Digital Architecture

Words from the Designers :

"From its conception, listening post has been a product of our combined talents. The space is as much about an artistic expression as it is data analysis"
-Mark Hansen

"I used t wonder whether it might be possible to hear the sounds of ancient potters chatting by 'playing' the grooves formed on pots thrown a thousand years ago. For years I have thought about ways to hear inaudible phenomena, ways to map the observable world into the sound domain"
-Ben Rubin

Listening Post

Listening Post

How does it work :
It culls text fragments in real time from thousands of unrestricted internet chat rooms, bulletin boards and other public forums. Then the texts are read/sung by several voice synthesizers and simultaneously displayed on the screens.

It has six movements, each with a different arrangement of visual, aural and musical elements, and it's own data processing logic.

References:
http://blog.laurablair.co.uk/2013/05/art-listening-post.html

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Style : Interactive electronic mirrors with analogue pixels.
Year : 1999-present. 
Artists : Daniel Rozin
Objects : Video camera sited in the middle of each mirror linked to a computer which controls individual pixels. 
Software : Costum software.
                                                                                                                                                                  

Rust Mirror :
Date : 2009
Materials: 768 rusted steel tiles,768 motors, video camera, control electronics. 
size : 2.43meters Height , 1.30meters Width, 0.15 meters Depth

Rust Mirror

Rust Mirror

Weave Mirror :
Date : 2007
Materials: 768 C shaped prints 768 motors, video camera, control electronics. 
size :  1.45 meters Height , 2 meters Width, 0.2meters Depth.

Weave Mirror

Weave Mirror

Brushes Metal mirror :
Date : 2011
Materials: 721 stainless steel discs, 721motors, video camera, control electronics. 
size :  2.00 meters Height, 2 meters Width,1.1 meters Depth.

Brushed Metal Mirror

Brushed Metal Mirror

Angles Mirror :
Date : 2013
Materials: 465 plastic spokes, motors, control electronics, xbox kinect motion sensor, mac-mini computer, custom software, steel armature
size : 2.35 meters Height, 2.13 meters Width,0.76 meters Depth. 

Angles Mirror

Angels Mirror

References:
Daniel Rozin's Website :

Name: Xefirotarch | Hernan Diaz Alonso
Occupation : Architect
Design field: Architecture, Installations and Product design. 
Most prominent style : Uncanny designs with an alien-seeming inspired aesthetic from biological mutilation. 
Years active : 2001  - present.
Location : Los Angeles, US. 

"Xefirotarch’s design obsessions are based in an appreciation for the perversity of mutant form, a taste learned from the movies and the set to work on architecture. That said perhaps Xefirotarch’s architecture is itself “mutant/genetic,” and perhaps it is, perhaps it is the emergent condition –horrific. Perhaps when the projected figure is frozen in a sufficiently dense, opulent articulation it does achieve a resonant state of topological affect. But if so that achievement is derived as much from the act of designing that figure as it is from the intensity of the extant form. It is produced in the act of design, less through special techniques or processes (though also through these) than in the focused sensation of pointing and clicking. Here that sensation is more like painting than engineering: driven by personal, idiosyncratic gesture more than an application of systematic procedure to material condition. the genesis of this is internally driven but not intuitive. Having watched hours, weeks, months of bad Hitchcockian cinema. Xefirotarch’s micro techniques for combing the thresholds of the horrific-becoming beautiful and the beautiful-becoming horrific/ grotesque have imprinted themselves as visual-temporal cues on his design retina. These codes (cut here, blend there, match on action, shot-reverse-shot, false POV, staccato violins, scripting topologies etc.) are processed, mashed-up, and re-projected back onto the screens pace of animation software. There image-forms are densely layered and then pulled back from themselves, balanced and unbalanced, such that their formal architecture within the frame always competes with the structure of the edit -the latent seam- for the organization of the screen-event. In the course of such moments, Xefirotarch is the director, editor and audience all at once, watching the form materialize and interacting with that emergence. His decisions to speed up and slow down, slice and blend fuse and separate are repetitions of scenic rhythms he has learned from a lifetime of being awed by cinematic affect. This is visceral. Like the filmgoer engrossed into the cinematic apparatus of yore (see Bawdry Delouse, Penney) this well-immersed designer sweats and squirms and grunts over what he watches before him. This is an exacting processing behavior, like the subconscious mind during dream state, cycling through the raw data of everyday life’s input, cutting and pasting, iterating toward multiple provisional renders on the mind’s eye. The design settles into the liminal consciousness of productive concentration, into an unfolding practice that is also kind of techniques cinemas / computational; played out on the cameras obscura of his glowing monitors. Any sensibility you read within the final render is an index of a precision of this processing."
- Xefirotarch's Website

Tabakalera_2010

Dubai Tower

Espresso Cup | Product design

Maribor

Helsinki Central Library

References :
Firm's Website : http://xefirotarch.com/
Digital Architecture Now: A Global Survey of Emerging Talent
http://www.amazon.com/Digital-Architecture-Now-Global-Emerging/dp/0500342474
Wikipedia : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hernan_Diaz_Alonso

Name: Contemporary Architecture Practice (C.A.P)

• Ali Rahim (Founding Director)
• Hina Jamelle 

Occupation : Architects
Design field: Architecture and Product design. 
Selected works :

• Chelsea Residential Tower 
• Samsung Raemian Masterplan 
• Commercial High-rise Dubai 
• MoMA Installation 
• Light Fixture series 

Most prominent style : Cutting edge futuristic work using digital design techniques. 
Years active : 1999  - present.
Location : New york and Shanghai. 


Selected work gallery : 

Chelsea Residential Tower

Samsung Raemian Masterplan

Commercial High-rise Dubai

Reebok Flagship Store

MoMA Installation

Light Fixture series

References :

The main architects' webstite :
http://www.c-a-p.net/index.html
Digital Architecture Now: A Global Survey of Emerging Talent
Youtube Lecture link :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6TMdzV8xcM

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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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