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Master Project Theme I: Eco-Machinic Apparatus

By iaac | Published: June 20, 2010

The Eco-Machinic Apparatus for each student is developing. With Claudia Pasquero and Marco Poletto from ecologicstudio as tutors students had been showing their development in research of their specific apparatus. Branching mechanisms, creating forms out of melted wax, recycling materials, and lots of other different systems where one can read and interpret different situations based on [...]

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SELF ORGANIZING BRANCHING_experiment 02

By | Published: June 8, 2010

For this experiment the materials used were, wax, plaster and soapy water+wax. The mappings were a 2×2 and a 3x3cm grid and the length was 40cm. Being able to use materials that can freeze the moment makes it easier to analise the results but on the other hand it loses the on going possibility of [...]

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SELF ORGANIZING BRANCHING_experiment 01

By | Published: June 8, 2010

The first experiment uses soapy water and wool threads to simulate self organizing branching. Different mapping and different lengths were used to test the conditions in which the branching happens. Watch video HERE

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Urban Emergence // Renovation Strategies.

By iaac | Published: May 26, 2010

  (HYPO) T H E S I S :  Biologically inspired, urban renovation strategies can trigger a healthier and harmonious urban expansion model. Cities are growing like never before. This is an opportunity to redefine our conception of neighborhood and plan for a sustainable urban environment, inspired on the logics of nature.  Eco-machinic Apparatus as a tool [...]

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Operational Landscape: Mumbai "slum" Renovation

By | Published: May 6, 2010

Urban scale and it´s complexities TEAM: Moises Gamus, Michael Harrison.  FACULTY: Luis Falcon, Hemant Purohit Research on the reorganization of flows and forces that give shape to a city. Starting point: THE VOID (i.e. public space). Finding optimal walking distances between main public spaces (250 mts), a network of movility and interaction mingles through the [...]

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