DIYLILCNC

Two Chicago-based artists, Chris Reilly and Taylor Hokanson, teach at the School of Art Institute of Chicago, have completed a do-it-yourself lil’ CNC. They offer an open-source set of plans that make the CNC mill cost $700 to make.

pAlice

SOFTlab participated in Random Number's SYSTEM:SYSTEM exhibition with their installation, pAlice. pAlice is made with 2,400 laser cut triangles and over 3,600 custom connections using a custom written MEL script. The piece connects all openings in the room with a singular surface, giving the viewers a reference to the exterior of the room without access to it.

experiencing void

De Smedt has a proposal for the Guggenheim Museum in NYC. The proposal is a massive web that is climbable that would be hung down through the central core of the museum, that occupies void and becomes experiential.

Flexible Wall

A prototype of a flexible wall that 'breathed' like the gills of a fish in response to changing information, demonstrating the potential of architecture to adapt to shifting conditions and to alert humans about them.

BanQ

The project reuses the an old bank building with an idea of adding new program and a new surface without affecting the existing structure.

Aqua Tower

The building shape was inspired by limestone formations around the Great Lakes area.

The form has a sculptural composition but at the same time it has a very rational and well developed floor plan of a standard skyscraper. The curves that create the balcony maximize the views of the the building and at the same time provide shading for the floors below.

Performative_Facade

"Marilena Skavara’s ‘Adaptive Fa[ca]de’ explores the functional possibilities and performative characteristics of cellular automata (CA). In addition to the unique emergent behaviour of CA, a neural network enables a further computational layer to evolve CA behaviour to the context of its surrounding environment. Building upon the early work of Conway’s ‘Game of life’ and Stephen Wolfram’s extensive research on the wider implementation of CA, Skavara’s facade becomes a living adapting skin, constantly training itself from the history of its own errors and achievements."