you like your new multitouch-pad?
check this out:
also check Jeff Han’s presentation @ TED two years ago:
well be standing at drawingboards again!
Thanks for the link Alex!
Archive for the 'process + technique' Category
I have been hearing more and more about VVVV. If you are a fan of Processing, then you’ll surely be a fan of VVVV. The results are amazing, both the screenshots and videos, it is worth a look for its inspiration alone. And if you’re interested in a visual programming interface for real-time video creation, this is a fascinating software: Continue reading ‘VVVV Real-Time Video Programming Toolkit’
© ARUP, Image source: Bently Systems
If you’re the type to follow the latest developments in architectural software (read: CAD Geek), then you’ll be excited about this announcement. Bentley Systems has released it’s industry-leading software, Generative Components, as a free trial until May 2008. The software has been making waves, especially in London, over the past few years. I was especially taken by the Generative Components plug-in when I heard Robert Aish speak (director of researcher at Bentley Systems) at the Game, Set and Match conference at the NAi in Rotterdam, 2006. Continue reading ‘Free Trial Until May - Bentley’s Generative Components’
wireBundler script in action.
The soulburn scripts by Neil Blevins have been updated. They are a useful and free collection of commands to be used with 3ds max or maya.
Source: CG Textures - Splatter Set
If you busy creating 3D digital models and don’t know about the Netherlands-based CG Textures database, it is worth the look. Run by a friend, Marcel Vijfwinkel, he generously has an open source attitude to the content. You can read the license here. A lot of the material comes from Marcel himself from his work in the gaming industry, and the site now has many content contributors. If you or your office are able to pay for a year-long membership, it will support the site and give you multiple perks.
© Blue Eye Productions
I had to laugh when I found this video linked from the OMA website. After OMA won the BNA Cube award in the Netherlands, this video was produced by Blue Eye Productions to portray the working atmosphere within the office. I really hope you guys (that work there) respond to this. I can tell that some things are true, but others are misleading, like the fact that the teams in the office “are not competitive.” Also linked from the Blue Eye Productions website are other videos and topics concerning architecture.
And if you get the urge to work for OMA, and haven’t applied all ready, they’re (always) looking for people.
ACAD Options Interface - Notice the Shortcuts folder is at the top.
As we always try to make the world a better place, we bring you the ultimate Autocad shortcuts. Maxwan a+u (the office where Thomas and I work at) are notorious in the Dutch architecture scene for efficiency. The shortcut scripts have been developed since 1992 and have spread around dutch offices using Autocad. Started for Autocad 10 (when you still had to type ‘LINE’ to start drawing one) by Paul Hogendijk and Rients Dijkstra at OMA the shortcuts are at the moment developed by Harm te Velde over the past years.
Continue reading ‘Postcardware: The Ultimate AutoCad Shortcuts’
the smallest permanent pneumatic roof of the world…. by 5elf berlin
My dear friend Alex Thomass of 5elf recently sent me images of his latest project, the smallest permanent pneumatic roof of the world.
‘5elf Berlin found an economic solution to roof a penthouse terrace with a pneumatical construction.The highly light-transmisive ETFE foil enables a weather protection without darkening the area which is closed on three sides.Thus the view to the sky is free and the roof with its easiness goes completely in the background.
Typography by Emil Ruder (from Mark Simonsons lecture)
Mark Simonson was invited to talk about typography legend Adrian Frutiger last summer at TypeCon in Boston. He made his inspiring slides available as a PDF. Something you should miss in no circumstance, if you are ever so slightly interested in design! Read more on Simonson’s blog.
Or download here:
TU Delft lecture series launched - CLICK the image for the full programme
The Delft School of Design PhD series ‘Architectural Engineering - Performance, Geometry and Materials’ has been launched. Themes are Complex Geometry Architecture and Performance Based Architecture. See our Calendar for allthe dates.
associative design III - berlage institute second year studio (requires quicktime, turn sound on)
Last week I attended the presentations of the associative design 2nd year at the Berlage research studio synthetic vernacular. Led by Peter Trummer and assisted by our fellow dysturb evangelist Martin Sobota, the class investigated traditional chinese building typologies. The principles found in the analysis were used to create a set of rules to create a framework to parametrically derive urban structure and architecture of an exemplary plot in Shanghai: Deus ex Machina.
The research group divided up into for teams, each focussing on different base parameters as FAR, degrees of privacy, climate, internal room organisation, sun trajectories. The formal decisions of the teams also led to varying urban fabrics, from low-rise high-density urban mass not unsimilar to south-american favelas to a styled courtyard & slab network. The results are cutting edge and and visualisations of the process are breath-takingly beautiful. But watch the movie first, then proceed to the review.
a friend of mine just pointed me to one of the latest events in the AccessAllAreas program: skating Zaha’s Phaeno in Wolfsburg. Unfortunately the video of a
50-50 down a 15 stair rail with a mean kink at the end which reminds of that Pat Duffy kinkrail in SF by Mack McKelton from Berlin.
is pretty unspectacular from an architects point of view. …. apart from the six-pack closeup for the girls maybe… There will be more coverage soon under accessallareas
via DRMTM and skateboard.de and nillomatic
We can play movies in our terminal windows now. Pure beauty. Continue reading ‘How do you spell movie?’
I’ve been experimenting with file-linking between word and indesign. This is what a XML file created by word looks like in the indesign story editor. Or is it a traffic control screen? A facade study?
Adobe just announced that the upcoming Photoshop CS3 release will be split into a basic and an extended edition. The extended edition will have two additional features:
- 3D and motion support with the ability to edit 3D content and incorporate it into 2D compositions, paint and clone over multiple video frames
- Comprehensive image analysis with new image measurement and counting tools
Could be an useful addition to the architect’s visualisation workflow. Could be a useless marketing stunt. We’ll know more in “spring 2007″.