SMI2012 Shape Modeling International 2012

Shape Modeling International 2012 (SMI’12) will be organized in College Station Texas from May 22nd 2011 to May 25th 2012. The conference will be held using the computer science and visualization interdisciplinary space in Emerging Technologies and Economic Development Interdisciplinary (ETED) Building and/or the classroom and auditorium spaces of Langford Center of College of Architecture at Texas A&M University.  Conference will have four types of activities including technical papers, practical papers, courses & tutorials and sculpture exhibition. The conference will be 4 days. The first two days, we will have courses and tutorials. Presentations of technical and practical papers will start the second day of the conference. Art exhibition will be open during the conference. The following list is detailed explanation of the activities.

http://smi2012.viz.tamu.edu/00.shtml

Artery Bridge

Texas A&M University. College of Architecture. Graduate Thesis.

Heather Davis.

Adviser: Gabriel Esquivel

 

Architecture frequently looks to the natural world for concepts, metaphors and analogies

for the generation of form. This relationship between architecture and nature generally

reaches only the superficial level, resulting in a normative architectural system “dressed

up” with a biomorphic skin. The new science of emergence demands that architecture take the biological paradigm to a much more complex level, simultaneously considering

the components of environment, behavior, form, structure and materiality to achieve complete integration. Specific biological precedents also exist within each of these components, providing the opportunity for multiple layers of biological influence.

Advances in analytical computation provide the means to achieve this complex

organization of multiple mutually-dependent parts. This project will produce a bridge

design based on the biological paradigm, exploiting the bridge’s natural connection with

the environment. The bridge will become an artery of the city; a metabolic life-source

that generates energy for itself and the system it belongs to. The bridge’s form,

structure and materiality will be dependent upon this metabolic behavior and

environmental relationship, moving toward complete biomimic integration.

Technology and Management for Architecture, Design and Engineering Conference

Mexico City October 5, 6 and 7. Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Unidad Azcapozalco.

Thanks for your Hospitality! My conference went really well. http://administracionytecnologiaparaeldiseno.azc.uam.mx/inicio.html

suckerPunch Competition

http://www.suckerpunchdaily.com/2011/09/21/lunar-crater-cultural-center/#more-15867

LUNAR CRATER CULTURAL CENTER

MOON

registration begins 7.21.11

submissions due 12.19.11

awards: US $2500 total and publication jury/AWARDS

 

JURY

abigail COOVER

gabriel ESQUIVEL

nathan HUME

jimenez LAI

florencia PITA

david RUY

jesse SEPPI

mike SZIVOS

john SZOT 

Workshop Payment

Bi Polar. Two affects.

Texas A&M University. College of Architecture. Fabrication Studio. Spring 2011. 

Critic: Gabriel Esquivel

Team:

Matthew Miller

Dale Fenton

Emau Vega

Aubrie Damron

Adrian Cortez

This project discusses two attitudes concerning digital design, one about performance whose skin is resolved parametrically, the exterior as a rain water collecting instrument, that takes the water into water vessels integrated into skin, they also serve as heating and cooling devices producing light and temperature affects. The interior skin is more interested in sensation with a smooth sensibility on a pleated skin like silk and/or leather. The idea was to emphasize this distinction to embrace the discussion.

   

Nate Hume from suckerPunch commented on the piece:

Bi Polar is AMAZING!  love the colors, love the overlap of differing geometric logics.  fantastic to see the progress installation to installation.  it's wild that in such a short time you've taken them from not having a grasp on contemporary design culture or current fabrication methods to producing some of the most provocative student pieces out there.  I'm really interested right now in rethinking collage and difference in a contemporary way.  Projects with competing geometric logics that don't rely on gradient or clashing of kitschy shapes/form.   super exciting attitude towards form.  i also like the two-face, dead ringers qualities, like a demented wall house.  serious parametric vs fast and loose mutant.

Computational Workshop at Texas A&M University.

http://bioarchitecturestudio.wordpress.com/

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