Archive for the ‘Form finding’ Category
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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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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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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 ...
