Intersecting Geo-Dome Arcology
A modular approach to integrate nature into the city through a highly spatially and materially efficient structure.
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleReciprocal 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...
View ArticleBend 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...
View ArticlePlants, 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleDeveloping 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...
View ArticleOmnis 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleAlgorithmic 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleAnahad
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...
View Articledis|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...
View ArticleLife’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...
View ArticleThe 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....
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticlePaolo 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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