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Airport Progress

john — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 06:42:16 +0000

Beginning of including the Robot structural analysis into the workflow. Running a script through catia, Robot can now dynamically update and change from fixed to free columns - a structural objective. While programmatic and surface are efficiency requirements tend to create hanging and clumping column elements that directly compete with the structural program, which will optimize the ratio of hanging vs. full height columns and the angle and placement of the supports. The interior airport terminal space is engaged in a dance to optimize for the most efficient arrangement to satisfy multiple objectives.
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VOTE!

jackie — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 19:51:46 +0000

In one week, we can choose hope over fear, unity over division, the promise of change over the power of the status quo. In one week, we can come together as one nation, and one people, and once more choose our better history.
—Barack Obama, October 27, 2008

Evolving Designs_Midterm

john — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 01:44:25 +0000

If there’s one thing I learned from midterm, it’s that it’s hard as hell to explain these projects to a jury in less than six minutes, and unfortunately a lot of the discussions invariably include detours into how the process works and what exactly the parametric inputs and geometric objectives were meant to show. You can download the pdf presentation here, to get a better feel for the project, otherwise the general gist of the attached image is showing that after 23 generations of designs (100 designs per generation) the form started optimizing for structure and placed the columns at opposite ends of the space frame to minimize deflection. The columns include programmatic space and another goal was that they begin to clump together and cease to be columns, but begin to evolve into stalagmite forms hanging from the roof. The challenge moving forward becomes to begin to wrap the design possibilities into a coherent narrative regarding an airport in the completely insane site in Mumbai.
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WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART

jackie — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 01:56:07 +0000

Just a couple of shots from our visit to the Whitney Museum, designed by Bauhaus-trained architect Marcel Breuer. We so love the eye. Once again I was too lazy to try to steal some shots of the inside, although we also went to the new MAD museum at Columbus Circle where I got yelled at for exactly that. (more…)

Breeding Designs

john — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 21:28:00 +0000

Mix up a little computer science, genetic algorithms, with a touch of structural analysis and a bit of Architecture and you have our Proof3 studio. We’re using an exciting suite of programs - Catia, ModeFrontier, and Robot Stuctural Analysis to ideally create “unexpected, high-performing designs.” Parametric modeling software can produce infinite variations of the same design, and the goal of the studio is to use metrics and performance based testing to produce optimal solutions through the process of testing. Visit the studio blog here.

BROOKLYN BACHELOR PAD

jackie — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 01:01:25 +0000

I shot the ultimate bachelor pad in Brooklyn last week. Aside from lots of shiny, expensive cars, great art, cigars, and other man-toys, my favorite aspect of this pad was located next store. Rather than cook for yourself (in a badass blue kitchen, mind you), why not just open a restaurant steps away in which you can have all of your meals? Genius! (more…)

Re-rendering

john — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 01:38:31 +0000

Sometimes you can’t let a project go. Working on some renders for my ultrareal class in 3dsMax using my project for the summer.
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processing sketch

john — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 01:07:18 +0000

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Islesboro, Maine

jackie — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 01:51:46 +0000

I spent a glorious long weekend in Islesboro, Maine, last weekend. Growing up, I came to this island with a population of 600 nearly every summer. I was excited to see how my perceptions would change now that I am a big person. Surprisingly, it was just as charming as I remembered it…maybe even more so. I spent plenty of time shooting water and buoys for John, who was unable to accompany me. Make sure to click on the panorama where you can really see the morning haze “burning off” (complete with Papa Caradonio on the far left for scale).
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final proposal, first semester

john — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 01:07:31 +0000

Moving forward from midterm, I began identifying eight specific sites in the six battleground states that will have the most impact on the 2008 election. Two sites were explored further, specifically the purplest county - Franklin - in the purplest state - Ohio - located in the Columbus metroplex area. The Easton Town Center in Ohio displays a number of contradictions, home to the largest university in the country, but also numerous military contracting connections, including North American Aviation which manufactured components for the B-1 bomber in addition to missiles and guidance systems.

Each site was chosen not only for its status as a battleground state, but also as the 21st century incarnation of what constitutes public and civic space in America today, the outdoor shopping, dining, living spaces that are labeled as the new urban Town Centers, evolutions of the 1970s covered mall. If the goal is to affect and inform the greatest number of voters/shoppers, this is where the project would have to go, a placeless place lacking any form of civic engagement. (more…)