Hands on computer modeling

http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/16/view/8404/lumino.html


As interfaces for the digital realm become more and more sophisticated, the user gains ever greater control over the construction and crafting of the project. If you build a model by hand, but it resides in the digital realm, could it be considered "hand crafted"? These distinctions between hand and digital construction could perhaps become blurred through the use of digital interfaces like the Lumino shown here. Cubes filled with glass fibers that allow light through can be stacked and moved to control a tabletop computer. Current applications of the Lumino blocks include a construction kit, control knobs for tasks like photo editing and playing simple games like checkers.

Curtain Door

http://www.arplus.com/9855/ar-emerging-architecture-2009-winner-3-of-4-curtain-door-surat-india-by-matharoo-associates/


A design successfully incorporating a sinusoidal curve: "At 5.2m high and 1.7m wide, the door is comprised of 40 sections of 254mm-thick Burma teak. Each section is carved so that the door integrates 160 pulleys, 80 ball bearings, a wire-rope and a counter weight hidden within the single pivot."

Having begun to explore Grasshopper and the design opportunities inherent in the program, this door (though it may or may not have been designed using Grasshopper) points to design options which might incorporate that affect of transformation by rule set. Rather than simply stop the design at a certain point on the slider within the digital realm, users can adjust the "slider" - whatever that may become, pulleys or otherwise - to fit their own circumstances or moods in the physical world.

felt and fabric walls

Anne Kyyrö Quinn is a London based designer that creates felt and fabric walls, resembling art than conventional fabrics. Her scultural approach developed a new genre of interior textiles that is based on a three-dimensional structure than smooth surface ornamentation.

Lumiwood

Rita Baek is a designer with a background in jewelry design gave her the opportunity to work with a experimental approach to designing a lampshade that was delicate and respectful to the material. They were made with folding veneer laminated on canvas with a light filtering through the thin veneer.

Branching Morphogenesis

The project discusses the part-to-whole relationship that is generated with branched structures formed with interacting lung endothelial cells within a 3D matrix environment. The time lapses manifest into five vertical, interconnected layers made from over 75,000 cable zip ties.

Digitally Fabricated City

Jorge Ayala did a one-year research in the Pearl River Delta in the South of China, proposing a digitally fabricated city. The exploration index suggests existing tissues of topography, spatial orientation, rain flows, extreme flood scenarios, wind, soil condition, and residual spaces on site.

Rotary Weaver

ToMoCo owns a rotary weaver, which there are two in existence, which they repurposed to create a carbon fiber A-pillars. The only one of the two weavers that looms dual-tube carbon fiber components.