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RIBA Silver Medal nomination and Burning Man build
We are pleased to announce that DS10 student Andrei Jipa has been nominated for the RIBA Silver Medal 2014, for the best part II student project in the UK. Andrei’s futuristic proposal “Solanopolis”...
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BRIEF 2014-2015
Hello Everyone, we are back for the academic year 2014-2015! This year we added a bit more depth to the brief by introducing a group study of Science-Fiction and visions of the future throughout...
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Architecture & Sci Fi Novels
Some sci fi novels you might find inspiring: Bernal Sphere; source:wikipedia.org John Desmond Bernal – The World, the Flesh and the Devil (1929) A space habitat intended for permanent residence;...
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3D Tracking and Augmented Reality
Radiohead have invested their financial resources into the development of Processing ( http://www.processing.org ). They have been using the capabilities of the software (3D tracking and sound input)...
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Beginnings of SF
Surrounded nowadays by so much science fiction material in the form of print or movies, it is often hard to think of the beginnings of SF as a popular genre. And it’s even harder to believe that this...
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Hopper Crystals
Bismuth Crystal A hopper crystal is a distinctive growth pattern that occurs in certain natural elements, including Bismuth, Galena, Gold, and Halite (salt). Hoppering occurs when electrical...
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The Ron Resch ‘Paper and Stick’ Film
Ron Resch, a visionary mathematician and designer, one of the first to explore the architectural potential of 3D tessellated structures in the 1960’s and 70’s. Amazing work!
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‘The Bug’– Factory Fifteen
Following on from talks of ‘Robots of Brixton‘, Factory 15 have recently been commissioned by Ninja Tune and the Creators Project to produce one of their artists new music videos. The Bug, depicts a...
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Technology, politics and visionaries
The beginning of the 20th century, and more specifically, the interwar, witnessed many changes, especially technology wise, which, along with the economical climate of the time and the emerging social...
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Thin Film Interference
This is the very firs experiment I did in DS10, October 2012. Even if I was unable to find an architectural application, i still find the interference colour patterns to be beautiful images, so I’m...
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17th October 2014 Tutorials
Here are couple pictures from our last tutorials. DS10 is back with some exciting experiments, models and diagrams for Brief01:Systems. From Lorna’s spiralhedrons to Sarah’s pyritohedron, Maria’s...
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Cymatics Experimentation
Following on from initial digital experimentation on Rhino and Grasshopper I decided to take some Cymatic experiments physical. First of comparing the Chladni Patterns generated by Grasshopper with the...
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Science-Fiction Timeline
DS10 started the year researching sci-fi novels, movies, magazines and technological discoveries from the past two centuries. Here are the timelines showing the historical and political events,as well...
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23rd October 2014 Tutorials
Here are couple inspiring pictures from our last tutorial. Students are now focusing on developing larger models. They will soon choose between submitting an installation for Buro Happold’s new HQ or...
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Thursday 6th November Tutorials
We just finished Brief01:System/Sci-Fi and starting Brief02:Buro/Burn – Here are couple pictures of our last tutorials by Toby Burgess. Students will be uploading their systems on Monday on this blog!...
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System Development: Spidron
First developed in 1979 by Dániel Erdély the Spidron is created by recursively dividing a 2-dimensional hexagon into triangles, forming a pattern that consists of one equilateral followed by one...
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system development: crystal growth & mineral deposition
The investigation started by the examination of stalagmites and stalactites as a naturally growing system. Water carrying dissolved calcite is deposed gradually, creating layers of crystalissed mineral...
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System Development: The Inversion Principle
The Inversion Principle is a mathematical formula that maps points from inside to outside a circle and vice versa, governed by the equation MQ = r2/MP where [MP] is the distance between the origin of...
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Rheotomic Surfaces
The concept Rheotomic surface’s was developed by Daniel Piker and involves the mathematical generation of ‘walkable’ interconnected surfaces. With ‘Rheo’ from the Greek for flow and ‘Tomos’ meaning cut...
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Generating Sand Dunes
Having had a look at 2000-2015 sci-fi glimpses into the future, climate change remained a constant, unchanged factor of influence. This study investigates the basics of desertification, how dunes are...
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