Final highlight real of my Animated Processes 1.0 class at Wentworth. View full entry
Animated Massings 1.0
Teaching a class this semester focused on generating and prototyping "end of arm" tools for the department's new 6-Axis Kuka Robotic Arm. Students were given a series of tools (2 finger gripper, hot wire cutters, laser pointers, etc) and were tasked with modeling and 3D printing custom components... View full entry
Using an Ad-Hoc approach to digital computation, new coherency between architectural elements can be discovered. History has shown that certain techniques or processes are capable of solving problems that they were not originally intended to solve. Nicholas De Monchaux has outlined many of these scenarios in his novel "Space Suit". By researching processes of making that are external to typical architecture, designers can generate relationships between existing an new formal qualities.
