Tessellated Facade Foreign Office Architects, London

http://www.propertyweek.com/practice-and-it/foa%E2%80%99s-peninsula-patterns-for-ravensbourne-college/3144928.article

NEWTECNIC

http://www.newtecnic.com/projects/thom.html

self supporting framework mockup

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKzf5h1cAXI

Some call it Mandala Roof or reciprocal frame. That describes a load bearing principle known since centuries. Using it one can bridge a span wider than the length of each beam by connecting these elements at the end in an arrangement that allows the bending moment to run continuously through the framework.One main research topic at the chair of Structural Design at the Faculty of Architecture at University Kassel is the development of parametric tools for different usages. Particularly in combination with the material timber this load bearing principle seemed to promise advantages. Guided by Prof. Manfred Grohmann and Dipl.-Ing. Asko Fromm the students Andreas Günther and me started with this principle and developed it further to allow to use it for theoretically any double curved spatial structure. The programs calculates the length of all beams and the detailed position and geometry of all cuts and connecting bolt-holes. Before all these data for production become necessary the geometry is exported into a calculating program which checks the structural behavior and an optimization can be done.As part of my master thesis I transferred this workflow to a demonstration building using a very fruitful cooperation with the education center of the German Carpenter Association based in Kassel. The data generated by the program was used by a group of young carpenters to transfer in total about 2.5 m³ of timber with the dimension 100 by 100mm into the 180 beams of the framework using a numerically controlled cutting machine. After a kind of nesting the machine cuts all the beams to the appropriate length. Within the same step all the 324 cuttings are milled into the timber from both sides. This was arranged in a way the cross-sections only are weakened at the end of the beams. With the help of the same group of young carpenters the demonstration building was finally erected at University Kassel.

http://www.rhinoscript.org/gallery/31

http://www.debonothinkingsystems.com/tools/6hats.htm

What thinking hat will you use to gather information (research), generate design ideas, analyse ideas, critically appraise and draw conclusions?

Descriptive Diagram of Process Architecture

Design Problem Space, Goel 2001

Goel[P1] , V., 2001, Dissociation of Design Knowledge, Design Knowing and Learning Cognition and Design Education, Chapter 10; Pages 221-240 London, Elsevier.

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[P1]Gero.J.S, and Kannengeisser , U., 2006. A FUNCTION-BEHAVIOUR-STRUCTURE ONTOLOGY OF PROCESSES., Key Centre of Design Computing and Cognition University of Sydney, Australia Design Computing and Cognition ’06 2006, Part 6, 407-422, DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5131-9_21

Kalay(2004): Iterative structure of the design process

Kalay, Y.E., 2004, Architecture's new media : principles, theories, and methods of computer-aided design, Cambridge, Mass. ; London : MIT,

Stages of Creative Process

Kneller, G. (1965). The art and science of creativity. NYC: Holt, Rinehart, & Winston

Emergent Technologies and Design page113. Workflow of the production of various scaled and full-scale hardened fabric shells. MArch Dissertation of Arielle Blonder-Afek, February 2008.

Emergent Technologies and Design page 65. Diagram showing the relation between the computational design processes based on a 'hill-climbing' algorithm and the critical parameters of the new envelope's components, component networks and global form. MSc Dissertation of Ioannis Douida, October 2005.

Emergent Technologies and Design page 65. Flow chart of the iterative development of an new envelope for the Piraeus Tower in Athens based on analysing the existing building, establishing relevant building performance criteria, implementing the findings of related design research and conducting iterative design evaluations. MSc Dissertation of Ioannis Douridas, October 2005.

Knot_reciprocal structure

good luck knot

Reciprocal Frame Architecture by Olga Popovic Larsen

A reciprocal frame is a class of self-supporting structure made of three on more beams and which requires no center support to create roofs, bridges or similar structures.A reciprocal roof is assembled by first installing a temporary central support that hold the first rafter at the correct height. The first rafter is fitted between the wall and the temporary central support and then further rafters are added, each resting on the last. The final rafter fits on top of the previous rafter and under the very first one. The rafters are then tied with wire before the temporary support is removed. The failure of a single element may lead to the failure of the whole structure. [wikipedia]

Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2005

Digital Reciprocal Frame Canopy by Marco Vanucci

Knot_tiling

Classic Knot Tables_Knots on the Web

These images were generated with software other than KnotPlot. The link pictured here is an infinitely complex link consisting of an infinite number of unknots. Each unknot has five-fold symmetry about its centre.

the local curvature: the turtle is connected with a graph, defining the local curvature of the resulting curve

CurvatureTurtle.zip created by Lorenz Lachauer

The relation between local curvature and the curve shape,
taken from S. Wolframs book, p. 418

Substrate An artistic watercolor visualization by J. Tarbell
Created by using the Processing visualization language to JavaScript, using the Canvas element.

in_Flux studio
-Geodetic address: 41° 51′ 20″ N , 87° 36′ 53″ W
-Political address: Chicago, Illinois, United States, North America
2010 University of Michigan Graduate Comprehensive Studios

Jock Cooper – Recurrencias fractales

Fractal_ Penrose tilings

L-system

The following images were generated by an L-system. They are related and very similar to Penrose tilings, invented by Roger Penrose.







As an L-system these tilings are called Penrose's rhombuses and Penrose's tiles. The above pictures were generated for n = 6 as an L-system. If we properly superimpose Penrose tiles as an L-system we get next tiling:






otherwise we get patterns which do not cover an infinite surface completely:

Parametrised Folding Modular Form

Jonas Coersmeier Design Studio at Pratt Institute School of Architecture


Infinite Turbulence designed by ivan delgado at Pratt Institute


Foldable Shading Devices

Glass Plate Bridge

Self Supporting Skins


Curved Origami

Mathematical Knitting

Crocheting model V.S. Sea slugs, Flatworms and Nudibranches

Crafty Geometry

Mathematicians are knitting and crocheting to visualize complex surfaces

Science News, December 23 & 30, 206, Vol 170, p. 411-413

Erica Klarreich

Crochet model showing an Ideal Triangle, whose angles sum to zero degrees.

Made by Daina Taimina

Mathematical Knitting

by Dr. Sarah-Marie Belcastro

'Space Syntax Laboratory’ at UCL

http://www.spacesyntax.org/software/index.asp. .

“Space syntax is a theory about space and human behavior, which, together with tools and methods for analyzing human interaction in the built environment, examines the impact of accessibility in spatial layouts on behavior, communication and interaction”


http://udeworld.com/dissemination/publications/47-wayfinding-design/104-space-syntax.html

Parametric Design: Conception or Component

How are parametric tools used in architectural design conception and for detailed component design? For instance, how does parametric modelling respond to design at different scales?

Expandable Structures

I came across Chuck Hoberman's expandable structures  - they may be of some interest to you
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VY7WEXQaatA&feature=related

What is a transitory event building?