We are pleased to share photos of the 2011SP Pratt | Form, Force, Matter Seminar Midterm Review.

Additional photos can be found Here.

Course Description:
Form, Force, Matter will investigate the conceptual and technical terrain of simulation within architectural design. As a design strategy and a mechanism for analyzing and synthesizing the performative characteristics of the real, simulation is capable of finding stable configurations within complex systems that include temporal, physical, and material pressures. The spatial and organizational effects of this methodology can be traced through the work of Antonio Gaudi, Heinz Isler, and Frei Otto, as well as a multitude of contemporary practitioners. Implemented through a framework of analog computing, digital simulation, and virtual prototypes, such an approach is inherently instrumental because of the direct proportionality to the physical and the capacity to augment the pressures influencing synthetically generated forms. Thus simulation is tangible, to-scale, and non-representational, allowing us to design operatively on the world and effectively for the contingences inherent to thinking and making in architecture.

Student Participants (Images Courtesy of):
Wilson Cheng
Joseph Woo Young Kim
Chelsea Mailler
Paul Scrugham
Erianthe Semerzakis
Gillian Shaffer

We are pleased to share photos from our recent Pratt 2011SP Pratt | Digital Crafting Midterm Review.

The seminar is examining the procedural distinctions between craftsmanship and manufacturing; the former being the “workmanship of risk” and the latter the “workmanship of certainty”. Digital Crafting operates through a framework of computational, material, and fabrication strategies that hinge on the craftspersons’ skill, dexterity, and willingness to embrace the unknown, what has been termed “Risk” by David Pye in his seminal work, The Nature and Art of Workmanship .

It is our assertion that through this notion of Risk we may best critique our current milieu and arrive upon an apt characterization of Craft, as well as its affiliated set of procedures, within architectural praxis today.

Participating Students:
Heidy Garay
Justin Hattendorf
Sharon Jamison
Eun Ji Lee
Seo Hee Lee
Victoria Perez
Christopher Santos
Ji-Won Shin
Jia Rong Zhu

Thank you to Christopher Santos for the great set of photos!

More information and photos can be found HERE!

We are pleased to share photos of the 2011 UMinn. Catalyst Workshop | Material Intelligence Installation.

Special thank you to Marc Swackhamer for the invitation to participate in this excellent event!

Student Participants:
Aaron Frazier
Angela Bateson
Ben Garrison
Christianne Roach
Eric Lindner
Jessica Andrejasich
Keith McDermid
Marcus Hulmer
Pablo Villamil
Rob Holley
Shona Mosites

Additional photos can be found Here.

Studio Mode will be presenting the lecture, Material Intelligence this Friday in conjunction with the 2011 UMinn. Catalyst Workshop Series.

Special thank you to Marc Swackhamer for the invitation to participate in this excellent event!

Catalyst Participants:
Aaron Frazier
Angela Bateson
Ben Garrison
Christianne Roach
Eric Lindner
Jessica Andrejasich
Keith McDermid
Marcus Hulmer
Pablo Villamil
Rob Holley
Shona Mosites

Additional photos | modeLab.

The Fay Jones School of Architecture is inaugurating a new Advanced Digital Fabrication Lab [DFAB-LAB]  supporting new research and teaching initiatives directed by 21st C. Chair in Integrated Practice, assistant professor Santiago R. Pérez. The new lab will provide specialised computer-controlled machines for both small-scale protoyping and large-scale industrial fabrication of components in steel, wood, and experimental materials for architecture. The lab has been outfitted with a custom high-gantry, 5-Axis CNC mill and Steel Plasma Cutter, an innovative tool that will provide new opportunities for research and teaching.

FABCRAFT will  inaugurate the opening of the DFAB-LAB with a series of workshops, culminating with an exhibition of work at the Bentonville sUgAR gallery.

Thank you to Santiago Perez for the invitation to participate in this excellent event and to all the wonderful students who made this project happen!

More information + photos can be found at the following links:
srpLAB Flickr
Santiago Perez srpLAB
sUgAR Gallery

For additional exhibit information, please contact the sUgAR gallery at (479) 273-5305

Woodbury: San Diego Event Series
Saturday 29 January – Monday 31 January

Woodbury University School of Architecture students, faculty, and alumni may sign-up to participate in three days of advanced software and digital fabrication instruction.

Maxwell with Cameron Crockett.
Ecotect with Oliver Pennetier of SYMPHYSIS.
Revit with Jason Anderson of CASE.
Rhino | Grasshopper with Ronnie Parsons and Gil Akos of Studio MODE.

Many thanks to Marcel Sanchez-Prieto for the invitation!

Studio Mode | modeLab + Tietz-Baccon are pleased to announce the Material Intelligence Workshop. More information can be found at the below link. We hope to see you next month!

http://materialintelligence.nu

Strip Morphologies Workshop | modeLab | 20100619-20100621
Ronnie Parsons + Gil Akos

This workshop introduced participants to the cultural, technological, and tectonic domain of parametric design and digital fabrication. Over two-plus days, the workshop investigated the morphology of the ’strip’ by cross-linking developable surfaces and seaming strategies. We identified and exploited the constraints inherent in sheet material and High-Force CNC cutting technology in an effort to explore and construct highly articulated material assemblies.

Modelab is looking forward to this weekend’s workshop: Strip Morphologies! Participants will be developing prototypes through an assemblage of strips and interlocking seams. Keep an eye out for more photos… All prototypes will be parametrically generated within Grasshopper and Rhino3D and cut on our KNK-MAXX, CNC High Force Cutter.