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denCity
denCity is a Masters level research project by Sahra (Peter Sovinc, Saif Almasri, Suryansh Chandra) at the Design Research Lab, Architectural Association, London.denCity is a critique of modern day...
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Urban Programmatic Distribution System - The 3d version
This video is an earlier version of the Urban Distribution System that was finally used in denCity. This version could do a 3d representation of the FAR & height maps which made better eye-candy,...
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The Lightbox - Art Fund Pavilion Competition
This is our (Saif Almasri, Suryansh Chandra) entry for the recent Art Fund Pavilion competition. It was quite a thing to shift to a 35 square metre pavilion after doing a 12 square kilometer city, but...
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algorithmic Play+
As a part of the co|de group at ZHA, I've spent a significant amount of time in the past couple of years exploring algorithm based form finding. Here's just a short quick compilation of some of the...
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Fabrication Oriented Parametrics
I was recently invited to the city of Changsha, China to conduct a 2 week workshop with Architecture students from Hunan University and also build a pavilion within certain...
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Mirror, Mirror on the Wall...
This post errs on the technical side of coding. There's many language related questions that often get asked around, but this post attempts to answer one of them:"...which is the fastest of them...
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Curved Folding Paper
I was recently involved in a 2-day workshop with Ankon Mitra in New Delhi, India, exploring curved folding as a means of lending structural stiffness to paper. After having worked on the ZHA Venice...
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Curved Folding | Metal Twins
Continuing the lineage of research on Curved Folding, the AA Visiting School Bangalore series titled HyperThreads explored the subject over an intense 10-day workshop in 2012. Some very cool student...
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Building with Earth | Thin Shell Structures
AA Visiting School Lyon, Synchronised Movements 2013: A 10-day design-build workshop exploring a collaboration between digital design methods + workflows and the hands-on nature of building with earth....
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Automating production of 2D drawings from 3D data through Grasshopper. The fabricator required us to produce per-layer drawings for each panel in the structure (6 layers x 12 panels x 3 structures),...
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ZHA Serpentine Sackler Opening
Some photos from the opening of the ZHA Serpentine Sackler Gallery last night. A barrisol shell, super nice columns that double as light wells, well executed curved glass walls, and some very cool...
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Fragile Beasts | Sculpting Paper
A short 3-day workshop at the Łódź University of Technology with a fantastic outcome. Together with 17 students, we managed to do some interesting exercises and build a 1.9m tall beast from half...
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Introducing Elvis
Elvis is a 6-axis robotic arm the size of a human arm, built from off the shelf electronics and laser-cut acrylic pieces, and is directly driven from Rhino + Grasshopper. This is the official...
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