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CLJ: Parametric Design Workshop
DTAL is very pleased to announce a new workshop taking place at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism in Cluj during 17-20 May, which is very nicely timed with Neil Leach’s conference there (20 May). It all happens under the umberlla of the +/- Cluj Center of Architecture. Thanks to AStA Cluj for the invitation. [...]
Bucharest Culture Clash
Keywords: fragmentation, cracking, violence, earthquake, identity crisis, culture. Initial explorations: Culture Cracking. Bucharest never had a coherent image in any point in history. Its only true comon denominator would be the highly despised disorder generated by the struggle between western rigor and local chaotic impulses. It is one city where conflict is strikingly out in the open, [...]
Cultural Cracking
Exploring Bucharest and its intrinsic properties in our latest school assignment. Cultural Cracking. Collapse. Fragmentation. Earthquake. Crisis.
4*HTL Plevnei
Latest school project: four star hotel in a not that nice area of Bucharest. Does what it says on the tin. What’s nice is that there are a lot of embedded parametrics inside: the canopy structural system, terrain modding (site), shape cracking of the canopy. Sometime ago there even was a def for controlling room [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Collective Housing – part 1 review
Team project with Veronica Popescu. Our solution proposed the creation of several interlinked interior and exterior courtyards that both encouraged interaction with the surrounding busy streets while at the same time offering an intimate place to retreat to. Various social and commercial functions requiring different visibility/exposure levels can occupy this space at ground floor level. [...]
Grasshopper Voronoi Diagram
Download the definition. (right click and save target as) Some nice people over in Spain (Laboratorio de Arquitectura y Computación) have made a nifty video detailing on how to use the thing: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEynRywJIb4&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0] Source code of the Vornoi2D node. Have fun, and drop a line if something isn’t working the way it should (take care [...]
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). [...]
