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A student from Tsinghua University in Beijing, China sent us those images from a workshop Yusuke conducted with AADRL’s tutor Robert Stewart-Smith and recent AA graduates Xin Wang and Soomeen Hahm last summer. The Topic of the workshop was to explore the distributional logic of dry sand via multiple outlets using only gravity to generate three-dimensional patterns. Its generative logic was simulated simultaneously with Rhino/Grass Hopper for parallel analogue/digital experiments. The top layer of the sand was then hardened with sprayed resin. 96 panels were designed and fabricated for the Beijing Biennale 2010.

Here are some images from our Prototyping Architecture Workshop 1 Final Review. Prof. Kitagaki from Material Department joined us. His comments were productive and encouraging as to developing everyone’s projects more precise, controllable and constructible structures.

Our digital tutor Daisuke sent us his new project at TOKYO DESIGNERS WEEK 2010 where he curated an exhibition space all made out of industrial waste materials. This one is designed by Tokyo-based architect Florian Busch. It’s amazing to see how garbage (cables and wires in this picture) can turn into beautiful construction materials only by compressing into thin sheets.

http://www.tdwa.com/english/

An image of analogue computational model being developed by Ton, Nikola and Adriana. Overall geometry of the model is generated by a series of toothpicks acting as differential local pressure points on a thin plastic sheet.

Here are images from Digital Tea House Exhibition and Gallery Talk at Ozone Gallery in Shinjuku Park Tower designed by Kenzo Tange.

Salvator-John Liotta from Kuma Lab sent us the latest news on Digital Tea House appeared on this month’s Domus web. The Digital Tea houses was designed and constructed last summer by teams of students from University of Tokyo and Columbia University.
Here is the link for the article.

http://www.domusweb.it/architecture/article.cfm?id=276863&lingua=_eng

Our first design workshop — the goal of this workshop is to design and fabricate a canopy based on the concept of tensegrity model developed by Kenneth Snelson and Buckminster Fuller.