IAAC MAA 2010: Digital Fabrication Class – BLOG
A young Taiwan designer Yu-Ying Wu is the author of the „Breathing“ chair, which came out as a result of an research in the field of digital fabrication. The pattern itself, although it looks randomly, was carefully studied in order to fold and shrink under the pressure of the user. The weight of the user is transferred through the three layers of foam plastic and the goal was to bend the chair in a form of an armchair.
the chair and it’s designer in action :
Andrew Kudless takes advanced and inspiration from the biology structures, use his studies to develop new artificial biology structure. His studies show that natural biology structure system are depending on the same forces that architecture structure has to deal with.The skin is a structure by its self it should not be just a shell (as we know animals skin is a part of more complex system), therefore at his work the skin is more complex it became to be the structure and the body. skin, structure and the body are one.
More then that he explore the materials he uses study their behavior, forces, form… and that for taking an advantage of it and maximize the opportunities that the material has to offer us and find the best way to use it.
Architecture firm Faulders Studio.GEOtube is a new concept for an urban sculptural tower proposed for Dubai that uses salt water to grow its own skin.
The building sucks up water from the source of the world’s saltiest ocean water, the Persian Gulf, through a 4.62 km underground pipeline, and then sprays it over a mesh facade. As the water evaporates and salt deposits aggregate over time, the tower’s appearance transforms from a transparent skin to a highly visible white solid plane. The result is a specialized habitat that provides an accessible surface to harvest salt. (images and information from http://www.welovebeautifulthings.com/)
The domed latticed pavilion is made up of several laminated strips of wood that have been bent in the middle and joined together, forming a diamond-shaped lattice-work. Adding moisture to the thin wooden elements resulted in them curving across the grain, thus increasing their structural capacity.The construction consisted of 46 groups of components while each of them consisted of 5 components: 36 identical groups of them are fabricated for the major structure, while 3 components in 6 groups of the total are fabricated differently for extreme curvature shift. Authors of the project are Architecture students Wing Yi Hui and Lap Ming Wong of the Oslo School of Architecture and Design.
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