We are happy to announce at the beginning of the year, that our workshop at the Master of Digital Architecture class at the IUAV, Venice, Italy is scheduled for the 27-28th january.
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We are happy to announce at the beginning of the year, that our workshop at the Master of Digital Architecture class at the IUAV, Venice, Italy is scheduled for the 27-28th january.
In the latest issue of Edno magazine you can find an interview with Morphocode and learn more about us and our work. Here are some of the questions that Adriana Andreeva asked us:
A: What does Morphocode mean – where does it come from?
G/K: It reflects our efforts to manage and control the flows of data which are an inevitable part of any architectural program.
Architecture is a lot more than static spatial composition – it regulates a multitude of overlapping processes and fields of influence which operate behind the form. Which is why we usually work with organizational, not compositional models.A: What does “advanced computational and parametric design” mean?
G/K: For us, it means using a number of digital tools and techniques that allow us to work faster and be more productive during the conceptual phase of our projects. More specifically, it helps us test a lot more ideas at the conceptual stage than we are able to with conventional methods. It is a very flexible method which at the same time guarantees a systematic approach. As Corbusier said: “There is no work of art without a system”.
How beneficial such tools can be is a controversial issue, but we believe that good design depends on the objectivity of the decisions made, irrespective of the instruments used.
At Morphocode, we try to make the most of contemporary technology, while remaining loyal to a relatively sparse formal language.[...]
A: What are your dreams for the near future?
G/K: Our main priority at the moment is completing our Zima series. We are also about to release a new version of RABBIT. We’ve been working on it for a long time now. The launch will be accompanied by a series of webinars and also possibly live workshops to demonstrate its full capabilities.
At the beginning of next year, we’ve been invited to give a lecture and lead a workshop for students in the master’s program for digital technologies at IUAV – the architectural school in Venice. We are also working on a few entries for architectural competitions and an installation.[...]
The full interview can be found in the latest issue of Edno magazine.
Morphocode have been invited to present their work to the Master of Digital Architecture class at the IUAV, Venice, Italy. The two-day intensive workshop is scheduled for February 2012. The Master program is still recruiting participants so check out their page for more information about the course.
More news coming soon.
This is a new interеsting product – a comic book created and published by the bulgarian-based artists Sibila Koritareva and Ivan Koritarev. The book is available in three languages: Bulgarian, English and French. Learn more at their facebook page: Grozen Entertainment.
Iris Van Herpen is a dutch fashion designer who combines fine handwork techniques with futuristic digital technology. Her motto is: “Normal rules don’t apply”. People like Lady Gaga and Bjork often dress in her avant-garde clothes. Looking at Iris ven Herpen’s designs you’ll find a truly architectural approach:
“By bringing form, structure and materials together in a new manner, I try to suggest and realize optimal tension and movement.”
For the “Escapism Couture” collection, where most of the models are 3d prints, she collaborated with
More about Iris Van Herpen you can learn from the video:
Feedscape is a solo-exhibition by the young bulgarian architect Anton Savov that took place in platform SARAI, Frankfurt am Main from 2 July till 10 August 2010. The project’s name is derived from the words feed/encourage growth of, supply with material, cause to move gradually/ and scape/a scene, something to look at, an archaic word for escape/.
“When augmented with the ability to feed, the architectural surface becomes a Feedscape. It interconnects the different layers of our spatial experience in a loop where the output of one process becomes the input to another.
All real or virtual surfaces in our world hold the potential to form feedscapes. The ecology of feedscapes facilitates awareness and fosters a new understanding of hierarchy allowing for personal solutions and experiences to be shared, modified and reused.”
The spatial installation is composed of “four and a half” autonomous elements that represent the nodes of an artificial eco-system. Feedscape suggests that “architecture is a space full of potential, saturated with the power to see transformations take place between material and immaterial, between solidified and fluid, between space itself and the forms that define it”.
In addition to the four material elements, there is a virtual ‘half’ element. An information feed is constructed by a google/twitter script and its results are projected in the gallery space. Feedscape is part of a network….of many networks. Linked to the space’s intensive qualities(temperature, humidity, light), responding to the visitors, reading web data, publishing on the internet.
Everything is registered in its layer of life and is fed to another layer. The water registers your charge, the plants register your mood, the online engine registers your thoughts, the other visitors register your smell & sound. Everything affects everything.
An exhibition catalogue is published on the occasion of the exhibition Feedscape:
Anton Savov is an architect currently living in Frankfurt am Main. He teaches in the Post-Graduate Masters programme at the Staedelschule Architecture Class, Frankfurt. In parallel Anton Savov is working at Bollinger+Grohmann Ingenieure as an architect on the treshold of architecture and engineering design.
His main interest lies in the exploration of architectural space through research in ecological and environmental systems as well as the impact of social networks on the content of architectural programme. He is currently working on his doctoral thesis on computational strategies for architectural design. Recently he collaborated on the project “Keep Something For a Rainy Day” with artist Att Poomtangon at the Venice Art Biennale 2009.
Photos courtesy of Vladimir Alexeev, Dimitar Kokalanov, Anatoli Skatchkov, Anton Savov, morphocode.
All quotes from: Feedscape Exhibition Catalogue
Morphocode will teach a three-day design workshop at the Städelschule Architectural Class on 15th, 17th & 18th of November, 2010.
The Städelschule Architectural Class is directed by Ben van Berkel and Johan Bettum and “provides a near domestic setting for the social and academic life of its members.”
The workshop is availble only for the students enrolled in the academic programs of SAC.
This workshop will cover the use of Cellular Automata & L-Systems in the process of generative design, including topics such as Self-organization, Pattern Formation and Complex systems, 1-D, 2-D, 3-D automata, Branching algorithms, branching models, 0L-Systems, bracketed L-Systems, turtle interpretation, fractals, etc…
We are going to present the latest version of our custom plug-in – Rabbit 0.3 to the participants of the workshop.
Rabbit 0.3 will be used to apply the theory in practice. Students will learn how to incorporate these advanced generative techniques in their design workflow using Rabbit.
The latest features of Rabbit 0.3 include 1-D Cellular automata, Excitable media models, L-System thickness control, L-System Step length control, etc..
We decided to post a list of some of the most interesting resources and links
that we’ve shared on our twitter and facebook page in the last few months. Here it is…in case you’ve missed something:
We wanted to share with you some of our latest readings that we found quite interesting:
The book is written by Sean Carroll – Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics and an Investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at the University of Wisconsin.
Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo talks about how life was formed; about the process of developement of living organisms and how it is connected to evolution.
Resemblance between escherichia coli and elephant
In this book you can find the answers to questions like:
How the butterfly got its spots?
Why do zebras have patterns on their skin?
How Homo sapiens got his “beautiful mind”?
Groups of cells with different pigmentation on a butterfly's wing
If you’re interested in the process of evolution; in biology and genetics, Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo
Self-Organization in Biological Systems: (Princeton Studies in Complexity)
Multiple examples and case studies of self-organization in the natural world are provided as well as some NetLogo code.
The book is all about self-organization in biological systems; the emergence of order in nature; pattern formation in space and time.
Case studies include:
Self-organization of larvae depending to the initial state.
Here are a few basic quotes:
What is self-organization?
“Self-organization is a process in which pattern at the global level of a system emerges solely from numerous interactions among the lower-level components of the system. Moreover, the rules specifying interactions among the system’s components are executed using only local information, without reference to global pattern.”
Why is self-organization important?
“Understanding the mechanisms that underlie a behavior is a necessary first step toward understanding how the behavior evolved. Evolutionary theories often make assumptions that can only be justified by looking at mechanisms…
No evolutionary stance is fully plausible without a careful examination of the potential underlying mechanisms.”
We’ve been conntacted by Russell Fernandez from Princeton Architectural Press who sent us this book.
The book is conceived as a primer for architects, artists, and designers trying to learn some basic programming concepts for CAD and has a very simple and elegant graphic design that we loved. The subtitle is: “Creating computational Architecture in AutoLISP”. AutoLISP is computer language developed by AutoDesk and could be applied in AutoCAD. You can find multiple examples in the book + AutoLISP code.
The Codewriting Workbook: Creating Computational Architecture in AutoLISP
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