‘HUMAN IMAGINATION AND INGENUITY ARE THE IMPETUS OF EVERY GOOD DESIGN. ALL ACROSS THE WORLD, PEOPLE FROM EVERY WALK OF LIFE ARE GENERATING GOOD DESIGN IDEAS THAT OFFER GROUNDBREAKING SOLUTIONS TO THE ECOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL CHALLENGES OF THE 21ST CENTURY. THE EARTH AWARDS PROVIDES A PLATFORM FOR THESE VISIONARY IDEAS, PRESENTING A UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY FOR […]

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This is the initial stage of test 5 with the kuka 7-axis robotic arm and spray polyurethane foam. Here we are testing standoff control and wait time between layers based off of our previous variable matrix testing. With new regulators being added to the tanks we should game slightly more control between the consistency of […]

‘denCity is a Masters level research project by Sahra (Peter Sovinc, Saif Almasri, Suryansh Chandra) at the Design Research Lab, Architectural Association, London. denCity is a critique of modern day urbanization and city planning methodologies that are based on 20-year masterplans of linear city growth and are incapable of dealing with the pace of change […]

Rhino3dHelp 2050 Appliance Competition Contest theme Design & model a home appliance for year 2050 Firt of all, let me welcome you all to Rhino3DHelp.com’s first contest. This contest is solely dedicated to modeling in Rhinoceros 3D modeling software. In this contest, you are encouraged to try and imagine how would a home appliance look […]

Lightweight material, Ethylene tetrafluoroethylene, or ETFE, is proposed as the membrane which will encapsulate Houston in a geodesic dome. This material has already been used in the Beijing Olympic Stadium and in the Eden Project. This material shows the possibility to move away from the hard lined modernist glazing that we now see in the […]

The updated archimorph webpage(www.archimorph.com) is now online. It features projects by archimorph since its conception in 2007, while also displaying personal academic work from Jon Bailey and Jason Pierce. The website is a more coherent collection of the work generated and displayed on the blog while pulling together archimorph’s distributed nodes from the network into […]

Recently the University of Michigan Taubman School of Architecture set forth a design competition to re-imagine the current faculty library and research space. Set within a confined space with three light sources, a parametric model was created which divided the space based on programmatic content and divided it further horizontally to create planar surfaces for […]

University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning will host a conference, Future of Urbanism, March 19 & 20, 2010. An international roster of speakers – academics and practioners – will address some of the most critical issues facing our cities and their environs in six sessions, comprised of 15-minute segments and a […]