Border Conditions: F/RF
Project team: Manuel Torres, Dimitrie Stefanescu Studio Leader: Sang Lee This is the final studio (Border Conditions) project for msc2. Though quite a lot of parametric techniques went into the making of it, they were subservient to rather than defining the project’s outcome. This project embodies a virtual study of the process of folding with [...]
CLJ02: ZA11 Pavillion
Design/Organization: Dimitrie Stefanescu [improved.ro], Patrick Bedarf [a-ngine.com], Bogdan Hambasan [ASTA Cluj] Organization: ASTA Cluj Workshop Team: Ciprian Colda, Anamaria Androne, Razvan Sencu, Madalin Gheorghe Assembly: Bogdan Badila, Vlad Pop, Georgiana Hlihor, Denisa Lula, Robert Veber, Zoltan Vaida, Imre Vekove, Ciprian Colda, Mihai Pascalau, Calin Negret, Bogdan Borbei, Iustin Nechiti, Dan Ioanici, Razvan Luca, Stefan Grosariu, [...]
[GH] SuperConnect
![[GH] SuperConnect](http://improved.ro/wp/wp-content/uploads/improved//2011/06/superConnect-150x150.jpg)
A nifty little tool for creating connectors between pretty much any kind of planar surfaces which intersect themselves at the edges. What it basically does is to output in a ordered structure the intersecting faces (as tree branches) and their intersection line. From there on you can continue to build up your own connectors however [...]
Ornamatics [2/2]: W*Facade
![Ornamatics [2/2]: W*Facade](http://improved.ro/wp/wp-content/uploads/improved//2011/05/wfacade8-150x150.jpg)
Course tutors: Jack Breen, Martijn Stellingwerff, Robert Nottrot Second part of the previous project, this time exploring the possibility of scaling up the same design process to the level of a facade design.
Ornamatics [1/2]: W*Tile
![Ornamatics [1/2]: W*Tile](http://improved.ro/wp/wp-content/uploads/improved//2011/05/wtile0-150x150.jpg)
Course tutors: Jack Breen, Martijn Stellingwerff, Robert Nottrot Project focused on the formal exploration of ornament and tiling, mainly based on the formal language derived from the wetgrid experiments. The projects explores the possibility of creating a structurally sound three dimensional lattice which can present multiple stacking and tiling possibilities. This results in several possible variations which [...]
Post-Parametric Impressions
The following article was written for arhiforum.ro in response to the CLJ02: Parametric Design Workshop. Click here for an unsanctioned translation in Romanian. A few weeks ago CLJ02, the second workshop centered around parametric design, happened in Cluj. Setting it alongside previous similar events in Bucharest and Iasi, we can clearly see an increasing attention being [...]
Coari:Rise
Team: Patrick Bedarf, Tomas Kozelsky & Dimitrie Stefanescu. This is our entry for the Evolo ”11 competition. Update: We seem to be among the finalists. I’ll leave you to judge for your own: you can see the winning projects on their website. It is a consciously speculative project in which our main goal was to push [...]
C:Strip
Project Team: Patrick Bedarf, Dimitrie Stefanescu C:Strip is best described by an attempt to translate the environmental qualities of the proposed site into a meaningful architectural geometry that can accomodate and maximize the performance of an adaptive and fluctuating programme which focuses on producing and distributing information through the use of informal societal behaviour.
Automatic Architecture 2010 @ TU Delft
During the 15-17th of December I will be tutoring at the automatic architecture event at the TU Delft.
![[research] wetgrid 2!](http://improved.ro/wp/wp-content/uploads/improved//2010/10/1-150x150.jpg)
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
Deprecated. Here’s the new version. 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 [...]
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 [...]
