jeimei shen & huan miao khoo

a selection of work from our students at university of sydney digital architecture research studio.  the work presented here is an image from each students design proposal in relation to their brief which aimed to investigate digital design and fabrication techniques specific to environment and location through composite strategies. (more…)

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we first became aware of tomas saraceno’s work at the venice biennale last year. his interest in architectural projects is part of the artist’s ongoing fascination with utopian theories and astronomical constellations. (more…)

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in a recent experiment, researchers from japan and england have constructed a similar layout to japan’s highly efficient rail system using slime mold.   the mold was presented to oak flakes arranged in a pattern similar to that of japanese cities around tokyo and was left over a 26 hour period.  during this time the single celled slime mold constructed networks of nutrient channel tubes with a striking resemblance to the japanese rail system.  this model based on the simple rules of the slime mold behaviour has the potential to lead to more efficient design models for constructing complex networks.

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we have added a link to this seminal piece of text by stan allen first published in ad ‘architecture after geometry’ in 1997, which certainly had a profound effect on our early introduction to emergent design theory.  (more…)

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