Exploration of natural systems from the microscopic to the universal unearths vast design potential for overlaying cultural, ecological, and life cycle flows toward determining new architectonic strategies. The d3 Natural Systems Competition for 2010 invites architects, designers, engineers, and students to collectively explore the potential of analyzing, documenting, and deploying nature-based influences in architecture, interiors, […]

Latest iteration of Taubman College Faculty Reading Room.

-archimorph featured in the 2007, iaac 2nd advanced architecture contest; the self-fab house. the project, ‘cultivating spaces’ was among the finalists, continuing a controversial discourse which attempts to synthesize nanotechnology, architecture, and biomimetics. the book is an actar publication and can be purchased here.

‘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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

left to right: jason pierce, dylan lowder, jon bailey, bennett bossert, matt jackson special thanks to matt and amy for hosting a successful rouse[d]etroit competition and exhibition.

the fractal forest|growing place project is one concept for the third institute of advanced architecture competition–the self sufficient city. more information on the project will be available as the competition unfolds. this is one of many ideas for the competition, as we will explore the urban edge and its relationship to emergence. meanwhile, hoping to […]