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Archive for April, 2010

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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construction process

Wednesday, April 28th, 2010

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.

click through for further info on the project.

GH srfWeave

Wednesday, April 28th, 2010


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).

download the rhino and grasshopper package here.

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archiKluge

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010

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…)

project documentation

Monday, April 26th, 2010

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…

architecture and inclusion

Tuesday, April 13th, 2010

ufo scandinavia along with several other prominent european architecture practices have been invited to take part in an exhibition and lecture series at the jaroslav fragner gallery in the czech republic under the title more is less; big, bold and beautiful.

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sculpture by the sea 2010…

Thursday, April 8th, 2010

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…)

pixels + the end of the world

Thursday, April 8th, 2010

this is completely indulgent – there really is no architecture involved here… but check out the video! (after the jump) (more…)

material systems usyd

Monday, April 5th, 2010


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…)

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