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Pheromone networks
Project background: Academic Type: Trainstation Context: Almere, the Netherlands Studio name: Hyperbody MSc4 graduation studio- Formations & Embodiments. Studio director: Dr. Nimish Biloria, Dr. Henriette Bier, Martin Sobota Designer: Matthijs la Roi The amount of travelers from and to the Dutch city of Almere will grow from 40.000 back in 2009 to 100.00 in 2030. This requires intensive infrastructural improvements to the current situation of Almere. One of the main improvements of the network will be the redesign of the ...
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Candelabrum 2.0
Project background: Workshop Type: Installation Context: Castelvetro di Modena, Italy Sponsor: www.iablu.it Workshop name: Candelabrum 2.0 Teaching staff: Carlo Maria Morsiani, Matthijs la Roi Workshop participants: John Juhyung Chun, David Gillles, Xin Dogterom, Niels van Dijk, Carlotta Speranza, Niccolo Marini Candelabrum 2.0 During the summer of 2012, an Italian furniture company hosted an international design workshop named Candelabrum 2.0 in which the interaction between digital realities and craftsmanship possibilities culminated in the realization of a wooden pavilion. Situated near the Medieval ...
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Pheromone agent strategies
Project background: Academic Type: Trainstation Context: Almere, the Netherlands Studio name: Hyperbody MSc3 graduation studio- Formations & Embodiments. Studio director: Dr. Nimish Biloria, Dr. Henriette Bier Designer: Matthijs la Roi Pheromone networks is project based on bottom-up design methodology to design a new train station and urban network for the center of the Dutch city of Almere. In the design process of the pheromone network project two types of diagrams where used: input and output diagrams. The input diagrams are ...
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Wind Phantom
Project background: Academic Type: Pavilion/ transferhub Context: Delft, the Netherlands Studio name: Hyperbody MSc1 – InfoMatters Studio director: Dr. Nimish Biloria, Han Feng Designer: Matthijs la Roi The ‘Wind phantom’ project developed is by Matthijs la Roi within the MSc1 ‘InfoMatters’ studio of the department of Hyperbody from the faculty of Architecture in Delft. The studio was directed by Dr. Nimish Biloria and Ir. Han Feng. More information about Hyperbody and the MSc1 Infomatters studio can by found here. The ...
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Evolving Cloth patterns
Project background: Experiment Type: Sculpture Context: Digital Designer: Matthijs la Roi This post is a sneak preview in the design research of Matthijs la Roi to develop architectural volumetric patterns with the use of the nCloth solver of Maya. Using animation software to generate architectural patterns and spaces was introduced by Greg Lynn with his theory of Animate Form. The techniques that are used here are the superimposition of different key frames of a flying cloth simulation. Earlier experiments of ...
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Frozen motion – Aview4you competition
Project background: Competition Type: Brandcentre Context: Leiderdorp, the Netherlands Competition organizers: Bohemen Design team: Matthijs la Roi & Xing Wang Project specialties: this entry won the first prize Spatial developers Bohemen organized the competition A View 4 You, in which participants were required to design a building which, besides having architectural appeal, could profile a brand at a narrow site beside the A4 motorway. The competition was open to students and professional architectural firms. Our aim was to generate a ...
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Transformer theatre
Project background: Academic Type: Theatre Context: Den Haag, the Netherlands Studio name: Hybrid building BSc 6 Studio director: Dirk Zuiderveld Designer: Matthijs la Roi How to transform an old industrial gasholder into a theatre was the assignment of this project. Located inside a dynamic urban context of floating islands, the theatre is surrounded by an ever changing environment. To take advantage of this given situation the theatre has the ability to reconfigurate itself both functional and structural. To achieve this ...
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Floating Wind – IJbunker competition
Project background: Competition Type: Factory/hotel Context: IJmuiden, the Netherlands Competition organizers: Hoorne vastgoed Design team: Matthijs la Roi & Xing Wang Project specialties: this entry won the first prize In this project, the physical environment as the result of the design should be seen as the manifestation of the fascination we find from the original monument and the industrial harbor of IJmuiden. The original function of the IJbunker is an unfinished fortificated harbor for military speedboats (Schnellboten) of the German ...
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Evolutionary patterns deepFormations – part 2
Project background: Academic Type: Infrastructure Context: Delft, the Netherlands Studio name: Hyperbody MSc2 – Evolutionary patterns deepFormations Studio director: Marco Verde Design team: Xing Wang, Matthijs la Roi, Carlos Abel Saenz, Yea-Jung Choi, Song Zeying, Liu Qing The Evolutionary patterns deepFormations studio focused on a form finding strategies based on the topics growth, time, mutation, evolution, branching. Simulation software was used to experiment with differential tectonics and their ability to generate architectural form. The abstract proto-architectural formations generated from this ...
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Lightness workshop
Project background: Academic Type: Workshop Context: Speculative Workshop name: Lightness workshop Workshop organizers: Ed van Hinte, Marco Verde Workshop participants: Xing Wang, Matthijs la Roi, Carlos Abel Saenz, Yea-Jung Choi, Song Zeying, Liu Qing, Urvih Seth, Ran Berman The Lightness workshop was a collaboration between Ed van Hinte (Chairman of lightness studios) and Marco Verde (Founder of Performative Design Processes for Architecture [P]a). The focus of the workshop was to develop a lightweight structural component that could be used for ...
