Saturday, December 21, 2013

Merry Christmas and Happy 2014

We wish all our friends, clients, customers, followers, and everyone else a very relaxing and calm Christmas and a successful and productive start into 2014.


Friday, November 22, 2013

KISD Open Factory

Together with Marcel Odenbach, Hans Sachs from responsive design studio runs a workshop 2D>3D at the KISD Open Factory at the Köln International School of Design.





















The 2-day event with various workshops and panel discussions on Nov 29th and 30th addresses the open scource and maker movement and brings people from different professional fields together to experiment, develop and fabricate. Students can still register for several workshops on the conference's webpage (above).

Thursday, November 21, 2013

The CONE at Voodoo Experience New Orleans 2013


Like every year in November, our ConeV2 was part of the Voodoo Experience Music and Art Festival in New Orleans, LA, USA. For more pictures of the event click here..





















Beside well known bands like Pearl Jam, Nine Inch Nails and Kid Rock, the Cone was -again- one of the main attractions on the festival area in New Orleans City Park. The Cone has been installed at the festival every year from 2009.

Friday, October 25, 2013

Cardboard Lounge at National Museum of Denmark

For our client WHITE LABEL EVENTS GmbH we provided furniture and accessoires for a "Cardboard Lounge" in the National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen.




The event took place in the spacious entrance hall of the museum on October 23rd. The Cardboard Lounge was part of an exciting event with live acts and gala dinner hold by a German cardboard producer to invite international clients.











Monday, October 7, 2013

RE-USE of "architectural particles" exhibtion design


At superartitecture (facebook page) and Stephan Braungarth Fotografie the exhibition design and display system of "Architectural Particles" has been re-configured for fotoshootings, parties and exhibitions (i.e. Passagen Köln 2013)














































 The modular display system has been created and developed by responsive design studio in collaboration with STUDYO architects and the MAKK - Museum für Angewandte Kunst Köln for the exhibtion "Architectural Particles - Modular Building Construction in the Digital Age" from May to August 2012. The exhibtion design was then already re-used for the "Köln Design Preis International" organized by the "KISD - Köln International School of Design" and MAKK.

image capture: details of pictures by Stephan Braunbarth, Cologne 2012-2013











Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Symposium Transmaterial Aesthetics in Berlin


Hans Sachs of responsive design studio has presented his paper "bended - material and process informed design computation" at Transmaterial Aesthetics Symposium in Berlin at the Aedes Network Campus Berlin, on October 2nd, 2013(see programm below). We especially thank Prof. Matthias Ludwig (Hochschule Wismar, Fakultät Gestaltung) and AA Dipl. Sandra Loschke (Faculty of Design Architecture and Building, University of Technology Sydney) for the organisation of the event. The symposium abstracts can be downloaded here.


























In the Symposium Transmaterial Aesthetics various lectures of architects, designers and producers have been presented and discussed experiments with timber in architecture and technology.
































flyer with programm :






































Friday, September 13, 2013

Spatial Positions 5 - The Land Workshop


From 31.08.2013 - 22.09.2013 the exhibition "Spatial Positions 5 - The Land Workshop" at the SAM  Swiss Architecture Museum displays important steps the collaboration project "The Land", which is located in the north of Thailand near the town Sanpatong, twenty kilometres southwest of the city of Chiang Mai.









"The show itself functions as a workshop anticipating the realisation-phase planned for the year 2014. In addition, London-based graphic designer Zak develops a new alphabet for the Land Workshop that is based on the participatory logic of the "corps exquisite". Thus the concept of the exhibition reflects the different conditions of collaborating, exhibiting and building." (http://www.sam-basel.org - accessed on 13.09.2013)




 

























































Details of pictures 1-5:  Philip Heckhausen / Picture 6: Hans Sachs

Within a workshop with CIAD, Hans Sachs of responsive design studio developed and realized a modular connector system made of laser-cut MDF board that is now installed in Basel until Sept. 22nd.

People:

The Land Workshop Building: Nico Dockx, Nikolaus Hirsch, Christina Koschowsky, Zak Kyes, Philipp Misselwitz, Michel Müller, Sabina Priese, Luisa Roth, Att Poomtangon, Hans Sachs, Emmi Wegener, Benjamin Windhoff

The Bridge: Nico Dockx, Kris Kimpe, Helena Sidiropoulos
The Alphabeth for the Land Workshop: Ed Atkins, Nico Dockx, Jimmie Durham, Joseph Grigely, Nikolaus Hirsch, Hu Fang, Zak Kyes, Maria Lind, Chus Martínez, Michel Müller, Molly Nesbit, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Radim Pesko, Att Poomtangon, Raqs Media Collective


also published on...

to the exhibition at the SAM on facebook  

domus.it architecture magazine

in the Baunetz

E-Flux 

Thursday, September 12, 2013

Final Presentation of "Folds & Spaces" at CIAD

Students of the the Folds & Spaces bachelor module present their conceptual and experimental works on a folded architectural structure which they developed during the summer semester 2013. 


















 


One of the concepts will be chosen by a jury to be realized as "CIAD pavillon" in the courtyard of the faculty of architecture at the Cologne University of Applied Sciences.
Special guests will be Dipl. Ing. (FH) Klaus Wetzstein from 3A Composites AG , Gregory Epps - founder of Robofold Ltd., Prof. Andreas Muxel - chair of interface design at KISD and more...
The event starts at 16:00 Uhr (4 pm) in Room 323 at CIAD - Cologne Institute for Architectural Design (IWZ Altbau, Köln-Deutz)


The modul was kindly supported by 3A Composites AG

Monday, August 26, 2013

CurveCube

CurveCube is a very spontaneous proposal for a walk-through, human-scale pavilion made from corrugated cardboard.



The design connected two geometrical forms. Towards the outside it represented a closed cubic shape but merged into an organically appearing surface on the inside.



From the original project description (in german) "Architektonisch entsteht ein Spannungsfeld zwischen der Komplexität der Innenform im Kontrast zur formalen äusseren Kubatur in einem sich gegenseitig beeinflussenden und durchdringenden Formenspiel zwischen Klarheit und Vielschichtigkeit."





Friday, August 23, 2013

ALUphant

Strongly influenced by the original Eames Elephant from 1945 this piece of kids furniture was designed and prototyped early 2012. It was produced from 3M Alucobond and milled using a 3-axis CNC router at ETH Zürich's Raplab.

Saturday, July 27, 2013

ALIVE2013 Pictures and Videos

Pictures and Videos of the ALIVE2013 - international symposium on adaptive architecture are now online.

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ALIVE2013 was hosted at the Chair for CAAD, ETH Zürich on July, 8th 2013.

Speakers included:
- Prof. Ludger Hovestadt (ETH Zürich, CH)
- Prof. Philip Beesley (University of Waterloo, CA)
- Prof. Kas Oosterhuis (TU Delft, NL)
- Martina Decker (DeckerYeadon, US)
- Claudia Pasquero + Marco Poletto (ecoLogicStudio, UK)
- Manuel Kretzer (ETH Zürich, CH)
- Tomasz Jaskiewicz (TU Delft, NL)
- Jason Bruges (Jason Bruges Studio, UK)
- Areti Markopoulou (IAAC, ES)
- Ruairi Glynn (UCL, UK)
- Simon Schleicher (Universität Stuttgart, DE)
- John Sarik (Columbia University, US)
- Stefan Dulman (Hive Systems, NL)
- Alex Haw (atmos studio, UK).

More info on the event can be found here: alive2013.wordpress.comThe videos are located here: vimeo.com/lecture

Thursday, July 4, 2013

Dingfabrik Köln e.V. gets new workspace


The Dingfabrik Köln e.V., Cologne's first and community based FabLab, where Hans Sachs of responsive design and our partner Sebastian Bächer of Tischlerei Bächer GmbH are active members, moves from the the old "Deutz Gasmotorenwerk" to a new 500 sqm workspace in Cologne Nippes.

Spiegel-Online Artikel über die Dinfabrik






























The old warehouse-like spaces offer a great opportunity to enlarge the Dingfabrik's member group of 50 people and make it possible to implement a much bigger wood workshop with new digital fabrication opportunities, like industrial robots etc.
In addition the open spaces invite every member but also not-yet-members to organise events, exhibitions and conferences in and around the FabLab scene.
Soon - in August/September 2013 - the self financed and built laser cutter (60 Watt/ 1200x600mm), the 3-axis mill, various 3D printers and all workshop equipment will be moved to the new place.
Interested ones are always wanted and very welcome to help to build up the Dingfabrik spaces.










Sunday, June 16, 2013

Hive Cardboard Chaise Study

Hive is a cardboard chaise was modelled and shaped based on the 3D model of responsive design's chaise product "Floater".




























The modified 3D shape was then run through an algorithm that creates a 2D parts-based system of sliced cardboard sheets which will be connected in 3 directions (Chick 'n' Egg Chair -> 2 directions). The so called "Quarter Iso Grid" is a Grasshopper definition based on the construction principles of Mike Sheldrakes cardboard surfboards. Apart from this chaise study we also work on design on demand based (Grasshopper) and processed cardboard surfboards in a cooperation with the Dingfabrik Köln e.V. (Cologne FabLab Association).









Wednesday, June 12, 2013

ALIVE2013 - international symposium on adaptive architecture

July 8th, 2013 / 9:00 - 18:00
Chair for Computer Aided Architectural Design, ETH Zürich-Hönggerberg, HPZ Floor F

Speakers include:
Prof. Ludger Hovestadt (ETH Zürich, CH), Prof. Philip Beesley (University of Waterloo, CA), Prof. Kas Oosterhuis (TU Delft, NL), Martina Decker (DeckerYeadon, US), Claudia Pasquero (ecoLogicStudio, UK), Manuel Kretzer (ETH Zürich, CH), Tomasz Jaskiewicz (TU Delft, NL), Jason Bruges (Jason Bruges Studio, UK), Areti Markopoulou (IAAC, ES), Ruairi Glynn (UCL, UK), Simon Schleicher (Universität Stuttgart, DE), John Sarik (Columbia University, US), Stefan Dulman (Hive Systems, NL)



 More info on the speakers, the detailed program, location and registration can be found on the event's website: alive2013.wordpress.com

 The symposium is free of charge however registration until July 3rd, 2013 is obligatory. Seats are limited. alive13.eventbrite.com

 The event is organised by Manuel Kretzer and Tomasz Jaskiewicz, hosted by the Chair for CAAD and supported through the Swiss National Science Foundation.

Monday, May 20, 2013

Folded PenCup

this folded pen cup was developed by exploring simple curved foldings with HyLite® by 3A Composites. The composite material is usually milled on both sides of a sheet to have a flexible fold but here it resulted perfectly for a fixed, one-side-milled folding in terms of stiffness, material stability and bendability.

for any inquiries please mail to info@responsivedesign.de