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View ArticleMaterial Matters- New Materials in Design
This book is pretty interesting, from bio plastic, inflated glass, to aerogel the lightest solid on earth (captures stardust by NASA), the book explores loads of materials i’ve never even heard of....
View ArticlePlateau’s Laws, Soap Bubbles & Grasshopper
The Grasshopper script simulates a random soap bubble cluster starting from 3 soap bubbles of known radii based on Plateau’s Laws. All surfaces in a bubble cluster are spherical, including films...
View Article2012-2013 DS10 Unit trip to Zurich and Lausanne
Below is our schedule and some pictures from DS10′s Unit Trip to Switzerland which took place from the 15th until the 18th November 2012. We would like to thank all the following people for their...
View Article29th November 2012 Cross-Crit
Some pictures of our last Cross-Crit. Thank you very much to our crit David Andreen, Jack Munro, Dusan Decermic and Anthony Boulanger. Above: Emma Whitehead’s convection cells sectional models Above:...
View ArticleA Drawing Machine that Records the Chaos of Pinball
Just like in the pendulum-based drawing machine by Eske Rex or in the art of Tim Knowles who attaches writing implements to trees, in this latest project titled STYN by Netherlands-based graduate...
View ArticleWikihouse at TED London
Designer Alastair Parvin is the Co-creator of Wikihouse, an open-source construction set. He argues in this short presentation, that there is an economics to architecture that we don’t think about,...
View ArticleA Week at Grymsdyke Farm
We just finished our week at Grymsdyke Farm, Buckinghamshire. Ten students spent about two nights each working on their individual projects, building a 1:1 to 1:5 prototype using the available...
View ArticleMaterial Matters
Here is a video explaining the workshop “In Silico Building” (tutors: Paul EHRET & Philipp EVERSMANN) taking place in the Faculty of Architecture at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne...
View Article10 talks about the beauty -- and difficulty -- of being creative
Reblogged from TED Blog: Radio host Julie Burstein has found the perfect analogy for creativity—raku pottery. A Japanese art form in which molded clay is heated for 15 minutes and then dropped in...
View ArticleInteractive sea sponge components // Mark Simpson
For my burning man proposal I have developed a method to array components, based on the three sided spicule which react to light to form an interactive light based structure These components have...
View ArticleYou've never seen them like this!
Reblogged from sturff: Check out Seeds: Time Capsules of Life for a stunning look at one of nature's marvels! Thanks to Rob Kesseler and Wolfgang Stuppy in collaboration with Kew Royal Botanic Gardens...
View Article17th January Pin-Up
Great to be back! Here are some pictures of our pin-up. Students have 5 more days to go before their interim portfolio submission and seven days before submitting their Burning Man and Wikihouse...
View ArticleCosmic Streams
Cosmic streams celebrates water in a harsh, dry environment. Water is essential to life. It is precious and for that, we should celebrate it. Burning Man offers an environment that enhances its...
View ArticleThe Butterfly
The Butterfly has evolved through a detailed research into the system of knitting, which can be described as the art of systematically knotting thread in order to create a piece of fabric. It is...
View ArticleBurning Man Light Field
The burning man festival proposal is a light field generated by abstracting the star map of the night sky. Each angled upright element is influenced by hidden forces to generate a sculptural light...
View ArticleWATCH.POP.EAT.
WATCH.POP.EAT is an installation that focuses on the idea of ‘gifting’ through popcorn. In essence a large scale popcorn machine, that people can interact and engage with to produce an end product...
View ArticleFREEMETRY – Hygroscopic Behaviour in the Desert
Freemetry is a response to the contrast between geometry and freedom at the Burning Man festival in Nevada. The strong distinction between layout symmetry and strong guidelines, with the emphasis on...
View ArticleSuncatcher
The design of Suncatcher has derived from a flock of birds following the sun. How birds fly together is a fascinating, beautiful phenomenon, which is still progressively being researched under the...
View ArticleShipwreck
‘Shipwreck’; a plywood pavilion beached upon the sands of the Black Rock Desert by the retreating Quinn River. A standing edifice of the primal force of the elements, abandoned in a remote location...
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