Programatic Stack - Bench in a park

Observation of existing activites reveal that the infrastructure and design elements in the park have to accomodate the expanding and contracting tendencies of programs. This ability to ’stack’ objects when not in use and distribute facilities when required is an essential trait of the park’s structure.

Already studied, Magnolia Grandiflora’s ‘optimised stack’ of branches and leaves is translated into a dimensional and parametric constraint to generate configurations of a single element - a 450 mm pipe. The idea is abstratced to apply to a single bench structure which accomodates multiple events and generates a focal point in the natural expanse of the park.
http://www.iaacblog.com/researchstudio1/?p=224

The Celtis Austrailis project


http://www.iaacblog.com/researchstudio1/?p=211

The Palm tree

sunfigther

Duality of the cypress tree became an inspiration for the project. On the one hand seemingly homogenous structure from outside, on the other hand there appears a mixture of branches fighting for space to grow inside. Within the vertical genome special limitations appears a cruel fight of branches for space, in which those that couldn’t find a way to grow- die. The tree is not only interacting with the environment, but also with itself – acting and then reacting on its previous action.
In the project the genetic information could be interpreted as a predesigned geometry and selective protein production as selective angle of each folding depending on light conditions. The interactivity would be understood as interaction with the structure itself and with the environment, being independent from human influence, just as nature doesn’t adjust any of its parameters to the human scale. The installation operates as both a complex light pattern embedding responsive lighting technologies and as an environment-sensing device.
http://www.iaacblog.com/researchstudio1/?p=177

sustainable tower


http://www.iaacblog.com/self-sufficientbuildings/?cat=6

charging city, mongolia


http://www.iaacblog.com/emergentcities/?cat=19

Emergent city


http://www.iaacblog.com/emergentcities/?cat=17

multi-functional administrative city, Korea

While I was doing it was interesting to find the consideration of Andres Perea in diverse scales, although the scales does not exactly match to ours. Overall landscape of the city and the sequence that was being proposed through out the project was very clear and well illustrated. To conserve the Korean rice field was brillient in the sense the FTA was one of the main issues in Korea last year. Many people worry that FTA would import cheap crops which will pressure the farming industry. Also, although it is not illustrated in the jpg file but the distribution of land, use of land and transportation would well fit with the concept of Korean government’s equi-poise developement policy. I just wanted to write about his project in a Korean perspective; Others could be found in discussion of the studio. You can fin more details in the full pdf file attatched.
http://www.iaacblog.com/emergentcities/?cat=12

radiator c!ty


http://www.iaacblog.com/emergentcities/?cat=16

Dual city - colombia pacific coast


http://www.iaacblog.com/emergentcities/?cat=8