adaptive circle packing
Thursday, April 29th, 2010
rhino 4.0 / grasshopper 0.60057
as discussed before on the lace bloom veil house in surry hills, we had implemented a circle packing script originally developed by steven janssen. (more…)
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rhino 4.0 / grasshopper 0.60057
as discussed before on the lace bloom veil house in surry hills, we had implemented a circle packing script originally developed by steven janssen. (more…)
the steel framing of the palm beach (queensland) project has now been finished with the topping out of the structure scheduled for next week whilst the construction period is expected to complete by early august.

rhino 4.0 / grasshopper 0.60057
here’s a simple surface weave paneling script that takes any surface, generates a series of alternating u array of points and creates a set of polyLines, ready to loft flat weaved sections across the surface. There’s a generic amplitude that varies the fold amount in which the script be altered for distance or pattern logic for a differentiation of folding amplitude (if you’re keen to get your hands dirty in the VB code).
archiKluge (2004) by pablo miranda carranza was ‘the first of a series of small experiments written in Java which explore ‘artificial creativity’, automatic design and generative approaches in architecture.’
we’re intrigued in the volumetric form-finding capacity of the applet as too far too many contemporary form finding examples focus on ornamentation; (more…)
we’re finally getting around to documenting our recently built work and will be uploading to the projects directory in the week or so. (image: doff residence in sydney). check the project page for further images…
finally we found some time to push our design + fabrication techniques to deliver a few entries for the 2010 sculpture by the sea. the spectacular 2.2 coastal walk (more…)

christine kiriacos + sarah iskander
a selection of work from our students at university of sydney digital architecture research studio. the work presented here is three weeks of group workshops investigating material sytems both through analogue and digital models with an aim at understanding their constructive value in relation to the pavilion typology and prototype housing. see the workshop brief below. (more…)