Profiles of Selected Architects | world-architects.com China has an unbelievable 14,500 kilometers of coastline, not including the islands. From the north to the south, three different seas follow each other: The Yellow Sea with the Gulf of Bohai, the East China Sea and the South China Sea. Only the island of Hainan east of Vietnam is known in the West for beach holidays. Slowly – with the development of leisure activities – China's beaches are becoming a resource for development. The key feature of the park is a fifty-year-old black pine forest and the architects had been challenged to minimize the construction impact on the environment. Pedestrian bridge Directly at the edge of the forest, with an open view to the sea, the Lanqiao Clubhouse is fully integrated into the form of the landscape with an organic design. Clubhouse Three organic pavilions contain public showers and restrooms. South bathroom At the north end of the beach, a group of public showers, restrooms and convenient stores follow in a linear way along the forest line.
Systematica Spacelab — Home Decoding Spaces Components for Grasshopper (Rhino) | decodingspaces Decoding Spaces Components is a set of spatial analysis components for Grasshopper (a parametric modeling plugin for Rhino 3D). It provides a graph-analysis for segment maps and different visibility analysis methods (Isovists, Isovist Fields and Visibility Graphs). Team: Martin Bielik, Sven Schneider, Reinhard Königin cooperation with the chair Computer Science in Architecture (Prof. Dr. Donath). Segment Analysis: The Graph-Components allow to generate graphs from line-drawings and analyse these graphs according to familiar graph-measures. Isovist Analysis: The Isovist component allows to generate isovists-polygons from given vantage points. Isovist Fields (GPU-accelerated): The IsovistField-Component calculates Isovist-Measures (Area, Perimeter, Compactness, Occlusivity, MinRadial, MaxRadial) for a given set of points. Visibility Graph Analysis: The Visibility Graph Component generates a bidirectional graph based on a set of points and obstacle lines. Compatibility: Download: Publications:
Streetfilms | Recently on Streetfilms PGT 2014 This MSc is centred on furthering the understanding of architecture and urban design as instruments in the development of society. Using the theoretical and analytical framework of space syntax, the programme involves the study of architecture from the scale of buildings to small-scale urban design through to planning entire cities. Mode of study Full-time 1 year Flexible 3-5 years Tuition fees UK/EU Full-time: £10,800 Overseas Full-time: £17,750 Fees for flexible, modular study are charged pro-rata to the appropriate full-time Master's fee taken in an academic session. Application date All applicants: 1 August 2014 More details in Application section. What will I learn? Students develop an in-depth theoretical and practical knowledge of the built environment and its functions considered as spatial, physical and human systems, and acquire a high level of skill in research and analysis of the built environment and its functions in support of better and more humane design. Core Modules Options Career
Profils d'Architectes choisis | world-architects.com China has an unbelievable 14,500 kilometers of coastline, not including the islands. From the north to the south, three different seas follow each other: The Yellow Sea with the Gulf of Bohai, the East China Sea and the South China Sea. Only the island of Hainan east of Vietnam is known in the West for beach holidays. Slowly – with the development of leisure activities – China's beaches are becoming a resource for development. Rizhao City, the City of Sunshine, has about 865,000 thousand inhabitants in the urban area and lies at the south-eastern part of Shandong Province on the coastline of the Yellow Sea. The key feature of the park is a fifty-year-old black pine forest and the architects had been challenged to minimize the construction impact on the environment. Pedestrian bridge Directly at the edge of the forest, with an open view to the sea, the Lanqiao Clubhouse is fully integrated into the form of the landscape with an organic design. Clubhouse South bathroom North bathroom
AUDI urban future award 2014 science slam may 15, 2014 AUDI urban future award 2014 science slam AUDI urban future award 2014 science slam ‘the next leap in mobility’ is the motto of the 2014 AUDI urban future award. this year, the initiative invited four international multidisciplinary teams composed of ethnographers, IT specialists, product designers, urban planners, natural scientists, sociologists, etc. – from berlin, boston, mexico city and seoul – to research and develop schemes responding to problems related to transportation in cities. the four proposals were first presented in berlin in april. though distinct in their own rights, reacting to four diverse parts of the world, they all express one underlying commonality: to improve mobility in large, densely developed areas and enhance residents’ quality of life. 2014 AUDI urban future award proposals clockwise from top left: team mexico city, team boston, team seoul and team berlin the ‘urban tech republic’ situated just outside of the berlin city center
How to Apply Apply Applications for 2015-16 fellowship will be available in August 2014 Application Deadlines Applications and letters of recommendation are due Monday, January 5, 2015 for the Fellowship year beginning August 2015. Application Process All candidates are required to submit an application, 3 letters of recommendation and a professional resume. 1. If you encounter difficulties during the application process, please contact the Slideroom online system support team for assistance. 2. 3. Letters from people who are personally familiar with your work will carry the most weight. 4. 5. Reapplication Process If you were an applicant last year, you must complete a new application through the online system, including letters of recommendation, portfolio, and/or supplemental materials. Selection Process Instructions to nominate a candidate
Evolutionary Form Finding with Grasshopper + Galapagos | Responsive Skins Evolutionary problem solving mimics the theory of evolution employing the same trial-and-error methods that nature uses in order to arrive at an optimized result. When automated for specific parameters and results, this technique becomes an effective way to computationally drive controlled results within the iterative design process – allowing designers to produce optimized parameters resulting in a form, graphic or piece of data that best meets design criteria. In this post we walk you through the process of using Galapagos, an evolutionary solver for Rhino/ Grasshopper, and show an example of how this method can be tied in with analysis tools to optimize form based on energy data. David Rutten, a developer with McNeel & Associates, created a tool called Galapagos which facilitates this process within grasshopper(graphical algorithm editor). Like this: Like Loading...
Center for Applied Transect Studies To supplement the base SmartCode and to respond to climate change imperatives, CATS has commissioned numerous transect-based Modules from prominent New Urbanist practitioners. Most Modules are annotated with advice for calibration. The downloads below are free and open source. Adobe PDF files are provided in spreads for screen viewing as well as in single pages for two-sided or code-only printing. Editable InDesign files are provided with all links. Font names are listed in the Instructions file. SmartCode Modules Adaptive Agricultural Reuse, Town-Green: Steve Coyle, Daniel Dunigan PDF | InDesign Affordable Housing Incentives, Munsun Park, Sandy Sorlien, Emily Talen PDF | InDesign Affordable Housing Policy, Jennifer Hurley, Hurley-Franks & Associates PDF | InDesign Agrarian Urbanism, Christina Miller and Andrés Duany, DPZ & Co. view description here Architectural Standards, DPZ & Co. Bicycling, Mike Lydon with Zachary Adelson and Tony Garcia PDF | InDesign Building Types, Todd Zimmerman
designcoding | How Isovist Component Works Yesterday, Kağan asked me about what isovist component in Grasshopper is and how it works? In fact, it is a long story, I said because once upon a time, I was curious about Space Syntax theory as my old friend Ela Çil introduced it to me. Here is an original definition of Michael Benedikt; The environment is defined as a collection of visible real surfaces in space. An isovist is the set of all points visible from a given vantage point in space and with respect to an environment. The shape and size of an isovist is liable to change with position. Benedikt M L, 1979, “To take hold of space: isovists and isovist fields” Environment and Planning B 6(1) 47 – 65 Using the isovist component in Grasshopper is quite simple. Here is the grasshopper exercise, showing a simple use of isovists [GHX: 0.8.0066].
Galaxy Rising Industrial-Strength Air Tubes, The Unusual Purpose Of Which Is? [click for larger images] Right. An air supply for the two tunnel boring machines which will be making their way up 11th Avenue starting early next year. The two tunnels are for the two-mile, one-stop extension of the 7 Subway Line, first west, along 41st Street, and then south, down Eleventh. The air tubes you can see here are on the station site, across from the Javits Center. A $2-billion MTA project to service the Hudson Yards developments… on sites which the MTA just sold for around $1 billion. But the subway extension is also key to the prospering of the Javits Center, and to the commuter needs of a massive wave of new construction within a dozen blocks of the station. All of which we will be watching happen from the west side of the Hudson. Below: Seven MTA renderings of the station and the tunnel; initially there will be no subway passage to Javits or Hudson Yards Below: End of the line! Traffic Reliever! Not any more.
Dynamic remeshing - now with feature preservation, curvature adaptivity, and minimal surfaces - Grasshopper This will be incorporated into future releases of Kangaroo, but because it is so much fun to play with (not to mention useful!), I was excited to share this as a standalone component right now. This is a tool for remeshing, as I first wrote about and demonstrated here. However, since those first videos over a year ago, this has been improved upon and developed a lot. One of the most significant changes under the hood is that it now uses the custom half-edge mesh class Plankton developed as an open-source collaboration by myself and Will Pearson (to whom I owe great thanks for all his fantastic work on this). High quality triangular meshes have many applications, including physical simulation and analysis. Since I shared some examples of remeshing scripts here, I have also added a few more features in response to discussions and requests: Feature preservation This allows the user to set curves and points to be preserved during the remeshing. Curvature Adaptivity Minimal surfaces