Moody Adaptation

 

Really a mood board? So as part of our the­sis con­cept devel­op­ment stage we were asked to think about the user and come up with a mood board. This is the board that I made at first thought. But I am going to include a series of links and images asso­ci­ated with the link that seem to be more a kin to what I am inter­ested in pur­su­ing this time around.

Lift Archi­tects. Though the image below is of an object the rea­son why I am post­ing this is because Andrew Payne of Lift Archi­tects  and Jason Kelly of Future Cities Lab have pub­lished Fire­fly a tool that bridges the gap between grasshop­per, arduino, the inter­net and well what­ever you might image! The 5 Axis robotic motion con­troller for design­ers shown below is imbed­ded with high pre­ci­sion pots as sen­sors. These take real time input and trans­late the move­ments directly into machine code for fabrication!

My inter­est for the­sis lies in how to use sen­sors and data col­lected from these to form designs of smarter build­ings. Obvi­ously as a designer you should also curate what comes out of it. Abstracted forms, though poten­tially aes­thet­i­cally pleas­ing, should not be fetishize. Tech­nol­ogy is a tool. We must learn how to use it to cre­ate forms with mean­ing, con­cept, and symbolism.

Mov­ing Build­ing Facades

Kiefer Tech­nic Bad Gle­ichen­berg is a dynamic facade that can be adapted to the needs and chang­ing con­di­tions of its users. This facade is con­tin­u­ously moving.

Aper­ture is a facade instal­la­tion with inter­ac­tive dis­play modes. For project details see The Green Eyl

FLARE is a pneu­matic build­ing facade system.

Tech­no­rama by Ned Khan employs the ele­ments as the main actu­a­tors for this seem­ingly liv­ing facade. I admire greatly the work of Ned Khan.

Jean Nouvel’s Insti­tut du Monde Arabe in Paris is con­tex­tu­ally and func­tion­ally sen­si­tive and way ahead of its time.

Hoberman’s Auden­cia Provin­cial though never built was designed to min­i­mize solar gain.

4d-Pixel is a smart sur­face. It reacts to sounds and is a wall that moves with you. Sounds like my own lit­tle attempts at this my first year but any­way I love the work that Stu­dio Roosegaarde is doing.

Flow 5.0 is also by Stu­dio Roosegaard.

And then there is Spencer Finch whose work is sim­ply sub­tle. His 2 hours, 2 min­utes, 2 sec­onds (Wind at Walden Pond, March 12, 2007) is a an expe­ri­en­tial and spa­tial instal­la­tion where the user is brought into the artist’s expe­ri­ence of Walden Pond. This piece how­ever is not a real time instal­la­tion nor is it a build­ing or wall though it might be con­sid­ered a part of one.