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Cultural Cracking

Didi — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:20:45 +0000

Exploring Bucharest and its intrinsic properties in our latest school assignment. Cultural Cracking. Collapse. Fragmentation. Earthquake. Crisis.

Poor

Didi — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 22:39:51 +0000

Breaking the usual tone of this blog with some pictures from the endeavor of Veronica and me to map out some extreme poverty in Bucharest.

(click on the images to get full resolution details)
What you can find is quite shocking – what good is scripting and programming for these people? This is a question i try to block out so as not to undergo a division by zero

Urban Developement Proposal

Didi — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 14:43:46 +0000

This project is a collaboration with Dragos Mila.

We parametrically explored possible future configurations for the study area (450ha large, at the intersection of two main planned road-infrastructure extensions) and tried to push for a solution that would maximize performance (density, height, shading, access to natural elements and connectivity) of the whole region while leaving ample potential that allows for unplanned emergent evolution.

Our goal was to envision an urban tissue that could flexibly respond to all local input factors as well as accommodate desired (planned) goals. An universal 130m by 130m grid was proposed and then deformed to differentiate and create a unique lattice that allows for surprise and yet is easily mapped due to its inner space-partitioning algorithm.

We iteratively cycled through several circulation analysis (using Depthmap) and continuously changed the main axial map of the area to maximize integration.

The text on the boards is in romanian, sorry about that – hopefully the explanations given around the post should be enough. Here are the final boards, reduced:

It was great to work on this project, and also great to find recognition for an approach that is considered risky by our faculty’s standards We used Rhino and its parametric plugin Grasshopper for the main work and Depthmap for the integration analysis.

Project teachers: Tiberiu Florescu, Sebastian Guta.

E.

Didi — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 22:40:53 +0000

Ion Mincu Architecture School, Bucharest:

collab with drr.

++21

Didi — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:08:38 +0000

21 22

just a quick note so i don’t forget.

BCN – room with a view

Didi — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 08:43:19 +0000

I’m here, all’s well. I thought I might share the view from my apartment from alelulya:

(clikc for a bigger picture)

comp. mast.

Didi — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 20:46:07 +0000

This post is going to be narcissistic. Why? Because I’ve recently done an inventory of the programming languages I am or have been playing with:

Python (in Blender and NodeBox), RhinoScript/VBScript, Java/Processing, ActionScript, a little PHP (in highschool) and the allmighty C++. And, why not, I do dabble a bit in JavaScript.

And here’s what sphere harmonics done in processing exported in dxf imported in sketchup and rendered with this cool thing can do:

More work

Didi — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 09:52:35 +0000

It’s been… a month! since I last posted anything. Here’s what I’ve been doing outside school. Logos. Hurray!

9 x 12 cm 1h quick ad

Didi — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 10:10:00 +0000

This was:

It got cropped (and the background got in(tro)verted):

No processing involved (bah) because time was much too short. And it could have been better. (I’m not liking it that much now).

http://www.xkcd.com/55/

Didi — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 20:48:00 +0000

simply lovely. wunderbahr. spent two hours on this comic. I think I am somewhat late in noticing it but hehe. it gave several laughs already
don’t now why i’m blogging this actually but ha it’s funny.

Scriptin towards outerspace

Didi — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 12:10:00 +0000

Double curvature surfaces, faceted:

Some easy scriptin did that:

Option Explicit

SurfaceFaceting()

Sub SurfaceFaceting()
Dim strSurf : strSurf = Rhino.GetObject(“Select surface to facet”, 8, True, True)
If IsNull(strSurf) Then Exit Sub

Dim intDetailLevel : intDetailLevel = Rhino.GetInteger(“Detail level”, 40, 2)
If IsNull(intDetailLevel) Then Exit Sub

Dim dbl

Dim uDomain : uDomain = Rhino.SurfaceDomain(strSurf, 0)
Dim uStep : uStep = (uDomain(1) – uDomain(0))/intDetailLevel

Dim vDomain : vDomain = Rhino.SurfaceDomain(strSurf, 1)
Dim vStep : vStep = (vDomain(1) – vDomain(0))/intDetailLevel

Dim u, v, strFrame, pt

Call Rhino.EnableRedraw(False)
For u = uDomain(0) To uDomain(1) Step uStep
For v = vDomain(0) To vDomain(1) Step vStep
pt = Rhino.EvaluateSurface(strSurf, Array(u,v))
strFrame = Rhino.SurfaceFrame(strSurf, Array(u,v))
Call Rhino.AddPlaneSurface(strFrame, 1, 1)
Next
Next
Call Rhino.EnableRedraw(True)

End Sub

Present business

Didi — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 13:52:00 +0000

Inspired by the very many, sjet and others I am now really working up on RhinoScript, in use with Rhino.

Well, because architecture isn’t just what we are taught at school. And math is good.

Back from Riga

Didi — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 13:06:00 +0000

Uh, oh, I’m back. Kinda wanting to go back.
Here are some photos of the folks at the summer school. Since the link to the flickr set is what all this post should be about, I do believe i should stop.

Off to Riga

Didi — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 11:21:00 +0000

Tommorow at 12.55 I should be in Riga. Don’t call me! roaming is expensive – emails are our friends.
I’m off to a summer school (second one in the list) in architecture (actually urban design). Hope I’ll be able to post some photos and blog a bit about things happening there.

And while you get bored reading this, check these out now! Where’s the world of photography coming to?

uber alles manifesto

Didi — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 21:16:00 +0000

Ce-i porcaria asta?
Ma distreaza.
Ah, si sunt obligat sa mentionez faptu’ ca tema era color. Eu am respectat tema. Si dungile alea negre da pa desenu’ meu nu erau in tema. Poa’ domnii care au manevrat desenu’ meu au simtit ca lipsea ceva la compozitie )
Facultatea asta ma deprima. Bine ca imi pun desenu pa’ net.

ps:
For that specific category of architecture students and teachers, which seem to believe that math is just for calculating your 10% fee and that computers are used just to draw, I highly recommend these ad issues, which are happily missing from our library:
one
two
three
four
concrete architecture is dead, modernism is dead, face it.

birthday thing

Didi — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 15:00:00 +0000

Birthday resolutions (things that are nice to say when starting new things):

I gotta get a job. asap.
gotta smoke less
gotta focus more on work
gotta do some regular sport exercises.
gotta focus on making a portfolio out of all those stupid p55 sketches i have lying around
gotta publish this on the 3rd of July
gotta study for exams

I forgot about this draft from a while ago. It’s never too late. Also thanks for all the birthday treats i got from everybody

We give you: football!

Didi — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 08:27:00 +0000

Don’t you just love our Architecture School? Playing football with a dodecahedron. Shout-out to our teachers, for making this possible. We respect the way you respect us.

Filmed inside UAUIM, 4th floor, right around the corner.

Tema 6 la studiu' formei

Didi — Sat, 26 May 2007 08:45:00 +0000

Esti in pana de idei?
Ai probleme existentiale legate de viata ta de pana acum?
Iei note mici si nu esti apreciat de profesori, desi esti un mic geniu?
Te simti nedreptatit?

Noi te ajutam! Am facut un programel special pentru a te ajuta pe tine. Tema 6 la studiul formei nu va mai fi o problema! In cateva minute vei avea o compozitie multumitoare si te poti apuca de treaba! Click AICI!

Corbusier si unitatile zburatoare

Didi — Thu, 10 May 2007 21:07:00 +0000

Galeria 115, in a sa expozitie de arta digitala “ArtPartTwo“, contine si urmatoarea lucrare, care place la noi:

Ce ne chinuim cu Zaha Hadid, Jean Nouvel, sau Foster? Unite d’habitation explodat in aer. Sau Corbusier drogat. Asta’i viitorul in arhitectura.

Blogu rupe

Didi — Wed, 09 May 2007 21:09:00 +0000

Cica echipa de olimpiadele comunicarii din care fac parte are blog!
Las ca nu ma face blogu’ pa mine. Blogu, ca mijloc de comunicare, te poate schimba pe tine ca individ: ajungi intr-un punct in care nu mai scrii tu in blog, blogul scrie in tine*.
Nu stiu din ce categorie face parte postu’ asta. Votati voi pe 19 mai**.

*evident, ca orice afirmatie indrazneata, are multe puncte slabe si complet neverificate, foarte usor atacabile. Ea (afirmatia) se refera in principal la bloggari amatori, d’astia ca mine. Era sa cad (sau am cazut!) in tentatia de a scrie pe blog doar de dragul graficelor din google analytics.

**dap, reclama mascata, sau manipulare.