-Precedent study for thesis project at the University of Michigan Digital Mania Thesis Seminar.

Convoluted Flesh The convoluted (i.e. overlapped, intertwined and blurred) nature of contemporary architectural design, as we understand it, goes beyond the functions of opulence and intricacy, of technique and simulation, of module and optimisation. It invokes something ranking above notions of beauty, style, and elegance – it evokes the sublime, the blissful and the mysterious. […]

Within the coming months the University of Michigan Tuabman College (School of Art + Design) along with Supermanouvre(David Pigram) and Matter Design(Wes Mcgee) are setting forth a publication documenting the previous three years (2008, 2009, 2010) of robotic research conducted by studios at the graduate level. Archimorph acted as consultant and lead design in the […]

> > -Images from Winter 2010 Exhibition at University of Michigan robotic fabrication with Wes McGee and David Pigram. Trajectories were chosen from previous research agendas started in 2009 and with the kuka 6-axis robotic arm were advanced and constructed as a 1:1 prototype. Robotic research areas from top to bottom: Polyurethane Foam Rapid Prototyping, […]

-Images from Detroit Soundscape, where the landscape is created via acoustical analysis of the site and implementation of a barnacle-like algorithm which covers the surface in a quadratically diffused pattern. The growth pattern is created from an aggregation l-system working in sequence with collision detection, quadratic random number generator, attraction points, and acoustic reflection angle. […]

– L-System aggregation based on acoustic reflection and quadratic diffusion properties of local context. Algorithms within the script calculates optimal acoustic reflective surfaces for the given inputs of source and receiver points. More information on project will be released upon completion of final iteration.

Biophilia : Technophilia Projects noted as visionary within the architectural realm are all explicitly linked to the machine and the technologies that embody it, whether they are conceptual, mechanized constructions, virtual ones, or the cabbalistic. The use of technology in architecture fully embodies the architypes of the time and visionary architects’ pursuing projects of representation […]

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 […]