Hello Everyone – Back in our studio studying mathematical, biological and made-made systems using parametric tools and digital fabrication for our BRIEF01: EXPLORE. Here are couple highlights from yesterday’s tutorial showing the initial study models and drawings needed to explain the rules of the system and their creative possibilities.
We had our final crit today! Great projects concluding our brief2B:Realize. Here are couple pictures. Thank you very much to our external critiques Daewha Kang (Associate Zaha Hadid Architects), Lawrence Friesen (GenGeo), Stephen Melville (Director Ramboll UK), James Solly (Buro Happold), Michael Clarke and to our colleagues Anna Liu and Roberto Botazzi.
Our studio is back after a month of holidays. Here are couple pictures from our tutorials today. Impressive progress from our students including a 3D printed potato-based fractal civilization (Andrei Jipa), a series of recursive bamboo structures for the Durga Puja festival (Dhiren Patel), an origami roof for the fashion week (Charlotte Yates), a spiky eco-retreat to meet the Sami people (Natasha Coutts), a temple for the Burning Man festival made of reciprocal plywood components (Joe Leach), a hypar tower for the Damyang Bamboo festival (William Garforth-Bless), a Pop-Up book drop pavilion (Ieva Ciocyte), a surreal Dali Museum in the Park (Lorna Jackson), a promenade concert in Hyde Park (Sarah Shuttleworth) and many more… We are so excited by the diversity of projects this year and the clear continuity between our brief2A and brief2B. Looking forward to the final crit on Thursday 15th May!
We just finished our last tutorials of the first term! Congratulations to all the students for the great three months and looking forward to the remaining two terms.
Students completed both briefs (brief01:systems and brief2A:festival) and are starting the case studies of events as part of our last brief (brief2B:realise).
Here are couple pictures of the projects we have seen during the last tutorials. Where do you suggest building the structures over the summer?
Merry Christmas & best wishes for the New Year!!
“Manuel A. Báez is an Associate Professor at Carleton University, Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism, where he is also the Coordinator of Crossings Inerdisciplinary Research and the Director of the Carleton De-Formation Research Unit. Previously, he worked and practiced in New York City while teaching at the Architecture Schools at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art and the Rhode Island School of Design.
His work as an architect, artist and researcher draws inspiration from the generative potential of the forms, structures and integrative systems generated by elemental processes that exist throughout the natural environment. His educational concerns, interests and objectives are focused on the development of teaching methods and procedures derived from the research.”
Below are some images of his work, students work and his TED lecture. He explores the “malleability of weaved bamboo cells assembled as a fabric” and produces beautiful thin and delicate generative structures.
Above: ©Manuel A. Báez, Suspended Animation: Coiled serpent, from the Phenomenological Garden Installation , Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bamboo dowels & rubber bands. Fabrication from membrane assembled with square cellular units.
Above: ©Manuel A. Báez Crossings Workshop, Suspended Animation Series: Cellular Forms Studies. Work from the Crossings Workshop by Diana Park using heptagonal cellular units casting shadows on wall.
Above: ©Manuel A. Báez, Phenomenological Garden Installation, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bamboo dowels & rubber bands. Two columns are transformed into an intricately patterned ceiling structure. Emergent patterns are revealed as one walks around the installation or, as shown in Fig. 2, as one looks at the reflected ceiling. Fabrication from membrane assembled with square cellular units.
Above: ©Manuel A. Báez, Crossings Workshop Exhibition, Suspended Animation Series: Cellular Forms Studies, Koussevitzky Art Gallery, Berkshire Community College, Pittsfield, MA, Bamboo dowels & rubber bands. Works by Crossings Workshop students using membranes assembled from cellular units.
Above: ©Manuel A. Báez Crossings Workshop, Suspended Animation Series: “Torus”, Cellular Forms Studies, Bamboo dowels & plastic tubing. Work from the Crossings Workshop by Natalia Kukleva using square cellular units, 6′ – 0″ diameter. Top: side view, bottom: view from above.
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