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Fast Company pits real urban planners against each... →
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City Island Library
The site of the Library for City Island rests behind a row of bungalows on King Avenue. The regularity of size and repetition of the bungalows provide a well-established sense of scale that is applicable to the island as a whole and can be used to inform the library’s design. However, the form of the library emerge by disrupting that pattern and realigning the three bungalows closest to...
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December 2011
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Structural Ribs for Parametric Shelter (Part 2)
The first part of developing a structure that looks kind of similar to the one above is to develop an armature for the model. In the previous post, I started with a large curve and wrapped the shell over it. This tutorial will showcase an algorithm for the structural ribs. The curvature of the ribs was really my own quick guestimation on how the ribs were developed at Waterloo, but I’m...
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Emergent Systems
Emergent Systems is an attempt to find an architectural logic latent in a model material, in this case rigid vinyl sheets. Through simple manipulations of cellular units of this material, structure, enclosure and volumes can be found and created over aggregated conditions.
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Tiber Institute at the Forum Boarium
The Tiber Institute is a think tank devoted to the discussion and research of water conservation. The city of Rome has always understood the value of water both as a necessity for life as well as an element of spectacle. The institute’s site, the Forum Boarium near the Tiber River, opened the opportunity to provide a museum for the Cloaca Maxima, Rome’s ancient sewer system.
The institute...
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Design Reform →
One of the coolest sites online. I’m addicted to their tutorials.
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Parametric Structures After Waterloo (Part 1)
As I was playing around with Grasshopper, I thought that it would be cool come up with a parametric version of Grimshaw’s Waterloo Terminal structure. Above is a rendering of the resulting model. While I did take some liberties in terms of cladding and materiality, I think the structural elements are pretty true to form. More pictures and explanation of the definition coming up.
After I...
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