grasshopper for humanity
by
adam schwartzentruber
sayjel patel.--------------see something you like ?
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limbo.
as sayjel and I are back to our masters at different schools - this blog has been pretty lacking - and I apologize to all who are following us.
I don’t want to make empty promises, but I really would like to keep this going and updated soon.
I brought a couple of things into the office to make me feel more at home :)
hmmm what’s this?
beauty is in the eye of the beholder - currently investigating the cost to tear down and re-use the lumber from this barn - the owner is just about the best possible client you could ask for - his only concern is that we take the barn down before or after the birds nest in it in the spring… :) my kind of person
its been ages since updating gfh and thought it was time to add some old projects from the archives. this is a feature wall produced for a design show in 2010. it was produced using cnc milled polystyrene and finished with latex paint. basically we wanted to find out the limits of what was possible with the school’s CNC when used in conjunction with a parametric modelling process. (big thanks to c’ogrady for photography)
- sayjel
experiments in paper pulp. low cost, low energy, recycled goodness.
from ages ago - working with a friend sayjel patel - this structure is constructed of two simple components laser cut from cardboard. its remarkable lightweight to structure ratio was never calculated but it is obvious that it comes from a pure geometry.
this project stemmed from a playful exploration of creation which when fused with an analysis by sayjel v. patel combined to create something rigid and repeatable without internal stresses.
the goal i have for these sort of systems is to allow structure to be redefined by a user of architecture, whereas it has long been static and timeless.
grasshopper mosiac surface
description coming soon
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Rethinking a Section of dei Fori Imperiali
Charette, Roma Tre, Rome Italy October 2010
The project imagines how Urban Artefacts could be approached in the future by new forms of architecture and urban life as positions on preservation are reconsidered by society.
The installation proposes a mesh of steel elements, rethinking the typology of the scaffold as architectural ornament. The veil will structure new circulation, frame internal spaces, and provide sporadic articulation as a screen for the Basilica. It will have an urban identity that is entirely seperate to that of the Basilica.
Rather than stucturally anchoring into the Basilica directly, the veil is hung from a steel frame that is offset from the building.
The images are produced to communicate what this new type of urban space could feel like. In reality, the materiality and nature of the veil will be far more open, temporal and invisible.
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snake wall attempt 2
snake - wall
this experiment begins to look at non-regular panelization of a double curved surface. this is achieved first by faking recursive subdivision based on minimizing curvature of a given panel, then uses voronoi to rebuild the cells.
this example is also my first exploration into how texture can be in introduced to a paneling algorithm along with parametric color to further explore generative patterning techniques
snake - skin
