Author Archives: iaac

Embryologic house, Greg Lynn Greg Lynn’s Embryologic house is characterized by its “blobural” flexible form. It is digititally designed and can take various forms to fit even in the most unusual landscapes. The prototype was produced by cnc machines for the Venice Biennale of Architecture 2000. Greg Lynn uses software tools to produce a non [...]

Burst *003, System Architects Burst *003 is based on parametric design and is constructed using contemporary, digital methods which provide the best use of the materials. It consists of an organic frame of linear elements connected by steel X-clips to support its strange form. Source: Bergdoll Barry, Christensen Peter [2008], Home Delivery, Fabricating the modern [...]

Variomatic house, Kas Oosterhuis Kas Oosterhuis’s Variomatic house is an innovating project in which architecture is considered as a dynamic process where the information and its flow are used to shape the final object. It is based on the interactive relation between the house and its user who can define the shape, the dimensions and [...]

BMW Welt, Munich Coop Himmelblau proposed this innovative design of Munichs BMW world, which was chosen to be built in December of 2001. Although an effort has been made to blend the building into its surroundings, Munich’s Olympic park, this building undoubtedly catches the eye of the beholder. A 16 000 square meter cloud shape [...]

This quircky 3-D print was made by Ergun Akleman. Its organic shape is fluid, curved and interlocked. Although not excessively complicated it is a beautiful example of the possibilities of 3D printing. The design brings across a sense of unity which I feel is reserved for objects printed with this technology. In addition to the [...]

The structure of dunescape has been used sometmes as an architectural concept. The contribution  of the modeling  software has been valuable in those cases. Two “examples” of such an attempt follow. The first is the city of culture of Galicia by Eisenman Architects.  The topography of the site distorts the geometry of the  model which is [...]

RCO Office, Mumbai, Serie Architects. I came across this unfamiliar process called Rapid Prototyping method (3d Model Printing) for the first time when I was working with an architectural firm (serie architects) at Mumbai in 2008. The office building that I was working on had a complex membrane in the form of a twisting atrium, [...]

Croatian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale The floating pavilion is built on an existing barge with dimensions of 10m x 20m x 3m. The pavilion structure is in the form of a cargo of 32 tons of welded wire mesh, with more than 40 layers spaced so that they form a solid volume with approximate [...]

material systems // c-wall The c-wall project is the latest development in an ongoing area of research into cellular aggregate structures that has examined honeycomb and voronoi geometries and their ability to produce interesting structural, thermal, and visual performances. The voronoi algorithm is used in a wide range of fields including satellite navigation animal habitat [...]

emergent architecture // european solidarity center The massing of the project relates very specifically to the existing landform of the Solidarity  Square. This square has an existing topography which is inclined toward the ESC site. The proposal is to extend this slope upward to define a low, stealthy building mass which becomes a long-span Shell. [...]