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Designing Associativity Seminar Presentations

iaac — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 15:22:39 +0000

The Designing Associativity Seminar is titled as such in order to acknowledge the effort of designing relationships versus explicit objects or forms. MAA Students look at ways to construct logics which take advantage of diverse data sources, algorithms, geometry, and manufacturing processes.

Architecture as a practice and experience has often dealt with the negotiation of several elements rendered in a built space. The tools of the trade (both conceptual and instrumental) have played a crucial role in defining how architecture and design evolve through form, materials, scale, and performance. In the end though, designing has always been and will always continue to be about designing associations.

The image below shows a project that uses solar panels that rotate according to sun location to capture the most solar energy possible. Project presented by MAA students Tomas Vivanco and Javier Gonzalez.

Above: A modular wind turbine system that changes direction based on wind data (like wind direction, speed, etc.) obtained from a website. Project by Vittal Siridharan and Harshad Sutar.

Data Machines – Designing Associativity Seminar

iaac — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 11:45:45 +0000

For Designing Associativity Seminar MAA students had to fabricate a machine which responds to data collected from a source. This is one of the projects for the seminar, developed by Julian Hildebrand and Ohad Meyuhas, that is controlled by Firefly (Grasshopper) through an Arduino board.

Simulation of louver movement react to sun change. (watch a student video of the project in motion video-1 and video-2)

More information about the work students are doing for the Design Associativity Seminar can be found on the seminar working blog: legacy.iaacblog.com/designingassociativity/

MAA Student Research Assignment: Shading Devices for a Façade

admin — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 11:01:52 +0000

Shading devices for a Façade, is a student research assignment, still under development, by IAAC MAA students Francisco Marmolejo, Marisa Margariti and Mathew Owen for the Designing Associativity seminar. These devices will open or close as they collect data from solar sensors connected to them. The goal for this assignment is to implement data flow into a physical object in order to investigate the relationship between information, design, and fabrication using parametric software.

To learn more about what MAA students are working on in the Designing Associativity seminar visit the seminar blog at: legacy.iaacblog.com/designingassociativity

Francisco Marmolejo working on details.