Mode is a design office that leverages computational expertise through design research, teaching, and consulting.
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Mode is a design office that leverages computational expertise through design research, teaching, and consulting.
Mode utilizes diverse methodologies including code, associative and relational strategies, as well as digital fabrication in the production of material organizations and the formation of space.
While we are interested in intense iterative design processes, we believe the evolution and contextualization of these procedures in a broader social and cultural domain is both our primary objective and the means for embedding interest and significance into design.

Mode is Ronnie Parsons and Gil Akos.

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ParaGrove
ParaGrove

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ParaGrove was a part of the system::system show in Brooklyn 2009.10.23.

RK4 Tiles
RK4 Tiles

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Fabrication | Articulated Robot Arm
Fabrication | Articulated Robot Arm

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Mode development of parametric model.

Auxo Tower
Auxo Tower

Auxotrophic Ecologies

Monterrey Stadium
Monterrey Stadium

Studio Mode was commissioned by Populous in New York City to design a custom parametric model and digital environment for the schematic and design development [...]

Folding Facades
Folding Facades

“Folding Facades” is a study involving panelization techniques towards the optimization of surface shading and lighting effects. The scalar potential of such an assembly provides [...]

Entropy Machine
Entropy Machine

The Entropy Machine is a procedural study that couples the premises of consistent data loss over time (entropy) with that of a protocological creative machine. [...]

Polyp Panels
Polyp Panels

polypPanels is a wall panelization system that explores the effects of dissimilar perforation and diffused coloration through aperture.
While it presents a colorfully intricate frontal pattern, [...]

nTable
nTable

The N_Table was designed in collaboration with Andrew Kudless (MATSYS) for a small video installation by Norah Zuniga Shaw.
The table consists of a cellular-structured [...]

EOES
EOES

Studio Mode and Brandon Zeeb were commissioned by performance artist Tahni Holt to consult on the design and development of a series of projected visuals [...]

Sykada_v1
Sykada_v1

Sykada1.0 is an ambient feedback network composed of a user interactive video interface and an audio indexing system.
Working in collaboration with Andrew Kudless (MATSYS) and [...]

Sykada_v2
Sykada_v2

Studio Mode and Brandon Zeeb were commissioned by Andrew Kudless (MATSYS) and the ACADIA to further develop Sykada1.0 to implement greater degrees of complexity in [...]