轉載:Extreme Environments Design Class

稱得上真正的設計課

討論設計過程中的力學行為
結構如何解決
在水壓力與浮力干擾下的構造







Students in a recently developed design class at the University of Cincinnati are meeting and working at the bottom of the university’s Olympic-sized pool.

It’s all part of a new Extreme Environments design course. The point of the underwater exercises is the same as that for any site visit: to first experience an environment and then design for it, according to Brian F. Davies, associate professor of architecture in UC’s College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning and initiator of the Extreme Environments design class.

Archinect had a chance to talk to Davies, as well as to third-year architecture student Emma Scarmack who was a participating student.

Archinect: What type of real-world situations require underwater architecture, or do you foresee requiring underwater architecture in the future?

Brian Davies: One of this quarter’s students, Amanda Davidson, has positioned her floating residence as a remedy in case of either global warming or a new ice age. While I admire Amanda’s research and proposal, I hope neither force delivers the necessity for underwater architecture. Our foray into underwater architecture is motivated by a conviction to inspire greater respect for the planet and by opportunities to enable exploration and science that will contribute broader understanding to fuel such respect. This is not a new futurist architecture, rather more of an analogous reflection of where things are and where they should or need to be moving.

Emma Scarmack: Currently, real-world situations that require underwater architecture belong to research and scientific development of the unknown world. Most closely resembling space exploration. It seems very feasible that, in the future, we will rely on underwater architecture because, currently, we know more about space than we do about our own oceans. The need for requiring underwater architecture, however, might not happen in this generation’s lifetime, but just as space offers possibilities, so does the water, and we should start exploring and experimenting now.







More Link:
Underwater Studio

轉載：動覺生物 motivational sense organism

This project was Selected in 3rd Digital Art Festival Taipei 2008

好友 Scottie 最新巨作『 motivational sense organism』
獲得 第三屆 台北數位藝術節 互動科技藝術類 金獎
2008年 9月12日-11月19日在台北當代藝術館展出
歡迎大家來參觀～

這是館方提供的【動覺生物】作品語音導覽


Scottie's concept :
我很喜歡含羞草，他會害羞。我可以和他一玩再玩，看著他害羞的反應。
我不喜歡機器人生硬的表情，但是我喜歡微笑的表情、會笑的眼睛。
我喜歡小貓、小動物，因為我可以跟他玩、可以看著他害羞、無辜的表情。
我喜歡動手做東西，把他做出來，陪我一起遊戲。
<More Concept…>





More Link：
台北數位藝術節官方網站
台北當代藝術館
Scottie's Blog
得獎作品導覽
點˙台灣 Blog
Yahoo News
Yam News

轉載：A Floating Ecopolis for Ecological Refugees

在人類面臨全球暖化、兩極冰地融化崩解、二氧化碳過渡製造危機中，
Vincent Callebaut建築師提出了一個漂浮移動的概念。

在海洋建構一個『仿生都市』，
透過模仿『亞瑪遜河巨型水百合』構造原理，達到漂浮水面的效果。
（倫敦水晶玻璃宮也提出類似概念於外殼 → 仿生建築論文 P14亦提到此論述）





It's common knowledge that the planet is warming, ice caps are melting, and water levels are rising. The international scientific community predicts that a temperature elevation of 1°C will lead to a water rise of 1 meter, resulting in massive land loss and the displacement of millions of people world wide. Vincent Callebaut, a visionary Belgian architect, is responding to this inevitability with his proposal LILYPAD, A Floating Ecopolis for Ecological Refugees.



LILYPAD is touted by Callebaut as a prototypical auto-sufficient amphibious city... a tenable solution to the rising water levels. In addition to providing housing for those displaced by the transforming land/water relationships, LILYPAD also produces sustainable energy for developed regions.

LILYPAD is a true amphibian - half aquatic and half terrestrial city - able to accommodate 50,000 inhabitants and inviting the biodiversity to develop its fauna and flora around a central lagoon of soft water collecting and purifying the rain waters. This artificial lagoon is entirely immersed, ballasting the city. It enables inhabitants to live in the heart of the sub aquatic depths. The multi functional program is based on three marinas and three mountains dedicated to work, shopping and entertainment. The whole set is covered by a stratum of planted housing in suspended gardens and crossed by a network of streets and alleyways with organic outline. The goal is to create a harmonious coexistence of humans and nature, exploring new modes of cross-cultural aquatic living.



The giant lilypad of the Amazonia Victoria Regia (left: top surface; right: bottom of lilypad)



The floating structure of the Ecopolis is directly inspired of the highly ribbed leave of the great lilypad of Amazonia Victoria Regia. The double skin is made of polyester fibers covered by a layer of titanium dioxide (TiO2) like an anatase which by reacting to the ultraviolet rays enable to absorb the atmospheric pollution by photocatalytic effect.




More Link：
archinect.com
Oceans 2008 World
Mad Architect.org
freshome.com
green-blog.org

轉載：Digital Water Pavilion

麻省理工學院感應化城市實驗室（SENSEable City Laboratory）
從水中看到建築材料與電腦螢幕。
這座Digital Water Pavilion「數位水展覽館」，
已在西班牙札拉哥沙的世界博覽會亮相，
電腦控制水幕川流，且呈現各種文字與圖像。



The Digital Water Pavilion is a singular and innovative project of Milla Digital, implemented by Expoagua Zaragoza 2008 on behalf of the City of Zaragoza. Located in the connection node of the Expo site with the Milla Digital area, the DWP joins the theme of water with the digital technologies, creating a sense of continuity towards the future for the big projects of transformation nowadays in course in Zaragoza. This Pavilion of minimalist expression and small dimensions is, at the same time: a sophisticated machine of high mechanical precision; a building appearing and desappearing thanks to a 12 hydraulic pistons system; and a place where spaces are flexible, changing and responsive due to the action of 120 meters of water walls digitally controlled by almost 3.000 electromagnetique valves. It has been designed by Carlo Ratti Associatti, developping the interactive water wall concept created by the Smart Cities Group (MIT Media Laboratory) with the direction of Prof. William J. Mitchell.




Designed by brainacs from MIT in collaboration with dozens of other partners, the Digital Water Pavilion will make a huge splash at the Expo Zaragoza in Spain next year, the theme of the Expo being Water and Sustainable Development. Continuously recycled water cascading from the roof of the pavilion will form the four exterior walls and several interior partitions, while displaying various digital messages and pre-programmed graphics formed by actual breaks in the water. The pavilion itself will house a café, public area, and exhibition space for the water-focused Expo.


More Link:
digitalwaterpavilion.com
www.coolsolog.com
mit.newsoffice
inhabitat

轉載：Generator.x 2.0 update

Generator.x 2.0: Beyond the screen is now only a week away, and we’re busy planning the last details. The call for participants was a definitive success, allowing us the privilege of a strong group of candidates to choose from. Participants were selected for the quality of their work as well as for their diverse approaches to digital fabrication. The result is an interesting mix of artists, architects and designers, united by their use of code-based processes, but showing very different strategies and intentions in their work.

For now the Club Transmediale site has the most complete list of Generator.x 2.0 events. In addition to the workshop and exhibition, there will also be two evenings of public presentations. A precise schedule with more details will be published here in the coming days.






More Link:
Generator.x
Generator.x 2.0 update
material agency

以『數位科技』瀏覽 強颱聖帕（SEPAT）來襲

數位科技讓生活便捷，
只要有『網路』，就能即時與氣象局同步接收氣候資訊，
沒有分秒落差，無絲毫遲緩。
在cAdbAc上，大家可以即時觀測颱風位置，
不論上班、上課、網咖、coffee shop，
只要有網路，你也是氣象局 局長！

操作說明如下：
將下列捲軸 Taiwan 改成 E.Asia-Dynamic
您可即時觀看動態天氣狀態

又看到了一項奇蹟，Google !!

關於Google無私開放原始碼的精神，
利基點在此展露無疑！！
Lawrence家周圍的即時地圖，你可以馬上看到！





Google開放原始碼，引來無數高手撰寫周邊程式，
當他們寫出的外掛程式被廣泛應用時，
回溯而來的，是大家透過外掛回到Google。
Google的點閱率因此多一次，網路人口停留又累積10秒，
多少人點進這個外掛，
Google就累積多少的瀏覽量。
全球一天一千人，一個月即累積多30萬流量！
全球一天一個高手免費為Google撰寫外掛，
一個月會繁殖多少新入口來源給Google！

每產生一個外掛，就延伸一個入口來源，
Google每天的點閱率越高，廣告商機就越趨龐大，
Google神根本不需像Microsoft一樣賣原始碼給大眾，
靠周邊的天才高手就可為他們賺取驚人的廣告收益。

今天，發現 Embed Google 'My Maps' 這個好例子：

他們利用Google Map寫了外掛程式，
並以極盡便利、簡易的操作方式分享給眾人。
大家可把外掛程式碼放在任何以html寫成的網頁中，
透過這個貼心的外掛，
你可以在Lawrence's blog上找尋任何地方，
任何你想要知道的地方，
包括我家，一個標示A的紅色提示。

因為Google的大公無私，
讓一群體貼的人撰寫好用的外掛程式，
給另一群需要使用地圖工具的人。
Google在兩者無意的點閱後，得到了獲利。

誰說大公無私一定沒前途、沒噱頭？
好好的做、認真的思考，作為總是藏在沒有作為裡。

轉載：Moveable Structure 可動結構

這是國際建築學術單位，近來相當炙手可熱的研究議題。（ …more ）
Concept
• Moveable structure
• Recycle system
• Possibility in architecture space
• Example, sense human activities, and then changes the form for convenience.

轉載：InteractiveWall 人型互動光牆

位於交通大學應用數學系電腦使用中心



↑↓真實空間行走被轉化為數據記錄在牆面



構想
遍佈式運算（ubiquitous computing）提供科技運算自然地融入空間的觀點。一般而言，一群一群的團體以及個人很難在沒有任何共識的前提下發生社交行為。但是對於開放性空間設計的機能中，設計者就從事運用建築手法企圖提供人群社交互動的空間使用。基於此，本設計在環境中提出一種新的互動元素（LED光點）融入空間的使用中，提供一空間使用情境以提升人群在空間中的熱絡氛圍，進而促發更多非正式社交（informal-communication）的發生。（ …more ）

轉載: AKA Disco in a Box

The interactive machine International Dance Party is a complete plug 'n' play party in a box. The machine comes as a large, non-suspicious looking flightcase. Internally, it is equipped with cutting edge radar sensing technology, an ear blasting state of the art 600W sound system, tons of psychedelic light and laser effects, and even a professional grade fog machine.

Through its dance activity radar, the International Dance Party detects and evaluates motion input from surrounding people in realtime. Several sophisticated transforming mechanisms let the flightcase turn into a powerful and boosting party machine, once the visitors start to dance within the machine's range of perception.



The audience controls the complexity of the generated music and the intensity of the light effects directly by the energy of its dance action. When there is no audience, or when the audience is not active enough, the machine stops its performance and transforms back into a transport crate.

More Link：
archinect.com
ShowCase: International Dance Party AKA Disco in a Box