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No Dig for Victory

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Intersecting Geo-Dome Arcology

A modular approach to integrate nature into the city through a highly spatially and materially efficient structure.

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The Corn-Crete House System

The main aspects of the Corn-Crete House system are the use of space, material efficiency and relationship to site. The way space is shaped influences human behaviour. According to a research paper...

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The Palm Arms

  Palm trees are angiosperms, which means flowering plants. They are monocots which means their seeds produce a single, leaf-like cotyledon when they sprout. This makes palms closely related to grasses...

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Reciprocal Fern Fronds

The fern is one of the basic examples of fractals. Fractals are infinitely complex patterns that are self-similar across different scales, created by repeating a simple process over and over in a...

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Transcendental Staircase

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Bend Active

The initial aspiration of the project was to produce a method of simplifying the construction of the 5 regular platonic solids (Tetrahedron, Cube, Octahedron, Dodecahedron and Icosahedron) using only...

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Plants, Math, Spirals, & the Value of the Golden Ratio

1.0 Phyllotaxis Spirals The term phyllotaxis (from the Greek phullon ‘leaf,’ and taxis ‘arrangement) was coined around the 17th century by a naturalist called Charles Bonnet. Many notable botanists...

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The Nature of Gridshell Form Finding

Foreword This post is the third installment of sort of trilogy, after Shapes, Fractals, Time & the Dimensions they Belong to, and Developing Space-Filling Fractals. While it’s not important to have...

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Developing Space-Filling Fractals

  Foreword Following my last post on the “…first, second, and third dimensions, and why fractals don’t belong to any of them…“, this post is about documenting my journey as I delve deeper into the...

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Omnis Stellae

Omnis Stellae – Redrawing your own constellation “Only in the darkness can you see the stars” Martin Luther King   This project involves the conception and design of a new way of mapping...

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The Amazing Surf

Project Summary The Amazing Surf is a complex fractal geometry which ascends toward the light, symbolizing our obsession with reaching for the stars. We use our increasingly digital world to help us...

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Algorithmic Beetle

The first thing I hope and imagine is wonderment as you try to understand the unique geometric shape of the structure. One single winding surface, where is the  beginning, where is the end? Do they...

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The Wishing Well

Summary The Wishing Well is the physical manifestation, a snap-shot, of a creature caught in between dimensions – frozen in time. It is a digital entity that has been extracted from its home in the...

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Anahad

  ANAHAD – Limitless Sound – “Vocal music is considered to be the highest, for it is natural; the effect produced by an instrument which is merely a machine cannot be compared with that of the human...

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dis|integration[loops]

dis/integration[loops], inspired by the composer William Basinski’s seminal works of the same name, explores the limitations of digital processes in our world – and the chaos that can unfold from...

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Life’s First Flicker

Project Summary Translucent fractal ball animated by dancing color changing lights symbolizing the very first spark at the beginning of the universe as well as the spark of life that our species is on...

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The beauty of error

As our studio dipped into the complexity of fractals, it became easy to get lost. Suddenly, these geometries were everywhere. Trees, clouds, coastlines, our own bodies – all examples of fractals....

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The Curves of Life

“This is the classic reference on how the golden ratio applies to spirals and helices in nature.” – Martin Gardner What makes this book particularly enjoyable to flip through is an abundance of...

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Paolo Soleri

His life and work  (1919 – 2013) Born in Turin, Soleri studied architecture at the Polytechnic University of Turin in 1946 where he received a doctorate with highest honors. After, he moved to the...

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