Wednesday, 27 April 2011
Sunday, 24 April 2011
Research meets Sustainability
What if a building would be its own power plant. What if the term sustainability would be driven to its boundaries. What will be possible in 50 years. Based on research I did the last weeks the design and appearance of my research complex will be heavily influenced by current and future techniques to produce energy and gain profit for our environment.
As London is one of the biggest cities in the world it also has to come up with solutions on how to cope with the huge amount of CO2 produced by cars, factories, .... The first step has already been made by introducing a city road charge called the Congestion Charge which everybody that´s using a car has to pay. But that can´t be the last step. We as architects have the chance to contribute a huge amount of input into this discussion. Buildings must be seen as an integral part of the consuming and producing system of energy and for this reason the time has come to push boundaries into this direction.
As London is one of the biggest cities in the world it also has to come up with solutions on how to cope with the huge amount of CO2 produced by cars, factories, .... The first step has already been made by introducing a city road charge called the Congestion Charge which everybody that´s using a car has to pay. But that can´t be the last step. We as architects have the chance to contribute a huge amount of input into this discussion. Buildings must be seen as an integral part of the consuming and producing system of energy and for this reason the time has come to push boundaries into this direction.
Monday, 17 January 2011
talk about the site ...
i think i found a place for my building - some nice features there
- next to the Themse
- an old, empty building either has to be restructured or take the site as it was empty
- street that runs under the existing building
- somekind of little harbour situation at the riverside
find more about in the site-section
http://buildingmagic.blogspot.com/p/site.html
- next to the Themse
- an old, empty building either has to be restructured or take the site as it was empty
- street that runs under the existing building
- somekind of little harbour situation at the riverside
find more about in the site-section
http://buildingmagic.blogspot.com/p/site.html
Tuesday, 11 January 2011
new client update ...
maybe for them? Open source thinking?
The Wellcome Trust was established in 1936 as an independent charity funding research to improve human and animal health. With an endowment of around £14.5 billion, it is the United Kingdom's largest non-governmental source of funds for biomedical research. The overall mission of the trust is "to foster and promote research with the aim of improving human and animal health", and in addition to funding biomedical research it supports the public understanding of science.
The Wellcome Trust plays an important role in encouraging publication of research in open access repositories such as UK PubMed Central (UKPMC). The Wellcome Trust believes that maximising the distribution of these papers - by providing free, online access - is the most effective way of ensuring that the research can be accessed, read and built upon. In turn, this will foster a richer research culture.
The Wellcome Trust was established in 1936 as an independent charity funding research to improve human and animal health. With an endowment of around £14.5 billion, it is the United Kingdom's largest non-governmental source of funds for biomedical research. The overall mission of the trust is "to foster and promote research with the aim of improving human and animal health", and in addition to funding biomedical research it supports the public understanding of science.
The Wellcome Trust plays an important role in encouraging publication of research in open access repositories such as UK PubMed Central (UKPMC). The Wellcome Trust believes that maximising the distribution of these papers - by providing free, online access - is the most effective way of ensuring that the research can be accessed, read and built upon. In turn, this will foster a richer research culture.
Monday, 10 January 2011
o.s. drugs & medicine ...
something to orient concerning my choice of the clients:
http://tropicaldisease.org/
http://www.iowh.org/
http://www.dndi.org/index.php
http://tropicaldisease.org/
http://www.iowh.org/
http://www.dndi.org/index.php
Sunday, 9 January 2011
Saturday, 8 January 2011
Monday, 3 January 2011
concrete canvas or from digital to analog
today i built the forms for my next step called "concrete canvas"
i will try to interpret the data i get out of a side-step in my analysing process and build some models
i will try to interpret the data i get out of a side-step in my analysing process and build some models
Sunday, 2 January 2011
input/output/analysis
a short definition written with rhino/grasshopper to analyse RGB Values in a picture and evaluate the dominant colour (R/G/B)
Saturday, 1 January 2011
work in progress ...
The basic idea at the beginning of the developement of my device was to be able to make the site analysis, our next step in the bachelor year, with my device.
The last weeks I was working on finishing my device and make it work properly - not yet finished ;) - but thinking about all the problems caused by my machine and an critical input by Andi Hörl let me make serious thoughts about the input for my site analysis.
At the last crit in London I was talking about sensors and tracking movements, but the problem is that for such an analysis of a site you have to be right there. As our sites should be located in London its simply not possible to be there any time you want to go! This led me to a different kind of site analysis!
As source, or starting point for the analysing process I decided to take digital photos of my choosen site(s). The question arose how to interpret the 2D data to get an output for my 3D painting device. My idea was to use the colour information which can be found in any digital (as well as analogue) picture. Things like dominant colour values, detailed information about any colour used in the image, .... came into my mind.
I was looking for a suitable software to get the information I wanted out of the pictures. The problem is that there is no software, as far as I know, that does the stuff I want it to do (writing my own software was not a way out, because I´m too bad in this ... :D).
I came back to a software I already discovered 2 years ago, I guess. RGB Music Lab by Kenji Kojima ....
The last weeks I was working on finishing my device and make it work properly - not yet finished ;) - but thinking about all the problems caused by my machine and an critical input by Andi Hörl let me make serious thoughts about the input for my site analysis.
At the last crit in London I was talking about sensors and tracking movements, but the problem is that for such an analysis of a site you have to be right there. As our sites should be located in London its simply not possible to be there any time you want to go! This led me to a different kind of site analysis!
As source, or starting point for the analysing process I decided to take digital photos of my choosen site(s). The question arose how to interpret the 2D data to get an output for my 3D painting device. My idea was to use the colour information which can be found in any digital (as well as analogue) picture. Things like dominant colour values, detailed information about any colour used in the image, .... came into my mind.
I was looking for a suitable software to get the information I wanted out of the pictures. The problem is that there is no software, as far as I know, that does the stuff I want it to do (writing my own software was not a way out, because I´m too bad in this ... :D).
I came back to a software I already discovered 2 years ago, I guess. RGB Music Lab by Kenji Kojima ....
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