Two projects of particular interest by Ariel Schwartz and Mike Chino. Archimorph began researching similar topics, using Bacillus pasteurii, also known as the cementer bug in 2007 as a ‘natural 3d printing device’ which would create habitable structures out of sand. Seed bombing technologies have also been of interest since early 2009 in the attempt […]

Sketches of radiolarianfrom The Voyage of H.M.S. ‘Challenger’ circa 1858. ‘Radiolarians condense their structure according to the flow of forces by controlling the diameter of the individual bubbles intersecting the global sphere in the radiolarian. Bubble clusters with a high amount of small diameter bubbles have a large amount of membrane surface, which finally results […]

Fig, Banyan, and Mangrove tree species show many possibilities with their aerial root configuration for genetic manipulation, creating sustainable structures from plant species. As our understanding of the human and plant genomes continues, we will gain the ability to manipulate these structures at the genetic level, both during embryonic development and after. As the world’s […]

instructors: David Pigram + Wes Mcgee Proposing an alternative to the singular building as Icon [Sydney’s Opera House or Bilbao’s Guggenhaim as prime examples] this studio asks for the design of a population of smaller public insertions that would define and collectively contribute to Detroit’s public identity. The precedents for this kind of swarm branding […]

archimorph joins the d3 housing tomorrow competition. deadline is january 15, 2010.-JB + JP Each seed is a genetic record, 3.5 billion years of plant evolution contained in the folds of a single embryo. Each stage in the maturation of a plant species marks a state change, a crossing of a threshold prefigured in the […]

Smart Geometry Conference 2010 | Barcelona

Exploration of housing typologies reveals vast potential for overlaying urban, contextual, cultural, social, and life cycle flows toward determining new architectonic strategies for living in the future. The d3 Housing Tomorrow Competition invites architects, designers, engineers, and students to collectively explore, document, analyze, transform, and deploy innovative approaches to residential urbanism, architecture, interiors, and designed […]

programmatic + massing study for huron river watershed council main base of operations. – JB

Huron Synergy. As the boundaries of our ever expanding megalopoleis blur the lines which defines perimeter, landscapes of complex ecologies disappear before our eyes, pushing the boundary further into itself doomed for collapse. Detroit Michigan is in an economic crisis, and as its inhabitants leave the city at an alarming rate, the constructed perimeter begins […]