KUKA AUTOMATICA 2012

Der Messestand KUKA Automatica 2012 gewinnt den ADAM Award in Gold.

KUKA Automatica 2012

Soul-Architekten

Unsere neue Büro Homepage ist online
www.soularchitects.de

Wir sind ein Architekturbüro in München mit den Schwerpunkten ökologisches und energiesparende Bauen. Zu unserem breiten Aufgabenspektrum gehören: Büro- und Verwaltungsgebäude, Wohnungsbauten, Industriebauten, öffentliche Bauten sowie Ein- und Mehrfamilienhäuser als Neu-, Um- und Erweiterungsbauten. Dabei umfasst das Tätigkeitsfeld alle Planungsbereiche von der Konzeptentwicklung über die Genehmigungsplanung bis hin zur Detail- und Ausführungsplanung und Bauleitung. Während des gesamten Projektverlaufs, erarbeiten wir immer Lösungen im Dialog mit den Bauherrn und finden so immer die perfekt auf Sie abgestimmte Lösung. Dabei gehörten Projekte im Denkmalschutz, Bauen im Bestand, Umbau, Modernisierung, Revitalisierung ebenso zu unseren Fachgebieten wie die Erstellung von Nutzungsänderungen und Brandschutzkonzepten...

TUM - Students Work

Here is the blog of my student on the Technical University Munich.
More information later.

or take a look to the blog

http://parametricarchitecture.wordpress.com/team-6/

DIGITAL LOUNGE DESIGN

Digital fabric design. Designed for a lounge of 35 x55 Meters in Dubai. The concept bases on the inverse of a landscape.The design creates different spaces and situations with nice atmospheres. The fabrication is optimiced and all digital data prepared.

SCRIPTING FUNCTION LIBRARY

I'm just working on a library of Rhinoscript functions, which should help everybody to develop their script more efficient and faster.
If somebody likes to contribute to this page, send me a notice.

www.scripting.wikidot.com

GROWING RESEARCH

I just started to understand how the process of growing in nature can be translated into scripting. Let's see where i will get.

DIGITAL FABRICATION EXAMPLES

Digital Fabrication Rip Elements

The whole object is made in Rhino and fabricated with Lasercutter
Get the description here http://www.box.net/shared/dgcagb9qjz

LIVING STRUCTURES

Project description

This project is a research about the morphology of a dragonfly and a glass sponge. It joins their structural behaviour and generates a structural element which is stronger than the standard produced construction.We know that that dragonfly wings and glass sponges in nature are generated by evolutionary processes involving aerodynamics, lightness, mechanical properties, composite performance, the smooth accumulation of organic material, and the active flow of blood-energy. These structures are governed by a different set of parameters including gravity, water flow and seismic loads, specific support locations and quality of those supports, flat material increments, and buckling failure, differences which lead to an unpredictable hybrid morphology. Seen in a larger context, this project contributes to the recent contemporary discourse on cellularity in architecture as a departure from pure cellularity toward a tectonic based on emerging structural hierarchies within rhythmic cellular fields.
The research is representing an investigation into Biomimicry and includes a development of a design method based on biomimetic principles. For this I used different software applications from rhino 3d modelling with Implicit and Explicit History (which makes Rhino partly parametric), combined with a script made in Rhino, as well as an analyse programme for improving and verify my explorations. The main task of my exploration was to find a shape or a system from nature which can be applied to architecture in a digital way and then use one of these explorations and developing a small project as far as possible in matter of time into the direction of mass customization, to show the potential of combining architecture and nature.

SKYSCRAPER-FACADE

Digital Research as an approch into the parametric field of scripting.

UNROLLING SCRIPT

Unrollles Surfaces with a numbering system.

Get the script here. http://www.box.net/shared/nvj5oyq8sc

PERFORATED SURFACES

Research in the paramentric field of Scripting

This script developes a perforated surface, which reacts to a driving surface.

Here the script. http://www.box.net/shared/zbsk13r8kc

SCRIPTED PAVILLION

The whole project ist developed with a Rhinoscript which

automatically intersect the different parts and flatten them out

to produce them. In the upper part you can see different variations and in the next serie a simplified model.

DOME PROJECT

Dome Project developed with students of IAAC '08.

The Dome project is a very interesting task since the class of Digital Tectonics is working united on this project. All 20 students come from different coutries and have never worked before in in a team of 20 people for one single project.The goal was to design a parametric Dome with a complex skin and to fabricated it in the Scale 1:1 during a timeperiod of 5 weeks. To begin with, we thought the DOME as a pavillon in which one could enter. The basic parameters for the shape for the surface were defined in a simple TopSolid model. Later points were spreaded throughout the surface and give the final posistion for the components.

The hole project is made out of 1200 pieces cardboard. The design and construction is developed in Topsolid as a Parametric Model. The conection is made with Zip ties. At the beginning we devloped a different kind of join, but as we realiced pretty fas in fabrication, it was not strong enough and we had to start from beginning.

You can see the first connection on the left side.

At the end I was really happy with the fast decision of using zip ties, it made the whole project much nicer.

For more information click here.

http://www.iaacblog.com/term3/ds-digitaltectonics/

DESIGN IDEAR DOME PROJECT

Rhinoscript with Circle Packing over a surface, which then generates 3D cones and a really strong structure.

DESIGN IDEAR DOME PROJECT II

Design Concept for the Dome project. Made in Topsolid as a parametric modules, which can grow and expand.

KINETIC STRUCTURE (ORIGAMI)

PARAMETRIC BARCELONA BLOCK