Digital Rust Surfaces

This is a range of surfaces that I developed from rust images....tomorrow I am CNC milling them out of foam and then casting them in aluminum.  Hopefully all goes well.

Preliminary Rendering

Here is one of my preliminary renderings................ a lot of work to do yet but its coming along.

House Construction Testing

http://wibuilder.com/blog/2010/10/would-you-pay-5000-more-for-a-disaster-proof-house/

Functioning Building Skins

These are images from Adaptive Building Initiative's website-


This is firm that is really digging into some very interesting ways that a building can physically react to environmental conditions.  


They have some interesting models of both shading and structural systems that can function in response to user needs.  


http://www.adaptivebuildings.com/profile.html

First Day of School!

Tessa's first day of kindergarten.

No tears!!

Kinetic Architecture

Thru work I have recently become aware of this company called Turner Exhibits.  It looks like they do a lot of the design and fabrication for architects like  Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen.

This is a quote from their literature:

Turner Exhibits serves architects and designers by developing custom fabrication solutions for

museum exhibits, interpretive centers, kinetic architectural features and other exciting projects.

Small interdisciplinary teams evaluate solutions, plan, and carry out the production of each

project. We seek individuals who value collaboration and who bring a strong work ethic, positive

attitude, a love of problem solving and passion for fine craftsmanship.

I love that they design and then fabricate- seems like the best way to get something built right.

Very interesting projects......

Turner Exhibits Website

spaceframe rendering

this is a quick rendering i did for a project i working on at work.  it is actually a carbon fiber spaceframe with invar metal connectors.  to give you an idea of scale the larger members are 200mm (approx 8") diameter.  Some pretty cool hardware at the connections- definitely some real architectural potentials.  It will probably be a few years before this project is actually constructed, but its been very cool to work on.