Quick snapshots of our studio's work

I was going to make another post for the work of Victoria and myself but I had already loaded the pictures. So leading off is our project, looking at a timber frame system that adjusts with the contours of the site to provide variations in perforation and views.







The studio being coupled with a wood structures seminar required us to build and test joints within our system. The picture above is two gluelam beams where we test a bolted joint, one with a split ring connection and the other without. The 1/2" bolt alone in the wood failed at 2550 lbs where as the lam with the ring held up to 4250 lbs of load

Excel Data Sheets - Heck Yea

This is a major milestone for me, I need to post an update I guess as far as the work but I just made the Excel Data Sheets work in Digital Project (CATIA) !!!!!



And for the translation, the data sheets are a bi-directional link between parameters setup in the software to contol elements (length, height, mulipliers, etc) and excel. So changes can be made in excel and be reflected in the design software.

I'm still having problems where the software hangs up and I have to update the parts one at a time. :( but that could be my construction techniques. More research to go, but...this is great.

New York, New York

Oddly enough 5 days in the big apple and I didn't think of ol Frank once. I go to post this and it's the first thing that pops in my head. Well at least it's not some really catchy song. Last week was exhausting but good. It was my first trip to NYC so to take it all in was really not an option, but I did have a good experience for the first trip. All in all we had the opportunity to meet with ARO, FRONT, Ghery Technologies, SHoP Architects, Toshiko Mori, Jamie Carpenter, then a visit to WD~50 to discuss the difference their techniques have on the food industry. (I will include links to all these at the end)



Our Hotel, certainly a interesting setup, no complaints as far as I am concerned, for the price divided by 4 it made it an affordable trip.
http://www.room-matehotels.com/eng/nuevayorkhotel/gracehotel/gracehotel.php

Coffee shop

New Museum

Topographical Ceiling made of ChopStix

Certainly glad I don't have to deal with this to park, I'll probably still complain about parking in Ann Arbor, but at least I don't have to park like this.

Times Square

Central Station (it's not this dark, the photo is stopped down)

Class at the Botanical Gardens

Beware of the art Paparazzi

Part of the group up on a hill / rock discussing how to incorporate the surface characteristics into a design.

Yes, this is in NY (the BRONX but it's still NY in my book)

After a long walk one evening a few of us went to see Central Park and Frank Lloyd Wright's NY masterpiece, it was much nicier in person than I had ever imagined.

http://www.nybg.org

http://www.aro.net/
http://www.frontinc.com
http://www.gehrytechnologies.com/
http://www.shoparc.com/
http://www.tmarch.com/
http://www.jcdainc.com/
http://www.wd-50.com/

Just a wacky update to the original form

Nothing too exciting but just wanted to try to really distort the original "rigid" framework to see if it would indeed flex and adjust to a more fluid framework.



the system of parts does flex but even though I can distort it drastically it never really loses the rigid quaility of being tied into the rings and offsets

So I got one successful render.....

Tried the complex section cut rendering once more tonight and out of 4 passes it made it once again to 3 3/4 and crashed. But I did manage to get one simple rendering done. It doesn't have any context around it, so it really makes it kind of blurry but overall it's better than nothing I suppose. I'm going to try and loosen up the rigid sphere and see if I can get a few more screen captures before school starts back on Monday.

Mid - Review

Here is my Mid-Review (meaning MIDTERM, halfway through the semester) materials. The form is obviously (by reading posts) generated through the use of digital project. Alterations are based on a single paramater. Varying this one input number allows the formulated changes to adjust the outcome.

Criteria for the presentation were 5 startch models, an animation, drawings, process work, sketches, etc.

Model Renderings were supposed to take place in Rhino 3d using Vray. Once again, just like last semester, Vray and I didn't get along. So after half a dozen software crashes, one instance of running out of memory during the render and who knows what other demons that live inside this gray box of plastic and silicon. I didn't have any pretty renderings.

Although my printed models were sweet.



The video is pretty slow so you might want to skip a couple times, the second half is faster.