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景與井 – Courtyard House

2012-02-08T15:00:00.000Z

A project from dotze innovations studio

"Sky Voids + Inn Vista"This is a proposal for a 2nd generation house of a 5 person family in Changhua, Taiwan.

The site is located on the roof of an existing one storey factory building.The initial idea here is to create a contemporary Chinese courtyard house with a "回"shaped box.

This is a layout which has individual living units and shared family spaces, they are connected by a looped corridor and separated by small light wells.

"Sky Voids" are distributed on the corner of the building to provide natural lighting and ventilation. It is designed as individual small courtyards.

"Inn Vista" is the idea of creating internal views. Big glazing is designed to face the central courtyard and "Sky Voids which crates internal views looking into the garden.It is a project we are trying to re-define what a modern Chinese courtyard house can be? How space can be divided individually but also strongly connected

http://studiodotze.com/courtyard.html

嫚之屋 – House of Velvet

2012-01-30T16:43:00.002Z

This is a refitting project of an apartment for a single in Taipei metro area. The initial idea is to replace the existing solid wall with transparent and soft materials. Partitions is replaced by curtains and velvet that illuminated as a solid wall and can be opened as a void. These elements become the main design idea throughout the whole.It is a project experimenting with flexibility and transparency of a living space, re-questioning "what is a wall?"

http://www.studiodotze.com/curtains.html

動態生活框架 – A Dynamic Living Frame

2012-01-30T16:39:00.000Z

This is a collaborative project with a group of fresh talent Taiwanese designer, Original Design Studio.It is a competition proposal for students accommodation interiors of National Cheng Kung University. The main concept here is to break "Identical" and replaced with "Identity". Using modularized furniture as a frame, but providing flexibility to create a dynamic living space. Colours and patterns are widely spread to fresh up the old building. Walls are opened for varies activities to take place. In this project, we are finding a balance between "Modularity" and "Customization" to shape a dynamic living frame.

http://www.studiodotze.com/ncku.html

兜空間 - dotze innovations online

2012-01-26T16:08:00.000Z

http://www.studiodotze.com/

Tea Pavilion on the Water / Tze-Chun Wei | ArchDaily

2011-09-19T23:01:00.001+01:00

Tea Pavilion on the Water / Tze-Chun Wei | ArchDaily:

Paul Broadbent-"Camera of Geometry"

2011-07-05T23:42:00.001+01:00

This camera was constructed as a means to speculate on perspective collage and fragmentation within the city of Istanbul. The camera works as a periscope with two mirrors reflecting the image into the observers field of view. The frames and geometries that lie within the camera are layered those of the photograph.

Bartlett Summer Show 2010 3D Scan

2011-07-05T23:29:00.000+01:00

Bartlett Summer Show 2010 3D Scan from ScanLAB on Vimeo.

The Bartlett School of Architecture Summer Show is a collection of over a thousand models, installations, prototypes, drawings, photographs, films, sketches and designs presented across four large exhibition spaces in the Slade School of Art, UCL each summer. The show lasts for just seven days but represents the annual output of over 450 Bartlett students, thousands of hours of labour and thousands of pounds in materials.

This film creates a permanent record of the temporary exhibition, not through video but through 3D scanning.

In 2010, 48 hours of colour 3D scanning produced 64 scans of the entire exhibition space using a Faro Photon 120 laser scanner. These have been compiled to form a complete 3D replica of the temporary show which has been distilled into a navigable animation (shown here) and a series of 'standard' architectural drawings.

The process of 3D scanning captures full colour millimetre perfect spatial data of the models, drawings and exhibition spaces and allows them to be revisited long after the show has finished.

Along side the film a series of high resolution plan, section and elevations have been extracted from the 3D scanned data set and will be exhibited at the Bartlett soon. In these drawings what is such a three dimensional, sensual and temporary experience is abstracted into a series of precisely detailed snap shots in time. The work becomes a collage of hours of delicately created lines and forms set within a feature prefect representation of the exhibition space. Sometimes a model or image stands out as identifiable, more often a sketch merges into a model and an exhibition stand creating a blurred hybrid of designs and authors. These drawings represent the closest record to an as built drawing set for the entire exhibition and an 'as was' representation of the Bartlett's year.

Original from:http://vimeo.com/17284846

Robots of Brixton-Kibwe Tavares

2011-07-03T21:14:00.000+01:00

Robots of Brixton from Kibwe Tavares on Vimeo.

And another one..

Brixton has degenerated into a disregarded area inhabited by London's new robot workforce - robots built and designed to carry out all of the tasks which humans are no longer inclined to do. The mechanical population of Brixton has rocketed, resulting in unplanned, cheap and quick additions to the skyline.

The film follows the trials and tribulations of young robots surviving at the sharp end of inner city life, living the predictable existence of a populous hemmed in by poverty, disillusionment and mass unemployment. When the Police invade the one space which the robots can call their own, the fierce and strained relationship between the two sides explodes into an outbreak of violence echoing that of 1981.

Golden Age - Paul Nicholls

2011-07-03T20:59:00.002+01:00

GOLDEN AGE - SOMEWHERE from Paul Nicholls on Vimeo.

Another one from Unit 15.

Sequel to the award winning GOLDEN AGE - THE SIMULATION, 'SOMEWHERE' attempts to visualise the notion of a 'downloaded architecture'. We are in a time where much of what we do is online. The notion of the online will radically change, the notion of the computer and the home will merge. We will download parks and places to relax, have skype phone calls with simulated telepresence of our friends and family, be immersed in nanorobotic replications of any kind of objects or furnishings downloaded on credit based systems. The local becomes the global and the global becomes the local. Consumer based capitalism would change forever.

Megalomania - Jonathan Gales

2011-07-03T20:39:00.004+01:00

A distinction project done by a student in the Bartlett, Unit 15.
Despite all the idea but just looking at the overall visual is just phenomenon.
Enjoy.

"Megalomania perceives the city in total construction. The built environment is explored as a labyrinth of architecture that is either unfinished, incomplete or broken. Megalomania is a response to the state of infrastructure and capital, evolving the appearance of progress into the sublime."

Exb_Bartlett Summer Show 2011

2011-07-03T20:01:00.000+01:00

Exb_Westminster Arch. 2011

2011-06-28T16:51:00.002+01:00

Exb_AA 2011

2011-06-28T16:50:00.000+01:00

Trajectory field - Jorinde Voigt

2011-03-15T23:39:00.000Z

Jorinde Voigt has adopted a new colored way to design her new conceptual drawings.

Drifting Landscape

2011-03-15T23:34:00.000Z

Slithering is a alternative dance documentation where the dancer dances and reacts with the Slithering program. The program scans from a camera a one pixel wide segment and orders these segments to become one long picture in time. In this project the dancer has to find a completely new kind of movement, if she wants to control the visual end result. It also changes the documentation of dance in time and space to now happen only in time. See video;

Invisible Network

2011-03-15T23:28:00.003Z

The city is filled with an invisible landscape of networks that is becoming an interwoven part of daily life. WiFi networks and increasingly sophisticated mobile phones are starting to influence how urban environments are experienced and understood. The creators, Timo Arnall, Jørn Knutsen and Einar Sneve Martinussen are exploring the immaterial terrain of WiFi looks like and how it relates to the city. See more;

"The measuring rod is inspired by the poles land surveyors use to map and describe the physical landscape. Similarly, our equipment allows us to reveal and represent topographies of wireless networks. The measuring rod uses a typical mobile WiFi antenna to measure reception, and draw out 4 metre tall graphs of light."

http://www.triangulationblog.com/2011/02/light-painting-wifi.html

DEADLINE post-it stop motion

2011-02-07T22:52:00.002Z

Mortal Engine by Chunky Move

2011-01-18T23:00:00.003Z

"Mortal Engine" is an incredible performance by Australian dance group Chunky Move. Their recent award-winning is directed by Gideon Obarzanek (choreographer), the amazing visuals from laser and video images were designed by Robin Fox and also the expressive sound, composed by Ben Frost, which adds further sensorial experience to the audiences.

Chunky Move’s work constantly seeks to redefine what is or what can be contemporary dance within an ever-evolving Australian culture. The Company’s work is both diverse in form and content; to date the Company has created a number of works for the stage, site specific, new-media and installation work. See more;

Mortal Engine is a dance-video-music-laser performance using movement and sound responsive projections to portray an ever-shifting, shimmering world in which the limits of the human body are an illusion. Crackling light and staining shadows represent the most perfect or sinister of souls. Kinetic energy fluidly metamorphoses from the human figure into light image, into sound and back again. Choreography is focused on movement of unformed beings in an unfamiliar landscape searching to connect and evolve in a constant state of becoming. Veering between moments of exquisite cosmological perfection and grotesque evolutionary accidents of existence, we are driven forward by the reality of permanent change.

http://www.triangulationblog.com/2010/11/mortal-engine.html

Nota-motion

2011-01-12T23:11:00.000Z

I saw these images from a blog which reminds me some idea that was introduced in my master project. the idea of capturing motion. the first week "self-portrait" using the technique of image scanner, a method of recording an image that represent duration. Notation of motion = "Notamotion"

Motion Colour

2011-01-12T23:04:00.001Z

This photograph series called Shinkansen by Tim Lisko consist in 14 excellent pictures taken with open shutter while on the high-speed bullet train from Tokyo to Osaka

Sliced Bunker

2010-12-26T12:54:00.000Z

Bunker 599 + 603

This project lays bare two secrets of the New Dutch Waterline (NDW), a military line of defence in use from 1815 until 1940 protecting the cities of Muiden, Utrecht, Vreeswijk and Gorinchem by means of intentional flooding.

A seemingly indestructible bunker with monumental status is sliced open. The design thereby opens up the minuscule interior of one of NDW’s 700 bunkers, the insides of which are normally cut off from view completely. In addition, a long wooden boardwalk cuts through the extremely heavy construction. It leads visitors to a flooded area and to the footpaths of the adjacent natural reserve. The pier and the piles supporting it remind them that the water surrounding them is not caused by e.g. the removal of sand but rather is a shallow water plain characteristic of the inundations in times of war.

The sliced up bunker forms a publicly accessible attraction for visitors of the NDW. It is moreover visible from the A2 highway and can thus also be seen by tens of thousand of passers-by each day. The project is part of the overall strategy of Rietveld Landscape | Atelier de Lyon to make this unique part of Dutch history accessible and tangible for a wide variety of visitors.

Rachel Whiteread's Drawings

2010-12-19T18:22:00.002Z

A lot of the works that I've been making over the years have been part of a cyclical process. Things have happened, things branch off, things crop up that I haven't thought about. I often feel a cycle is incomplete and need to tread the same path again. I've been teaching myself a language for the past fifteen years, and the utilization of that language can take on many forms.

--Rachel Whiteread

Using various materials to articulate the negative space surrounding or contained by objects, Whiteread has elaborated various approaches to casting and impression as subject, process, and vehicle for content. Her daily practice is based on a persistent duality: a pragmatic approach to the materials and making of art coupled with a fascination for the psychologically charged associations and traces of human contact borne by and embedded in objects and environments.

Whiteread’s frequent use of graph paper for her drawings recalls the notations of her Minimalist predecessors. Her forms, too, play off the geometry of the grid, but there are fundamental differences from the function-driven and emotional detachment of Minimalist drawings. For example, Dan Flavin’s graph paper drawings were empirical records of the components and colors of his installations whereas Whiteread’s are as much about evocation as representation and her choice of colored paper is as important as the drawing itself.

Rachel Whiteread was born in London in 1963. She studied painting at Brighton Polytechnic from 1982-1985 and sculpture at the Slade School of Fine Art from 1985-1987.

Augmented City - Keiichi Matsuda

2010-09-09T23:10:00.000+01:00

Augmented City 3D from Keiichi Matsuda on Vimeo.

Keiichi Matsuda, a recent graduate—with distinction—from the Bartlett School of Architecture

The film "focuses on the deprogramming of architecture and the spontaneous creation of customised, aggregated spaces," Matsuda writes. We see its central protagonist surrounded by pop-up menus and projected touchscreens, able to switch urban backgrounds—graffiti to gardens—in an instant. From the project description:The architecture of the contemporary city is no longer simply about the physical space of buildings and landscape, more and more it is about the synthetic spaces created by the digital information that we collect, consume and organise; an immersive interface may become as much part of the world we inhabit as the buildings around us.Augmented Reality (AR) is an emerging technology defined by its ability to overlay physical space with information. It is part of a paradigm shift that succeeds Virtual Reality; instead of disembodied occupation of virtual worlds, the physical and virtual are seen together as a contiguous, layered and dynamic whole. It may lead to a world where media is indistinguishable from 'reality'. The spatial organisation of data has important implications for architecture, as we re-evaluate the city as an immersive human-computer interface.

Philip Beesley's Hylozoic Ground

2010-09-09T23:04:00.002+01:00

As Beesley explains, "Hylozoic Ground is an immersive, interactive environment that moves and breathes around its viewers... Next-generation artificial intelligence, synthetic biology, and interactive technology create an environment that is nearly alive." Indeed, he adds, "hylozoism is the ancient belief that all matter has life."
The resulting structure is "similar to a coral reef, following cycles of opening, clamping, filtering and digesting. Arrays of touch sensors create waves of diffuse breathing motion, luring visitors into the shimmering depths of a forest of light."

http://www.hylozoicground.com/project/index.html

The Transcendent City / Richard Hardy

2010-08-08T00:39:00.000+01:00

THE TRANSCENDENT CITY from Richard Hardy on Vimeo.

A recent graduate from London’s Bartlett School of Architecture, Richard Hardy has produced a fascinating animation for Nic Clear’s Unit 15 that pushes futuristic architecture to a new level. Using David Foster Wallace’s ‘Infinite Jest’, a novel that questions certain aspects of Americans’ obsessive behavior – in terms of the intense fascination with entertainment, materialism, technology etc – the studio challenged students to analyze the implications of society’s “obsessive/addictive behavior…to develop tactics to cope with the difficulties of creating an architecture in uncertain times.”

Molly Wally

2010-07-28T00:07:00.002+01:00

Opening of 350th Royal Society's Summer Exhibition at the Royal Festival Hall, London.
Stand design of 'Molly Wally' for the ICE group London Centre for Nanotechnology & Department of Chemistry, UCL.

Design: marcosandmarjan
Collaboration: Tze-Chun Wei, Camille Tenart, Sebastien Tabourin, Hubert Ducroux

Manufacturing: Mesa Studio at Grymsdyke Farm
Graphic Design: Alexandra Tenreiro

SketchChair | Flatpack Chair Software

2010-07-28T00:05:00.002+01:00

SketchChair from Greg Saul on Vimeo.
http://www.zeitgeistudios.com/2010/07/27/sketchchair-flatpack-chair-software/

Exb_RCA Show 2010

2010-06-30T23:35:00.002+01:00

Exb_Bartlett Summer Show 2010

2010-06-27T01:06:00.002+01:00

Each year the Bartlett summer show is always overwhelming and packed of people, overwhelming by the amount of students work and amazed by the quality of the presentation in the same time. I could say maybe its the biggest architecture school exhibition in London or UK.

Over 400 students from 1st year to diploma 5th year, and assumed more than 3000 drawings are shown in every single inches of space, the massive production and the energized creativity are always enjoyable in the event. The school is crossing over different disciplines which make it more attractive for all the people to evolve. Hand craft making, film and animation, digital fabrication, hand sketch drawings, CG graphics, 1:1 scale production, photos, interactive media...etc. I would rather say this is more like an architecture carnival than just a year show, you feel the passion, the ambition, the creativity all coming from the students work.

Tape Installation

2010-06-23T23:18:00.000+01:00

This installation work that posted on http://www.zeitgeistudios.com is the most stunning innovative work that I have seen recently after the UK Pavilion. Its an architectural installation that is involved with material, inhabitable space, body engage, structural and aesthetics. A spider web like material and cocoon like textures give it a bizarre expression all simply made from everyday essential, plastic tapes. This approach reminds me to criticize some of the digital manufacture form that is all end up with CNC milling or cross knotted structure which is always stand still, heavy and bulky of new crazy geometries. I appreciate Numen had step forward of the flurry neo architecture language that is indeed NEW!!

http://www.foruse.info/index_in.htm

Speed Of Light

2010-06-22T00:19:00.004+01:00

Speed of Light celebrates the tenth anniversary of broadband in the UK. Stripped back to its essentials, optical fibre is a thin strand of glass, with nothing more than a flickering beam of light traveling along it. United Visual Artists have used this beam as the starting point for the work.

Speed of Light consists of 6 site specific installations connected through light and sound. The story begins with an input from the audience, which is transferred into a pathway of light, leading through the atmospheric environment of the Bargehouse. The continuous line of light evolves through each installation in turn shifting in intensity and form. Speed of Light uses over 148 lasers across four floors and six rooms of the Bargehouse, a raw and industrial warehouse on the South Bank

Exb_Westminster Uni. summer show

2010-06-22T00:02:00.001+01:00

This is the architecture design annual show of Westminster University, a school that has unit scheme which gives a variety. The best studio this year will still go for DS14, an unit lead by Susanne Isa, which usual focus on man made leftover, forgotten landscapes, their approach of creating a sort of bizarre and phenomenal space that is expressing directly by their drawings, the darkness, underground, bunker like graphics does tell the story.

Exb_Ban-Doh

2010-06-11T22:37:00.002+01:00

This is an exhibition of Taiwanese artist in UK, the variety of the work crossing fashion, product, media, graphic, a small exhibition but its indeed encouraging for the young designer to have a stage for them to show off, its a beginning and will be a good start for the future Taiwan design industry to be more well known. I submitted my project but unfortunate didn't got selected, I'll keep trying and hopefully one day can be part of this event.

Event: Ban-Doh: Taiwanese Arts & Design Exhibition, 9-13 June 2010

2010-06-07T20:12:00.000+01:00

The exhibition is brought to you by the FORMOSA team, founded by the University of the Arts London Taiwanese Society (UALTWS) and its alumni. The “Ban-Doh @ FORMOSA” exhibition has invited prominent professionals in the field of arts and design to examine and appraise more than 200 art works. They are Ellie Greig and Jane Trustram, curator and the head of graphic design of jotta and Rayne Perry, the president of the UAL Curation Society. And, together with fashion designers from the FORMOSA team and a Taiwanese curator based in London, they have selected 40 final products, created by 21 artists, whose creation have produced comparable culture flavour but each unique in its own right.

From: 9-13 June 2010

Opening Party :Wednesday 9th June 9pm - 12pm

Venue : Candid Arts Trust Gallery, 5 Torrens Street ,London EC1V 1NQ, UK

Ban-Doh ['ban'doh]

A traditional Taiwanese open feast of enriching culture, sumptuous food and heart-warming hospitality -

enjoy this visual banquet of the most cutting edge arts and design that Taiwan has to offer.

Featuring artists:

Chin Chang, Min-Tzu Chao, Pao-Han Chen, An-Li Chen,

Yao-Jen Chuang, Chiao Ling Fan, Yu-En Hsieh, Yen-Ting Hsu,

Ying-I Hsu, Chien-Ni Hung, Craig Kao, Ling-Ting Kao, Johan Ku,

Mei-Hui Liu, Chi-Heng Peng & Chin-Ying Lin, Jill HC Tsai,

Rosy Tsai, Pei-Chen Wu, Michael Wu, Kenyon Yeh, Yosifu

Showcasing:

Fine Art, Illustration, Sound Installation, Video Installation,

Fashion Design, Architecture, Industrial Design

Royal re-formation from Paul Nicholls

2010-05-29T11:33:00.001+01:00

ROYAL RE-FORMATION from Paul Nicholls on Vimeo.

A stunning CG animation by the 4th year student of Unit15 in the Bartlett school. I especially like the space of the parcel library

ROYAL CABINETS

In an age of progressively automated manufacturing and fabrication processes, the Royal Cabinets are an aggressive expression of labour. Assembled from a contractor led design approach, the cabinets draw on highly skilled local craftsmen and artists to produce the fantastical. Staged within the proposed baron 'facadescape' of a financially fragile Canary Wharf, the Cabinets are programmatically charged with the loss of yet another great British labour force, Royal Mail. With the privatisation of this service and the closing of the old London sorting offices, the company now exists solely to store, manage and eventually sell its backlog of lost and undelivered mail, inside the cabinets themselves. Sorted by day and publically accessed by night, the cabinets are constructed from salvaged/lost/unwanted materials as well as being ornamentally re-branded with the objects of former mail operations, which include mail carts, postal sacks and even delivery vehicles. These unlikely combinations of materials form an intricate bricolage of sculptures at various scales, forming storage areas, display cases, chandeliers, and even the fabric of the cabinets themselves.

ROYAL RE-FORMATION

The film attempts in part to graphically abstract the construction of the Royal Cabinets, In a dream-like labour of love. This abstracted reformation is a metaphor for this labour as well as representing the 'architecture of pieces' nature to the project. With the obsession for the object the film focuses on an assemblage of immense intricacy as the material slowly clusters to form the sculptural mail markets. Once formed the focus stays with the object, now in the form of the ornamentally re-branded building parts, before the nocturnal mail markets come to life, transforming into red jewels in the urban cityscape, becoming misplaced curious objects in themselves which have a strange visual balance of fragility and aggression.

Exb_Design of the year 2010

2010-05-22T21:05:00.002+01:00

Brit Insurance Designs of the Year 2010 is held by Design Museum London every year to explore the most innovative, exquisite or new-looking project in design all over the world. It includes 7 categories: architecture, fashion, furniture, graphics, interactive, product and transport.

In this exhibition the selected works are balanced between applicable and conceptual. Besides the architecture part which are built and less interesting, the furniture, product and transport are more intriguing. It includes the public bicycle sharing system Urbikes that is designed in Spain to offer door to door services has already fully working in one Catalan city. Chirnside’s Polytopia seating system designed in Australia strikes the balance between aesthetics, comfort and concept of contemporary furniture, it examines how people interactive and communicate when sharing the chairs. An repair project by Linda Browthwell is an unique case, which concept is to use traditional craft techniques to repair everyday objects within the public realm, it intervene the public space by patching not replacing.

Other work like the lightest Carbon fiber chair designed by Shigeru Ban Architects, the low-cost sports wheelchair and I consider as the most revolutionized product for Britain is the Folding Plug that is designed by Min-Kyu Choi, as there must be people struggling buying mini size electronics but end up with the chunky UK plugs that is even bigger than the product itself. This is the best example of the design with simple idea, but balance the conceptual, applicable and also aesthetic. The last must seen and indeed very cutting edge, eye catching conceptual product is the BMW - Light Visionary Model. From the appearance, It’s a convention handsome looking sports car, but instead of build in tradition rigid frame with aluminum or steel plate, its composite with hi-tech fabric skin stretched over a moveable wire frame which enables the car to change shape and form. The headlight is the most exciting part, its like human eyelid, with hidden and blinking apertures that hides in the fabric. It’s a whole new idea beyond the solid robotic transformer type of thinking, a car body that is intangible, elastic like a flesh with a dressing.

Vertical Garden on Building Walls in Osaka

2010-05-11T23:09:00.001+01:00

Vertical Garden on Building Walls in Osaka: "n a world of tight spaces and growing pollution, one has to be creative. Italian architect Gaetano Pesce designed this amazing organic building in Osaka, Japan. The walls of the construction feature interesting extruded pockets with plants, thus creating an impromptu vertical garden. This idea also contributes to the overall original look of the building which made it become one of the city’s landmarks in the past years. The 80 types of plants and trees were selected by asking help from specialized local horticulturists, but the main species is Bamboo. In case you are wondering what this structure houses, know that is is a nine-floor building with 7,052 square meters of interior space. Restaurants and many business offices are headquartered here.-via Inhabitat"

Watch out

2010-05-10T23:45:00.000+01:00

UK Pavilion for Shanghai World Expo 2010

2010-05-06T19:58:00.003+01:00

The UK Pavilion for Shanghai World Expo 2010 is one of the people’s favorite (if not the most). We featured yesterday the pavilion’s details with some amazing photos and plans. Now, we could not pass the opportunity to show you this amazing video of the pavilion made byChannelbeta.

More on Pole Dance

2010-05-06T19:54:00.001+01:00

More on Pole Dance, SO-IL’s winning entry for the P.S.1
This video clearly explains the concept for SO-IL’s winning proposal for the P.S.1 summer installation we presented you yesterday. Now it is easier to understand the concept proposed by Pole Dance, encouraging people to move the structure to create a dynamic space.

Shanghai Expo 2010

2010-04-28T23:20:00.001+01:00

http://poll.fm/f/1uz1n

SU plugins Render Debate- Maxwell vs Vray vs Kerkythea

2010-04-26T20:14:00.002+01:00

Maxwell 2.0 rendertime: 33hrs

Kerkythea 2008 rendertime: 13hrs (Path Tracing)

Vray 1.6 rendertime: 5hrs (IM 5 passes+LC 5000)

This debate is all based on the render plugins for sketchup, so Max and C4D are excluded in this competition. This is not an scientific way or comparing it, as its not rendered in the same duration of time. But I try to set them as relative as possible for high quality. The material settings is the difficult one, as all these renders use different parameters. But I want to compare here is not just the quality of the output but also the workflow, flexibility, compatibility and the time of setting up the scene. I'm all new to this three programs (architecturally), so the frustration also come into account.

Best Quality: Maxwell > Kerkythea > Vray

Best Render Speed: Vray > Kerkythea > Maxwell
SU Compatibility: Kerkythea > Vray > Maxwell
SU Flexibility: Kerkythea> Vray >Maxwell
Interface control: Vray > Kerkythea = Maxwell
Material Settings: Maxwell >Kerkythea> Vray
One click render : Maxwell > Kerkythea > Vray

Overall: Kerkythea > Maxwell > Vray

UK Election 2010 - Graphical Debate

2010-04-24T01:06:00.002+01:00

Liberal Democrat

Plaid CYMRU

Labour

Conservative

SDLP

UK Election and debate is recently a hot talk, I'm not a political fan, and maybe its completely the opposite, I don't know what are the UK parties or how the politics works. Just occasional click into the BBC website where they put all the information about the parties and their manifesto. Its interesting to see how they market their proposals. There's thousands of words to read which I won't eager to do. But just simply looking into their graphical debate, I like the Liberal Democrat most, as its visually comfortable and easy to spot out the key issues. I vote them as The best layout design. The best graphics will go for Plaid, as they have very good photography and nice fonts. Conservative as its name is very conservative way of Microsoft Word layout with all text and not images, even the cover looks like a bible that I won't even want to open it. The Labour and SDLP are more or less like typical documents, not so interesting.

Stone on Stone - ROB CARTER

2010-04-22T20:14:00.006+01:00

Stone on Stone [CLIP] from Rob Carter on Vimeo.

ROB CARTER
Born in Worcester, UK, 1976
Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York
http://www.robcarter.net/

2009, 7 minutes 44 seconds 1080 x 1080 pixel digital video projection B&W/Color/Sound (Clip taken from the 3rd to 6th minute) http://www.robcarter.net/ “Stone On Stone” is a stop-motion video animation that uses the architectural language of High Gothic and Modernism to invent a contradictory history of their evolvement. The theme starts and finishes with the vast and unfinished Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine, NYC. It is contrasted with Le Corbusier’s La Tourette monastery in France, competed in 1960. The video uses this anomalous but single-minded architectural vision as the foundation for a new emergence of Gothic religious expression, resulting in a complete and unified fantasy cathedral – akin to the building that the Church of Saint John might have aspired to be.

The Archigram Archival Project

2010-04-20T20:35:00.003+01:00

The Archigram Archival Project makes the work of the seminal architectural group Archigram available free online for public viewing and academic study. The project was run by EXP, an architectural research group at the University of Westminster. It was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and made possible by the members of Archigram and their heirs, who retain copyright of all images.

Iceland Volcanic Ash

2010-04-17T22:25:00.006+01:00

Maxwell Render

2010-04-15T23:26:00.001+01:00

This is the result of my first testing on Maxwell Render, I remember this engine attracts my attention during my 3rd year when I was still frustrating with the Final Render which is now already intergrated in Maya. At the time I begin to use a bit of Vray and give up testing it out. The first impression is the interface looks rather complicated and doesn't makes you comfortable for first use. A lot of sub windows and technical caption flying around the settings menu. But actually it only took me like 1 or 2 hr to get familiar with it. The only complicated part is the material settings which is based on layers, blending and weight settings. The rest is straight forward. Set the location of the sun and the time and it does the rest of the job. Although there's more advance settings like turbulance, Ozone...etc. But you can ignore all these and just go for the default. The biggest problem I had is the viewport interface, its completely different than Max, Rhino, Sketchup which is confusing me. Another is the texture UV coordination which is not so intelligent, I really appreciate the Gizmo in 3dmax, simply pulling the axis to arrange the bitmap in viewport. But the really cool thing for the new Maxwell 2.0 is the multi light adjustment, with this you can trun on and off any scene lights(even the colors) anytime while render of after render, which none of the render engine can manage this, its because of using physical light parameters. Basically all u need to do is set the material and just hit render, no need to check light intensity, just adjust it afterwards. Another point of Maxwell is that it doesn't have any light object like spot or omni, and I haven;t figure out how to control the light quality by just using emmisive material, but it supports IES files which makes it even easier for the right light distribution. All above advantages still leads to his big disadvantage, the render speed. This image with SL19 (Maxwell unique passes factor) takes 16 hr and still have a lot of noise needs to be reduced.This especially happens in interior scene where all lights are indirect, not to mention this Tadao Ando's spiritual light. I have a quick check on Maxwell forum, some really decent images comes to 30hrs or more running on a 8 core 3.0Ghz server. So maybe my poor duo core 2.4Ghz for 16hr is nothing. The frustrating thing is that by searching on the forum, I found someone testing it on the same scene with nice material mapping which immediately beat my crappy image.

Vray - IM+LC with IES lights

2010-04-13T22:45:00.001+01:00

This should be my last test on Vray, using the best solution of interior scene, IM+LC. this time instead of using fixed sampling I uses adaptive sampling which gives faster result and sharper edges as well. The IES lights gives more realistic feeling but it doesn't support the emissive material mapping for IES files, which means u need to set up a vray light underneath an emitting object which I found its a bit complicated. Maxwell and Kerkythea both support IES mapping, so its easier to just apply it as a material on the lamp fittings. This saves a lot of time to set up when exporting models from Sketchup. Anyway, nothing is perfect. Vray best advantage is the speed and quality. Kerkythea is easy and fully support with Sketchup. Maxwell is physically accurate but really slow. C4D is very fast but doesn't have IES light. From the following test, as for sketchup user, I think Kerkythea is the easiest solution and its free especially for everyday use. Vray will recommend for the final production or for animation output.

Vray-Progressive Path Tracing

2010-04-11T00:28:00.000+01:00

Another rendering method that can use in Vray is called Progressive Path Tracing, it is using the light cache as calculation, each passes calculate the whole frame, so the rendering can be stopped anytime you want. Similar to Kerkythea MTL and Maxwell, the images is going better when more passes are calculated. As an result, the speed is always the problem if u want a clear image. I know the advantages of this is the simple settings, no need to tweak the parameters like Irradiance Map does to get the right light distribution. Maybe its not a good exmaple to test the interior view with this method, but I haven't really found out the real value of using it. I think the IM+LC works much better and faster.

AntiVJ facade installation

2010-04-07T19:36:00.002+01:00

http://www.antivj.com/songdo/index.htm

An impressive visual performance by label Anti VJ , over the facade of a recent building in thenew Songdo city, South Korea.

+Exb_Sublime Flesh

2010-04-07T18:54:00.002+01:00

Cinema 4D - Irradiance Map

2010-03-31T19:17:00.001+01:00

With Jaime's suggestion of testing the GI in Cinema 4d, its another possibility that might be a possible workflow Sketch up user, or an alternative Mac's render engine. The export of 3ds work well in C4D, it keeps the camera view ( field of view is a slightly difference from SU, but the angel is correct) and the material map and UV coordinate. which means its easy to export it from SU. And it supports sun light system as well which gives a fast and accurate light setting for building renders. The good impression for me like a non C4D user is that the setting is simple, the render method is not as complex as Vray, there's two main options, one is Irradiance map and one is Irradiance Map + QMC, it is the same biased method like Vray. All u have to do is to determine the quality of the sampling which saves a lot of time tweaking the parameters. Another good effect that C4D has is the ambient occlusion, it gives certain detail of soft shadow that will enhance the edges. The easy settings of material is another advantages, works similar as 3dMax, the material property index, u can simply tick the box and give the amount of the effect, such as transparency and reflection. And it also has the layer property like Maxwell material. So a glossy wooden floor will be diffuse + multiplied layer refection. The speed/quality of rendering for a new user is very convincing, u don't feel frustrated like using Vray (if u miss some settings the quality is entire different) the following images take 5hrs with 2 GI passes (IR method) The only disadvantages is that it doesn;t support IES lighting, there's plugin that can do the job but not with default shader. On material view, the glossiness of the reflection doesn't work properly as I expected, its a bit flat if u see the wooden table. But the bump and sharpness work really well. To sum up, I believe c4D is a good balance between easy settings and render speed.

Vray - Irradiance Map + Light Cache

2010-03-30T20:00:00.001+01:00

Finally I got this right, for interiors its better to use Light Cache instead of DMC, its less noisy and faster. And the intensity of the material shouldn't be too high, before I set it as 15 and thats why it makes so many black shadows. This time reduce it to 2.5 and lower the noise threshold, the render speed improve so much and also the quality as well. This one only took like 4hrs and with quite a nice quality already. The wood of the table doesn't look nice yet, but its just matter of tweaking it. In this case, Vray has a big advantages in render speed comparing to Kerkythea in Interior models. This is due to the irradiance map and the light cache method that Kerkythea don't have.

Vray - Irradiance Map + DMC with Adaptive AA

2010-03-27T11:13:00.001Z

This week I've being testing the vray plugin for Sketchup to test out the performance and the workflow, the good thing about the plugin is that its intergrated, there's no export and import problem. it directs renders from your Sketchup windows, and the material can be set by picking up the material names, this is very useful that it minimize the time of material settings. Compare to Kerkythea its more of less the same, the only difference is that Kerkythea needs to export the model and will lose the face-me object, and if u change the model u need to re-export it. So if this case, the Vray can used as a default render for daily use with better quality GI output. But...the speed is always the concern. in this case I prefer not to use too many advance material, just glass and matte material, something flat cartoon like rendering will be really fast.

Again, using the same model and difficult indirect light condition to test out the speed and performance of interior scene which is always the hardcore for GI. In this model I didn't use any rectangle light to fake the sun light ( It will have better quality I guess, u get to setup subdivision of the light emitter) instead, I want to use the SU sun settings to simulate the actual shadow. After 10hr rendering, with 5 passes of Irradiance map + 16 subdivision DMC + Adaptive AA sampling, the result come up a bit blurry and with common problem of Irradiance map, the black dot. During the testing, I use DMC + 5000 Light Cache, and fixed AA, still come up the same blurry image which is very irritating. I'm not such a vray expert so if u know where is the key settings I need to improve please drop me a message. Here are the settings.

Kerkthea MTL + Depth Map

2010-03-17T20:21:00.000Z

Original Output

After the deadline of the BFI competition project, I got a little to play around with this free render engine, the MTL algorithm is a more accurate one compare to photon mapping, especially in the details and edges. The best well know software that use MTL is Maxwell, and it ends up with easy settings and accurate light calculation. The biggest problem with MTL is the slow render speed and the grain, it needs more passes for each frame to get better result. But an advantage is that u can stop whenever u want and save the image. I use Tadao Ando's the church of light as a model, because its a simple geometry with simple light fittings, it will be the best condition to test the software, especially on the indirect sun light. After 20hr of render which I think its too much for everyday use, but the result end up quite satisfying. the indirect light do illuminate the interior and u get the fadeout effect on the floor of light reflections. Another very useful settings is the depth map, and it takes only seconds to get this depth of field mask that can apply to the original image in Photoshop very easily. There's no need of using DOF camera that take ages to render. I'm sure other program like Vray or Mental Ray can easily achieve this result and maybe better, but a software for free and with easy settings, it really done a good job.

Depth Map

Final Result in Photoshop

Exb_Saatchi Gallery

2010-03-07T23:09:00.000Z

Exb_Restless - Ron Arad

2010-02-28T21:47:00.002Z

Turbo - Baptiste Debombourg

2010-02-28T15:47:00.011Z

The turbo wave of the 80's left its mark on the industry and on the whole cultural situation in Western Europe.It became a model of behavior. The sound effect gives sensation of real physical power.

To advance, the people from East Europe put some more "tuning" everywhere – for example in their folk musc.The installation is part of the architecture.

Presentation:

Patricia Dorfmann Gallery Paris, Galerie HO Marseilles, Galerija10m2 Sarajevo

Elements:
wood installation
Dimensions:
variable size, H 3,2 x 7,3 x 3m
Realisation time:
variable time, 145 to 35 hours
Date:
05/10/2008

Original Post:http://www.baptistedebombourg.com/en/works/turbo-0

Crystal Palace - Baptiste Debombourg

2010-02-28T15:36:00.003Z

It's an urban sculpture. It seems that something violent happened to this bus stop, but actually the broken glass shows more something precious.

The situation is turned – the attention is grabbed from the aesthetic, not from the act of destruction. The intention was to provoke some emotion or empathy.

Presentation:

Bus stop in the city

Elements:

métal structure, feuilleté glass , sécurit glass, UV glue

Dimensions:

HxLxl : 2,7x5x1,5m

Realisation time:

45 hours

Date:

28/03/2008

Original From :http://www.baptistedebombourg.com/en/works/crystal-palace-0

WPA 2.0 Winner

2010-02-28T14:59:00.001Z

PORT: Architecture + Urbanism

Chicago / New York

http://portarchitects.com/

Andrew Moddrell

Christopher Marcinkoski

Carbon T.A.P. Video: Richie Gelles

Carbon T.A.P // Tunnel Algae Park

As Federal, state and local governments undertake consideration of large-scale investments in the renovation and replacement of urban infrastructures, we see a unique opportunity to reconsider the role of these systemic networks and their effect on our contemporary urban landscapes.

In the scenario outlined herein, a new type of green infrastructure is deployed at urban locations comprising concentrated sources of CO2 production. This new infrastructure utilizes a proprietary system of industrial scale algal agriculture to sequester and consume greenhouse gas emissions (in particular CO2) in order to limit their introduction into the atmosphere, while simultaneously creating a new economic resource through the production of oxygen, biofuels, bioplastics, nutraceuticals and/or agricultural feeds. In the scenario shown, this new infrastructure manifests itself as a series of pier-like armatures linked to the ventilation system for the Brooklyn-Battery tunnel.

What is unique about this proposition is not just the introduction of large-scale green infrastructure in the context of a city, but rather the use of this infrastructure to create an exceptional public realm amenity for the city. Rather than considering urban infrastructures as a necessary evil only to be hidden or mitigated, we view the renovation and re-imagination of these systems as opportunities to create new forms of civic and social domain that have the capacity to positively transform the American urban landscape.

Our proposal for a new infrastructural typology that is one part climate action; one part agricultural production; one part ecological preserve; one part public realm; and one part economic catalyst represents what should be the aspiration for all newly deployed urban infrastructures – the ability to fundamentally improve the economic and social quality of a city, as well as the associated lives of its current and future residents.

Original Post: http://wpa2.aud.ucla.edu/info/index.php?/theprojects/winners/

pr.x_Loop House

2010-02-15T22:40:00.001Z

From Prj_ [Loop] House

Some thought on the Loop house, its located on 1st floor of a factory which has a open flat roof, basic idea is from the Taiwanese traditional "Se Ho Yuan" courtyard houses layout, each room shares a courtyard and has its own skylight to have more ventilation, the 2nd exterior wall is to cutoff the direct view from the street to give more privacy at the same time to gather daylight. The projected windows are proposed as a sitting corner integrated within the wall and roof light. The volume looks massive and the moment and room space needs to be reduced and also the glazing as concern on cleaning, direct sun and cost.

Wind to Light - Jason Bruges

2010-02-13T12:41:00.000Z

In collaboration with onedotzero and Light Lab for Architecture Week 2007 of which the theme was, ‘How green is our space?’ The festival focused on critical issues of climate change and sustainability, with the aim to inspire people to think creatively about the spaces around them.

‘Wind to Light’ was an idea that visualized wind movement across the built form with the use of mini turbines and LEDs and draws attention to the potential of harnessing wind power as a source of energy.

(http://www.jasonbruges.com/projects/uk-projects/wind-to-light)

Living Light-LAN

2010-02-13T12:35:00.001Z

Living Light (Seoul, 2009) from David Benjamin on Vimeo.

Living Light is a building facade of the future that displays air quality and public interest in the environment. It is a permanent outdoor pavilion in Peace Park, across from World Cup Stadium in Seoul, Korea.

Sponsored by City Gallery | Hosted by World Cup Park | In Association with the Living Architecture Lab at Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation | Air Quality Data: Air Korea of the Korean Ministry of Environment | Interactivity programming: Project Randomwalks | Construction Management: BM I&A | Structural Engineer: The Kujo | Optimization programming: Buro Happold New York, Ian Keough, John Locke, Daniel Kidd | Frame Construction: Suam RnC | Lighting Consultation: LED Korea | Fabrication Consultation: aa64 | Fabrication: Woojin Laser, Acryl Choika | Fabrication sponsorship: Avery Digital Fabrication Lab at Columbia University

Exb_Kinetica Art Fair 2010

2010-02-07T15:14:00.000Z

Light Touch - Hologram Laser Projection

2010-02-07T00:19:00.000Z

Light Touch™ is an interactive projector that instantly transforms any flat surface into a touch screen. It frees multimedia content from the confines of the small screen, allowing users to interact with that content just as they do on their hand held devices – using multi-touch technology.

Light Touch™ has Holographic Laser Projection (HLP™) technology inside which creates bright, high-quality video images in WVGA resolution. Integrated infrared sensors detect motion and turn the projected image into a 10.1″ virtual touch screen, so the user can control the projector and interact with applications simply by touching the image.

original from: http://lightblueoptics.com/products/light-touch/

The hologram laser projection reminds me this optical device that used in the military, the good thing about laser is its brighness and transmition, the image can be projected much further and its less heat which is always a problem of a traditional projector. I guess the portable projecting screen era is comming soon.

Thinking Machine - Marek Walczak

2010-02-04T23:39:00.001Z

http://turbulence.org/spotlight/thinking/chess.html

Credits
Created by Martin Wattenberg, with Marek Walczak.
Thanks to Johanna Kindvall, Laura Wattenberg, Steve Sacks, Helen Thorington, and Turbulence.org
Built with Processing, an excellent graphics system created by Ben Fry and Casey Reas.

About the artists
Martin Wattenberg's work centers on the theme of making the invisible visible. Past projects include The Shape of Song, Third Person, the Whitney Artport's Idea Line, and Apartment. Wattenberg is a researcher at IBM, where he creates new forms of data visualization. He is also known for the SmartMoney.com Map of the Market. He holds a Ph.D. in mathematics from U.C. Berkeley. More info
Marek Walczak is an artist and architect who is interested in how people participate in physical and virtual spaces. This has led to projects such as Apartment, shown at the Whitney Museum and many venues worldwide, and Dialog Table, a commission of the Walker Art Center that replaces a keyboard and mouse with a shared interface based on gesture recognition technology. Current projects include a one block long fa�ade at 7 World Trade Center that reacts to pedestrians walking beneath it (for James Carpenter Design) and interactive video installations such as Third Person, recently shown at the ICA, London. Marek trained as an architect at the Architectural Assoc. in London and Cooper Union in New York. More info

Its an interesting interactive digital art, u play chess and it illustrate the possible game setup. u will know how the computer think and the graphics are beautiful.

Reed Danziger

2010-02-04T23:11:00.000Z

A watercolour painting on paper that looks like computer generated images by the artisit Reed Danziger

http://www.reeddanziger.com/

Light + Trajectories

2010-02-03T23:37:00.002Z

MOTOR / AMBIENT REEL
by KU-SCHNEIDER

Electric Avenue by nrshapiro

2010-02-03T00:54:00.000Z

http://www.photographyblog.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=101534

Le-Corbusier's Studio

2010-02-02T23:08:00.000Z

I saw this photos in http://butdoesitfloat.com, its interesting to see how the office is like in that time.

The Virtual Architects

2010-01-31T00:16:00.001Z

World Builder-Bruce Branit
This award winning short was created by filmmaker Bruce Branit, widely known as the co-creator of '405'. World Builder was shot in a single day followed by about 2 years of post production. Branit is the owner of Branit VFX based in Kansas City.

original from:http://www.vimeo.com/3365942?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Eduard Bohlen-A ship sails in the desert

2010-01-24T11:16:00.005Z

The Namib is one of the greatest and most unique natural creations on earth. It is the world’s smallest desert, but also the oldest (80 million years) with the highest dunes offering an exceptional ecology. The coastline of the Namib is harsh and often referred to as the Skeleton Coast. One of the many skeletons along this coastline is the well-known wreck of the Eduard Bohlen.

On 5 September 1909 the Eduard Bohlen, a 2 272 ton passenger / cargo ship, was on a voyage from

Swakopmund to Table Bay. On the day the sea and coast was covered in thick fog. The 310.6 ft ship lost its way and ran aground at Conception Bay about 150 km from Swakopmund. On 5 September 2009, exactly a century ago, this tragic drama occurred. The wreck of the Eduard Bohlen is a desert icon and one of the most photographed shipwrecks.
At Live the Journey we believe: “touring should be a life-enriching experience”. With this in mind we have planned a unique trip to commemorate the Eduard Bohlen’s 100th year on dry ground. A special 4 x 4 overland trip through concession areas and the Sperrgebiet was designed to ensure that you will be able to lift your glasses in the shade of the Eduard Bohlen on 5 Sept 2009 and to let your imagination run freely on what happened on the doomed day. We would also like to hear your theory on why the shipwreck is nearly 800 meter from the coast.

original from: http://facesofthenamib.com/2009/08/15/eduard-bohlen-a-100-years/

This reminds me a book that I read during my MArch, Unknow Quantitiy by Paul Virilio, there's a quote I like that marks out the modern catastrophe "the increasing development of accidents as an indirect consequence of man's inventions." It's too crucial to me to see this as a kind of human inventions, but simply look it as an abandoned object, an object that last in the place that is not suppose to be when its created, and the accident act as a vector that divert and interpolate to create this sort of catastrophic landscape which is cannot be manipulated. from the time being, these two alien substances start to merge and resolve. I was very fascinated by the trace and footprint of the drift moment that is still kept in the land for 100 years, a sign of vector that is being recorded from the surface as a trace of this motion.

Render work in Kerkythea II

2010-01-18T20:47:00.001Z

Today I worked on a bit of interior render in Kerkythea, the result come out to be better than What I expected. After 5hr render for this quality I think is very reasonable. Using the setting of Photonmap Medium+AA，no lights in the scene, only with illuminating materials and a sun light. The machine is still running another setting of render "BPT lighting", it takes longer time with passes over and over, its a bit like Maxwell method, u can save at anytime u want, so there's no need to finish the caculation which is more flexible.

This is a hidden drawing, I was playing with the sunset enviroment mapping and some PS with wind and raindrops, I guess I won't show this to my supervisior, as probably people will ask, how will such a moody atmosphere can convince the client? I think it will be the opposite. anyway, I enjoy doing it.

Ghost-like Architecture - Shingo Masuda

2010-01-14T23:13:00.004Z

Japanese architects Shingo Masuda and Katsuhisa Otsubo have installed mesh screens at the boundary of a property in Tokyo. Called Ghost-like Architecture, the screens are made of expanded metal and act as louvres. The property boundary therefore appears to be surrounded by an opaque wall when viewed from one angle, but a translucent mesh from another.

original from :

http://www.dezeen.com/2010/01/14/ghost-like-architecture-by-shingo-masuda-and-katsuhisa-otsubo-architects/

It really looks like the 3d material I usualy like to use to express the fense or what ever that u dont feel it needs to be detailed but to show the division of areas. in fact the frameless mesh of this project is really imazing, only with some articulated openings. By looking at this view, I can't stop linking my mind to the X-ray view of Rhino or Sketchup.

Render work in Kerkythea

2010-01-12T22:06:00.001Z

This week is getting intense, both of the project that I'm working on is having design panel and reviews, although they changed my PC for a more powerful Xeon quad core, but still I need two brain to think and work. Having lack of time to do the rendering works, a free plugin for Sketchup work quite well on the GI render, Kerkythea, I guess its similar to Maxwell with its easy settings and physical day lighting system, but its quite fast in a way. This is the outcome of the plugins, still havn't got chance to play with any fancy material and render settings, but the default setting is already convincing enough. All the same issue about these CGs, is that it's always lies. How many days in a year will it be sunny with sharp shadows in London? Why not a rainy day? Anyway, I try to do it in a partly cloudy day with leaves falling and birds flying....

Ernő Goldfinger- post war modernism

2010-01-09T13:35:00.002Z

Ernő Goldfinger is a Hugarian architects and probably a key member of modern movement in UK, I'm sure the above biulding (The Trellick Tower) is very distict in London urban enviroment, I once saw it somewhere on the coach to Salisbury, the skybridge probably is the bold design in that preriod, although I don't appreciate too much about the massive construction, but if we think of the post-war period where economics and effeciency are everything, like Barbican and the ugly concrete tower that I lived right now on 23rd floor, myabe thats what it is in the time when all they focus is C/P, but at least there's certain quality of design signature in his building.

I didnt know about this architect until I started my work in Avanti, they do conservation on listed buildings, and the director is the son of the modern movement I guess. the following is the site that I'm currently working on, Haggerston School BSF project, it invloves refurbishment of the listed building and a new-built 2 stories. Of course I got no idea about conservation work, so I'm currently focusing on the new-built. I have being seeing this facade for 4 weeks, and to be honest, its kind of elegant in a way, the exposed beam and the iconic roof profile, and the proportion of the window frames. I think this is what I appreciate about, the precisely desgined facade. Now days, cool buildings don't really care about these classical manner, because all there energy are poured in the complex geometry and try to stitch them in one peice. In general, I think buildings are just part of fashion products, it has its own period of value.

Master Project on British Council Taipei Website

2010-01-03T23:50:00.002Z

The slides are the design exhibition for UK education affair in Taiwan and its held by British Council Taipei.
2 images were selected from my master project, the 19th Tee and the Golf club.

http://britishcouncil-taipei.ning.com/photo/she-wu-zhe-de-gao-er-fu-qiu
http://britishcouncil-taipei.ning.com/photo/the-19th-tee

U City-Scott Teplin v.s. White U -Toyo Ito

2010-01-03T17:18:00.001Z

Alphabet City which features letters as tiny dwellings. The little spaces aren’t ordinary homes though, they’re filled with all kinds of random things mad scientist laboratories and piles of what appear to be donuts, as you can see above. Each letter is totally different and unique, so be sure to check out each one.

original from:
http://www.teplin.com/images/alphabet-city-prints/

The U-House was built in 1976 in the centre of Tokyo. It was designed by the architect Toyo Ito for his older sister, who had just lost her husband to cancer. In 1997 the house was demolished before Toyo Ito's eyes.

original from:
http://storiesofhouses.blogspot.com/2005/06/u-house-in-japan-by-toyo-ito.html

Ink Calendar by Oscar Diaz

2010-01-03T15:34:00.001Z

Just saw this on Dezeen, I like the idea of using simple physics of ink spreading as a time based calender, although I dont really know how to control the speed of spreading that makes it accurate. it reminds Shin's project, one of my colleagues in UCL, he uses diatoms to grow architectural facade, and its indeed fascinating.

maybe some similar idea is possible, the growing machanism as a time device.

see orginal post:

http://www.dezeen.com/2009/07/17/ink-calendar-by-oscar-diaz/

new blog layout

2010-01-02T21:20:00.002Z

After designing Marcos's blog, I tweak a little bit on my blog as well, the 3rd coloum looks much better than previos one..

Architectural Design Portfolio 2006-2009

2009-12-23T01:22:00.002Z

'Research Images as Art / Art Images as Research' 2009

2009-12-16T21:03:00.005Z

Its an exciting day, just got an email that I won the runners up prize of the research images,its a pity I wasn't in the prize giving party last night, wastoo busy on the office work and got completetly forgotten.

150 pounds and a bottle of champagne...not a bad deal for Christmas.

http://www.grad.ucl.ac.uk/comp/2009-2010/research/index.pht

Massive Attack: “United Snakes”

2009-11-29T11:40:00.003Z

Animation by UVA, directed by Dave Ferner
Originally designed for Massive Attack’s live show at Beck’s Fusions 2008, this animation is now available online. The video was designed using custom 3D software developed by UVA, which allowed the creation of spontaneous, organic forms, simply by “sketching” the outlines.

form follows data

2009-11-23T00:41:00.001Z

When everything can be visualized and mapped, all in this website.
some really amazing graphics.
http://infosthetics.com/

Light traces series

2009-11-21T22:37:00.001Z

Sato Tokihiro

Cenci Goepel + Jens Warnecke(Light Mark)

Barry Underwood

Exb_David Chipperfield

2009-11-17T00:33:00.005Z

Barry Underwood

2009-11-16T21:41:00.005Z

I saw this artist on BLDGBLOG today, this let me reminds Sato Tokihiro, a Japanese artist that uses the same techniques as light paintings. One uses colour and the other uses B&W. I like this kind of interference towards a nature landscape, the present of the work on the site is only being remembered through a media not the actual it self. The absence remains after the photos.

Telephone Jim Jesus - Birdstatic

2009-11-14T18:28:00.002Z

Amazingly beautiful visualization of the trace of a body movement, the delayed and long exposure images composite as an animation of a blur body.

John Baldessari - Arbitrary games

2009-11-14T12:33:00.001Z

Throwing 4 Balls in the Air to Get a Square,

in which the artist attempted to do just that, photographing the results, and eventually selecting the "best out of 36 tries", with 36 being the determining number just because that is the standard number of shots .

Wire Frames

2009-11-13T12:20:00.010Z

Iakov Chernikhov

Thomas Raschke

marcosandmarjan

劉國滄

Knud Merrild - Flux Drawings

2009-11-13T12:13:00.012Z

Knud Merrild (1894-1954) is known as the father of the flux painting technique, as well as an individualist in synthetic cubism and abstract surrealism. http://www.sullivangoss.com/Merrild_Knud/

The Darkside architecture - Mas Yehdo

2009-11-11T23:30:00.005Z

Mas Yendo was born in 1957 in Tokyo, Japan, and educated at the Rhode Island School of Design (B.A.) and Pratt Institute (M.A., architecture).

He was taught by Lebbeus Woods, so we can see some similar expression from the drawings. but they are achieving in different agenda. As LW is illustrating the conflicts, politics, vectors, which is a "Sudden" impact of forces towards architecture. Yendo is on the opposite side, he introduces the "Slowness" decay of time or in architecture, the memory or trace that embedded in spaces. He argues that buildings cannot remember us, which means it doesn't shows our presence. The difference between architecture and building is that one is idea the other is object, the idea can be recorded into architecture as history but building as object is to be consumed and forgotten. His work is all about what does it mean to you, not how does it work or what is it made of. Although he said he is not a typical Japanese, but I would rather believe the his ascent of design is very indeed Taoism.

Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren chrome!!

2009-11-06T17:11:00.005Z

Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren in Chrome!!
This is really a crazy idea that makes me think of the invisible Austin Martin in 007,the surface of the body becomes the reflected environment that changing in time. the traces of the surroundings left on the moving body....etc. wonder what happen when its moving under the sun, probably will blind the police. It reminds my project somehow.

Taiwan Architects

2009-10-19T12:23:00.002+01:00

These are the projects that was designed by Taiwanese architects, one is my 4th year tutor, and the other are my senior whom won the international competition during the masters, its quite touching to see it finished after so many years. It's a big challenge for a group of young students to face the reality of cooperating with the local goverment and finally made it.

Bartlett School of Architecture MArch AVATAR Catalogue 2009

2009-09-27T00:47:00.003+01:00

Thanks to all the people that work hard to make it happen, our MArch catalogue. Especially Mei, Yorgos, Jeff, Neo, Jun, Svetlana, Camila, Cordelia who were in charge of all the organization.

MArch Design Project-Final Production-2009

2009-09-01T19:22:00.003+01:00

Motion Architecture from Tze-Chun Wei on Vimeo.

Uncanny architecture-Danai Surasa

2009-08-30T11:03:00.003+01:00

uncanny architecture from Danai Surasa on Vimeo.\

This film is made by my MArch colleague in Nic's group. Really amazing that everything is 2.5D. And it is the first time I did the sound recording for the script. Enjoy.

MArch Design Project Review 2008-2009

2009-08-26T23:51:00.009+01:00

Motion Architecture - DVD Layout

2009-08-26T01:12:00.001+01:00

寄件者 MArch_Term 03

Golfer in the Bunker - Moving Camera

2009-08-17T21:58:00.004+01:00

This is a moving camera version of the golfer, the camera is following the object, zoom in, rotate to capture the spatial quality of this landscape. The notation depicts the position of the moving points that are then become the location of the swirl object.