10.6.11

AnaHYBIOS 2.0 & 2.1

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7.6.11

Digital FormFinding: Mesh Relaxation

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"A physical model (as verb) is excellent because, bound as it is in actual reality (AR), it is qualitatively rich: full of dense ...

Results: AnaHYBIOS 2.0 & 2.1 _First Draft

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" When light falls on the retina of the human eye, it hits 126 million sensory cells which transform it into electrical signals. Even t...

Research Development: New FormFinding Methods_ Experiment 2.1

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The objective of the second attempt was to manipulate the geometry from the interior to the exterior. The focus was to hide and reveal while...

Research Development: New FormFinding Methods_ Experiment 2.0

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For the second formfinding method, we utilized a frame-based system where the sides of the frame are marked with holes on a grid. Two overla...

The Evolution of Designs

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Philip Steadman of the Bartlett School of Architecture, his brilliant book entitled  The Evolution of Designs: Biological Analogy in Archite...

Results: AnaHYBIOS 1.3 & 1.4

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After refining the material formation process, the analogue modeling method yielded interesting geomoetries. These geometries were observed ...

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IL 23/25 FREI OTTO STRUCTURES/EXPERIMENTS

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First Analogue Prototypes

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Our first few attempts at the analogue prototypes. The method tested was to hang fabric and pull it at nodes by applying a force, in this ca...
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C.A.S.T Team of the University of Manitoba

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An interesting article featured in the AD Magazine 'Protoarchitecture' by the cast team at the University of Manitoba. Mark West ta...
6.6.11

Heinz Isler's Frozen Pavillions

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FREI OTTO'S IL 25: PNEU AND BONE

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Otto utilized formfinding methods and was a master at translating nature's principles to laws of physics and then to architectural desi...

FormFinding

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A great research paper by Philippe Block. Formfinding has been used in architectural models to create spatial forms that are optimized for...

Workflow Diagram / Timeline

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This is our work flow diagram. A proposed map to help us reach the main objectives of the abstract of our proposal.

Turtle Shell

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The evolution of the turtle shell is seen as a biological model that offers possibilities of structural hybrids. The analogy is drawn from t...