylon rope, 4 steel frames, 4 laser-cut acrylic column braces (affectionately knowns as the “armadillos”), and 4 amazing videos created by Chris Lael Larson of Natural Lighting in Portland.

Design and Fabrication
Andrew Kudless of Matsys

Design Collaborators
Lisa Iwamoto and Craig Scott of IwamotoScott

Steel Fabrication
Joel Hirschfeld of Hirschfeld Fabrications

Motion Graphics Design
Chris Lael larson of Natural-Lighting.com

http://matsysdesign.com/category/projects/branching_hypar/

thread installations

thread installations by Gabriel Dawe.

Flux architecture -cca-architecture- Medialab

http://akirampage.blogspot.com/2009_09_01_archive.html

Year: 2009
Location : California College of the Arts, San Francisco

Description: FLUX: Architecture in a Parametric Landscape by CCA Architecture/MEDIAlab is an exhibition that focuses on the emerging field of advanced digital design. In the last two decades of architectural practice, new digital technologies have evolved from being simply representational tools invested in the depiction of existing models of architectural space to becoming significant performative machines that have transformed the ways in which we both conceive and configure space and material. These tools for design, simulation, and fabrication, have enabled the emergence of new digital diagrams and parametric landscapes—often emulating genetic and iterative dynamic evolutionary processes—that are not only radically changing the ways in which we integrate disparate types of information into the design process, but are also significantly altering the methodological strategies that we use for design, fabrication and construction. After the early digital explosion of the 1990’s, new forms of rigor and production have entered into the field of architecture, supporting the emergence of parametric and building information modeling and the enhanced use of computational geometry and scripting that together represent the second critical wave of digital design practices. That our current models of space are far more continuous, variant and complex, is specifically a result of the tools we are using to produce them, an inevitable byproduct of the ever-expanding capacities of digital computation and related fabrication technologies as these intersect with theoretical trajectories that long ago dismantled the social, functional and technological truths of the early part of this century.

The FLUX exhibition was generated in conjunction with this year’s CCA Architecture Lecture Series focused on the integration of digital practices and design, CCA MEDIAlab’s digital workshops and the International Smart Geometry conference held in San Francisco in the spring of 2009. The content of the exhibition is organized through a series of thematic categories each of which explores a set of spatial logics that have been transformed through advanced digital practices: Stacked Aggregates, Modular Assemblages, Pixelated Fields, Cellular Clusters, Serial Iterations, Woven Meshes, Material Systems, and Emergent Environments. In this exhibit, these themes are elaborated through the presentation of 50 built works and experimental architectural projects, and are expanded by analytical diagrams and 3D printed models generated by CCA architecture students.

The FLUX installation, developed by a team of CCA faculty and students, also explores the possibilities of parametric modeling and digital fabrication through the production of the exhibition armature. Produced using CCA’s new CNC router and advanced parametric modeling techniques, the undulating structure expands and contracts as its volume extends down the center of the long nave space. Through the use of parametric modeling and a series of custom designed scripts, the installation design can be quickly updated to address new design criteria. From the thickness of the ribs to the overall twisting geometry and perforated skins, the spatial form of the armature is controlled through a complex set of relationships defined by its formal, performative, and fabrication constraints.

Official Credits
Architect : CCA Architecture/MEDIAlab
Location : San Francisco, United States
Date : 2008 – 2009

The FLUX installation, developed over 6 months by a team of CCA faculty and students, explores the possibilities of parametric modeling and digital fabrication at CCA. Produced using CCA’s brand new CNC router and advanced parametric modeling techniques, the structure undulates in plan and section producing a sense of expansion and contraction in the long Nave space. Through the use of parametric modeling and a series of custom designed scripts, the installation design can be quickly updated to address new design criteria. From the thickness of the ribs to the overall twisting geometry and perforated skins, the geometry is controlled through a complex set of relationships between its formal, performative, and fabrication constraints.

http://matsysdesign.com/2009/06/25/flux-architecture-in-a-parametric-landscape/

Nexus Production Offices

In east London, the company producing animated films Nexus is housed in a refurbished bank building by the agency Magma Architecture. Dans ces bureaux se mêlent neuf et ancien, entre In these offices are mixed new and old, between continuité et contraste. continuity and contrast. Les surfaces laissées brutes et les conduits apparents dialoguent avec de fins plateaux prismatiques recouvrant par endroits les murs et les plafonds. The raw surfaces left and ducts apparent dialogue with thin prismatic plates covering the walls in places and ceilings.
http://muuuz.com/2010/11/22/nexus-production-offices-par-magma/en#more-18715

Boutique Hermès Rive Gauche par RDAI

At the heart of Saint Germain des Pres in Paris, the agency Rena Dumas Architecture Interior has transformed the old pool at the Hotel Lutetia in adjusting to the first Hermès boutique on the Left Bank. Dans le grand volume laissé vide de cette piscine Art Déco, se dressent désormais quatre huttes de bois aux formes organiques. The large space left blank in this Art Deco pool, stand now four wooden huts with organic forms.
http://muuuz.com/en

Dream Excursion Module de Joachim Falser

For her diploma project design at the University of Bozen-Bolzano, Joachim False imagined the "Dream Expansion Module. Entre meuble et micro-architecture, le module habitable DEM se compose de trois parties, utilisables accolées ou séparément. Between furniture and microarchitecture, the habitable module DEM consists of three parts, used side by side or separately. Le DEM est depuis peu édité par le fabricant italien Danese Milano. The DEM has recently been published by the Italian manufacturer Danese Milano.

http://muuuz.com/2010/11/24/dream-excursion-module-par-joachim-falser/en