rigid origami

Working my way through rigid origamis in grasshopper (inspiring blog on that matter http://spacesymmetrystructure.wordpress.com/category/structure/).

Next step will consist in "synchronizing" this 3d pattern with a surface behaviour as a way to provide it with various degrees of porosity depending on its degree of curvature... *

Finally of course, process analyse&iterate !

keep it rockin'

cooking grasshopper definitions... guess where ??

Playing around with Grasshopper

Still familiarizing myself with grasshopper using the extraordinary amount of quality resource available on the net (for this one : woojsung.com). Think I'll keep and raise my unborn child thesis with it... Already know the site and the function. Main subject will be the facade, thought of as a thick living membrane. Project will have to deal with physical computing (sensors and servos), as well as prototyping... and here comes back the grasshopper to help... Can you hear it ? I can, even if I don't quite understand everything yet.

Back in Venice

My summer in Venice : internship, Biennal, Mostra del Cinema... uno spritz o due...

"MatMax" - Algeco competition 2009

"Models are real" says Olafur Eliasson (in a much more interesting sense...). Well then, in order to test and demonstrate the flexibility and efficiency of our solution for an elementary school using Algeco's modular system, we found only a model would bring synthetic answers (scale 1:50). This was our first attempt to fast'n (not so) dirty match a competition's brief : at once, testing, correcting and representing the actual state of our experimentations without worrying about (other kinds of) drafts. Drafts are real too, I guess.

[Team project with Nicolas Thomelin]
"MatMax" has been selected to be published.

membrane

grasshopper...grasshopper...grasshopper...
vbscript...vbscript...vbscript...vbscript...
Where did those parameters actually came from ?

2-week workshop in Wuhan / China

Urban planning workshop at HUST, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (Wuhan).
+ trip to shanghai

diplo_ model1

diplo-model0

Algeco competition

Awaiting results of the 2009 Algeco competition / should be in may... I will then post pics from the freshest, nicest, most playfull, colourfull model ever made and seen (by my partner and I).

Montparnasse. A laboratory for urban (hyper)density.

Density was the main subject of this workshop proposed by architects Philippe Gazeau and Stéphane Maupin at ENSAPVS (Paris 2008-2009), with the belief it could be a tool for urban renewal or transformation. Even an already dense city like Paris would benefit, even need, an increase of its population within its limits in order to oppose the rather deadly but very real tendances of museification, and urban sprawl. Evidently however, this approach is not about letting everybody build higher all over the place. The area of study had then to be carefully chosen: we went on working on the site of Montparnasse.
We tried not to think too much about what would be harmful for the existing city in such a dramatic increase of the density or what form should it take, but precisely on the opposite: what could it allow? How does the city benefits from the insertion of high-rise or mega-buildings?

Each of our buildings hosts altogether a major equipment, such as a sports field, swimming-pool, library… and particular housing / offices directly in contact with it. We seek good couples to ensure that everybody benefits from the major porosity between the city and the equipment, and then between the equipment and its more private extension.

[Team project with Marie-Laure Cazes]

Treviso - Scalo Motta

Project initiated at the master of Landscape Architecture in Venice (Pr. Paolo Ceccon, Michela De Poli 2008). Urban/landscape scale



[Team project with Quentin Georgelin, Simone Teso]

W competition 2008

[Team project with Nicolas Thomelin]

Colli Euganei

Portraiting landscape. A personal introduction to the Colli Euganei regional park in the Veneto (Italy). Team project submitted at the Landscape Master in Venice (IUAV - 2008).


[Team project with Quentin Georgelin, Nicolas Thomelin]

Interaction Venice

Design and "fast and dirty" prototype for a Vaporetto user interface in Venice. This was our collective entry for the Gillian Crampton-Smith and Philip Tabor Interaction Design Theory class at the IUAV, Venice (2007).


[Team project with Marco Bertoldo, Laura Bordin, Leandro Lisboa]

Sacca San Mattia - Venice Lagoon Park

Entry for the 2007 2G competition, then developped at the Landscape Master Class in Venice. This is a collective proposal for an evolving park on the artificial industrial island of San Mattia near Murano in the Venice Lagoon. The topography, vegetation and functions of the park change over the time, seasons, years... as the water/earth limit fades to eventually turn the island into a Lagoon factory.

[exhibited at the 5th Barcelona Landscape Biennial, 2008]

[Team project with Quentin Georgelin, Giovanni Gabai, Ludovico Tiberio]