responsivesarchitectures:

Title: Approxymotion

Category: #roboticenvironments #responsiveenvironments

Author: Peter A Vikar

Year: 2012

Url: http://www.petervikar.com/

Description: Approxymotion is research project focusing on motion based forming. Its an attempt to apply the logic of digital design into the physical space. Traditionally in architecture forms are transferred from paper/virtual space to building through fixed shaped moulds or as an assembly of many elements. My goal was to set the mould into motion, while maintaining the parametric nature inherited from the digital model. The result is a motion-form that computes between the initial motion input, the built geometry and its material properties. The nested relation (corner cutting) from rough to smoothened layers display the gradient condition from the accuracy of robotic motion control to the averaging behavior of the elastic net.

un:

coffee

(Source: jamdere)

hausfarbentejeira:

Laplacian Growth

(Source: hyperform, via dsc01)

Simply creative.

(Source: hyperform)

“Started in ’99, this is my life work. I individually cut single sheets of paper by free-hand and stack them together. The work consists of positive or negative shapes. I am trying to embody relationships among humans, time and nature.” — Noriko Ambe

periferiadomestica:

Palacio de los Deportes Juan Escutia - Félix Candela.

Stephen Irwin, Sometimes When We Touch

(Source: alecshao, via atelierpunkt)

prostheticknowledge:

The Immortal 

Art installation comprised of various life-support machines connected and dependent on each other, an artificial life-form:

A number of life-support machines are connected to each other, circulating liquids and air in attempt to mimic a biological structure.

The Immortal investigates human dependence on electronics, the desire to make machines replicate organisms and our perception of anatomy as reflected by biomedical engineering.

A web of tubes and electric cords is interwoven in closed circuits through a Heart-Lung Machine, Dialysis Machine, an Infant Incubator, a Mechanical Ventilator and an Intraoperative Cell Salvage Machine.

The organ replacement machines operate in orchestrated loops, keeping each other alive through circulation of electrical impulses, oxygen and artificial blood.

Salted water acts as blood replacement: throughout the artificial circulatory system minerals are added and filtered out again, the blood gets oxygenated via contact with the oxygen cycle, an ECG device monitors the system’s heartbeat.
As the fluid pumps around the room in a meditative pulse, the sound of mechanical breath and slow humming of motors resonates in the body through a comforting yet disquieting soundscape.

Here is a video preview of the work in action, embedded below:

You can find out more about the project by Revital Cohen here
Discovered via We Make Money Not Art, where there are many more photographs of the work.

spatula:

(via Suzy Lelièvre’s Nonsensical Objects « Beautiful/Decay Artist & Design)

This is a very sincere depiction of how an open-minded and enthusiastic person can experience travelling in Romania. It’s relevant, cute and in my oppinion accurate.

I gotta hand it to the guy though, I think his attitude really helped, too

hashconspiracy:

Disclaimer: I was hung over and sleep depraved when I wrote this at Bucharest Airport. But I just re-read and I still agree. :)

I just spent 10 days in Romania. There was not a specific reason why I went, it was just a country that I have never visited so I booked a flight. A friend…

Dragon Skin Pavillion by Gilles Retsin, EDGE Laboratory for Architectural and Urban Research, Tampere University of Technology, UPM Kymmene.

Interesting use of post-formable wood shaped with a mould.

(Source: nparametric, via parametricworld)

architizer:

A Dutch artist “installs” miniature clouds in empty gallery spaces.

(via hausfarbentejeira)

betonbabe:

ARTIST PLACEMENT GROUP (APG)

“CONTEXT IS HALF THE WORK”, QUOTED FROM ‘STRUCTURE IN EVENTS’, 1972