Algorithmic Abuse
PLAT 1.5 has just been released, and with it my critical essay entitled Algorithmic Abuse, which I’m sharing below. It’s a short attempt to raise awareness towards several gaps in computational architecture’s theory as well as practice. Please support the journal by purchasing a copy! A recurring concern among the practitioners and promoters of what [...]
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, [...]
COMP{M}UTATION
COMP{M}UTATION: Parametric design workshop @ Faculty of Architecture, Brno (CZ) for architecture students, starring Patrick Bedarf, Dimitrie Stefanescu, Rhinoceros and Grasshopper. Thanks to Thomas for the invite! Check here for more information on registration (Czech only).
Relinquishing Control: Reactions to Emergence.
Paper written for the Fragile Conference. This is a rough draft, but comments are appreciated. PDF version. You can not reduce the city to merely the sum of its parts – its nature escapes the deterministic world we, until recently, thought we lived in and goes on to manifest itself in the realm of the [...]
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 [...]
Automatic Architecture 2010 @ TU Delft
During the 15-17th of December I will be tutoring at the automatic architecture event at the TU Delft.
f* Voronoi
A symbolically critical pamphlet For the hip architectural public, there surely isn’t any need of introducing the (in)famous Voronoi diagram. If there is, then you probably shouldn’t be reading this text and you’re better off doing something else. Nevertheless, I find myself under increasing pressure to express my thoughts regarding what I find to be [...]
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. [...]
DTArchLAB // Training 01
(romanian only – yet) _cand: 23-26 Aprilie 2010 _unde: Universitatea de Arhitectura si Urbanism “Ion Mincu” _scop introducere in specificitatile proiectarii parametrice si in logica functionala a softwareului - Grasshopper +Rhino testarea unor tehnici parametrice pe baza unei teme date - suprafete parametrice reactive testarea si prototiparea la scara redusa a unor metode si tehnici dezvoltate - fabricatie digitala [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
Parametric Modelling Workshop @ HTWK Leipzig
I get to speak on the 2nd of April there about parametric modelling and show off some projects. Suggestions are more than welcome.
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 [...]
