2011 2013
SERBAN BODEA
ARCHITECTURE STUDENT PORTFOLIO 4 PROJECTS
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CONTENTS: 03 Curriculum Vitae tive Architecture]
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Academic Project [Non-Standard & Interac-
06 Hyperbody reRDM VARIATIONS, Rotterdam,
Netherlands,January 2013 // 14 tT {toulouseTRANSFER} TOULOUSE SPACEPORT, France - Diploma Project, July 2012 Project [Public & Infrastructure]
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Professional
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COMPETITION, KCAP internship, Zürich, Switzerland, January-July 2011
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Generative Design
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putational Design Workshop, Bucharest, Romania, December 2011 26
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Personal information First name / Surname Address
Curriculum Vitae Ioan-Serban BODEA
Telephone E-mail Nationality Date of birth Gender
4, Ap.II, Warmoezierstraat, 2613 VH, Delft, Province of South Holland, The Netherlands +31 0 61 629 95 04 serban.bodea@yahoo.com ROMANIAN 10TH February 1986 Male
Occupational field
Architect, Architectural Design
Work experience Dates Main activities and responsibilities
Internship at KCAP Architects and Planners, Zürich, Switzerland 1 January-30 June 2011 Junior Design Assistant in charge of presentation, model-building, research and documentation KCAP Architects and Planners, Zürich, Switzerland KCAP [CH], Wasserwerkstrasse 129, CH 8037 Zürich T:+41 (0)44 350 16 51 F: +41 (0)44 350 16 52
Name and address of the organising company Work experience Dates Main activities and responsibilities Name and address of the organising company Work experience Dates Main activities and responsibilities Name and address of the organising company
Workshop Participant at the stonemasonry Transilvania-Trust Course 9 August-22 August 2008 Student training into the matters of conservation and restoration, trainee at the stonemasonry course FundatiaTransilvania Trust RO-400110 Cluj-Napoca, Str. Breaza 14/A E-mail: office@transylvaniatrust.ro Part-time collaboration at the Romanian-German architectural firm Planwerk, established in Cluj Napoca, Romania 1 April-25 June 2007 Student collaborator and modelling studio collaborator/ project assistant Sc. Planwerk srl. str. Tipografiei nr. 18RO 400101 Cluj-Napoca
Workshops
Generative and Computational Design
Name Dates Main activities Tutors
Generative Architecture Workshop at “Ion Mincu” Architecture School, Bucharest 27th October- 1st November 2011, Bucharest Generative Design and fabrication, introduction to Rhino and Grasshopper Arch. Andrei Raducanu; Stud.Arch. Madalin Gheorghe Coordinators: Arch. Dan Ionescu; Ionut Mandriscanu
Name Dates Main activities
Santa’s Digital Workshop at “Ion Mincu” Architecture School, Bucharest 115th December- 23st December 2012, Bucharest Advanced Generative Design, Introduction to Firefly and Arduino, Introduction to digital means of fabrication 3D Printing Arch. Andrei Ivanescu - alumni Hyperbody Studio Delft; Arch. Andrei Raducanu; Stud. Arch. Madalin Gheorghe
Tutors Competitions Name Dates Team Name Dates Team
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Black Church National Architecture Competition 1st November-15th November, Brasov, Romania Ioan-Serban BODEA, student-architect, architectural design; Ana-Maria ANTON, student-architect, architectural design; Andra JURGIU, student-architect, architectural design. DOCUMENTA International Architecture Student Competition 15th July- 15th August, Kassel, Germany Ioan-Serban BODEA, student-architect, architectural design;
Name Dates Team Name Dates Team Name Dates Team Education University
Ana-Maria ANTON, student-architect, architectural design; Design proposal for the 12th Architecture Biennial, Venice 2010- People Meet in Architecture, RANK 5 spring 2010, Bucharest, Romania Arch. Octavian NECULAI-coordinator; Ioan-Serban BODEA, student-architect, architectural design; Ana-Maria ANTON, student-architect, architectural design. Design proposal for The Romanian Pavilion at ShanghaiExpo2010, Arch. Octavian NECULAI-Scene Designer BVLANDRA Theatre, Bucharest, NOMINATION FOR DISPLAY Exhibition: 26th September-11th October 2010, The Romanian Pavilion, Central exhibition gallery, ShanghaiExpo2010, Shanghai, China Arch. Octavian NECULAI-coordinator; Ioan-Serban BODEA, student-architect, architectural design; Ana-Maria ANTON, student-architect, architectural design. “Arhetipuri” National Contest for creating an urban pavilion in an important Romanian city- contest focused on the Romanian public Space- Contest proposal Pavilion in Braila City on the Danube. 15th April-31st July, 2010, Bucharest, Romania Ioan-Serban BODEA, student-architect, architectural design; Ana-Maria ANTON, student-architect, architectural design; Alina MEDRIHAN, student-architect, architectural design.
Title Awarded
Delft University of Technology(TUDelft), Faculty of Architecture Master of Science 2012 Hyperbody / Non-Standard and Interactive Architecture Studio
Title Awarded
“Ion Mincu” Architecture and Urban Planning University, the Architecture Faculty, Bucahrest, Romania 2007-2012 Intergrated Master of Architecture, Dorin Stefan Studio, class of 2012
Title Awarded
Technical University of Cluj Napoca, the Architecture Faculty, Cluj Napoca Romania; 2005-2007 Bachelor in Architecture, 6th year graduate
Mother tongue Foreign languages English French Italian, German
Romanian
Personal initiatives
SPACEPLAY Project (Spring 2010) with Stud. Ana Maria Anton and Arch. Octavian Neculai the project was initiated. The project ranked 5th at the National Architecture Contest for designing the Romanian Pavilion at the 12th Architecture Biennial in Venice. The project was nominated for representing Romania at Shanghai Expo 2010 and was a success.
University of Cambridge Certificate in Advanced English, Grade B Very good (based on results at secondary school, high school and university) Very good understanding, beginner level for speaking and writing
Conservation Efforts in Rosia Montana, Alba County, Romania (27th July-8th August 2008), organized by the local foundation “Save Rosia Montana”. My team identified and marked tourist trails in the mountains and around the ancient mines of the town. Computer skills
Proficient in RHINO+Grasshopper modeling tools, 3D modeling, 2D drawing, generative design, geometry optimization; Experienced in Arduino Platform - data management through Firefly into Grasshopper; Proficient in 3D Studio Max + MentalRay - Modeling and Rendering Certificate, 10th October 2011 - ProManagement Training Center, Bucharest, Romania; Processing, C++ and C# programming languages; AUTOCAD – Autodesk 2D drawings; Vectorworks 2D and 3D drawings and presentation; ADOBE SUITE - presentation and image processing + MICROSOFT OFFICE PACK;
Hobbies
Classical Music, Contemporary Dance&Theatre, Contemporary Art, Cinema, Reading;
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reRDM Variations MSc.1@HYPERBODY_TUDelft - Nonstandard and Interactive Architecture Studio
architecture and presentation: Stud. Arch. Serban Bodea architecture, presentation:Stud. Arch. Ana-Maria Anton tutors: architecture: Ir. T.J. Jaskiewicz, Ir. H.C. Friedrich structural consultant: Ir. Florian Eckhardt project stage: top-ranked design, studio entry available at: http://rerdm.hyperbody.nl/index.php/project24:Frontpage
Changing moods.Variations to the growth of a digitally-driven architectural assemblage Variations spring out of the desire to create a place intimately related to water. The two personalities of the water project, the bath and the club, make Variations earn a place in interactive relationships with the Babel Tower, more connected with the transcendental issues architecture can address. The same duality allows it to directly speak to Lusthof, busy with the down-to-earth issues of the sex market and industry and the exploitations and interdependencies of the actors involved. Finally, make it strongly relate to The Digital Gardener’s take on environmental issues, through the redesign of connections between people and living things around them, by using technology. Variations is about changing moods in a design-conscious way. Variations is in the mood for peace and serenity, for philosophising around water, in the Roman sense of the word, at least during the day! Variations is in the mood for all the kinds of love people have to offer each other, submerged in the murky waters of the RDM Dock, after night has fallen... Variations consumes fresh water provided by The Digital Gardener, in turn washing away the filth of people in different moods, to the enrichment and growth of a digitally driven biological organism. 6
::reRDM Rotterdam
::RDM DOCK internet of people and things with ProtoTag System (Ir. H.C. Friedrich hyperbody researcher)
reRDM is an ongoing project consisting of 24 architectural interventions designed by students of TU Delft’s faculty of Architecture (Hyperbody master-1 semester). Each of those interventions starts by identifying qualities and challenges found across the present-day RDM area, which stem from its unique culture, spatial qualities, relationship to the rest of Rotterdam and its potential to sustainably grow towards a better future.
::RDM DOCK before reRDM
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The Public Bath Variations are a public-private investment. The duality of ownership of the project itself and the duality of the investing party leads to a duality of the program. This duality will be referred to as Multiple Personality. It is quite obvious that most of the projects in RDM offer day-oriented activities. The Public Bath Variations are a public-private investment. The duality of ownership of the project itself and the duality of the investing party leads to a duality of the program. This duality will be referred to as Multiple Personality. It is quite obvious that most of the projects in RDM offer day-oriented activities.
::INTERIOR VARIATIONS (upper deck-night)
As Variations needs to be open around the clock(a requirement of the team-brief) it must reinvent itself to fill the need of night-time activities in the dock. Variations brands itself as a hotspot for nightlife in RDM and in this way comes closer in program to Lusthof.
::INTERIOR VARIATIONS (lower deck areas-night)
Variations’philosophy is that interactions must be turned into connections through behavior
::interior VARIATIONS (lowerdeck - pool spaces)
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Fish are a style in the evolution of life in marine environments. Variations and the fish analogy. From structural and stylistic point of view the fish has always been a driver in variations design process. Fish are an expression of excellent performance through integration. They are almost one with their environment. ::INTERIOR VARIATIONS (lower deck-day)
The fish analogy has driven the design to a point of interpretation of features considered key for the success of the double-personality project. Gradually the sum of design elements has become a whole and an integration challenge emerged. This presentation shows the stages of interpretation, integration and optimization as a coherent and complete variation of a designed- based research for building for people, in and around water.
::INTERIOR VARIATIONS (lower pools-day)
::interior VARIATIONS (upper deckpool overview)
The project has evolved from analogy to a hybrid architectural species.
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Variations has the ambition of staying open around the clock, its main goal is to the ensure behavioural performance, adaptiveness and interaction with its users. Seeing fish as a styling-evolution has performance implications. The project is coneived as a variation of rib elements. This system can be feasible only by allowing a degree of deformation and movement in the fiberglass structural elements. The elasticity of this structure is ensured by points of mobility built into the structure.
::VARIATIONS (lower deck-PLAN) ::VARIATIONS (structural+non-structural elements) ::VARIATIONS skin styling (tesselation and component design) ::VARIATIONS PELVIC CONNECTION (skin styling, tesselation, structural design)
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Variations has two main interior climates: a very hot and humid pool space next to a dryer service and leasure plus visitor space. The style of the building demands that these spaces are in direct contact with eachother while the performance demands for a strict division between them. As a response to this issue, a dividing ETFE doublecurved foil has been introduced in between the pool space and the circulation/service space. There should be no limit to the variety of the activities the space can/could be fitted to handle.
::VARIATIONS (upper deck-PLAN) ::VARIATIONS (details& assemblage of structural skin) ::VARIATIONS DORSAL CONNECTION (skin styling, tesselation, structural design)
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::VARIATIONS IN CONTEXT(view from SE )
VARIATIONS. Public Baths during day, Club during night. Both during day and during night,Variations is a public building. The most important design unit as identified by the team is one pool-space plus complementary activities (described as space between two structural ribs). One pool-space can be used by 20 adults(inside water) and another 10 spread in complementary spaces. The same goes for children’s pools (15 + 5). This means a maximum of 210 persons inside the Public Baths at any given time.(170 adults and 60 children). The same pool-space becomes a dance floor during night. This brings the number of people using the club to a maximum of 600. The water project’s main distinct feature is that of combining these two aparently opposite images.
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::VARIATIONS IN CONTEXT(view from SW )
In therms of feasibility Variations will be a profit oriented private investment. Considering the inovation character of the RDM the project would be an ideal testing ground for inovation and technological integration. The developper is free to use the space for promoting water related technologies and experiments. The developper must respect the original dual personality concept essential for Variations. Any cultural or entertainment activities whether private or public are possible in Variations’space. There should be no limit to the variety of the activities the space can/could be fitted to handle.
::VARIATIONS (upper deck-PLAN detail) ::VARIATIONS (lower deck-PLAN detail) ::VARIATIONS (details& assemblage of structural skin, structure, fittings) ::VARIATIONS TRANSVERSAL SECTION
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tT{toulouseTRANSFER} SPACE travel TRAINING CENTRE Diploma Project at Ion Mincu School of Architecture Bucharest 2012
architecture and presentation: Stud. Arch. Serban Bodea design partner:Stud. Arch. Ana-Maria Anton tutors: architecture D. Arch.Dorin Stefan(DSBA) dorin.stefan50@gmail.com structural consultant Prof. D. Ing. Dragos Marcu(Popp si Asociatii) dragos.marcu@popp-si-asociatii.ro project stage:Final Project in Ion Mincu School of Architecture Diploma Project Toulouse Transfer is the result of a common design interest with colleague Ana-Maria Anton. Focusing on the French city of Toulouse, the project tries to explore strategies for urban reinvention through large scale interventions. The contemporary city, and Toulouse in particular, is going through an identity crisis which can become a powerful source of inspiration for design professionals. The idea of merging architecture and technology goes beyond our professional interests and leads us to propose a radical rethinking of life in the city as we know it. The Space Training Centre combines technology, architecture and tourism into a new way of life, living in a colony to train willing individuals for space flight as tourists. The Americans Dennis Tito and Richard Garriot are among the most influencial of an ever growing list of space-tourists and their experiences have been highly publicized. Firms like RocketShip Tours, Space Adventures and Virgin Galactic are studying the possibilities of implementing programmes which are ever more independent. A radical way of making space flight cheaper, has recenly been proposed by ARCASPACE, a balloon should carry a small shuttle high in the stratosphere from where it could be much easier to reach suborbital hights or even the International Space Station. Such modes of transportation, relevant in the world of privately-driven space travel competitions will undoubtedly shape our future cities .
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::toulouseTRANSFER {prediploma} Garonne flooding impression
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TOULOUSE IS ONE OF THE AMSTERDAM BEST SITUATED CITIES IN EUROTTERDAM ROPE, IT’S HIGH DEGREE OF FRANKFURT CONNECTIVITY, PROVIDED BY THE EXTENT AND COMPLEXITY OF THE TRANSPORT MEDIA PARIS INTERSECTING AROUND IT, HAS ALWAYS BEEN SEEN AS A HUGE ADVANTAGE BY BOTH THE PUBLIC AND THE PRIVATE SECTORS. GENF LYON THE EUROPEAN SPACE AGENMILANO CY’S HEADQUARTERS MAKES TOULOUSE A POSSIBLE FOCAL POINT OF ONE OF THE TOULOUSE MOST INNOVATIVE INDUSMARSEILLE TRIES TODAY. SPACE TOURISM HAS BECOME A REALITY ROMA BARCELONA IN RECENT YEARS, AND IS NOW DEVELOPING ALMOST SOLELY BY OWN FINANCIAL MEANS.
::toulouseEUROPE_situation/connectivity Technology The evolution path of Toulouse is based on an early specialisation in electricity and aeronautics and was driven by major investments in higher education and research. Toulouse appears to be more a city of knowledge and technological innovation than a creative city in terms of art and culture. The project aims to point out the city’s advantages and to transform them in new opportunities for urban and architectural developments. La ville rose/The Pink City The large scale patrimonialization stresses the absence of representative contemporary architecture in Toulouse. The overrated concern for its traditional image generates Toulouse’s incapacity to give answers for the real and more complex problems of the city. The Grand Toulouse Project hepls the city redefine itself as a true european metropole. Floods of the Garonne One of the main challenges when building on Ramier Island is its liability to inundations. This fact caused it to be rather ignored by the city. Toulouse Transfer sees the inundation as main generator concept of the volume in the computational definition. The position of the building on the island results of a hypothetical curve-cluster generated as standing on the minimum impact area in case of fooding.
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TOULOUSE IS ONE OF THE BEST SITUATED CITIES IN EUROPE, IT’S HIGH DEGREE OF CONNECTIVITY, PROVIDED BY THE EXTENT AND COMPLEXITY OF THE TRANSPORT MEDIA INTERSECTING AROUND IT, HAS ALWAYS BEEN SEEN AS A HUGE ADVANTAGE BY BOTH THE PUBLIC AND THE PRIVATE SECTORS. THE EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY’S HEADQUARTERS MAKES TOULOUSE A POSSIBLE FOCAL POINT OF ONE OF THE MOST INNOVATIVE INDUSTRIES TODAY. SPACE TOURISM HAS BECOME A REALITY IN RECENT YEARS, AND IS NOW DEVELOPING ALMOST SOLELY BY OWN FINANCIAL MEANS.
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::toulouse SpacePort_Research-Colony Masterplan
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public space
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::toulouse SpaceTraining Centre_sleeping/living quarters
volume assignment for public space is updated for every structural iteration for ensuring good connectivity throughout the colony
sefl-grown food
+ m3 for each section
hydroponic agriculture will be an important part of the colony’s research programme, a self-sustaining organism is a powerful example of sustainability
service spaces and processing of goods + m3 for each section
very important, in the daily life scenario of the colony, these volumes are divided between research, training, touristic and service areas.
the housing programme + m3 for each section
the concentration of housing units is different throughout the colony, these volumes are divided between research, training, touristic and service areas.
::toulouse SpaceTraining Centre_ Functional Concept
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::toulouse SpaceTraining Centre_ tT on Ile du Ramier
::toulouse SpaceTraining Centre_ West Elevation
::toulouse SpaceTraining Centre_ Longitudinal Section
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::toulouse SpaceTraining Centre_ Transversal Section
::toulouse SpaceTraining Centre_ East Elevation
::toulouse SpaceTraining Centre_Ile du Ramier Situation
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::toulouse SpaceTraining Centre_ North Elevation
The purpose of the functional programme is that of investigating life in an environment simmilar to a colony in space, research for the psychological conditions people would experience has been done on documentation provided by NASA documents. After the urban analisys the actual volume study focuses on interpreting the floodable character of the site. Esentially, generative models are developed to evaluate the effects of floods of different magnitudes. Buildings on site are taken into account as attractors or rejectors, according to their character and importance. The design of the Training Centre “metabolizes� the flooding in the sense that a lot of research goes into form finding process, at this point detached from any urban environment. The designed volume is inspired by the characteristics of a bridge binding. The island itself is creating a model of development for cities around water. The chosen volume negociates hights and turns according to exterior input, it’s adaptability has been put to good use during the volume assignment, performed digitally, in order to meet programatic demands.
::toulouse SpaceTraining Centre_ Ile du Ramier Situation
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Hardbrücke Train Station Competition
Zürich/2011 Professional project-internship at KCAP ZÜRICH
kcap.eu
Competition team:
Arch. U.M.A. Schneider_Director KCAP Zürich Arch.Tobias Wendt_project leader Arch. Milena Isler_design assistant St. Arch. Serban Bodea_intern in charge St. Arch. Alexandar Lalovich_visualisations project stage: KCAP invited architect, finalised competition
The brief of the competition for the Hardbrücke Train Station was drawn up by the Civil Engineering Department of Zurich and the Swiss Federal Railways and has been discussed with the private parties interested in the development of this part of the city. KCAP designed the competition entry as invited architect.The project was meant to consolidate the position of the office as one of the most important foreign architects in Switzerland.
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The team was preoccupied with designing solutions that would allow the train station to function at optimum capacity during the construction process I was involved in studying the implications of the design decisions of the team lead by Arch. Ute Schneider, Director of KCAP Zßrich and Arch.Tobias Wendt. My responsibilities included developing physical models of different scenarios and working for improving the sectional qualities of the project, from the basement, the existing underground station, to the intermediate levels and up to the pedestrian bridge proposed over the tracks. My work followed the development of the project from the preliminary urban studies to the realization of drawings featured in the presentation of the competition proposal. The project team has focused on designing every stage of the constructionsite according to the character of the existing train station. The Federal Swiss Railways demanded that the station remain functional during the construction of the new transport hub. We found the example of Zurich Main Station inspiring, as here the capacity of one of the busiest rail stations in Switzerland is section beingL2dramatically expanded while the station itself remains fully functional and serves over 400.000 people every day. The team’s primary objective has been to negociate the complex nature of the intersection of the bridge with the track field on four levels. The underground level, the between-level, the bridge level and the pedestrian walkway over the Hard Bridge came together as a creative solution functionally and architecturally.
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GENERATIVE product-design
WORKSHOP ION MINCU SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE BUCHAREST DECEMBER 2011 design and presentation: Stud. Arch. Serban Bodea generative design tutors:Arch. Andrei Raducanu Arch. Andrei Ivanescu Stud. Arch. Madalin Gheorghe adaptative design tutors:Stud. Arch. Horia Spirescu Artist Paul Popescu project stage:workshop completed[design +fabrication]
Santa’s Digital Workshop has focused on developing creative solutions for designing and fabricating small objects using generative design techniques. The idea behind the project was that of engaging students and alumni of several Architecture Schools in Romania to take part in adorning the Christmas Tree in the school’s lobby. The work within the design studio was structured in two main parts: firstly studying the potential of the available software- Rhino3D+Grasshopper- to develop small individual projects and to optimize the resulting geometry for fabrication and secondly, to develop interactive media capable of responding to external stimuli and use the data captured by the Arduino platform to influence parts of the designs. Organized by alumni students, the workshop used the 3D printing technology available in school to fabricate individualized design products. Going beyond generative design some of the products employed genetic algorithm software to further develop or optimise the results. Also, using Kangaroo and Locust within Grasshopper, we were able to speculate on the strategic points of the design process, to add variation, to follow or exclude results according physical or computational feedback.
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Celllular geometry is generated starting from any given population of points. A critical approach is taken towards the use of digrams such as the Voronoi Diagram. Given the small size of the object such a method of dividing areas is suitable for creating organic designs inspired by the way nature organizes its matter into cells. The expressive output and the correspondence with the theme lead to the success of this very simple design which was produced in many sizes and variations.
“The Mutant” is an object that uses input from different sources and organizes it on a predefined surface. Apparently, the Mutant lacks structural coherence but this is in fact achieved using a combination of scale and typology atractors. They are responssible for combining different geometries into an heterogenous object which is more than the sum of its parts. The desired next step would be to design an algorithm capable of combining data structures belonging to other objects. Such a design approach would be a critique towards the enormount amounts of data which is created and then very rapidly discarded everyday. Informational junk could be a powerful source of inspiration for designers transforming data patterns into geometry and giving them new meaning.
Every object functions in a particular environment and its success can be interpreted according to the way it interprets and decodes this environment. This algorithm uses any kind of image input to generate by interpreting the value of each pixel. Escher’s famous piece is used to illustrate the principle of the design whose physical structure is made up of two inverted images, one towards the inside , the other towards the outside of the object.
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