Responsive design studio's Blog (11)

Oooglow is a lampshade made from phosphorescent polyester resin.

It's shape is generatively designed based on the same principles as the Tong-Zi-Dan series.





Defined by certain preferences an unlimited amount of forms can thus be produced.







In the present case, the dimensions of the shape and amount of faces were…

Resinance 2.0 is the successor of Resinance, realized six month after the first project. Its general system is building upon the initial installation with improved behavioural complexity and technical and material resilience. The project emerged from a student application to showcase the work at the 2013 ACADIA conference at the school of architecture, University of Waterloo, Cambridge,…

international symposium on adaptive architecture

July 8th, 2013 / 9:00 - 18:00

Chair for Computer Aided Architectural Design, ETH Zürich-Hönggerberg, HPZ Floor F

Speakers include:

Prof. Ludger Hovestadt (ETH Zürich, CH), Prof. Philip Beesley (University of Waterloo, CA), Prof. Kas Oosterhuis (TU Delft, NL), Martina Decker (DeckerYeadon, US), Claudia Pasquero (ecoLogicStudio, UK), Manuel Kretzer (ETH Zürich, CH),…

Resinance is part of an ongoing series, exploring the potential use of smart materials in an architectural context. It was realized in March 2013 by the Master of Advanced Studies class at the Chair for CAAD.…

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS

2nd WORKSHOP on SMART MATERIAL INTERFACES:

“Another Step to a Material Future”

Will be held during 2013 International Conference on Multimodal

Interaction (ICMI 2013: http://www.acm.org/icmi/2013/)

December 13th, 2013

Coogee Bay Hotel, Sydney, Australia.…

materiability research network

The materiability research network is a community platform, an educational network and an open materials database. It was initiated by Manuel Kretzer in late 2012 and emerged from a joint initiative between the …

Tong Zi Dan is a series of generatively designed vases made from dental gypsum.



The initial egg design gets randomly populated by a cloud of points which form the center for surfaces that trim the shape perpendicular to its curvature. A generative algorithm (Galapagos) is then used to create the area of all faces within a certain min/max range. Finally the faces are unrolled and laid onto a flat sheet to allow the production of the mold with a laser…

Phototropia is part of an ongoing series on the application of smart materials in an architectural context and was realized in April 2012 by the Master of Advanced Studies class at the Chair for CAAD, supervised by Manuel Kretzer.…

we're happy to announce our first public exhibition

"Von schwimmenden Blumen und drehenden Pyramiden"

opening: 15.10.11 from 7pm

at "R. - Raum für drastische Massnahmen", Berlin, Oderstr. 34, Friedrichshain

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=283773064974527…