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Master Project Theme I: Eco-Machinic Apparatus

iaac — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 16:23:34 +0000

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 the research theme, With two weeks left to develop their projects, students are preparing for their final research outcome and documentation of the process.

SELF ORGANIZING BRANCHING_experiment 02

Tue, 08 Jun 2010 09:37:44 +0000

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 self organizing over and over again.

Because of technical difficulties it was impossible to dip the sample more than once, and that made the results very unstable. I’m now working on a new apparatus that will allow even longer samples to be dipped many times giving them more stability.

Watch video HERE

SELF ORGANIZING BRANCHING_experiment 01

Tue, 08 Jun 2010 09:30:43 +0000

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

Urban Emergence // Renovation Strategies.

iaac — Wed, 26 May 2010 22:58:38 +0000

(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 to observe and test natural behaviors of aggregation, dissasociation and boundary (re)definition, based on density gradients and heat-induced deformations.

eco-apparatus video CLICK HERE

Operational Landscape: Mumbai "slum" Renovation

Thu, 06 May 2010 13:39:43 +0000

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 built environment, emulating the current urban tissue which is a result of self organization… Learning from self organization, understanding its simple rules and its emerging complexity.

Mumbai´s reality:

TOO dense and still growing.

Scarcity of resources: Water, energy and waste management; conflict in movility and lack of personal living space.

THE SITE: Saki-Naka / Asalfa

Site Analysis

SWOT Analysis

Insolation analysis and WindFlows

ZONING DIAGRAM. Based on urban densitiy and context (natural and urban)

ZONING DIAGRAM // DENSITY STUDIES

Program organization based on distance from metro station and topographic conditions.