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Transient Tones
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Bioresponsiveness
This project was catalysed by the observation that the design of the existing built environment, specifically that of the transitional space, and the relationship with the natural system surrounding it have remained restrained and clearly defined for over a century. Here, this project aims to design a spatial configuration that hosts genetically modified, melanin-producing E. coli bacteria, consequently forming a light-filtering structure that mainly protects from UV radiation. Most importantly, the design augments human senses, by introducing an experimental behaviour in the homogenous modern space. A new sense of biophilia is explored through this co-existence with a synthetic life form that changes colour, shape, and transparency levels because of its hybrid materiality.
Group Students
- Vasiliki Panagiotidou Year 1
- Dona Al-Alula Year 1
- Sohyun Ahn Year 1
01
Foundation and Formation
Synthetic Living System
An architectural cybernetic system is designed to interface and communicate across different bodies and agencies.
Embodying Life: Nature Reimagined
Melanin drawn from across the Earth’s living kingdoms is reimagined as a library of pigments.
Spatiotemporal Explorations of Matter
Spatiotemporal Explorations of Matter
Differentiation through Gradients
A visualisation of generative studies of computationally formed transparency gradients. The interactions between particle clusters ruled by fluid principles generate formal topologies of differentiation, both in terms of form and materiality.
Entangled Flow: Biologically Driven Channels
A visualisation of studies of computationally grown channels based on principles of fluid dynamics and point charges.
02
Dissemination
Tweaking the Evolutionary Process: Promoting Differentiation
The developed coding processes search and group neighbouring units that share common traits. The differentiation of units generates spatial and formal gradients.
Interweaving Matter, Machines, and Nature
The proposed computational workflow integrates environmental data into formal- and material-generative processes. Various programmes (Houdini, Autodesk CFD, Ladybug) are connected into one workflow, allowing for environmentally informed growth patterns to emerge.
Informative Biofeedback
A visualisation of biometric and spatial data processing and design evaluation.
Biospatial Expression
Biospatial Expression
An illustration of manipulations made to biological expressions.
Biospatial Expression Simulation
Biospatial Expression Simulation
03
Transience: Choreographed Gradience
Glass Skins: Computationally Driven and Biologically Augmented
A component study of morphological expression in glass with the integration of melanin channels.
Glass Slumping: A Reconfigurable Mould Approach
A visualisation of initial digital studies of glass slumping via a grasshopper workflow.
Growth, Data, and Fabrication
The growth process, environmental data, and fabrication methods are merged in the development process. Collected solar heat analysis data defines the spatial branching system, the chemical consistency, and the transparency performance of the thermochromic hydrogel to be printed. The results of this information determine the melanin concentrations and UV filtering capacity across the network.
Guiding Growth: The Generative Attributes of the Branching System
Different densities and environmentally informed scale gradients drive the channel system’s spatial configuration. The diagrams on top illustrate the given gradients that drive the generated branching densities presented on the bottom.
Expressive Digital Matter
Expressive Digital Matter
A simulated exploration of the expressivity of the semi-alive, semi-organic architectural matter. This material is both biologically driven and environmentally influenced.
The Bartlett
B-Pro & Autumn Shows 2020
27 November – 11 December 2020
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