Digital Architecture

Aurora from PBAI on Vimeo.

Machine Learning for Interactive Systems - CITA, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, 2016 © PBAI

Machine Learning for Interactive Systems - CITA, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, 2016 © PBAI

About Philip Beesley :
An Artist and an architect, Philip Beesly "creates architecture that concentrates on vital seething qualities built up from intensive repetition of miniature parts." - Niel Spiller

From the Architect's About page :

RESEARCH FOCUS: Responsive and distributed architectural environments and interactive systems, flexible lightweight structures integrating kinetic functions, microprocessing, sensor and actuator systems, with particular focus on digital fabrication methods and sheet-material derivations. Comprehensive architectural design and professional practice; textile structures; material crafts and fabrication; organicism and design integrated with nature; hybrid forms of nature; chemical metabolisms; field relationships; emotion, romanticism and 20th century spiritualism as alternate qualities in Modernism; alterity and dissociation; chthonian and expanded definitions of space; the archaic, genesis, futures.


References: 
http://philipbeesleyarchitect.com/about/index.php
http://philipbeesleyarchitect.com/sculptures/1115_Simons-Aurora/index.php
Digital Architecture Now: A Global Survey of Emerging Talent
http://www.amazon.com/Digital-Architecture-Now-Global-Emerging/dp/0500342474

Project name : The Yas Hotel / The Yas Viceroy Hotel
Concept : "Speed, movement and spectacle to the artistry and geometries forming the basis of ancient Islamic art and craft traditions." - Asymptote Architecture
Year of completion : 2010.
Size : 85,000 sqm.Location : Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. 
Materials : Steel, pivoting diamond-shaped glass panels, concrete. 
Project type :  luxury 500-room hotel with extensive amenities situated above a Formula! Racetrack and within a Yacht Marina.


Key features : 

• Two 300m long elliptical blocks each ten story high.
• One block is a land based structure while the other is located in the Marina inlet waters.
• Large free-span, fuselage like steel bridge spanning the F-1 racetrack below connects both hotel towers.
• The entire complex is covered in a monumental steel and glass lattice grid shell structure serving both the overall form of the building and an environmental purpose for the building by assisting in the stack effect of exiting heated air up and over the facades of the building. 

Close up shot of the Lattice glass panels

Interior shot

Interior shot

Interior Shot

Arial view of the hotel

Exterior view of the hotel and the Marina inlet waters.

Site plan showcasing the Two long elliptical blocks, one based in land and the other on the  Marina inlet waters.

 

South Elevation

West Elevation

East Elevation

North Elevation

Section | 10 Floors

References :

Asymptote architecture's website : http://www.asymptote.net/yas-slide-show
Archdaily's Blog post : http://www.archdaily.com/43336/the-yas-hotel-asymptote
Reza Heidary's Blog post: http://reza-heidary.blogfa.com/post/13

Name: Julius Popp
Occupation : Artist
Design field: Art using electronic components. 
Material of choice: Electronic components. pumps, tubes, 
Selected works :

• Bit.Flow | 2004–2008
• Bit.Fall | 2001 - 2006 

Most prominent style : Crossroad between art and science. 
Years active : 2001  - present.
Location : Leipzig, Germany. 

Bit.Fall Project :
An automated display made of rain, creating a water curtain that can display images and texts : 320 nozzles, controlled via computer software (Processing) by electromagnetic valves, emit individual parts of water.

Bit.Fall Project

Bit.Flow Project :
A certain type of liquid is pumped through a 45 meter long tube laid out on a wall, this project was a prototype and a transparent liquid serves as an invisible carrier while a tinted one forms drops or lines, as an equivalent of one or several pixels
By using a motion-tacking device, a computer program (Processing) imposes order, pumping the fluids into the tube in controlled measure to form linear patterns creating a meaningful image.

Bit.Flow Project

References :
http://www.union-gallery.com/content.php?page_id=1129
Digital by Design Troika
http://collabcubed.com/2012/01/09/julius-popp-bit-fall-bit-code-bit-flow/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4Yh_rF-eNA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Popp


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