Starting with a brief introduction of the digital culture impact in the design field, the lecture touches personal obsessions made explicit in some projects of the studio. University of Udine, May 2012.

1. Mirko Daneluzzo
May 2012

2. “we shape the tools, and they in turn shape us”.
Marshall McLuhan
we change our
way of thinking
self-evolution

3. It’s a matter of points of view
In antiquity, the model of nature was based on the IDEAL NUMBERS
and PROPORTIONS: the rules to dimension architecture and to describe
the concept of beauty.

4. Today, backed by 3-400 years, the model of nature is based on
CALCULATION:
- Dimensions are purified by ideals units
- A mathematical language: CURVES -> to describe surfaces
- The whole and the parts related in continuity: discrete and continuous elements

5. Calculation and design
with digital tools
Ivan Sutherland e lo “Sketchpad”, 1963.

6. 1967, Steven Anson Coons
Surfaces for computer-aided design of space forms
From Coons Patch
To B-Spline Surfaces and
NURBS Surfaces

7. Mirko Daneluzzo, L chiar 2012

8. Ed Catmull (University of Utah):
subdivision algorithm to display curved surfaces
1972, Halftone Animation, Ed Catmull 1986, Luxo, Pixar Studio.

9. 1960s: digital art revolution
John e James Whitney

10. 1968, Charles Csuri
Three dimensional surface.

11. Greg Lynn, tea and coffee tower, 2003
Bernard Cache , surface study.

12. John Whitney, 1975
‘60-’70
Design by coding

13. ‘80-’90
Proprietary
software:
-Autocad
-Alias
-Illustrator
....
Proprietary software
Top-down culture Role of the professional

14. Casey Reas, 2004
2000-now
biological paradigm
The return f the CODE

15. “... Envisions a future in which information technologies have advanced so far and
fast that they enable humanity to transcends its biological limitation - tranforming
our lives in a way we can’t imagine“
Bill Gates

16. The singularity
is near
1999 Ray Kurzweil

17. Hypertext
Hypermedia
A reading and writing space where text, images and
sounds may be interconnected electronically.
1961 Theodor Nelson

18. Different manifestations of the same information.
I can take a physical representation and transform it into information
but it is not obvious how to go from information to representation, it
is not univocal, the information might have other manifestations.
Different manifestations,
unique language

19. Yoshi Sodeoka, ASCII ROCK 2003

20. digital
parametric
algorithimc
procedural
genetic
...
design
vague definitions
Is there a “pencil design”? There is Descriptive geometry.
Is there a design that is derived from the Descriptive ge-
ometry? Sure.
When these tools will be fully integrated, we will return to
talk about design.
They are tools that help
the paradigm transition.

21. Biology as the
dominant science
Biological paradigm

22. From the geometric description
to growth algorithms:
about morphogenesis
absence of the temporal dimension

23. an obsession for
complex geometries
formal translations of mental spaces
Epitro konzerthaus: Study of the main shell geometry.

24. Embodiment

25. Syncro, Internal components diagram.

26. Syncro, interiors.
Transition in shape and pattern (color).

27. Embodiment
and sensitivity
Sensitive flesh, Toronto. Model 1:100.

28. Main concert hall: flow lines study.

29. Several layers allow smooth transitions between the differ-
ent environments. The whole layering model is a reactive
dynamic system (particulate).

30. Sensitive flesh: expansions surface diagram.

32. From the genotype to the phenotype
Trajectories. Physical manifestation of the trajectories (marching cubes).
Sensitive flesh: layersing.

33. About manifestation:
same genotype, different phenotype
Embedded interferences, Pordenone.

34. Embedded interferences,: study diagrams

35. Embedded interferences,: main facade and entrance.

36. Embedded interferences: sections.

37. Embedded interferences: structural diagram

38. Embedded interferences: facade

39. Embodiment
and mass
Villa Y, Azeglio, Torino: volumetric diagram.

40. VillaY: Groundfloor.

41. VillaY: Second floor

42. VillaY: interlocking pattern of higher volumes.

43. for a dialogue with the “nature”
VillaY: rendering .

44. VillaY: Green design.

45. VillaY: rendering entrance-staircase.

46. VillaY: rendering livingroom.

47. Embodiment
and tension
casa D1: general view.

48. casa D1: Frontal view.

49. casa D1: side view.

50. casa D1: top view.

52. The construction of an apparatus in order to an-
alyze and then understand a process in its devel-
opment, as it unfolds.
Simulation:

53. System and Model
Relatioship between the parts
Simplified representation of
a system at a given time
“. . . In that Empire, the Art of Cartography attained such Perfection that the map
of a single Province occupied the entirety of a City, and the map of the Empire,
the entirety of a Province. In time, those Unconscionable Maps no longer satisfied,
and the Cartographers Guilds struck a Map of the Empire whose size was that of
the Empire, and which coincided point for point with it. The following Generations,
who were not so fond of the Study of Cartography as their Forebears had been,
saw that that vast map was Useless, and not without some Pitilessness was it, that
they delivered it up to the Inclemencies of Sun and Winters.”
“On Exactitude in Science” or “On Rigor in Science” is a one-paragraph short story
by Jorge Luis Borges,

54. Studio for playground - 2012
A system of forces generated by the neighborhood relationship between the objects
of the context, generates the shape of the whole as a complex of discrete elements.
The hallucinosis: simulation is a tool for the
generation of the Other through the idea
of incompleteness of the system.

56. Studio aggregation FAM - 2011-2012
Physical model study for FAM aggregation
From a modeling strategy that describes surfaces to
a modeling strategy which describes aggregative dy-
namics. From curves to trajectories and the Floating
Atoms Modeling.
To simulate the discrete component of the universe.
FAM

57. Under Se(a)cre(a)tion 2008
undeterminist artificial island

58. Enrico Dini and “Radiolaria” by Andrea Morgante

59. Mirko Daneluzzo for Mirco Bianchini:.
Interwoven Landscape: stratification of the structural component.

60. Interwoven landscape: component printed by D-Shape

64. digital simulation, Alessandro Zomparelli

66. W chair: Hemp fibers and bio-plastics.

67. Parasitise the void: chunk view.
Redundant systems

68. Parasitise the void: Development diagram.

69. Parasitise the void: study diagram.

70. Parasitise the void: side view of a chunck.

71. Parasitise the void: structure detail.

72. Parasitise the void: whole view.

73. Parasitise the void 0: preparation analysis.

74. Parasitise the void 0: structure.

75. Parasitise the void 0: structure.

76. Parasitise the void 0: plastic extrusion robot.

77. Parasitise the void 0: extrusion examples.

78. To close
in ugliness

79. Studi di aggregazione.

80. dis-GUSTING
flatware
Disgusting flatware: serie 1.

81. Disgusting flatware: serie 1.

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