Archimorph Online Portal
Archimorph is an amazing website related to everything we are interested about. You can lost in the extensive archive they’ve collected. Definitely check them out, some stuff gets a little theoretical but always relevant. Continue reading → Non Linear Systems at UPenn
Non-Linear Systems is a great resources for all design that is not linear aka emergent or generative. Roland Snooks and Jenny Sabin are highly involved in this research institute at UPenn run by Cecil Balmond. Continue reading → Skylar Tibbits – TED Talk on Robotic Construction
Skylar Tibbits talks at TED about the future of self replicating and naturally inspired robotic construction. Interesting insight into a rapidly developing field. Make sure to check out his work, great stuff. Below we’ve embedded some videos from his vimeo page. Continue reading → Philips Glowing Bacteria Bio Light – The Light Source of the Future
Dutch electronics powerhouse Philips released last December details about their innovative research in renewable and naturally inspired lighting. BioLight is a look into utilizing glowing bacteria to eventually light our homes without the use of electricity. The same way certain fireflies and insect species glow at night, certain bacteria carry the same genes and Philips [...] Continue reading → Design and Nature Conference 2012 in Spain
An excellent conference oppurtunity has come to our attention in Spain: 6th International Conference on Relating Design in Nature with Science and Engineering. It is scheduled for 11 – 13 June 2012 in A Coruña Spain. Anyone intersted can visit their website here. Continue reading → Flight Assembeled Architecture – Gramazio & Kohler and Raffaello D’Andrea
You heard and saw correctly. Flight assembled architecture is a video showing small scale flying robotic agents assemble a wall over time by lifting bricks one by one and placing them in correct orientation due to pre programmed logic. It was part of an exhibit and installation covered by various outlets including but not limited [...] Continue reading → Meghalaya’s Living Bridge: Naturally Constructed Architecture
Watch this amazing Indian village participate in a century old tradition of weaving bridges from living tree roots to combat the monsoon season. Truly amazing. Continue reading → Kokkugia: Roland Snooks and Rob Stuart-Smith
Kokkugia is a progressive architecture and urban design practice exploring generative and emergent design methods modeled primarily after self-organizing behavior found in biology (resulting in what they call “non-linear” architecture). Its run by Roland Snooks (currently teaching at Columbia GSAPP) and Robert Stuart-Smith and is based out of London and New York. Amazing work awaits [...] Continue reading → SolidThinking Morphogenic Biomimetic Software
Solid Thinking is an amazing software that takes your engineered solids and models (in various formats) and optimizes them the same way as if nature had built it (with material only responding to anchors and direct force. You need to see their video, its quite amazing the forms it generates and how designers apply those [...] Continue reading →