Editors' Collection opens its Online Concept Store and we are proud to be represented with some of our finest products: Floater, Durian and possibly Chick 'n' Egg Chair. For those of you residing in and around Munich, Bavaria, a temporary showroom will be open to the public from Tuesday, 27.11.12 until Saturday, 01.12.12. The vernissage takes place on Monday, 26.11.12 from 18:30 - 22:00 at Widenmayerstraße 34, Munich. According to the organizers the Shop will cover a large variety including furniture, lamps, bicycles, toys, etc... so go ahead, check it out!
We have revised the original Chick 'n' Egg Chair! The form has been improved for stability and comfort. The grasshopper script has been reprogrammed for speed and reliability to allow changes in size, material thickness or resolution of the waffle grid. And the machine setup has been setup for on demand production.
Still looking for a Christmas present? The chair can be ordered via email to shop@responsivedesign.de. Price available on request.
All pictures were kindly made by Pix Fotostudio, Tübingen.
Most of the modular displays of the Exhibition "Architectural Particles" have been reassembled in various resulting displays, podiums and steles to present price winners of the "Kölner Design Preis International".
The exhibition is presented at the MAKK, Museum für Angewandte Kunst Köln from Oct. 26th until Nov. 18th 2012. The modular "Particles" were designed, developed and configurated by responsive design studio in cooperation with Studyo Architects and the MAKK for the exhibition "Architectural Particles - modular constructions in the digital age".
The organisation team of the KISD now developed a new, more compact configuration of the "particles" which generates a visually well connected but open and well arranged exhibtion space in the large exhibition hall of the MAKK.
During 5 hours students from Cologne Universities and Plan12 visitors produced bio plastic in different variation and processed the self made material in various techniques in order to create shapes, sheets and bubbles.
The goal of the workshop was to research opportunities of bio plastics for its potential use in the fields of design and architecture
Hans Sachs from responsive design wrote an article - "digital crafting" - about the design process and development of the exhibition's architecture.
The catalogue also contains articles by Prof. Oliver Fritz from Adaptive Architektur , Dr. Petra Hesse, director of the MAKK and Aysin Ipekci from Studyo Architects, curator of "Architectural Particles" and a comprehensive overview of the exhibited projects and objects.
x_shelf is a generatively designed bookshelf, made entirely from CNC-milled Alucobond boards, that were folded into modules to form a self-supporting system.
The design is based on David Rutten's "Substrate" component in Grasshopper, the Rhino McNeel Plugin, which has in turn be inspired by the processing works of Jared Tarbell. The component was then coupled to Grasshopper's internal solver Galapagos, in order to adjust the minimum and maximum volume and height of each cell based on average book sizes.
Once the cells were defined the overall geometry was extruded towards three intersecting planes that provide the shelf with additional depth and stability. All parts were digitally fabricated and joint into three parts, each color representing one, to allow for simple dis- and reassembly.
The exhibition design concept is based on a sphere packing method known from molecular structures of metalls, such as i.e. silver and gold. In the arrangement of non-overlapping spheres result octahedral and tetrahedral gaps. Based on these platonic solids combined with principles of generative design, a modular system was developed to present exhibited objects and projects on print media and integrated video screens. Our main objective was to develope a dynamic, recognizable design which refers to the exhibition theme and complys with the historic MAKK building by Rudolf Schwarz.
Phototropia is part of an ongoing series on the application of smart materials in an architectural context and was realized in April 2012 by the Master of Advanced Studies class at the Chair for CAAD, supervised by Manuel Kretzer.
It merges self-made electro-active polymers, screen-printed electroluminescent displays, eco-friendly bioplastics and thin-film dye-sensitized solar cells into an autonomous installation that produces all its required energy from sunlight and responds to user presence through moving and illuminating elements. The generated energy is stored in batteries below the platform and then distributed via microcontrollers to the respective elements.
Phototropia finds its inspiration in participative and transient systems, proposed by visionaries like Yona Friedman or Constant Nieuwenhuys paired with a naive curiosity for self-made (smart) materials and an aversion towards mechanistic kinetic systems. It is a proposal for an experimental architecture that can decay while actively being renewed, as a response to our times of tremendous globalization, increased connectivity and digital identity within our information based society.
special thanks to: Luke Franzke, Florian Wille / ZHdK IAD Paul Liska / EPFL LPI Andrei Prutaneu, Agostino di Figlia / TU Delft ES group Jorge Ellert / ULANO Corp. Beat Karrer / Studio Beat Karrer John Meschter / G24 Innovations
First and second day of installing the exhibition architecture (responsive design studio / STUDYO ARCHITECTS) which will guide visitors through the exhibition "architectural particles - modular construction in the digital age" (curatorship by Aysin Ipekci ). The exhibiton will open on upcoming Friday May 11th at 7pm at the MAKK, Cologne, Germany
Eindrücke vom ersten und zweiten Aufbautag der Ausstellungsarchitektur (responsive design studio / STUDYO ARCHITECTS) zur Ausstellung "Architekturteilchen - Modulares Bauen im digitalen Zeitalter" (Kuratorium: Aysin Ipekci ). Die Ausstellung startet am Freitag, den 11. Mai um 19:00 Uhr im MAKK, Köln
