architecture discourse is traditionally shaped by drawings and critical writings. what happens, if they are interactive and easily translatable to the fabrication maschines code? what if they’re source is open, so that anyone can contribute? i’m currently working on a series of little design apps, focusing on specific aspects of the architecture i would like to see built… eventually. these are not made for any particular project, but rather for playfull exploration. in many cases they will be remixes or fusions of other designers work and therefore credited as such. i would love to discuss ideas about space this way.
first one happened to be about ‘saturation’-my subsitute for ‘detail’,’ornament’ or ‘articulation’. it’s neither ‘surface treatment’, nor pure texture. i’m excited about phenomenal intesity similar to Snow Crash ๐
credits and technical info: ‘saturation’ is a remix of Tommaso Casucci‘s ‘3d BZreaction’, which in turn is a quick mod of Alasdair Turner’s ‘BZ reaction’. i merged it with a little simplified version of my former ‘fusion’ codes and added ‘floorslabs’ using Shane Nelson’s ‘scalar field polygonisation‘.
February 25, 2012 at 12:59 pm
Wonderful – thanks for the inspiration ๐
February 25, 2012 at 3:08 pm
NIce
February 26, 2012 at 7:04 pm
thx
February 26, 2012 at 7:57 pm
All design is a remix, architecture is a language that gets carved in stone. What I’d like to see this process used for is iterative open source integrated engineering.
February 26, 2012 at 9:57 pm
agree. that would be great indeed, and i believe it is actually happening already little by little.
February 26, 2012 at 10:30 pm
what i would really enjoy observing, is how initial sketches like this evolve within a community, and eventually reach saturation [on engineering, conceptual, material, political level] that would enable constructing them in real scale.
February 26, 2012 at 8:56 pm
Great Work! thanks for the credits!!
February 26, 2012 at 9:53 pm
thx for inspiration!
February 27, 2012 at 11:19 am
i may repeat myself, but 2 my “winnie-the-pooh” type of mind it is pure ืืืื
Golemic Archs ๐
btw, where can I get this app?
beautiful
best
Anneke van den Royeck
February 27, 2012 at 11:25 am
thx. do you mean “embryo”, “chrysalis” or “awkward person” [ goo translate ๐ ]
it’s not for mobile platforms [yet], but there is a link to “app + code” – it’s a java application working from the browser…
February 27, 2012 at 12:01 pm
I mean Golem ๐ there is no good translation, but embryo – both pertaining to emerging idea and to the developing structure you’ve shown – is the best rendition, I suppose.
Embryo direction is a good direction – mark Fibo’s spiral:
and Foetus ๐
http://kelly-visualliteracy.blogspot.com/2011_01_01_archive.html
(I am reading Stan Tenen’s “Alphabet that changed the World”, so again am trapped in asymmetrical spirals, excellent book btw)
http://www.meetingtent.com/MeetingTent2008/Alphabet-That-Changed-World.html
Be well
March 8, 2012 at 5:16 pm
๐ kelly-visualliteracy is rather insulting, sorry… i would prefere to treat spirals more like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhyHlKHIeZY at 3:45
March 1, 2012 at 12:02 am
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October 22, 2012 at 1:10 pm
Very beautiful!!
October 22, 2012 at 1:22 pm
thank you
April 16, 2013 at 7:51 am
so good!!
April 16, 2013 at 8:43 am
thx vince