The document summarizes Ellyn Barkley's undergraduate architecture portfolio, which includes projects on spatial study, materiality, biomimicry, habitat, and woven facade. The spatial study section documents photographs and drawings analyzing the spaces of a fine arts library. The materiality section explores wood fabrication techniques through models and drawings. The biomimicry project draws inspiration from hummingbird wing movement in a prototype for adjustable shading. The habitat project transforms a daily coffee routine into a 3D public space. The woven facade section develops a sunscreen design inspired by weave patterns into a variable facade system.
This document provides inspiration and design process information for a kinetic architecture project titled "KINETISCHE ARCHITECTUUR". It discusses inspiration drawn from sea organisms, pneumatic structures, and the work of artist Max Streicher. The design process involved several phases, starting with the idea of privacy shutters and moving to an interactive lamp and then a pneumatic sculpture made of tyvek resembling breathing or swelling coral. A touch sensor was added so the sculpture could respond to human presence by constantly inflating when nearby or shutting off if touched. Lighting was integrated to strengthen the effect of the sculpture breathing.
Digital Fabrication e FabLab at Reggio Emilia FabLab 27.10.2012Massimo Menichinelli
Fab labs are a global network of local labs that enable invention by providing access to digital fabrication tools. They share core capabilities like computer-controlled machines that can create physical objects from digital designs. This allows people and projects to be shared. Operational, educational and technical assistance is provided through the fab lab network beyond what's available within one lab. Fab labs must provide open access, share tools and processes, and participate in the global fab lab network. They serve as community resources for invention and prototyping across many applications.
This document discusses repetition, rhythm, and pattern in art. It defines repetition as a single element that is repeated, rhythm as a combination of elements repeated with variation, and pattern as a combination of shapes repeated in a regular arrangement. Examples of different types of rhythms are provided, including random, regular, alternating, flowing, and progressive rhythms. Pattern is further explained as the repetition of motifs or units in a consistent way to form a design.
Olivia Witte's portfolio contains projects from her architecture studies focusing on representation, fabrication, adaptation, environment, and expression. Key projects include mapping body movement, recreating a panel design from a single piece of plywood, designing a kinetic sunshade facade, and transforming Philadelphia's abandoned rail line into an urban kale farm. Her AP art selections depict her mother's extensive shoe collection.
This document discusses a proposed "Flocking TrashCan Robot" project to build robots that mimic flocking behavior to clean the UC Berkeley campus. The robots would include trash boxes and cleaner robots that follow simple flocking rules, allowing dynamic emergent behavior. Parameters like the ratio of different robot types and how they interact with people could be adjusted. A simulation and prototype were created to explore the concept. The goal is to use physical movement to activate spaces and allow interaction between people and robots.
The document summarizes Ellyn Barkley's undergraduate architecture portfolio, which includes projects on spatial study, materiality, biomimicry, habitat, and woven facade. The spatial study section documents photographs and drawings analyzing the spaces of a fine arts library. The materiality section explores wood fabrication techniques through models and drawings. The biomimicry project draws inspiration from hummingbird wing movement in a prototype for adjustable shading. The habitat project transforms a daily coffee routine into a 3D public space. The woven facade section develops a sunscreen design inspired by weave patterns into a variable facade system.
This document provides inspiration and design process information for a kinetic architecture project titled "KINETISCHE ARCHITECTUUR". It discusses inspiration drawn from sea organisms, pneumatic structures, and the work of artist Max Streicher. The design process involved several phases, starting with the idea of privacy shutters and moving to an interactive lamp and then a pneumatic sculpture made of tyvek resembling breathing or swelling coral. A touch sensor was added so the sculpture could respond to human presence by constantly inflating when nearby or shutting off if touched. Lighting was integrated to strengthen the effect of the sculpture breathing.
Digital Fabrication e FabLab at Reggio Emilia FabLab 27.10.2012Massimo Menichinelli
Fab labs are a global network of local labs that enable invention by providing access to digital fabrication tools. They share core capabilities like computer-controlled machines that can create physical objects from digital designs. This allows people and projects to be shared. Operational, educational and technical assistance is provided through the fab lab network beyond what's available within one lab. Fab labs must provide open access, share tools and processes, and participate in the global fab lab network. They serve as community resources for invention and prototyping across many applications.
This document discusses repetition, rhythm, and pattern in art. It defines repetition as a single element that is repeated, rhythm as a combination of elements repeated with variation, and pattern as a combination of shapes repeated in a regular arrangement. Examples of different types of rhythms are provided, including random, regular, alternating, flowing, and progressive rhythms. Pattern is further explained as the repetition of motifs or units in a consistent way to form a design.
Olivia Witte's portfolio contains projects from her architecture studies focusing on representation, fabrication, adaptation, environment, and expression. Key projects include mapping body movement, recreating a panel design from a single piece of plywood, designing a kinetic sunshade facade, and transforming Philadelphia's abandoned rail line into an urban kale farm. Her AP art selections depict her mother's extensive shoe collection.
This document discusses a proposed "Flocking TrashCan Robot" project to build robots that mimic flocking behavior to clean the UC Berkeley campus. The robots would include trash boxes and cleaner robots that follow simple flocking rules, allowing dynamic emergent behavior. Parameters like the ratio of different robot types and how they interact with people could be adjusted. A simulation and prototype were created to explore the concept. The goal is to use physical movement to activate spaces and allow interaction between people and robots.
The document discusses the potential for distributed microproduction to promote territorial development. It presents three case studies exploring this: FARB-MakeFactory examines the relationship between design, making and new production models; Maker Hub BRNZ connects local enterprises with innovators; and Make in Progress brings creativity and entrepreneurship to a small Italian town. The conclusion is that production can be a value through enabling communities, learning, and defining new local policies. Further work on making distributed microproduction sustainable for territorial development is needed under the framework of production as cultural, social and environmental value for a region.
This document discusses environmental storytelling and player navigation in game environments. It defines environmental storytelling as using the environment to inform players through subtle context about places and events. This can be done through macro, micro, and player storytelling. The document also discusses how level design can subtly guide players' attention and help them navigate an environment through techniques like contrast, landmarks, and visual guides. The goal is to help players orient themselves and find desired paths without disrupting their experience.
Mechanism of human-hornet conflicts in an urban ecosystemMuna Azmy
The document examines factors that influence human-hornet conflicts in urban areas of Japan, specifically looking at data on hornet abundance and species composition in Nagoya City over time. Statistical analyses show that certain hornet species abundances are positively correlated with higher levels of urban greenness, as measured by NDVI values within a 1km radius. The study aims to understand how environmental and social characteristics may contribute to human-hornet conflicts to help address this issue.
David Lefcourt, Arborist, City of Cambridge
David discusses how a municipality, with active citizens and volunteers, can get the greatest benefit from its trees for climate and biodiversity.
Presented at the Urban and Suburban Carbon Farming to Reverse Global Warming conference at Harvard University on May 3, 2015, organized by Biodiversity for a Livable Climate.
www.bio4climate.org
Creative and Clever Ads Part 5-StaircaseSayyedul Hoq
While spending 30 seconds on an escalator, where do you look? Most people just stare straight ahead – making escalators an ideal location for advertising. But some ads are more colorful, clever and controversial than others, using both the ideal eye-level platform and shape of the stairs to their full potential. These are the kinds of ads that make people pause and marvel for a moment before continuing on their way.
Architecture/Movement/Text - MA ProjectPlan-B Studio
I have included a copy of my MA thesis and final major project. Please note that the thesis is missing images and might have page number issues - I lost all original files(!)
Greening in the Red Zone: Urban Biodiversity as Opportunity in Post-disaster ...ICLEI
Urban biodiversity and greening can help communities recover from disasters and conflicts. When community members actively participate in greening projects, it can provide health, social, and environmental benefits. Some benefits of urban greening include improving individual well-being, promoting social healing and environmental sustainability, and developing community self-reliance. Green spaces also represent opportunities to address urban vulnerability, improve preparedness, and support climate change adaptation by increasing resilience and reducing risks.
This document discusses urbanization and urban growth trends. It notes that urbanization is the transformation of rural areas into urban areas due to factors like natural population increase and migration. The global proportion of urban population has risen dramatically from 13% in 1900 to 49% currently. Many large cities are mushrooming and urban populations are increasing rapidly in developing countries. By 2050, over 6 billion people will be living in urban areas. While cities consume vast resources, proper planning that incorporates green spaces can help reduce pollution and environmental impacts of urbanization.
This document discusses the shared qualities and concerns of dance and architecture. It notes that dance is architecture in motion, with the human body producing an intangible kinesphere of potential movement like an icosahedron. Both dance and architecture are concerned with practices of space - for dancers, choreography constructs spatial dimensions through gesture, while architects construct habitation through emerging forms. The document examines how choreographic elements like algorithms, objects and constructions are analogous to architectural design processes.
The document discusses the relationship between dance and architecture. It notes that they both deal with practices of space, with dancers choreographing space through gestures and movement, and architects constructing habitat through spatial form. It quotes sources describing how space implies order and commands bodies by prescribing or proscribing gestures, routes, and distances. The document contrasts the static nature of architecture ("stasis") with the dynamic nature of dance ("ecstasy"), and how fundamental architectural elements can be put into action and relation through movement.
Deltares land & water management in the urban environment 2009Marcel Bruggers
The document discusses the concept of a "Water City" which aims to create a more sustainable, climate-robust, adaptable, healthy, and pleasant urban environment by placing water at the heart of city planning and management. Key aspects of the Water City include reducing inputs/outputs to make the city less dependent on external resources, recycling and reusing water, using water multifunctionally, integrating water features into public spaces, harnessing water as an energy source, producing food locally using water, and managing water to support stable soils and prevent subsidence. The document outlines how each of these contributes to more sustainable, climate-robust, and healthier cities.
Gezgin, U. B. (2010). Urban biodiversity, economics & ethics. (Paper to be presented at ACERP 2011: Asian Conference on Ethics, Religion and Philosophy 2011. 20-22 March, 2011,Osaka, Japan.) Full text published in ACERP Conference Proceedings, pp.28-42, ISSN: 2185-6141. http://www.iafor.org/ACERP_Proceedings_2011.pdf
The Urban Living Lab project is an open ecosystem involving students, residents, local communities and businesses around an eco-campus in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines and Versailles Grand Parc territories. It supports innovation for sustainable and low carbon development. The project promotes innovation in education, strengthens the local economy, and makes the territories more attractive. It has locations in the two territories to better involve local actors and experiments with innovative projects in transportation, energy efficiency, food supply, and education.
The newly released book Sustainable Urban Environments - An Ecosystem Approach ‘helps the reader grasp opportunities for integration of knowledge and technologies in the design, construction and management of the built environment.’ In the first edition of the Delft Environment Initiative Lecture Series on 21-09-2011 several contributors to Sustainable Urban Environments discussed their views on the most pressing challenges facing us in the urban environment today and how they should be integrated in education. These are the slides accompanying the ‘elevator pitches’ they gave. http://home.tudelft.nl/en/research/environment/mini-symposium-sustainable-urban-environments/
This document discusses the role of "greening" or environmental stewardship activities in building resilience after disasters or conflicts. It provides examples of how tree planting, memorial gardens, and fisheries management helped communities recover from events like 9/11 and wars in Iraq. The document argues that including local communities in greening activities can help social-ecological systems withstand disturbances by providing feedback and strengthening connections between people and nature. Policymakers are encouraged to support such efforts through funding, research, and integrating greening into emergency response plans to facilitate long-term adaptation to climate change impacts.
Walking Moving Thinking - architecture as movement facilitatorvictoria meyers
Walking Moving Thinking - how architecture creates public space, pubic amenities, and urban places. Includes hMa's DWi-P, across from the World Trade Center Memorial site in NYC.
The document discusses the potential for distributed microproduction to promote territorial development. It presents three case studies exploring this: FARB-MakeFactory examines the relationship between design, making and new production models; Maker Hub BRNZ connects local enterprises with innovators; and Make in Progress brings creativity and entrepreneurship to a small Italian town. The conclusion is that production can be a value through enabling communities, learning, and defining new local policies. Further work on making distributed microproduction sustainable for territorial development is needed under the framework of production as cultural, social and environmental value for a region.
This document discusses environmental storytelling and player navigation in game environments. It defines environmental storytelling as using the environment to inform players through subtle context about places and events. This can be done through macro, micro, and player storytelling. The document also discusses how level design can subtly guide players' attention and help them navigate an environment through techniques like contrast, landmarks, and visual guides. The goal is to help players orient themselves and find desired paths without disrupting their experience.
Mechanism of human-hornet conflicts in an urban ecosystemMuna Azmy
The document examines factors that influence human-hornet conflicts in urban areas of Japan, specifically looking at data on hornet abundance and species composition in Nagoya City over time. Statistical analyses show that certain hornet species abundances are positively correlated with higher levels of urban greenness, as measured by NDVI values within a 1km radius. The study aims to understand how environmental and social characteristics may contribute to human-hornet conflicts to help address this issue.
David Lefcourt, Arborist, City of Cambridge
David discusses how a municipality, with active citizens and volunteers, can get the greatest benefit from its trees for climate and biodiversity.
Presented at the Urban and Suburban Carbon Farming to Reverse Global Warming conference at Harvard University on May 3, 2015, organized by Biodiversity for a Livable Climate.
www.bio4climate.org
Creative and Clever Ads Part 5-StaircaseSayyedul Hoq
While spending 30 seconds on an escalator, where do you look? Most people just stare straight ahead – making escalators an ideal location for advertising. But some ads are more colorful, clever and controversial than others, using both the ideal eye-level platform and shape of the stairs to their full potential. These are the kinds of ads that make people pause and marvel for a moment before continuing on their way.
Architecture/Movement/Text - MA ProjectPlan-B Studio
I have included a copy of my MA thesis and final major project. Please note that the thesis is missing images and might have page number issues - I lost all original files(!)
Greening in the Red Zone: Urban Biodiversity as Opportunity in Post-disaster ...ICLEI
Urban biodiversity and greening can help communities recover from disasters and conflicts. When community members actively participate in greening projects, it can provide health, social, and environmental benefits. Some benefits of urban greening include improving individual well-being, promoting social healing and environmental sustainability, and developing community self-reliance. Green spaces also represent opportunities to address urban vulnerability, improve preparedness, and support climate change adaptation by increasing resilience and reducing risks.
This document discusses urbanization and urban growth trends. It notes that urbanization is the transformation of rural areas into urban areas due to factors like natural population increase and migration. The global proportion of urban population has risen dramatically from 13% in 1900 to 49% currently. Many large cities are mushrooming and urban populations are increasing rapidly in developing countries. By 2050, over 6 billion people will be living in urban areas. While cities consume vast resources, proper planning that incorporates green spaces can help reduce pollution and environmental impacts of urbanization.
This document discusses the shared qualities and concerns of dance and architecture. It notes that dance is architecture in motion, with the human body producing an intangible kinesphere of potential movement like an icosahedron. Both dance and architecture are concerned with practices of space - for dancers, choreography constructs spatial dimensions through gesture, while architects construct habitation through emerging forms. The document examines how choreographic elements like algorithms, objects and constructions are analogous to architectural design processes.
The document discusses the relationship between dance and architecture. It notes that they both deal with practices of space, with dancers choreographing space through gestures and movement, and architects constructing habitat through spatial form. It quotes sources describing how space implies order and commands bodies by prescribing or proscribing gestures, routes, and distances. The document contrasts the static nature of architecture ("stasis") with the dynamic nature of dance ("ecstasy"), and how fundamental architectural elements can be put into action and relation through movement.
Deltares land & water management in the urban environment 2009Marcel Bruggers
The document discusses the concept of a "Water City" which aims to create a more sustainable, climate-robust, adaptable, healthy, and pleasant urban environment by placing water at the heart of city planning and management. Key aspects of the Water City include reducing inputs/outputs to make the city less dependent on external resources, recycling and reusing water, using water multifunctionally, integrating water features into public spaces, harnessing water as an energy source, producing food locally using water, and managing water to support stable soils and prevent subsidence. The document outlines how each of these contributes to more sustainable, climate-robust, and healthier cities.
Gezgin, U. B. (2010). Urban biodiversity, economics & ethics. (Paper to be presented at ACERP 2011: Asian Conference on Ethics, Religion and Philosophy 2011. 20-22 March, 2011,Osaka, Japan.) Full text published in ACERP Conference Proceedings, pp.28-42, ISSN: 2185-6141. http://www.iafor.org/ACERP_Proceedings_2011.pdf
The Urban Living Lab project is an open ecosystem involving students, residents, local communities and businesses around an eco-campus in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines and Versailles Grand Parc territories. It supports innovation for sustainable and low carbon development. The project promotes innovation in education, strengthens the local economy, and makes the territories more attractive. It has locations in the two territories to better involve local actors and experiments with innovative projects in transportation, energy efficiency, food supply, and education.
The newly released book Sustainable Urban Environments - An Ecosystem Approach ‘helps the reader grasp opportunities for integration of knowledge and technologies in the design, construction and management of the built environment.’ In the first edition of the Delft Environment Initiative Lecture Series on 21-09-2011 several contributors to Sustainable Urban Environments discussed their views on the most pressing challenges facing us in the urban environment today and how they should be integrated in education. These are the slides accompanying the ‘elevator pitches’ they gave. http://home.tudelft.nl/en/research/environment/mini-symposium-sustainable-urban-environments/
This document discusses the role of "greening" or environmental stewardship activities in building resilience after disasters or conflicts. It provides examples of how tree planting, memorial gardens, and fisheries management helped communities recover from events like 9/11 and wars in Iraq. The document argues that including local communities in greening activities can help social-ecological systems withstand disturbances by providing feedback and strengthening connections between people and nature. Policymakers are encouraged to support such efforts through funding, research, and integrating greening into emergency response plans to facilitate long-term adaptation to climate change impacts.
Walking Moving Thinking - architecture as movement facilitatorvictoria meyers
Walking Moving Thinking - how architecture creates public space, pubic amenities, and urban places. Includes hMa's DWi-P, across from the World Trade Center Memorial site in NYC.
2. spatial study 4-7
re-cut 8-11
panel 12-15
biomimicry 16-21
habitat 22-27
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3. spatial study
perceiving and depicting surroundings
A setting of a unique and intricate fine arts library allowed
for a closer look and awareness of surroundings. The
first step in this mission was a critical examination of the
space through a photographic lense, resulting in a a set of
corresponding photographs that approach the same subject
from different angles: moving through the space and then
looking up at each space.
After discovering the space, drawings helped to reach
a higher level of understanding. The technical study
examines the support systems and structures, while the
figural examination studies the decorative objects. These
result in a study of the exisiting elements of the library.
The analyzation of an experienced space progresses to a
space created using manipulation of photographs, resulting
in a composite photograph, and a new space to analyze.
The final set of drawings represent an unfolding of this new
perceived space, as if it one is walking through it. This series
reflects the same technique as the previous drawings, using
the constant pattern of the fence to determine layers.
3 spatial study spatial study 4
4. composite photograph technical drawing figural drawing
up 1 up 2 up 3
through 1 through 2 through 3 unfolding 1 unfolding 2 unfolding 3
5 spatial study spatial study 6
5. re-cut
finding the potential of one piece of wood
Focusing on exploring and learning fabrication
techniques, and creating drawings that accurately
represent the fabrication process, the project began
simply with one, solid, uniform piece of wood.
The drawings focus on the actual process of the
fabrication, beginning with a diagram of the wood
cuts necessary to create the final product. It shows
how the design strives to maximize the available wood
and also maintain a subtle continuous curve by cutting
from the same lines.
The next set of drawing progresses to the final
product, after fabrication. The elevation view shows
the curves that define the overall program, while
the plan view exhibits the hidden thinness. The
final perspective view, along with the models,
finally demonastrate how the product is viewed after
fabrication.
final model final model, detail
7 re-cut re-cut 8
7. panel
establishing a relationship between two people
In a clear progression from the re-cut project, the panel
project continues the focus on fabrication techniques and
their drawings. Starting with only two requirements - the
ability to separate two people and the ability to condense
into one-third of it’s original size - the result was a panel that
is always utilizing visual and physical barriers.
By limiting the control to one person, there is always some
element of separation. If the controller opens up the panel,
visual access is allowed, but there is a physical barrier.
Conversely, a closed panel allows close physical proximity,
but no visual access. The different lengths, orientations,
materials, and other aspects were tested out through
multiple models.
The resulting drawings include orthographic views that
show the rotaional aspects of the panel and a kinetic series
that illustrates the relationship between the owner and the
panel.
quarter-scale model, detail full-scale model, detail quarter-scale model
11 panel panel 12
8. front elevation, side elevation showing rotation, and plan view kinetic series
13 panel panel 14
9. biomimicry
utilizing a mechanism found in nature
When given the assignment of looking to nature for shown in a kinetic series of different orthographic
inspiration for a mechanism, the unique abilities of the views and overlaping perspective views to show the
hummingbird immediately came to mind. Research range of motion.
explained that the hummingbird’s ability to hover When the project moved from a prototype to creating
and fly in any direction is due to its ball-and-socket a product to enhance a site, the prototype lent itself
shoulder joint, which allows for full one hundred and to creating a modular seating area with an adjustable
eight degree rotation. shading device. The detailed drawings and models of
Hand sketches of the wing motions and bone the locking mechanism show the kinetic series of how
structure revealed the efficiency of the movements, unlimited motion becomes efficient, mirroring the
how the hummingbird has the ability of full rotation hummingbird.
but only moves for what is necessary. This discovery The drawings of the orthographic drawings show
led to a hand drawing of the kinetic sequence of the how the modular seating can be arranged and how
bones during flight. much, or how little space, is taken up depending on
These discoveries led to the core ideas of the the shade’s orientation. The rendering and final
prototype, which uses a similar ball-and-socket for models further explain the orientation of the product
the base, but then uses a gear mechanism to allow in the site and the user interaction.
for limited motion and efficiency. Using laser-cut
museum board, the prototype model was able to
final model, shade detail final model have small and intricate pieces. The ideas are further
15 biomimicry biomimicry 16
10. prototype models kinetic series
bone structure
wing movements kinetic sequence perspective views
17 biomimicry biomimicry 18
11. final model, locking mechanism locking mechanism
rendering side elevation showing rotational shade variations plan view and front elevation view
19 biomimicry biomimicry 20
12. habitat
transforming a habit into a three-dimensional space
My routine of coffee preparation, while originally space, I realized that it was necessary to expand my
rigorously tested, has now become a process that program from simply the preparation of coffee to
can happen completely subconsciously. Without activities that are directly effected by it, resulting
fail, my body quickly responds to a cup of hot black first in programatic rules and then a programtic
coffee, with each step broken down into smaller steps diagram. As with the preparation, this new program
themselves: sugar, cream, stirring, drinking. The also became divided into four distinct spheres: coffee,
subconsious actions continually elevate the simple cup study, relax, sleep.
of coffee from an inanimate object to something that By realizing and defining the programmatic rules
provides a much larger purpose. of coffee preparation, and new program is formed.
I have chosen to analyze the effects of these actions I used these rules to define a three-dimensional
based on both the movement and spatial impacts. The space where physical and visual access act to allow
movement analysis studies whcih parts of my body and prohibit these interactions in space. The spaces
are actually performing each individual step, and how are experienced through a visual and physical walk
these steps relate to each other. The spatial studies through and corresponding photographs of the
focus on the amount of space necessary for these model. For a person inhabiting this space, the rules
movements to occur, examining where the spaces become clear simply by interacting and living in the
overlap the most or deviate for certain steps. structure.
While progressing from a theoretical two-dimensional
habitat models study to a physically-inhabitable three-dimensional
21 habitat habitat 22
13. kinetic mapping, movement and spatial
programatic rules
programatic diagram
movement mapping, cumulative spatial mapping, cumulative
movement mapping by step exploded axonometric and renderings
23 habitat habitat 24
14. visual and physical walk through of habitat
model, stepping down from sleep modle, looking down in sleep model, top view of study and relax
section views model, top view of coffee model, looking out from relax model, looking at coffee from study
25 habitat habitat 26