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Cultural Cracking
Exploring Bucharest and its intrinsic properties in our latest school assignment. Cultural Cracking. Collapse. Fragmentation. Earthquake. Crisis.
Urban Developement Proposal
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 [...]
Making you more curious
Winning entry for DuPont + igloo‘s Changing the Face – Casa Poporului. Idea sparked off with Raresh Dragoiu of drr_____ fame. Jury was composed of: prof. arh. Dorin Stefan (DSBA) arh. Bruno Andresoiu (igloomedia) Anne-Line Citrene (DuPont France) Gabi Rottes (DuPont Germany) Some pictures from the exhibition, which can be seen at the University Underground [...]
4h metro
Recently we were allowed the use of computers at one of our one-day-long exams – so my school is finally living up to the attribute change in my about page – it used to be horrible, now it’s damp. A real improvement in life quality. Here’s the outcome: judge it lightly since the overall design [...]
LPSCN Implant
The assignment was loosely formulated so as to allow maximum freedom in identifying problems and needs in the Lipscani area and proposing an architectural (built) solution that would tackle the aforementioned points. My vision concentrated on issues relating to the poor visibility/readability of the overall area (and the necessity of a landmark) and the lack [...]
Grasshopper Boids/Agents
Call them what you will, but there’s been a huge hype about them some time ago. Grasshopper’s scripting capabilites are now a huge super cool feature, especially if you’re coding in visual studio (c#) and then pasting the shit or making dlls. I did this some time ago when i suddenly realized that you can [...]
Parametric Design Workshop HTWK Leipzig
I have been (re)invited to teach at the upcoming Parametric Design Workshop that’s going to take place at the HTWK Leipzig. The line-up includes: Ioulietta Zindrou, Maite Bravo, Verena Volger, Luis Fraguada (of Barcelona/IAAC fame); Yours truly Dimitrie (of Bucharest fame); Henning Rambow, Patrik Bedarf (Leipzig crew); I haven’t been that productive lately due to [...]
Rule Based Design Symposium TU Berlin
I’m on the speaker list at the Rule Based Design Symposium at the TU Berlin. Thank you Christophe for the invite! (27.05.09) The Symposium takes place at 18:00 in the Geodätenstand 6 O.G. TU Berlin Hauptgebäude, Straße des 17. Juni 135, 10623 Berlin. The Rule Based Design Symposium highlights contemporary academic and practice based research [...]
3d Voronoi in grasshopper
More as a scripting experiment, when i was mucking about trying to make the delaunay triangulation work in grasshopper i somehow found the wonderfully complex qhull library which i promptly set to push and pull to get it to work with grasshopper. As advised on their website, the best way to do it is to [...]
HTWK Leipzig Lecture online
Who’s interested can just grab a pdf file of the whole 91 page keynote here (quite a large file). I talked about some projects I did (some together with Veronica Popescu) over the last two years, always insisting on the computational approach and detailing the techniques used. I presented scripting approaches and more interactive (parametric) [...]
Colective Housing Prototype
This is just a prototype for our current school assignement involving collective housing (~80+ apartments + commercial and community spaces). We are using the excellent space-partitioning properties of the Voronoi algorithm to create a lattice of interior and exterior courtyards that progressively make a transition from public space to semi-public, semi-private, and, in the end [...]
bbdgPension
Here’s the latest school project, finished some time ago in early January. After pondering wether to reveal it or not (not that proud of it), I decided for the former in the end…
Grasshopper Voronoi diagram (update)
For those who really like to play with voronoi regions and stuff, here’s the final grasshopper definition file (right click, save target as – else you’ll get a ~250kb of useless xml in your browser window). The vcell component outputs now individual cells as closed polylines and closed nurbs curves. This is useful if you [...]
Cut & print
Latest school project: (board 1) (board 2) (board 3) {input} The project required us to design an archeological center consisting of one conference room (75 seats), three workshop spaces and a bar/buffet [+ reception and service spaces]. Adjacent we will have to design a small hotel/pension, so our projects will have to [...]
Grashopper attractors working on curves
UPDATED HERE! Having some more haha with the previous grashopper sketch, this time working on curves. This is intended in some sort of terrain manipulation for the ongoing project – too bad things started shaping like some sort of electrical field/strange attractor (it has nothing to do with the above, the similarity is purely formal). [...]
StuFo 6
I had some fun some time ago with plexiglass, a laser printer, rhino, and a very limited and buggy script that made “ribs” out of a surface. The results were nice, so I decided to share: Here’s the bugged up script (it’s quite useless, but people may find inspiration where I didn’t): Option Explicit ‘
Scripts (RhinoScript): Adaptive Fenestration and Massive Unroll
As I promised, I hand out some of the scripts I’ve written in the course of the latest project. Massive unroll Script: Select as many surfaces as you like and then unroll each one of them. Download it. Adaptive fenestration script: An interesting script that cuts holes in a surface based on the relation with [...]
architectural organism
home/house: an architectural organism The house must not be seen as an opaque shell, but as an osmotic membrane. The built environment intersects with the living environment. Create a formal and functional interdependence between the architectural object (building) and the subjective object (home). So you can see what porosity led to. And here are some [...]
Constanta – design proposal for the waterfront of the leisure port
We started out on this by analyzing the area and its surroundings from the point of view of circulation (more on how we did this). How would people move around? The conclusions from this study where integrated later on in the project. Next we took on the task of (re)creating the landscape – modify the [...]
We are happy to announce
To have found someone in a 50km radius that is sharing the same interest in architecture. You can find him Here.
State of the union no2
Things evolve: Veronica and me (Dimitrie). This could have looked better, but alas, we had to make a 1m x 1.3m model in the same time.
Urban circulation study…
or swarm intelligence? Using processing to make a circulation study in a public area. It’s for the current school project. More details later. I’ve used Shiffman‘s boids sketch as a start, and gradually started building up with some attractors, Point Obstacles (which are attractors with negative pull basically), and Linear Obstacles (which were a little [...]
SPRscrpts is out now
SPRscrpts for Rhino is out now. Grab it while it’s fresh (and buggy). Sorry for the huge delay.
SPRscrpts
RELEASED! SPRscrpts is coming (with documentation). It brings to your Rhino 4 SuperShapes, SphericalHarmonics, SuperTori and Shells. Below is an illustration of what it can do (that’s the shell script at work).
