Image 13 of 29 from gallery of Yu Qingcheng Gallery / Architectural Design and Research Institute of Tianjin University. Courtesy of Architectural Design and Research Institute of Tianjin University
having blogged my primary research on barcelona i decided to gather some visual research to help me get some ideas for the form of the publication. i began by starting a new board on pinterest to collect and record ideas relevant to the design and production of my publication. this can be found on the link below: uk.pinterest.com/joseharrisones/design-publication/ i also looked elsewhere for different scrap book ideas: i found a website called 'the scrapbooker' which contained and explained some of the ins and outs of scrap booking which i thought could be useful - WHAT IS SCRAPBOOKING? Scrapbooking is a visual record of our lives, our memories and our journey. It is a method of preserving our personal and family history and gives our future generations a creative and valuable look into our past. Many of us remember saving (and still do) cinema and rail tickets, notes, special birthday cards and messages, postcards, tags, artwork and photographs – some simply glued this memorabilia into traditional grey scrapbooks with diary notes or journaling next to them. (I still have a simple book with dark grey pages containing photographs, notes and hospital paraphenalia from my first daughter’s birth). Things have moved on a little since then. Modern scrapbooking takes all of these principals and elements and combines them creatively using card stock, patterned paper, ribbon and embellishments, into scrapbook pages, albums and photobooks. By creating these albums, we are ensuring the preservation of our stories and the details attached to the photographs we treasure. http://thescrapbooker.co.uk/scrapbooking-101/ there was a lot of rubbish online and so i decided to gather some research on other things because i had already established a mental picture of the style of publication that i wanted to design. i decided then looked into some different forms of typography: art nouveau style type - https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=art+nouveau+typography&safe=off&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=laVXVfbHOYe7UYX2gKgH&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1276&bih=698 while searching about typography from barcelona i came across this project which was really moving: A Spanish NGO and an advertising agency have teamed up to create typefaces based on the handwriting of homeless people. The handwritten carboard signs that help desperate people to beg on the street may be the very thing that helps them leave it. Samples of handwriting are photographed and cleaned up in a studio and then transformed into commercially available fonts. Individuals and companies can buy the different fonts through Homelessfonts.org. The proceeds will be used to finance the work of the Arrels foundation for homeless people in Barcelona. http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/homeless-fonts-typefaces-based-handwriting-people-living-streets-barcelona-1452239 i thought this was a really interesting concept because we saw a lot of homelessness in barcelona and i got chatting to a few people living on the streets and for them, like anyone anywhere who is homeless, life is very difficult so i really admire the people who did this project. the new barcelona fc font used on the shirts: http://media.creativebloq.futurecdn.net/sites/creativebloq.com/files/images/2012/08/vasavafont.jpg http://www.quotessays.com/gallery/keith-harings-quotes-1.jpg.html http://www.quotessays.com/gallery/keith-harings-quotes-1.jpg.html Flags of barcelona (colour scheme ideas) - current flag: previous flag: The current flag of Barcelona combines the cross of Saint George (in Catalan, Sant Jordi), the patron saint of the city, with the traditional red and yellow bars of the Senyera, the ancient symbol of the Crown of Aragon (here, the bars are vertical, though the modern flag of Catalonia has horizontal stripes). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Barcelona barcelona fc colours: http://www2.fansshare.com/gallery/photos/278330/Barcelona-Fc-Flag/?loadimage i also gathered some info on the transport system to further inform the section: http://www.mapametrobarcelona.net/mapas-metro/tourist-map-of-barcelona.jpg The T10 ticket (Zone 1 ticket) is another type of transport card which you can purchase at the entrance to any metro station. Unlike the Barcelona Transport Card a T10 ticket will only entitle you to 10 journeys on the metro, FGC (FGC run train lines similar to the metro around the city centre) buses, tram and RENFE all Zone 1 areas. The main city centre areas are all in Zone 1. The T10 ticket can be used on more than one means of transport and all be counted as a single journey provided that your journey is less than 1 hour and 15 minutes. This means for example, you can make changes at metro stops (provided you don't leave the metro), then leave the metro and jump on a bus to finish your journey or vice versa as long as the total length of the journey is less than 1 hour and 15 minutes. http://www.barcelona-tourist-guide.com/en/transport/barcelona-metro.html http://www.barcelonas.com/images/green-l3-barcelona-metro-line.jpg i tried to make an estimite or a calculation as to how far we had walked but could not recolect every exact path we took and so calculated the distaces between the focal points of our journey: appt to macba: 1.2km appt to picasso museum: 750m appt to rambla (+up and down): 1.1km (approx. X10 = 11km) lesseps (station) to park guell: 2.8km monumental (station) to sagrada familia: 800m sagrada familia to casa batllo: 1.7km appt. to beach (and along beach): 2.6km TOTAL: 20.85 km X 2.5 (at least, to account for all other walking) = 52.1km (in miles = 32.3mi) https://www.google.co.uk/maps distance between stanstead and el prat airport approx: 1607.7 km flight time: 2 hrs 15 mins https://www.google.co.uk/maps The Parc Güell is the wonderful result of a failure. Its promoter, the aristocrat Eusebi Güell, wanted to build a garden city on the site of the Can Muntaner de Dalt estate, located in the district of La Salut in Gràcia. The grounds of the estate covered a large area but they were not ideal for this type of building. The park was located 150 metres above sea level on uneven, poor quality land. In 1900, Antoni Gaudí was commissioned to design the project. Only three plots had been sold in the early years of the century and this brought the project to the brink of failure. Building work came to a halt in 1914. The only remaining elements from this ambitious venture are a series of extraordinary structures by Gaudí designed for communal use, which include the stone viaducts which are perfectly integrated into the landscape and connect the different levels, and the plaza with its curving mosaic bench. The Parc Güell was purchased by Barcelona Municipal Council and made into a public park in 1922. It is a truly unique park and was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1984. http://www.barcelonamovie.com/atractiu.aspx?idAtractiu=32&idFilm=7&culture=en i found a really good pdf version of the mini museum in la sagrada familia explaining all the derivations and influences gaudi took from nature - http://www.sagradafamilia.cat/sfup/prensa/2010-09-01-01.pdf In mathematics, a hyperboloid is a quadric – a type of surface in three dimensions – described by the equation (hyperboloid of one sheet), or (hyperboloid of two sheets). Both of these surfaces asymptote to the same conical surface as x or y become large: These are also called elliptical hyperboloids. If and only if a = b, it is a hyperboloid of revolution, and is also called a circular hyperboloid. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperboloid i did some extended research into picasso to inform the section - Pablo Ruiz y Picasso, also known as Pablo Picasso (/pɪˈkɑːsoʊ, -ˈkæsoʊ/;[2] Spanish: [ˈpaβlo piˈkaso]; 25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973), was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France. As one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture,[3][4] the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907), and Guernica (1937), a portrayal of the Bombing of Guernica by the German and Italian airforces at the behest of the Spanish nationalist government during the Spanish Civil War. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Picasso i then found a tutorial on japanese stitch binding to help me go through the process - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-r6c_trSxY from this research i went on to develop the publication itself using hand rendered methods solely.
Image 6 of 13 from gallery of Applied: Research Through Fabrication Competition Results and Exhibition. exhibition board 02 / Courtesy of yo_cy
Design Research Catalogue
Image 9 of 15 from gallery of Competition Proposal by Preliminary Research Office Thinks “Outside the Box”. Program Diagram. Image Courtesy of Preliminary Research Office
Completed in 2008 in Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic. Images by Andrea Lhotakova. The Research Library in the Czech Republic was designed by the Prague-based architectural studio Projektil architekti. Opened in September 2008,...
Image 13 of 76 from gallery of CADG Innovation & Scientific Research Demonstration Center / China Architecture Design & Research Group. Photograph by Guangyuan Zhang
Da Chang Muslim Cultural Center is a homelike cultural center that provides a spiritual home for local residents, especially Muslims.
Image 6 of 7 from gallery of Marine Research Center Bali / AVP_arhitekti. Courtesy AVP_arhitekti
having blogged my primary research on barcelona i decided to gather some visual research to help me get some ideas for the form of the publication. i began by starting a new board on pinterest to collect and record ideas relevant to the design and production of my publication. this can be found on the link below: uk.pinterest.com/joseharrisones/design-publication/ i also looked elsewhere for different scrap book ideas: i found a website called 'the scrapbooker' which contained and explained some of the ins and outs of scrap booking which i thought could be useful - WHAT IS SCRAPBOOKING? Scrapbooking is a visual record of our lives, our memories and our journey. It is a method of preserving our personal and family history and gives our future generations a creative and valuable look into our past. Many of us remember saving (and still do) cinema and rail tickets, notes, special birthday cards and messages, postcards, tags, artwork and photographs – some simply glued this memorabilia into traditional grey scrapbooks with diary notes or journaling next to them. (I still have a simple book with dark grey pages containing photographs, notes and hospital paraphenalia from my first daughter’s birth). Things have moved on a little since then. Modern scrapbooking takes all of these principals and elements and combines them creatively using card stock, patterned paper, ribbon and embellishments, into scrapbook pages, albums and photobooks. By creating these albums, we are ensuring the preservation of our stories and the details attached to the photographs we treasure. http://thescrapbooker.co.uk/scrapbooking-101/ there was a lot of rubbish online and so i decided to gather some research on other things because i had already established a mental picture of the style of publication that i wanted to design. i decided then looked into some different forms of typography: art nouveau style type - https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=art+nouveau+typography&safe=off&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=laVXVfbHOYe7UYX2gKgH&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1276&bih=698 while searching about typography from barcelona i came across this project which was really moving: A Spanish NGO and an advertising agency have teamed up to create typefaces based on the handwriting of homeless people. The handwritten carboard signs that help desperate people to beg on the street may be the very thing that helps them leave it. Samples of handwriting are photographed and cleaned up in a studio and then transformed into commercially available fonts. Individuals and companies can buy the different fonts through Homelessfonts.org. The proceeds will be used to finance the work of the Arrels foundation for homeless people in Barcelona. http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/homeless-fonts-typefaces-based-handwriting-people-living-streets-barcelona-1452239 i thought this was a really interesting concept because we saw a lot of homelessness in barcelona and i got chatting to a few people living on the streets and for them, like anyone anywhere who is homeless, life is very difficult so i really admire the people who did this project. the new barcelona fc font used on the shirts: http://media.creativebloq.futurecdn.net/sites/creativebloq.com/files/images/2012/08/vasavafont.jpg http://www.quotessays.com/gallery/keith-harings-quotes-1.jpg.html http://www.quotessays.com/gallery/keith-harings-quotes-1.jpg.html Flags of barcelona (colour scheme ideas) - current flag: previous flag: The current flag of Barcelona combines the cross of Saint George (in Catalan, Sant Jordi), the patron saint of the city, with the traditional red and yellow bars of the Senyera, the ancient symbol of the Crown of Aragon (here, the bars are vertical, though the modern flag of Catalonia has horizontal stripes). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Barcelona barcelona fc colours: http://www2.fansshare.com/gallery/photos/278330/Barcelona-Fc-Flag/?loadimage i also gathered some info on the transport system to further inform the section: http://www.mapametrobarcelona.net/mapas-metro/tourist-map-of-barcelona.jpg The T10 ticket (Zone 1 ticket) is another type of transport card which you can purchase at the entrance to any metro station. Unlike the Barcelona Transport Card a T10 ticket will only entitle you to 10 journeys on the metro, FGC (FGC run train lines similar to the metro around the city centre) buses, tram and RENFE all Zone 1 areas. The main city centre areas are all in Zone 1. The T10 ticket can be used on more than one means of transport and all be counted as a single journey provided that your journey is less than 1 hour and 15 minutes. This means for example, you can make changes at metro stops (provided you don't leave the metro), then leave the metro and jump on a bus to finish your journey or vice versa as long as the total length of the journey is less than 1 hour and 15 minutes. http://www.barcelona-tourist-guide.com/en/transport/barcelona-metro.html http://www.barcelonas.com/images/green-l3-barcelona-metro-line.jpg i tried to make an estimite or a calculation as to how far we had walked but could not recolect every exact path we took and so calculated the distaces between the focal points of our journey: appt to macba: 1.2km appt to picasso museum: 750m appt to rambla (+up and down): 1.1km (approx. X10 = 11km) lesseps (station) to park guell: 2.8km monumental (station) to sagrada familia: 800m sagrada familia to casa batllo: 1.7km appt. to beach (and along beach): 2.6km TOTAL: 20.85 km X 2.5 (at least, to account for all other walking) = 52.1km (in miles = 32.3mi) https://www.google.co.uk/maps distance between stanstead and el prat airport approx: 1607.7 km flight time: 2 hrs 15 mins https://www.google.co.uk/maps The Parc Güell is the wonderful result of a failure. Its promoter, the aristocrat Eusebi Güell, wanted to build a garden city on the site of the Can Muntaner de Dalt estate, located in the district of La Salut in Gràcia. The grounds of the estate covered a large area but they were not ideal for this type of building. The park was located 150 metres above sea level on uneven, poor quality land. In 1900, Antoni Gaudí was commissioned to design the project. Only three plots had been sold in the early years of the century and this brought the project to the brink of failure. Building work came to a halt in 1914. The only remaining elements from this ambitious venture are a series of extraordinary structures by Gaudí designed for communal use, which include the stone viaducts which are perfectly integrated into the landscape and connect the different levels, and the plaza with its curving mosaic bench. The Parc Güell was purchased by Barcelona Municipal Council and made into a public park in 1922. It is a truly unique park and was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1984. http://www.barcelonamovie.com/atractiu.aspx?idAtractiu=32&idFilm=7&culture=en i found a really good pdf version of the mini museum in la sagrada familia explaining all the derivations and influences gaudi took from nature - http://www.sagradafamilia.cat/sfup/prensa/2010-09-01-01.pdf In mathematics, a hyperboloid is a quadric – a type of surface in three dimensions – described by the equation (hyperboloid of one sheet), or (hyperboloid of two sheets). Both of these surfaces asymptote to the same conical surface as x or y become large: These are also called elliptical hyperboloids. If and only if a = b, it is a hyperboloid of revolution, and is also called a circular hyperboloid. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperboloid i did some extended research into picasso to inform the section - Pablo Ruiz y Picasso, also known as Pablo Picasso (/pɪˈkɑːsoʊ, -ˈkæsoʊ/;[2] Spanish: [ˈpaβlo piˈkaso]; 25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973), was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France. As one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture,[3][4] the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907), and Guernica (1937), a portrayal of the Bombing of Guernica by the German and Italian airforces at the behest of the Spanish nationalist government during the Spanish Civil War. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Picasso i then found a tutorial on japanese stitch binding to help me go through the process - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-r6c_trSxY from this research i went on to develop the publication itself using hand rendered methods solely.
Image 2 of 14 from gallery of The Mediterranean Center for Human Sciences Research Center / Panorama Architecture. Photograph by We are contents
Image 3 of 17 from gallery of Schindler City Headquarters / Neri&Hu Design and Research Office. Photograph by Dirk Weiblen
ANTIREALITY is a conceptual world built on the basis of abstract ideas about reality. It is a space that escapes realism and pragmatism and is dedicated to exploring ideas that oftentimes can be neither adapted to the existing reality nor implemented. Images are a record of my mental journey...
The architects are 3XN and SLA whose design is based on Lemvig’s historic boat-building facilities found in the spectacular natural scenery of the..
Image 22 of 32 from gallery of Three Ancestors Cultural Museum / Architectural Design Research Institute of SCUT. Photograph by Zhan Changheng - Ma Minghua
Image 4 of 13 from gallery of Applied: Research Through Fabrication Competition Results and Exhibition. Courtesy of yo_cy
Completed in 2004 in Joensuu, Finland. Images by SARC Architects. The construction of The Finnish Forest Research Institutes (METLA) new building to accommodate the Joensuu Forest Research Institutes expanding...
having blogged my primary research on barcelona i decided to gather some visual research to help me get some ideas for the form of the publication. i began by starting a new board on pinterest to collect and record ideas relevant to the design and production of my publication. this can be found on the link below: uk.pinterest.com/joseharrisones/design-publication/ i also looked elsewhere for different scrap book ideas: i found a website called 'the scrapbooker' which contained and explained some of the ins and outs of scrap booking which i thought could be useful - WHAT IS SCRAPBOOKING? Scrapbooking is a visual record of our lives, our memories and our journey. It is a method of preserving our personal and family history and gives our future generations a creative and valuable look into our past. Many of us remember saving (and still do) cinema and rail tickets, notes, special birthday cards and messages, postcards, tags, artwork and photographs – some simply glued this memorabilia into traditional grey scrapbooks with diary notes or journaling next to them. (I still have a simple book with dark grey pages containing photographs, notes and hospital paraphenalia from my first daughter’s birth). Things have moved on a little since then. Modern scrapbooking takes all of these principals and elements and combines them creatively using card stock, patterned paper, ribbon and embellishments, into scrapbook pages, albums and photobooks. By creating these albums, we are ensuring the preservation of our stories and the details attached to the photographs we treasure. http://thescrapbooker.co.uk/scrapbooking-101/ there was a lot of rubbish online and so i decided to gather some research on other things because i had already established a mental picture of the style of publication that i wanted to design. i decided then looked into some different forms of typography: art nouveau style type - https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=art+nouveau+typography&safe=off&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=laVXVfbHOYe7UYX2gKgH&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1276&bih=698 while searching about typography from barcelona i came across this project which was really moving: A Spanish NGO and an advertising agency have teamed up to create typefaces based on the handwriting of homeless people. The handwritten carboard signs that help desperate people to beg on the street may be the very thing that helps them leave it. Samples of handwriting are photographed and cleaned up in a studio and then transformed into commercially available fonts. Individuals and companies can buy the different fonts through Homelessfonts.org. The proceeds will be used to finance the work of the Arrels foundation for homeless people in Barcelona. http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/homeless-fonts-typefaces-based-handwriting-people-living-streets-barcelona-1452239 i thought this was a really interesting concept because we saw a lot of homelessness in barcelona and i got chatting to a few people living on the streets and for them, like anyone anywhere who is homeless, life is very difficult so i really admire the people who did this project. the new barcelona fc font used on the shirts: http://media.creativebloq.futurecdn.net/sites/creativebloq.com/files/images/2012/08/vasavafont.jpg http://www.quotessays.com/gallery/keith-harings-quotes-1.jpg.html http://www.quotessays.com/gallery/keith-harings-quotes-1.jpg.html Flags of barcelona (colour scheme ideas) - current flag: previous flag: The current flag of Barcelona combines the cross of Saint George (in Catalan, Sant Jordi), the patron saint of the city, with the traditional red and yellow bars of the Senyera, the ancient symbol of the Crown of Aragon (here, the bars are vertical, though the modern flag of Catalonia has horizontal stripes). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Barcelona barcelona fc colours: http://www2.fansshare.com/gallery/photos/278330/Barcelona-Fc-Flag/?loadimage i also gathered some info on the transport system to further inform the section: http://www.mapametrobarcelona.net/mapas-metro/tourist-map-of-barcelona.jpg The T10 ticket (Zone 1 ticket) is another type of transport card which you can purchase at the entrance to any metro station. Unlike the Barcelona Transport Card a T10 ticket will only entitle you to 10 journeys on the metro, FGC (FGC run train lines similar to the metro around the city centre) buses, tram and RENFE all Zone 1 areas. The main city centre areas are all in Zone 1. The T10 ticket can be used on more than one means of transport and all be counted as a single journey provided that your journey is less than 1 hour and 15 minutes. This means for example, you can make changes at metro stops (provided you don't leave the metro), then leave the metro and jump on a bus to finish your journey or vice versa as long as the total length of the journey is less than 1 hour and 15 minutes. http://www.barcelona-tourist-guide.com/en/transport/barcelona-metro.html http://www.barcelonas.com/images/green-l3-barcelona-metro-line.jpg i tried to make an estimite or a calculation as to how far we had walked but could not recolect every exact path we took and so calculated the distaces between the focal points of our journey: appt to macba: 1.2km appt to picasso museum: 750m appt to rambla (+up and down): 1.1km (approx. X10 = 11km) lesseps (station) to park guell: 2.8km monumental (station) to sagrada familia: 800m sagrada familia to casa batllo: 1.7km appt. to beach (and along beach): 2.6km TOTAL: 20.85 km X 2.5 (at least, to account for all other walking) = 52.1km (in miles = 32.3mi) https://www.google.co.uk/maps distance between stanstead and el prat airport approx: 1607.7 km flight time: 2 hrs 15 mins https://www.google.co.uk/maps The Parc Güell is the wonderful result of a failure. Its promoter, the aristocrat Eusebi Güell, wanted to build a garden city on the site of the Can Muntaner de Dalt estate, located in the district of La Salut in Gràcia. The grounds of the estate covered a large area but they were not ideal for this type of building. The park was located 150 metres above sea level on uneven, poor quality land. In 1900, Antoni Gaudí was commissioned to design the project. Only three plots had been sold in the early years of the century and this brought the project to the brink of failure. Building work came to a halt in 1914. The only remaining elements from this ambitious venture are a series of extraordinary structures by Gaudí designed for communal use, which include the stone viaducts which are perfectly integrated into the landscape and connect the different levels, and the plaza with its curving mosaic bench. The Parc Güell was purchased by Barcelona Municipal Council and made into a public park in 1922. It is a truly unique park and was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1984. http://www.barcelonamovie.com/atractiu.aspx?idAtractiu=32&idFilm=7&culture=en i found a really good pdf version of the mini museum in la sagrada familia explaining all the derivations and influences gaudi took from nature - http://www.sagradafamilia.cat/sfup/prensa/2010-09-01-01.pdf In mathematics, a hyperboloid is a quadric – a type of surface in three dimensions – described by the equation (hyperboloid of one sheet), or (hyperboloid of two sheets). Both of these surfaces asymptote to the same conical surface as x or y become large: These are also called elliptical hyperboloids. If and only if a = b, it is a hyperboloid of revolution, and is also called a circular hyperboloid. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperboloid i did some extended research into picasso to inform the section - Pablo Ruiz y Picasso, also known as Pablo Picasso (/pɪˈkɑːsoʊ, -ˈkæsoʊ/;[2] Spanish: [ˈpaβlo piˈkaso]; 25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973), was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France. As one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture,[3][4] the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907), and Guernica (1937), a portrayal of the Bombing of Guernica by the German and Italian airforces at the behest of the Spanish nationalist government during the Spanish Civil War. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Picasso i then found a tutorial on japanese stitch binding to help me go through the process - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-r6c_trSxY from this research i went on to develop the publication itself using hand rendered methods solely.
This book comprises a first survey of the Collaborative Research Center SFB-TRR 141 ‘Biological Design and Integrative Structures – Analysis, Simulation and Implementation in Architecture’, funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft since October 2014. The SFB-TRR 141 provides a collaborative framework for architects and engineers from the University of Stuttgart, biologists and physicists from the University of Freiburg and geoscientists and evolutionary biologists from the University of Tübingen. The programm is conceptualized as a dialogue between the disciplines and is based on the belief that that biomimetic research has the potential to lead everyone involved to new findings far beyond his individual reach. During the last few decades, computational methods have been introduced into all fields of science and technology. In architecture, they enable the geometric differentiation of building components and allow the fabrication of porous or fibre-based materials with locallyadjusted physical and chemical properties. Recent developments in simulation technologies focus on multi-scale models and the interplay of mechanical phenomena at various hierarchical levels. In the natural sciences, a multitude of quantitative methods covering diverse hierarchical levels have been introduced. These advances in computational methods have opened a new era in biomimetics: local differentiation at various scales, the main feature of natural constructions, can for the first time not only be analysed, but to a certain extent also be transferred to building construction. Computational methodologies enable the direct exchange of information between fields of science that, until now, have been widely separated. As a result they lead to a new approach to biomimetic research, which, hopefully, contributes to a more sustainable development in architecture and building construction.
Image 11 of 17 from gallery of Exercise With The Arches N˚1 / NAUTA Architecture & Research. Photograph by Roberto Micoccio
飛騨高山に伝わる木製の玩具、「千鳥」のシステムを発展させて、小断面（6cm×6cm）の木材を釘も接着剤も用いずに組み合わせることで、中規模の木造建築を創造することに挑戦した。木製のグリッドは建物を支える構造体であると同時に、ミュージアムの展示物を陳列するための展示スペースの役割をはたしている。上にいくに従ってせり出していく断面形状は、木材を雨から守るための工夫であり、木材の端部を守る白いペイントも、同様に木材を守るための仕掛けである。
