Emergent Density Final Review

Final review of the Emergent Density module. Friday 20th of July 2007:
The last weeks of work culminated in the final review. The board of critics included Oliver Bertram, head of the company Different Futures and Assistant at Greg Lynns studio of the Angewandte and Rainer Zettl, Assistant at W.D. Prix studio and main coordinator of Urban Strategies. The allover quality of the body of work was appreciated by the board, and some good advises were given about possible further proceedings with the learnt design strategies. It was interesting to see that despite the general design strategy the final results formed a variety of possible solutions. Some projects approched the problem by creating an allover connected architectural entity. Other approaches included the dissolving of mass in fibrous entities, and the creation of cellular aggregations.

Final Review 20th of July...

Dear Students:
We have confirmation for our final Review: It will take place Friday the 20th of July.
Guests will include Wolf. D. Prix, Reiner Zettl and Oliver Bertram.
It will be an evening session from 6pm to 7.30pm. So everyone of you will have aprox. 15 min. of time from presenting. So rehearse your presentations, and densify them to the max! Press the juice out of it!

Furthermore there will be the chance to 3D print on this weekend at the Angewandte, so get in contact with me if you want to make use of the chance, which I highly recommend.

One more thing: Post your results in the blog, we haven´t seen much lately!

Thursday: TopMod & Speed Pinup

Dear Students; as for Thursday I want to remind you to download the Software TopMod, that we will need for the introduction into topological mesh Modeling. It is also crucial that all of you have finished the abstract machine models of material behaviour. Don´t forget to negotiate the borders of your model to the adjanced site. Also please pinup the images you selected and the explanations in connection with the terminology of the module. Pinup the analytical drawings of your plaster models.

I´m also pleased to announce that we will have a guest critic on thursday: Rivka Oxman

Dr. Rivka Oxman is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, Technion Israel Institute of Technology. She is currently the chair of the graduate studies committee in architecture and urban design.

Her doctoral research was in the area of Design and Computation. Her research relates to the representation of design knowledge and its exploitation in computational models of design. In the area of design computation, she is investigating the impact of the current generation digital media on design thinking and the development of generative systems for architectural design. Research on digital design theories and models is formulating their contribution to the emergence of new paradigms in digital architecture.

Out of the dustbin.....

Abstract Machine7
Originally uploaded by spanpix

....and into the documentation.
Nice example of selforganizational behaviour by populations of molecules..