differentiated material organizations and performative environments

"Neri Oxman is an architect and researcher currently based at MIT where she is a Presidential Fellow working towards her PhD in Design and Computation. She is a graduate of the AA School of Architecture and previously a medical scholar at the Hebrew University and the Technion Institute of Technology. Her work has recently been displayed at MoMA, now part of its collection. Current work is on display at the International Biennial of Contemporary Art in Seville and the 2008 Beijing Biennial. She has won multiple awards including the Earth Award for Future Crucial Design, HOLCIM Next Generation Award for Sustainable Construction, a Graham Foundation Carter Manny Award, the AICF Award of Excellence, and others. Oxman has given numerous workshops and public lectures at MIT, Harvard, Cornell, Georgia-Tech, UC Berkeley, AIA NY, SOM, KPF, amongst other academic and professional institutions around the world. She has published widely and continues to engage in design at the intellectual and productive interface between science, art and design."

via: materialecology

Identificação e Contextualização de Padrões (Pattern Identification and Contextualization)

material

contextualização/contextualization

identificação do padrão/pattern identification

padrão isolado/isolated pattern

contextualização do padrão/pattern contextualization

Aluna/Student: Josiane Rubenich

Identificação e Contextualização de Padrões (Pattern Identification and Contextualization)

material

contextualização/contextualization

identificação do padrão/pattern identification

padrão isolado/isolated pattern

contextualização do padrão/pattern contextualization

Aluna/Student: Karolina Ziulkoski

Identificação e Contextualização de Padrões (Pattern Identification and Contextualization)

material

contextualização/contextualization

identificação do padrão/pattern identification

padrão isolado/isolated pattern

contextualização do padrão/pattern contextualization

Aluno/Student: Bruno De Lazzari

Interview: Patrik Schumacher

"In terms of the digital world, we see a proliferation of natural morphologies which are exciting and can be made to work and enrich the compositional and organizational repertoire - not just in terms of appearence but as organizational patterns. For us [these morphologies] are navigation and orientation issues that can give more order to a complex environment."

Interview: Patrik Schumacher, published in: MAD Dinner, by MAD.exe office, Beijing,
published by Actar Barcelona, New York, 2007 @ http://www.patrikschumacher.com/

Self-organisation and material constructions

"In recent years, new strategies for design and new techniques for making materials and large constructions have emerged, based on biological models of the process by which natural material forms are produced."

Michael Weinstock

Extracted from: Architectural Design Vol 76 No 2 March/April 2006:Techniques and Technologies in Morphogenetic Design , Wiley Academy, London.

Self-organisation and the structural dynamics of plants

"The engineering principles of biological systems can be abstracted and applied to the design of artefacts and buildings, a process known as biomimetics. To do so requires a deeper engagement with evolutionary development and a more systematic analysis of the material organisation and behaviour of individual spaecies."

Michael Weinstock

Extracted from: Architectural Design Vol 76 No 2 March/April 2006:Techniques and Technologies in Morphogenetic Design , Wiley Academy, London.