-TED Fellow and urban designer Mitchell Joachim presents his vision for sustainable, organic architecture: eco-friendly abodes grown from plants and — wait for it — meat.-TED
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h9: bar ceiling concept i + ii
Concept design for H9 bar ceiling using glass liquor bottles suspended from the steel structure. The alternative iteration employs an image-based circle packing technique to aggregate polycarbonate tubes of various diameters and lengths into a cloud-like form above the bar. Other possibilities are being explored.-JB
Archimorph Book i
-In early 2011 Archimorph will be publishing their first book, self-titled; Archimorph Book I: Architecture, Biomimetics, Technology. More information will be available closer to the release date.-JB
BBC Life | Plants
“Plants’ solutions to life’s challenges are as ingenious and manipulative as any animal’s. Innovative time-lapse photography opens up a parallel world where plants act like fly-paper, or spring-loaded traps, to catch insects. Vines develop suckers and claws to haul themselves into the rainforest canopy. Every peculiar shape proves to have a clever purpose. The dragon’s […]
Birth of the Manifold
“Technology and architecture have become synonymous. Digital media has become paramount in the practice of architecture, specifically within the context of architectural representation. Consequently, how we design, perceive and experience spatial boundaries has altered. Film production, as a time-based medium, grasps the potential to explore new possibilities of architectural representation and practice within a filmic […]
Merismopedia
Like a microscopic (and monochromatic) version of Tetris, Merismopedia cells form square-packed colonies. These cyanobacteria, plucked from a New England salt marsh, were flooded with ultraviolet light that was later filtered out of the image to reveal a red hue produced by chlorophyll molecules inside the cells. –National Geographic Merismopedia (from the Greek merismos (division) […]
apomechanes 2010
Ahylo lab in collaboration with supermanoeuvre and kokkugia are pleased to announce the launch of the Apomechanes 2010 studio (seminar and workshop) to be held from the 19th of July till the 6th of August. Apomechanes is an international intensive 3-week computational design studio held each summer in Athens, Greece. The studio is devoted to […]
plasmatic matter
“The sculpture acts in the tradition of the marginalized mid-century American medical doctor Wilhelm Reich who said “all plasmatic matter perceives, with or without sensory nerves. The amoeba has no sensory or motor nerves, and still it perceives…The terror of the total convulsion, of involuntary movement and spontaneous excitation is joined to the splitting up […]
Epigenetic Landscape
Assuming that there exists at all levels of nature a principle corresponding to the path of most economic action or least resistance (which is only a misguidedly negative expression of the deeper principle that every action is nonetheless accompanied by its own sufficient conditions), the rivulets and modulations of the epigenetic landscape correspond to built-in […]
Ocean of Light
“The Ocean of Light project explores the creative and immersive possibilities of light-based visualisation in physical space. It uses bespoke hardware to create dynamic, interactive and three-dimensional sculptures from light.” “Surface is the first artwork to be exhibited using the Ocean of Light hardware. It uses minimal visuals and sound to evoke the essence of […]




