A.Mittman Designs_
NEW ORLEANS COLLEGE OF CULINARY ARTS
MAY, 2012
A strong notion of economic growth and community rebirth in New Orleans is underway. Around the site, the area is populated with many local businesses and churches lining the street, community gardens, a boxing gym and after-school activity centers. New Orleans’ College of Culinary Arts pushes the use of steel through a figural, structural steel-skinned tower, which plays an active role on the stage of the site and rebirth of the area. It houses meditative space such as lounges, classrooms and a two-story wine room. Its structure penetrates though the single-story restaurant and serves the public at the street edge, while the Culinary Arts School occupies the main six-story tower.
REVIT, PARAMETRIC BUS STOP
MAY, 2012
TEAM PROJECT Project Members: Aaron Mittman William Nemitoff Devin Reynolds
Double-Hex Grid Glazing Concept, Digital Fabrication and Lighting Components by Aaron Mittman Rendering By William Nemitoff
Rendering By Devin Reynolds
TECHNICAL_REVIT, RULE-BASED PARAMETRIC SKY BRIDGE LOCATION: 860 LAKE SHORE DRIVE, CHICAGO
MARCH, 2012
PARAMETERS FLEX
Custom parameters - in the form of mathematical formulas - are used to generate form. In turn, the frames and windows flex as parameters change by the user; this is a snapshot of one design.
TYPE PARAMETERS
Frame - Flat, Triangle-based Rig Frame Width = 6” Frame Depth 1 = 3’-0” Frame Depth 2 = Frame Depth 1 * 1/3 Frame Depth 3 = Frame Depth 1 * 2/3
NESTED FAMILIES
WINDOW HOSTED IN FRAME
FRAME
TYPE PARAMETERS
WINDOW
INSTANCE PARAMETER
URBANbuild PROTOTYPE HOME DEC, 2011
DRAWING_PHOTOGRAPHY_THEORY_SCULPTURE
1998-PRESENT
Untitled Still-Life. 2’X3’Pencil On Cold Pressed Illustration Board, 1998.
IMAGES FROM CUBA. DIGITAL IMAGES.
2001
Terracotta Roof Vista
Cuban Woman On Balcony
Cuban Icon
Wooden Truss Support System
C O N C L U S I O N F R OM R ESEAR C H EN TITLED : Digital Regression: Intuitive Practice and the Future of Architecture (2011). “Architecture has a long history independent from computer science; however, digital technology has become imbedded into our contemporary society at a global scale. As a global society, our values are also changing as the degree of separation between computer aided thinking and human thought comes closer together. Digital technology has the capacity to render what were otherwise unattainable ideas into fully realized solutions. Handdrawing and fast thinking allow for a less fragmented creative process compared to the slow thought necessary to process computer generated ideas quickly. Our schools are teaching students to rely upon slow thought technology early during the design process. Computers can process information quickly but they cannot think intuitively and I don’t believe there is a substitution for a human’s ability to create. New generations of architects are being introduced to complex thought-process thinking via digital technology at an increasingly early age. I wonder if this introduction to computers will enable students and practitioners of architecture to design more intuitively in the future. My hope is that students of architecture, and the profession, do not reduce their ability and responsibility to generate ideas using their natural intuition. They are the sources responsible for the generation of ideas. Human intuition continues to guide digital technology and not vice versa.“
Taking Nature By Force. 10”X4’Cast Glass, Salvaged Live Oak, and Steel.