Monthly Archives: October 2010

Freedom Of Creation (FOC) is where cutting edge technology meets design. FOC is a pioneering design and research company, specialized in designing with 3D printing technologies. The outcome of this work is either part of the FOC Collection or commercialized by other design labels. Since 2000, the extensive research conducted by FOC in design with [...]

by Gehry Partners Las Vegas, NV, USA The Lou Ruvo Brain Institute is a health care facility specializing in research and care for Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, Huntington’s, ALS, and Memory Disorders. The facility has approximately 31,000 square feet of clinical care and research space; and nearly 7,000 square feet is dedicated to the Museum of the [...]

Bathsheba Grossman, Santa Cruz, California has created this lamp which is a 3D sculpture. She says, “advanced prototyping went from something that was completely in-house at Boeing to something you walk in off the street and order. I can’t tell you how cool it is to have your own small hunk of metal.” This shows [...]

Geotube is a proposal from Berkeley-based Faulders Studio for Dubai (natch) that self-generates a salt-based skin with seawater.  The building’s skin is entirely grown and is in continual formation rather than fully completed.  The building sucks up water from the Persian Gulf through a 4.62 km underground pipeline, and then sprays it over its mesh facade. The water [...]

Renaissance Pavilion features an inflatable structural skin that is precision-cut by computer-controlled machines. It fully inflates in a little more than an hour, and the entire skin is 100% recyclable through a process called Texyloop. Wind turbines will help generate the power needed to maintain the inflatable structure and any lighting systems deployed during the [...]

Based upon 3-dimensional “cellular automata”, m.any displays the concept and prototypical realization of a complete digital work flow from parametric design to production on CNC-machines. An irregular spatial structure generated by algorithms was controlled and manipulated through an especially developed software. In addition to the calculation of the complex geometry, the software also generated necessary [...]

Christina Doumpioti Architectural Association, Emergent Technologies + Design The core idea of this research is the incorporation of the morphogenetic principles found in natural systems in the generation of fibre-composite structures by exploiting, at the maximum, the intrinsic performative capacities of the material system in use. The intention is the integration of form, material, structure [...]

DUBAI, UAE 2006 Construction 2007 Size: 31,400 sq. m Type: Office Structure: Concrete Shell, steel, glass In May of 2009, the exterior shell of O-14 was topped out, revealing the full height concrete exoskeleton, which surrounds the tower in a lace-like veil. O-14, a twenty-two storey tall commercial tower perched on a two-storey podium in [...]