MARC FORNES & THEVERYMANY™
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CHICAGO | Extension Gallery | Opening Thursday 1st April
THEVERYMANY will present a new prototypic structure…
(FM lecture @ 6pm)
Design: THEVERYMANY / Marc Fornes
Research team: Marc Fornes, Skylar Tibbits, Brandon kruysman, John Proto
Production team: Mathew Staudt, Brandon kruysman, John Proto + many…
Assembly team: Marc Fornes, Mathew Staudt, Brandon kruysman, John Proto + many…
EXTENSION GALLERY
625 N. Kingsbury Street
Chicago, Illinois 60654
www.extensiongallery.us
(invitation: Paula Palombo)
100325_TVMNY @ PARIS | Synesthesie Galerie
PARIS | Galerie Synesthesie | Opening Thursday 25th March
THEVERYMANY will present a new prototypic structure…
Design: THEVERYMANY / Marc Fornes
Design team: Marc Fornes, Mathew Staudt
Assembly team: Marc Fornes, Skylar Tibbits, Veronica Emig + many…
Fab: Jared Laucks
SYNESTHESIE
15 rue Denfert Rochereau
93200 SAINT DENIS
www.synesthesie.com
100324_MF @PARIS, ENSAPM | Conference
PARIS | ENSA PARIS-MALAQUAIS | Conference
Conférences et discussion avec les étudiants, Mercredi 24 mars 2010
Dans le cadre du Master 2 P10 Digital Knowledge
Amphithéâtre 2. / 17h30-19h30 ; accès libre
090901_TVMNY FOR (JORIS LAARMAN STUDIO)
Consulting: Design Research on a “Leaf Table”
For: JORIS LAARMAN STUDIO (www.jorislaarman.com/)
THEVERYMANY (MARC FORNES, Skylar Tibbits, Mathew Staudt)
August / September 2009
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JORIS LAARMAN LAB | Friedman Benda, New York
“Leaf Table”, 2010, Resin, Steel and Aluminum
28 3/4 x 79 1/2 x 79 1/2 inches 73 x 201.9 x 201.9 cm
Photo courtesy Joris Laarman Lab and Friedman Benda, New York (via Dezeen)
100212-0428_TVMNY @ NYC | Guggenheim Museum
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GUGGENHEIM | NEW YORK, NY | Contemplating the Void
Fev 12th to April 28th 2010
THEVERYMANY has been invited to exhibit at the Guggenheim Museum, New York as part of the show CONTEMPLATING THE VOID – the exhibition will display a vision from the void of the museum from 300 artists and architects.
(invitation: David van der Leer, Assistant Curator Architecture & Design Guggenheim Museum, New York)
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CONTEMPLATING THE VOID
February 12–April 28, 2010
Since its opening in 1959, the Frank Lloyd Wright–designed Guggenheim building has served as an inspiration for invention, challenging artists and architects to react to its eccentric, organic design. The central void of the rotunda has elicited many unique responses over the years, which have been manifested in both site-specific solo shows and memorable exhibition designs. For the building’s 50th anniversary, the Guggenheim Museum invited more than two hundred artists, architects, and designers to imagine their dream interventions in the space for the exhibition Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum. Organized by Nancy Spector, Chief Curator, and David van der Leer, Assistant Curator for Architecture and Design, the exhibition will feature renderings of these visionary projects in a salon-style installation that will emphasize the rich and diverse range of the proposals received. Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum will be on view at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum from February 12 to April 28, 2010.
Aristotle famously pronounced that nature abhors a vacuum, an idea that still resonates in art today. In designing the Guggenheim Museum, Wright flaunted the notion of the void, leaving the center tantalizingly (or threateningly) empty. Over the years, when creating site-specific installations or exhibition designs for the building, artists and architects have imbued the space with their presences, inspiring unforgettable works by Matthew Barney, Cai Guo- Qiang, Frank Gehry, Jenny Holzer, and Nam June Paik, among others. For the building’s 50th anniversary, the Guggenheim invited scores of artists to leave practicality or even reality behind in conjuring their proposals for the space. In this exhibition of ideal projects, certain themes emerge, including the return to nature in its primordial state, the desire to climb the building, the interplay of light and space, the interest in diaphanous effects as a counterpoint to the concrete structure, and the impact of sound on the environment. Conceived as both a commemoration and a self-reflexive folly, Contemplating the Void confirms how truly catalytic the architecture of the Guggenheim can be.
Submissions were received from all over the world from a wide range of artists, designers, and architects, including emerging as well as established practitioners. Among the many works in the exhibition are projects by artists Alice Aycock, FAKE DESIGN (Ai Weiwei), Anish Kapoor, Sarah Morris, Wangechi Mutu, Mike Nelson, Paul Pfeiffer, Doris Salcedo, Lawrence Weiner, and Rachel Whiteread; designers such as Fernando and Humberto Campana, Martí Guixé, Joris Laarman Studio, and Studio Job; and architects such as Álvaro Siza Vieira Arquitecto, BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group), Greg Lynn FORM, junya.ishigami+associates, MVRDV, N55, Philippe Rahm, Snøhetta, Studio Daniel Libeskind, Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects, and West 8. In addition to the exhibition in the Thannhauser and Annex Level 4 galleries, Contemplating the Void will be accompanied by a comprehensive exhibition Web site, which will document each submission and feature introductory essays texts by Nancy Spector and David van der Leer.
The Leadership Committee for Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum is gratefully acknowledged.
100217_M.F. @MIAMI | MOCA
MIAMI (FL) | MOCA | Museum Of Contemporary Art | Feb 17th 2010
Marc Fornes will give a talk at the MOCA MIAMI as part of “Time For Design”
(invitation: Lourdes Sanchez Espinel & Kevin McMorris)
100205_MF @TexFab | Rhinoscript Workshop
TEXFAB (ARLINGTON, TX) | RHINOSCRIPT WORKSHOP | February 05th, 2010
Marc Fornes will be teaching a two sessions Rhinoscript workshop at the University of Arlington, Texas.
(Invitation: Kevin Patrick McClellan)
100127-29_MF @TexasTech | Rhinoscript Workshop
LUBBOCK (TEXAS) | RHINOSCRIPT WORKSHOP | January 27-29th, 2010
Marc Fornes will be teaching a three days Rhinoscript workshop at the College of Architecture, Texas Tech University.
(Invitation: Christian R. Pongratz)
100121_WITH R&Sie(n) @PARIS / LeLaboratoire
Images above: email invitation for the exhibition (courtesy: Le Laboratoire, Paris)
Le Laboratoire / David Edwards
‘’An architecture of humeurs’’ / R&Sie(n) / Le Laboratoire
Process Mathematics, Physiologics, Robotics and Constructives for a collectif auto-organisational habitat
Research and exhibition credits:
R&Sie(n) / Le Laboratoire – Curator: Caroline Naphegyi
Scenario, design, production: R&Sie(n)
Math process: François Jouve
Computation: Marc Fornes with Winston Hampel and Natanael Elfassy
Robotics design: Stephan Henrich
Physiological data scanning process and design: Gaetan Robillard, Fréderic
Mauclere and Berdaguer & Péjus and Mark Kendall on Microneedles.
Credits above: from the official press release from LeLaboratoire
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Best Wild Wishes for 2010*
* according to the “etiquette” a new year best wishes card should be sent before Jan 1st – that if you are a purist – Jan 15th being the absolut deadline – Jan 14th is therefore more than on time…
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As “card” – here is a sample along 2009 of insider views of THEVERYMANY studio in Brooklyn – perfect timing before as changing for a larger space in order to build (and storage) larger projects/structures…
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Best wishes -and once again many thanks- to all the people who are making those experiments possible – especially:
To THEVERYMANY collaborators: Skylar Tibbits, Mathew Staudt, Jared Laucks, Brandon Kruysman, Jon Proto,…
To THEVERYMANY academia collegues & friends: Francois Roche (R&Sie), Stephan Henrich,…
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To THEVERYMANY helpers:
(with who I would like to fully share the credits of the work…)
*Aperiodic Symmetries
Jason S. Johnson, Josh Taron, Craig Le Blanc,…
Frazer Van Roeckel, Dolores Bender-Graves, Matt Knapic, Bradena Abrams Reid, Carmen Hull, Peter MacRea, Adam Onulov, Tiffany Whitnack, Jordan Allen, Ryan Palibroda,…
*Echinoids
Brandt Graves, Carrie Mcknelly, Elliot White, Troy Zezula, Biayna Bogosian, Christine Rogiaman, Jared Laucks, Scott C. Savage, Al Attari, Brian Doyle, Claire Davenport, Claudia Corcilius, Courtney Song, Gary Mellon, Heidi Bullinga, Kamyar Rahimi, Majda Muhic, Marcelo Ertorteguy, Matthew DeLuca, Melissa Funkey, Otilia Pupezeanu, Sara Valente, Simon Kristav, Shadi Arani, Veronica Emig,…
*Anoblums
BANGS collective, Pablo Barría, Begoña Arellano, Claudio Astudillo, José Narea, Marcela Godoy, Linda Schilling,…
Eduardo Hirose, Daniel Concha, Diego Moreno, Juan Pablo Klempau, Felipe Valdebenito, Pablo Banda, Francisco Quitral, Hermann Zbindenn, José Luis Guzmán, Victor Bunster M., Pablo C. Herrera, Tristan Al Haddad,…
*Modoid
Ally Hyun, Trevor Horst, Jesse Vaughn, Joseph Di Cicco, Veronica Emig,…
*nEdg
Eric Deboos, Laurent Lucas, Marie Bassano,…
Anne Vialle, Simon Feydieu, Lou Lucat, Tamara Maes, Sophie Roset, Charlotte Marrel, Benedetto Bufalin,…
*Part(s) for Display
Alissia Melka-Teichroen, Clair Warnier, Dries Verbruggen, Jan Habraken, Lucas Maassen, Kristina Kastro, Trevor Horst, Veronica Emig, Claudia Corcilius,…
Charles Vala, Felipe Sarmiento, Leopold Lambert, Martign Deurloo, Sergio Mannino, Alex Timmer, Remon Van, Den Eijnden, Steve Breman, Tyche Van Eijndhoven,…
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To THEVERYMANY venues: Gallerie Roger Tator (Lyon/France) (Eric Deboos, Laurent Lucas, Marie Bassano), University of Calgary (Canada) (Jason Johnson), Bridge Gallery (NYC)(Marilyn Garber), Alga Wimmer Gallery (NYC) (Kelsey Harrington & Christine Yiogaman), Material Connexion,…
To THEVERYMANY sponsors & supports:
McNeel (US & Europe) (especially Bob, Carlos, Scott,…), TDM Solutions (RhinoNest), ASGVIS (VRay),…
Continental Signs (Philadelphia), Point b design, anyline (laser cutting)…
ALLIANCE METALS Inc., QUADRANT (Kress Schwartz),…
To THEVERYMANY followers – Thank you!
THEVERYMANY™ / MARC FORNES
090907_TVMNY @LYON(FR) | Galerie Roger Tator (3)
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THEVERYMANY (Marc Fornes, Skylar Tibbits, Mathew Staudt, Jared Laucks)
(invited as part of “parcours raisonance” of the Lyon Art Biennale)
14 September – 27 November (extended…)
“n|Edg” as the sum of its parts:
2 compound surfaces
2796 individual surfaces (from 3 to n edges)
5375 holes
“n|Edg” assembly is written within continuous series of investigations at different scale:
- the overall: development of protocols of surface relaxation – in order for the surface to generate best fit curvature in response to fix hanging or support points (floor, ceiling, walls) as curvature – despite generating apparent complexity – also provides natural structural stiffness.
- surface description (or sampling): re-understanding the resultant surface as series of points – which densities are relative to the degree of curvature – the more curvature the more points and eventually parts.
- surface reconstruction (or tessellation): previous work focused on describing complex surfaces with flat components – after working for different “high end” architectural and design practices – the only way to keep pushing non standard environments is to introduce the economy of parts as part of the equation – therefore early tests were first looking at ways to triangulate complex surfaces – and therefore strategize on panels cut within flat sheets of material – which very quickly evolved toward what is now the trendy “arrays of quads” components paradigm. “n|Edg” is now investigating the reconstruction of a surface with polygonal parts going from three edges to (n) number of edges.
- informed customization: each part is similar though not identical – its change of size and proportion is therefore allows to describe different radius of curvature – but also local re-reading of orientation is driving the length and width of branches – the flatter, the wider in order to provide more surface alike coverage.
top surface reconstruction
bottom surface reconstruction
pattern extract
091212_MF @USC(Los Angeles) | Intensive Fields
LOS ANGELES USC INTENSIVE FIELDS 12 December 2009
Intensive Fields: New Parametric Techniques for Urbanism
Conference, Harris 101, University of Southern California
Last minute note from the organizator:
“Due to the unprecedented interest in the conference, we understand that the venue has now changed to a larger auditorium, Taper Hall 101, and that a few more tickets have become available.”
For some time now, digital technologies have had a substantial impact on architectural design. From the use of standard drafting packages to the more experimental use of generative design tools. But how might these digital technologies – and parametric design tools in particular – help us to design cities?
The conference brings together USC Professors Francois Roche, Marc Fornes, Roland Snooks, Qingyun Ma, Neil Leach, Roland Ritter and Anne Balsamo alongside other leading experts from the world of digital technologies, cultural theory and urban design, including Patrik Schumacher, Manuel DeLanda, Tom Kovac, Marcos Novak, Benjamin Bratton, Hernan Diaz Alonso, Elena Manferdini, Casey Reas and Greg Lynn.
(Entrance is free on registration: http://arch-pubs.usc.edu/INTENSIVEFIELDS/)
090907_TVMNY @LYON(FR) | Galerie Roger Tator (2)(Assembly)
LYON (FRANCE) | nEdg | Galerie Roger Tator | 090907
THEVERYMANY | Marc Fornes, Skylar Tibbits, Mathew Staudt, Jared Laucks
(invited as part of “parcours raisonance” of the Lyon Art Biennale)
14 September – 27 November
Few night shots…
(timing: end of assembly – before final surface twicks)
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MORE TO COME…
090907_TVMNY @LYON(FR) | Galerie Roger Tator (1)(Assembly)
LYON (France) | nEdg | Galerie Roger Tator 090907
(invited as part of “parcours raisonance” of the Lyon Art Biennale)
14 September – 13 November
While waiting for a screws delivery for a new installation (due to open tomorrow!) I have finally few minutes to start posting images from that one…
4 suitaces (flying from New York to Lyon)
81.6kg (max weight allowed for two people + tolerances)
38.274 m2
0.025” thick Golden Anodized Aluminum
22 sheets 4’*8’
6 days to CNC cut
2796 individual panels (from 2 to n edges)
2796 tags (3 to 5digits)
5375 holes
6500 rivets (or 13 boxes)
5 rivet guns
Assembling…
10 days installation
10 people
HISTOIRE A SUIVRE…
091028_MF @NY | Rensselaer
RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE | Wednesday 28th October 2009
Marc Fornes is invited to lecture on the recent work of THEVERYMANY.
Invitation: Evan Douglis
091104_TVMNY @NYC | Material Connexion
THEVERYMANY @ BITS’N PIECES | Material Connexion | New York
Opening November 4th 2009
Invitation: Dries Verbruggen with Alissia Melka-Teichroew & Jan Habraken
Material Connexion
Once more many parts…
091014_MF @CHICAGO | ACADIA_(Rhinoscript Workshop)
CHICAGO | ACADIA | RHINOSCRIPT WORKSHOP | October 19-21, 2009
Marc Fornes will be teaching a three days Rhinoscript workshop in Chicago as part of the ACADIA conference
Invitation: McNeel US – Scott Davidson
http://www.acadia.org/acadia2009/
091005_MF @BERLIN |_Design Modelling Symposium
BERLIN | Design Modelling Symposium | 05/10 – 07/10/2009
Marc Fornes has been invited as one of the key lecturer.
BERLIN | Rhinoscript Master Classe | 05/10 – 07/10/2009
Marc Fornes will also run -as part of the Design Modelling Symposium- a three session master class on rhinoscript.
From the Design Modelling Symposium Berlin website:
The Symposium sees itself as an international interdisciplinary platform of designers, developers and scientists of the disciplines architecture, design and engineering.
The fundamental technological principals of designing, planning and building have changed radically. CAD (Computer Aided Design) and CAM (Computer Aided Manufacturing) are nowadays an integral part in concept and planning processes. FEM (Finite Element Method) helps in analysing and optimising more and more complex structures. It is now possible to simulate and explore complex coherences between material, structure and climate. New materials open up the development of more effective constructions, new spatial and material experiences.
The Design Modelling Symposium would like to encourage discussion about the target course of this development by exchanging the experiences in appliance of such new technologies. Rather than the prospects of modelling complex geometries and structures, the main focus lies in new concepts and design strategies emerging from the application of new technologies. Another emphasis is the discussion of the role of analogue and digital models in the design and planning process as well as questions regarding realisation of complex geometries and construction systems.
Invited Key Lecturers
-Robert Aish, Autodesk, Inc.
“Language and Interaction for Design Computation”
-Marc Fornes, Theverymany, New York
“Different, Similar, Identical“
-Axel Kilian, TU Delft
“Designexplorations”
-Wolf Mangelsdorf, Buro Happold London
“Complex Geometries: Strategies for Design and Realisation“
-Andrew Marsh, AEC-Simulation Autodesk, Inc.
“Generative and Performative Design Techniques”
-Norbert Palz, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen
“Materiality without a Past“
-Helmut Pottmann, Geometric Modeling and Industrial Geometry Group, TU Wien
“Paneling Architectural Freeform Surfaces“
-Dennis R. Shelden, Gehry Technologies
“Parametric Modelling and Integrated Project Delivery”
-Kai Strehlke, Herzog & de Meuron, Basel
“CAD-CAM in the design process of HdM- the glas pattern of the Philharmonic Hall in Hamburg”
-Oliver Tessmann, Bollinger + Grohmann, Frankfurt
“Collaborative Design Procedures of Architects and Engineers“
-Rivka Oxman, Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, Technion, Haifa
“Digital architecture as a challenge for design pedagogy: theory, knowledge, models and medium”
091001_TVMNY @LYON | Galerie Roger Tator (proposal)(2)
LYON (France) | n|Edg | Galerie Roger Tator 091409
(invited as part of the “parcours raisonance” of the Lyon Art Biennale)
Few more images sent as part of an early proposal:
OPT01 | “Up Down” | inverted terrain
OPT02 | “Ground up” | inflated morphology
Early tests of “surface reconstruction”:
090925_TVMNY @LYON | Galerie Roger Tator (proposal)
LYON (France) | n|Edg | Galerie Roger Tator 091409
(invited as part of the “parcours raisonance” of the Lyon Art Biennale)
Despite the installation has already open – I am somehow forced to respect the linear story telling of the blog format – so here are the very first images sent as proposal to the Galerie Roger Tator…
Here the focus of the research was to investigate the tessellation of a double curve surface beyond triangle and arrays of quad – is it possible to generate parts going from three sides to n number of sides?
090925_MF @TORONTO | University Of Toronto
TORONTO | University Of Toronto | September 25th 2009
Marc Fornes has been kindly invited by Shane Williamson to give a lecture
090906_TVMNY @NYC | Elga Wimmer Gallery (3)
NEW YORK | MODOID | Elga Wimmer Gallery
by THEVERYMANY
Marc Fornes, Skylar Tibbits, Mat Staudt,
Jared Laucks, Brandon Kruysman, Jon Proto,…
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090906_TVMNY @NYC | Elga Wimmer Gallery (2)
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NEW YORK | MODOID | Elga Wimmer Gallery
(pictures while assembling)
by THEVERYMANY
Marc Fornes, Skylar Tibbits, Mat Staudt,
Jared Laucks, Brandon Kruysman, Jon Proto,…
MODOID is part “OVERLAP”
“Extending beyond edges and boundaries in art & architecture“
August 27 – September 19, 2009 (Tuesday – Saturday noon-6:00pm)
Curated and produced by Kelsey Harrington & Christine Yogiaman
www.theoverlap.info
Elga Wimmer Gallery
526 West 26th St, # 310 NY NY 10001
t. 212 206 0006 c.401 316 4303
MORE TO COME…
090906_TVMNY @LYON | Galerie Roger Tator
n|Edg | Gallery Roger Tator | Lyon (France) | September 2009
THEVERYMANY | Marc Fornes, Skylar Tibbits, Mathew Staudt
Opening: Monday, September 14th
IMAGES TO COME AFTER OPENING…
090906_TVMNY @NYC | Elga Wimmer Gallery (1)
NEW YORK | OVERLAP | Elga Wimmer Gallery
August 27 – September 19, 2009 (Tuesday – Saturday noon-6:00pm)
Reception: Wednesday September 9th 6:00-9:00pm
THEVERYMANY | Marc Fornes, Skylar Tibbits, Mathew Staudt, Jared Laucks, Brandon Kruysman, Jon Proto
THEVERYMANY has been invited by Kelsey Harrington & Christine Yogiaman to produced not so much a piece/installation than encourage to try/test/experiment… the focus this time was not so much on a procedural level neither on a geometrical level – but rather on testing a material technique…
As pretentious as it can sound – research even in design is “somehow” like solving the Cancer – one has to focus on tiny steps – though still keeping in mind the larger picture…
MODOID – is one of those tiny steps – though still within THEVERYMANY usual agenda of procedural, large scale, short timing and low budget experimental framework…
the first of new series – so operative failures to be expected…
though come and see…
IMAGES TO COME AFTER RECEPTION…
090906_Fall09 | GSAPP / Columbia University & USC
FALL2009 | co-teaching (n)Certainties v4.0 & (n)Certainties v5.0
(n)certainties v4.0 | www.nCertainties4.wordpress.com
STUDIO FRANCOIS ROCHE / MARC FORNES / STEPHAN HEINRICH
FALL 2009 | USC (University of Southern California)
(n)certainties v5.0 | www.nCertainties5.wordpress.com
STUDIO FRANCOIS ROCHE / MARC FORNES
FALL 2009 | GSAPP / Columbia University
090820_TVMNY @CHILE | ALOBLUMS (2)
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ALOBLUMS Valparaiso (Chile) August 2009
THEVERYMANY / Marc Fornes, Skylar Tibbits, Mathew Staudt
+ collective BANGS & many students from the workshop…
marc fornes installation. from ameliechucky on Vimeo.
Many thanks to Pablo C. Herrera for the video…
090820_TVMNY @CHILE | ALOBLUMS
ALOBLUMS | Valparaiso (Chile) | August 2009
Design: THEVERYMANY
Design Team: Marc Fornes, Skylar Tibbits, Mathew Staudt
Assembly team: collective BANGS and many students from the workshop…
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ALOBLUMS SUM OF ITS PARTS:
sphereoid – 2m (6′) approx. diameter…
70 modules (4 types)…
12 sheets of golden anodized aluminum…
cnc cut in Philadeplhia (Continental Signs)…
3700 rivets…
all packed with me on the plane as 2 check in bags (40 and 35 pounds)…
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Many thanks to the collective BANGS for the invitation – especially Marcela Godoy for making that workshop happen…
Students:
Eduardo Hirose, Daniel Concha, Diego Moreno, Juan Pablo Klempau, Felipe Valdebenito, Pablo Banda, Francisco Quitral, Hermann Zbindenn, José Luis Guzmán, Victor Bunster M., Drago Vodanovic, Claudio Troncoso, Tomas Jacobsen, Miguel Aravena, Pablo Silva
Francisco Calvo, Camila Rock De Luigi, Francisco Lara, Oscar Terrazas , Gabriel Santander, Oscar Ignacio Contreras, Hernán Castro, Natalija Boljsakov, Brian Miller, Manuel Díaz, Rodrigo Ramírez, Gonzalo Andrade, Andre Geoffroy, Matias Carrera…
BANGS:
Pablo Barría, Begoña Arellano, Claudio Astudillo, José Narea,, Marcela Godoy, Linda Schilling
Extras:
Pablo C. Herrera, Tristan Al Haddad…
090804_TVMNY @NYC | BRIDGE GALLERY (re)configured
NEW YORK | Bridge Gallery | Echinoids (re)configured
How many people do actualy believe in “failures“?
I do! – while giving talks/lectures I am often arguying about it – “operative failures” – in philosophy, empiricism is a theory of knowledge which asserts that knowledge arises from experience – one of many ways to gain experience is through test and trials – and within the recent jump in scale of the digital craft and the “Do it yourself” paradigm – experience requires failures…
Experiencing failure within prototypes – yes! – and despite often being displayed within art gallery THEVERYMANY’s “constructs” are partly installation partly prototypes – though not so much prototypes to see if the systems is actually going to fail? – but rather when? – can failures be expected? – even better anticipated up to embodied within the geometrical system tested potential response?
“the lion sat” – a localized part of Echinoids v1.0 slowly saddled – it didn’t break but suffered from “fatigue” – unexpected failure? – blind future? – I would argue for curated ones…
Temporary installation are related to time – but also budget – aggregate systems and their inherent qualities are highly depending on numbers – unfortunately numbers are often the exact opposit vector to time/budget – then if no budget the system requires carefull compositionnal search methods to maintain a scale large enough to be experienced by its viewer as architectural artefact – homogeneity could be one way to go – unfortunately spreading the elements all accross the construct while maintaining structural integrity often requires down sizing…
“until where can one go too far?”
Echinoids system is based on “calculated risk“ – calculated risk is different from denying risk or maximising efforts to avoid falires – here the aggregate is designed through variation of desnties – balancing strengh and weakness – fully closed macro-systems as stable larger parts and low density members at transitional areas – a curated aggregate system allowing within its own geometric nature possible partial re-configuration – “explosion” as safe away exit strategy – allowing second lifes for a piece: from construct to environment…
That (re)configuration is only the first one possible – and therefore to be followed along the summer for eventual other ones…
090731_MF @NYC StoreFront | Material Feedback
NEW YORK | STOREFRONT | Material Feedback | Jul 31 2009
On July 31, to mark the close of Reef, Storefront for Art and Architecture will host a discussion among a group of practitioners whose work focuses on digital design, material logic and innovative fabrication techniques. With the crucial objective of forging new relationships between research and practice in mind, this discussion will explore how new methods of fabrication and advances in computational geometry cyclically feed into one another.
The evening will begin with each of the participants presenting images of current work and research, creating a common pool of references open to group discussion. Each participant will be asked to present 10-15 slides within a 5-10 minute period. The discussion will be followed by music and refreshments.
PRESENTATION:
THEVERYMANY | Marc Fornes, Skylar Tibbits
Urbana | Rob Ley
Yanni Loukissas
LabDORA | Peter Macapia
Oyler Wu Collaborative | Dwayne Oyler
11.1 | Axel Schmitzberger
Michael Silver
Radical Craft | Joshua G. Stein
Aranda\Lasch | Chris Lasch
Moderator:
Mark Morris (Cornell University)
090722_WORKSHOP_in_CHILE
CHILE | Valparaiso | August 10-14th
Marc Fornes will be running a week long workshop:
-partly technique oriented (rhinoscript)
-partly looking at protocols of “Precise Indetermination” into design…
Invitation: “bangs”
(more information on their website)
090717_TVMNY @NYC | BRIDGE GALLERY (2)
Echinoids | THEVERYMANY | Bridge Gallery | 2009 | nyc
“-oid” is derived from the Latin suffix -oides taken from Greek and meaning “having the likeness of”. Thus it is a suffix much used in the sciences and mathematics to indicate a “similarity, not necessarily exact, to something else”.
Thus Rhomboid means “like a rhombus”. Because -oid denotes similarity, not necessarily exact, but can also denote exactness, in chemistry the suffix refers to a very large class of related compounds, natural and/or synthetic. Examples include steroid (of which sterols are just one smaller group) and alkaloid. (ie wikipedia)
From many parts…
Long. 13.5ft – Larg. 5ft – Height 7.5ft
530 modules
25 Sheets (4*8″) Walnut veneer (800 Sft) + olive oil
1600 of Elastic bras straps (Brown, Black, Navy Blue)
4500 screws
To logistic of parts…
Lacing time: 1/2h/module – 40 modules/day!
“RUSTIC COMPUTATION”…
THEVERYMANY | Marc Fornes with Skylar Tibbits, Mat Staudt
090706_TVMNY @NYC | BRIDGE GALLERY
Once more many parts…
THEVERYMANY @ BRIDGE GALLERY (NYC)
98 Ochard Street New York NY 10002
Opening: Thursday July 9th
(as part of the collective show “Wild child” curated by Peter Macapia)
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It is all about “rustic computation“…
Full credits shared with the MANY who made this installation possible…
Also many thanks to PRATT INSTITUTE and our friends at ANYLINE NYC for the laser cutting…
090706_TVMNY FOR*SEED Magazine
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Commissioned by Seed Media Group and The Council on Competitiveness as a gift to Sheryl Handler, CEO of Ab Initio, at The State of Innovation Summit in Washington D.C..
Sponsor (Rapid Prototyping): Harbec Plastics
090526_MF @PARIS | Rhinoscript Workshop
PARIS | RHINOSCRIPT WORKSHOP | June 23-24, 2009
Marc Fornes will be teaching a two days Rhinoscript workshop in Paris
Invitation: McNeel Europe – Carlos Perez
Eligibility: Open to all design students and professionals
http://www.eu.rhino3d.com/e-news/rhinoscript_france0609.htm
CONTACT:
MCNEEL EUROPE | CARLOS PEREZ | carlos@mcneel.com
Roger de Flor 32-34 bajos | 08018 Barcelona – Espagne
Tél. +34 933199002 | Fax. +34 933195833
090524_TVMNY @LONDON | SELFRIDGES
Proposal for an installation:
SELFRIDGES – CORNER STORE FRONT LONDON October 2008
The scheme was part of a design call under the theme of “Explosion”…
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ON ANALOGIES:
THEVERYMANY very much acknowledge the fact that – even though it focuses exclusively its research and practice on what it self-defines as “explicit and encoded” techniques of design (also described by Marc Fornes as “text based morphologies”) – any design process – whenever based on a top down “idea” or theme – requires first a process of translation back into the design paradigm which is very much based on selective reading, subjective interpretations and analogies…
EXPLOSION (ie Wikipedia.org)
An explosion is a sudden increase in volume and release of energy in an extreme manner, usually with the generation of high temperatures and the release of gases. An explosion creates a shock wave.
DUST EXPLOSION (ie Wikipedia.org)
A dust explosion is the explosive combustion of a dust suspended in air in an enclosed location, which results in harmful effects of overpressure, thermal radiation, and ensuing projectiles.
DEFLAGRATION (ie Wikipedia.org)
Deflagration (Lat: de + flagrare, “to burn down”) is a technical term describing subsonic combustion that usually propagates through thermal conductivity (hot burning material heats the next layer of cold material and ignites it). Most “fire” found in daily life, from flames to explosions, is technically deflagration.
DETONATION (ie Wikipedia.org)
Detonation is a process of combustion in which a supersonic shock wave is propagated through a fluid due to an energy release in a reaction zone. It is the more powerful of the two general classes of combustion, the other one being deflagration. In a detonation, the shock compresses the material thus increasing the temperature to the point of ignition. The ignited material burns behind the shock and releases energy that supports the shock propagation. This self-sustained detonation wave is different from a deflagration, which propagates at a subsonic rate (i.e., slower than the sound speed in the material itself). Because detonations generate high pressures, they are usually much more destructive than deflagrations.
SHOCK WAVE (ie Wikipedia.org)
A shock wave (also called shock front or simply “shock”) is a type of propagating disturbance. Like an ordinary wave, it carries energy and can propagate through a medium (solid, liquid or gas) or in some cases in the absence of a material medium, through a field such as the electromagnetic field. Shock waves are characterized by an abrupt, nearly discontinuous change in the characteristics of the medium.
When a shock wave passes through matter, the total energy is preserved but the energy which can be extracted as work decreases and entropy increases. This, for example, creates additional drag force on aircraft with shocks.
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TRIGGERS:
While that design proposal isn’t about “reproducing”, “simulating” or even “mimicking” the esthetic of an explosion – the project is proposing a very articulated geometrical assembly based on specific and curated themes extracted within the field of explosion…
- Projectiles – the project is investigating the concept of numerous “parts” able to produce a non linear assembly – all the parts owns to a precise initial catalogue and can be reconfigured in a similar manner then projectiles can be re-assembled (in theory) into their original parent morphology…
- Increase of volume – the project is looking at ways to create volume from planar components all CNC cut from sheet based materials…
- Propagation through medium – while there is a very limited amount of initial geometrical primitives – the project investigates construction sequence through color differentiation across the entire construct…
- Enclosed location – well…
To be continued…
CREDITS:
Proposal for: SELFRIDGES London October 2008
Design: ©THEVERYMANY / Marc Fornes
Team: Marc Fornes with Skylar Tibbits
Scripting: Marc Fornes
090501_MF @MILANO |_ID&CT
Marc Fornes has been invited as one of the main lecturer for:
INNOVATIVE DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION TECHNOLOGIES
MILAN (ITALY) May 6 – 7th, 2009
http://www.innovativetechnologies.polimi.it/key_speakers.html
# FORM FINDING and COMPLEX MORPHOLOGY
Chair: Filippo Innocenti (Zaha Hadid Architects)
Sense and Advanced Sensiblity – about the relationship of sensuality, obsessions and advanced design techniques
Matias del Campo – SPAN Architects, Vienna
Partly logic / Logic of parts
Marc Fornes – THEVERYMANY
Parametric models: formal thinking for architects
Arnold Walz – DesignToProduction
Liquid parametrics: fluidity of form and process
Cristiano Ceccato – Zaha Hadid Architects
# ENGINEERING FOR CONSTRUCTION
Chair: Massimo Majowiecky (Studio Tecnico Majowiecky)
From structure to fabrication
Nathaniel Stanton – Buro Happold Special Projects, New York
Shrikant Sharma – Buro Happold SMART Group- London
Geometrical approach to complex architecture
Luca Buzzoni -Arup Italia
Digital methods in structural design
Oliver Tessmann– Bollinger & Grohmann
Complex Building Shapes – a Developer’s Perspective
Bruce Frey, Hines
# DIGITAL FABRICATION and FILE TO FACTORY PRODUCTION
Chair: Stefano Converso (Dipartimento DIPSA, Università degli studi Roma Tre)
A bottom-up approach to the implementation of advanced fabrication methods
John Nastasi – Product-Architecture Lab, Stevens Institute of Technology / Nastasi Architects
Architecture = Information
Marthijn Pool – ONL Oosterhuis – Lénard
Compound curved building surfaces with shaped stone blocks
Christian R Pongratz – Pongratz Perbellini Architects
Application of new “fit-for-use” materials in building and construction market
Erwin van Maaren – Nedcam
# TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION and MASS CUSTOMIZATION
Chair Ingrid Paoletti (Dipartimento BEST, Politecnico di Milano)
Parametric Fabrication
Martin Bechthold – Harvard GSD
Evolution of Technical Rationalization in Complex Curtain Wall components
Christian Florian – Permasteelisa Group
Composite Blob Shells
Mike Eekhout – Octatube
Design Driven Innovation
Roberto Verganti – DIG, Politecnico di Milano
090501_TVMNY | PUBLICATION
ALGORITHMIC DESIGN – 090330
www.kajima-publishing.co.jp
2009 publications which are including projects from THEVERYMANY:
(“Aperiodic Vertebrae”, “Aperiodic Vertebrae v2.0″, “Recurisve Growth”,…)
AD – ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN
“Theoretical Meltdown”
Guest edited by Luigi Prestinenza Puglisi
Jan/Feb 2009 – p122
John Wiley & Sons Ltd – www.wiley.com
AU – ARQUETETURA E URBANISMO
Especial Arquitetura digital
April 2009 – N 181 – p77
www.revistaau.com.br
PASAJES DE ARQUITECTURA Y CRITICA
Editor: America Iberica
Oct 2008 – N 100 – p18
www.pasajesarquitectura.com
090325_TVMNY | Log
SAN FRANCISCO | RHINOSCRIPT WORKSHOP | March 28-29, 2009
Marc Fornes will be teaching for MCNeel US a two days Rhinoscript workshop as part of FLUX, an event hosted by CCA – California College of the Arts.
Invitation: McNeel US – Scott Davidson
(Thank you to Andrew Kudless from MATSYS – www.materialsystems.org/ – to make it happen!)
http://mlab.cca.edu/?p=453
SAN FRANCISCO | RHINOSCRIPT WORKSHOP V2 | March 30-31, 2009
Marc Fornes will be teaching a second Rhinoscript workshop while at the Flux event; that one will be hosted by the CCA Industrial Design Department – California College of the Arts.
http://design.cca.edu/graduate/
Note: that second workshop was organized through a direct student request – thank you to Kristin Neidlinger to make that one happen! – if also interested in such rhinoscript workshops do not hesitate to contact me…
090315_(n)CERTAINTIES v3.0 | DieAngewandte
(n)certainties v3.0 | Cross Over Studio | Die Angewandte
STUDIO: Francois Roche, Marc Fornes, Stephan Henrich
Student’s work exhibition – Opening: 17. March 2009, 20:30
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SCENARIO [ SUBSTANCE > ROBOT > PROTOCOL OF MORPHOLGY ]
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/// Jan Gronkiewicz and Valerie Messini
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/// Dominik Strzelec and Galo Moncayo
/// Raffael Petrovic
/// Martin Kleindienst and Vladimir Ivanov
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FINAL REVIEW //////////////////////////////////////////////////////
(from left to right)Stephan Heinrich, Staphanie Lavaux, , Francois Roche, Alisa Andrasek (Biothing) + (not on the photo) Kivi Sotamaa and Marc Fornes
090309_MF @SOM(NY) | POLY-FACETS Ceiling (DD)
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Few images of a entrance hall project developed for a famous high end hotel brand in Bahrain.
The design is pretty simple and mainly relies on a dramatic “weaved” ceiling: its overall surface geometry – symmetric – is responding to two grand staircases; it is “dressed” through similar tiling (non repetitive) based on a simple mix between a honeycomb pattern and a faceted diamond shape.
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1.6m x 1.6m mock up (1:1) – Fabrication Milgo/Bufkin, Brooklyn, NYC
The sample panel was fabricated from 8 continuous folded strips, laser cut from flat sheets (1/16″ thick stainless steel) and welded together (the overall weights around 90 kilos!)
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Originally thought as golden anodized aluminum it was finally replaced with a metallic golden lacquer finish apply once assembled mainly to avoid the maximum of scratches due to processing (laser cut, folding, etc…)
note: many thanks to Lucios Santos for the photos!
090215_TVMNY / MF | Log
SAN FRANCISCO | RHINOSCRIPT WORKSHOP | March 28-29, 2009
Marc Fornes will be teaching for MCNeel US a two days Rhinoscript workshop as part of FLUX, an event hosted by CCA – California College of the Arts.
Invitation: McNeel US – Scott Davidson
Location: California College of the Arts, San Francisco Campus
Eligibility: Open to all design students and professionals
(Thank you to Andrew Kudless from MATSYS – www.materialsystems.org/ – to make it happen!)
http://mlab.cca.edu/?p=453
Note: that event is somehow victim of its success and got fully booked within less than a week time! Never mind further Rhinoscript workshops can be organized! if you are interested to host one (or a summer course) do not hesitate to contact directly McNeel or me – it can easily be organized within a University framework or custom tailored for offices to specific problems solving…
LOS ANGELES | ART CENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN | Friday February 27th
Colloquium – Design Dialogues | Environmental Design Program
Marc Fornes will be doing a lecture as part of “Efficient, See!”
Times Media Center | Hillside Campus
Invitation: Jenna Didier & Oliver Hess
SPRING 2009 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
ANN ARBOR | UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | Spring 09
TAUBMAN COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN PLANNING
Marc Fornes has been kindly invited by Tom Buresh (Chair of Architecture at TCAUP) to lead a design studio as visiting faculty.
(Thank you to Karl Daubmann from www.paramod.net to make it happen!)
http://arch.umich.edu/newsandevents/news/?news=3168773550373911885
NOTE: Marc Fornes will give an Informal Lecture/Presentation on Wednesday February 18th – A+A Building East Review Space
JANUARY 2009 ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
BOSTON | MIT | Jan 26th 2009
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Marc Fornes was invited as guest critic to the final review of “Commands and Control”, a design and Rhinoscript workshop hosted at MIT.
Invitation: Simon Kim and Skylar Tibbits
With: Dave Pigram, Kyle Steinfeld, Ana Miljacki, Juhong Park and Sigurdur Adalgeirsson (HRI – Human Robot Interface)
http://commandcontrol.wordpress.com/
VIENNA, AUSTRIA | DIE ANGEWANDTE | January 22nd 2009
Final review – Cross Over studio 2008/09
nCertainties v3.0
Studio Francois Roche, Marc Fornes & Stephan Heinrich
With: Kivi Sotamaa & Alisa Andrasek (Biothing)
www.ncertainties3.wordpress.com
CALGARY, CANADA | RHINOSCRIPT WORKSHOP | January 05-07th 2009
Marc Fornes gave a three days Rhinoscript workshop at the FACULTY OF ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN | University of Calgary | Canada
Invitation: Jason S. Johnson
DECEMBER 2008 ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
PHILADELPHIA | UPENN | December 2008
Marc Fornes @ Final review of “Form and algorithm”
Invitation: Roland Snooks
With: Dave Pigram, Ezio Blasetti, Kyle Steinfeld
NEW YORK | GSAPP | December 5th 2009
Final review – Columbia University (Advanced studio)
nCertainties v2.0
Studio Francois Roche, Marc Fornes
with Paula Antonelli (MoMA), Bruce Sterling (cyber punk writer – Italy), Marco Vanucci (AKT – London), Mark Wigley (GSAPP), Roland Snooks (kokkugia)
www.ncertainties2.wordpress.com
090105-07_MF @CALGARY | Rhinoscript Workshop
LOG 2009.01.05-07: Marc Fornes will run a three days Rhinoscript Workshop at the FACULTY OF ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN | University of Calgary | Canada
(invitation: Jason S. Johnson)
THEVERYMANY will also produce & build a new proto-arch – more to come…
(opening on Friday 9th)
081205_(n)CERTAINTIES v2 | FINAL
Few work samples of this year opus of (n)certainties – the studio we are teaching with Francois Roche (R&Sie) at Columbia University GSAPP this fall 2008.
PAPER | Mariliis Lilover
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SMEARING | Mathew Staudt
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PLASTIC | Charles Valla
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GLASS | Matthew Lutz
GLASS | Chi-Chen Yang
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STRAW | Leuyu Chen
081112_MF @PARIS | McNeel Europe | Rhinoscript Workshop
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Due to current teaching positions on both sides of the Atlantic (Columbia University in New York and Die Angewandte in Vienna) – I happen to recently develop the highly specific skills of low end jetsetters: deploying a standard 15” screen laptop in any squeezed space airlines! I am talking here about those ones that obviously based on your financial contribution are pushing to the extreme the basic space efficiency algorithm by taking to new levels the competition of packing the maximum seats in the same exact airplane than everybody else – one can argue fair split? Yes! Though in the case of someone attempting to work it generates an inverse relation between the angle of the sit in front of you and the orientation of your screen (supposedly normal to your eye sight) – add to the conflict of the necessary elbow angle to access the touch pad and the comfort of your side neighbor…
Anyway based on those parameters – which obviously have two solutions: afford other airlines or simply buying a 13” laptop! – I recently surprised myself producing quick renderings as a third solution to the equation: enjoying back in my seat the advantage of performative computing! you don’t have to focus on your screen while processing is taking care of your render!…
Anecdote aside – Since I didn’t post for a little while now (btw sign of production!) – I thought I would upload my first ever renders in a plane! I can only agree not the best ones – but those were done leaving Paris last September after providing for McNeel Europe a two days Rhinoscript workshop for professionals…
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Within this two days workshop the students were introduced to Rhinoscripting through the basics of “building up”: from points to curves, from curves to surfaces, and from surface back to extract curves, etc… while on the same time gaining some syntax knowledge it allows to cover in a short period of time some simple patterning (dia-grid, honeycombs), tessellation (non air-tight planar quads) and finally some highly requested components – or basically an introduction toward topology and production of similarity on host surfaces…
Depending on the level – and as a conclusion during the last hour – I tend to introduce the relation between parameters and information (obvious path toward environmental feedback) such a simple possible correlation between a imported direction and the orientation of component, inverse related size of aperture and color coding…
Here are the very modest results of such a workshop – no pretention what so ever – few faces missing here and there! – but simply an introduction to a path going away from render maps and shaders toward the actual informed control of geometry…
Hopefully a small step toward globalization of environmental feedback into the design process? At least many offices pretends to – yet from my experience too often only beautiful colored diagrams for conferences or justification for excessive patterning – but yes like my plane story at the beginning: performance and confort – it all depends on how much you are ready to endure if not willing to pay…
080906_THEVERYMANY_Log
THEVERYMANY LOG – FALL 2008:
(will be completed on the side column as confirmation & precision arrive):
– 2008.FALL: M.F. is co-teaching a design studio at GSAPP – Columbia University / New York, US (invitation: Francois Roche / R&Sie(n))
www.ncertainties2.wordpress.com (one more webLog!!)
– 2008.FALL: M.F. is co-teaching this year cross-over studio 08/09 at die Angewandte – Universität für Angewandte Kunst Wien, Institut für Architektur / Vienna, AU (invitation: Francois Roche / R&Sie(n))
http://www.dieangewandte.at/architecture/
www.ncertainties3.wordpress.com (and a last one!!!)
- 2008.09.18: M.F. lectures at the Rhino reseller meeting 2008 in Barcelona / Spain (invitation: Carlos Perez / McNeel)
– 2008.09.20: M.F. lectures at C.STEM 2008, Arte Generativa, Sistemi Elettronici e Software-art / Torino, Italy (invitation: Fabio Franchino)
http://www.cstem.it/artists_i.php- 2008.09.22-23: M.F runs a two days Rhinoscript workshop for McNeel Europe in Paris (invitation: Carlos Perez / McNeel)
http://blog.rhino3d.com/2008/07/rhinoscript-workshop-in-paris-september.html
http://www.eu.rhino3d.com/e-news/rhinoscript_france0708.htm
- 2008.10.08-09-10: M.F. lectures at the “EleganTech” conference in Mexico City, Mexico (invitation: Gabriel Esquivel) – CANCEL!!!
– 2008.10.24-25: M.F. is the curator for the European section of the Architecture Beijing Biennale (present for the opening – October 24th) / Beijing, CHINA (invitation: Neil Leach)
http://www.abbeijing-emarch.com/
Back from summer vacation after a long road trip crossing the US:
8500miles (13700 km) through 22 states, stopped in 21 cities, many national parks (Arches, Zion, Death Valley, Mojave, Grand Canyon,…), and much more “rencontres” and memories…
- (NY) > NEW YORK
- (PENNSYLVANIA)
- (OHIO) > Cincinnati
- (INDIANA) > Indianapolis
- (ILLINOIS)
- (MISSOURI)
- (KANSAS) > Kansas City
- (COLORADO) > Denver
- (UTAH) > Moab – Page – Hurricane
- (NEVADA) > LAS VEGAS
- (CALIFORNIA) > Mammoth Lake – SAN FRANCISCO – Santa Barbara – Palm Springs – Needles
- (ARIZONA) > Flagstaff
- (NEW MEXICO) > Albuquerque
- (TEXAS) > Amarillo – Dallas – Houston
- (LOUISIANA) > NEW ORLEANS
- (MISSISSIPPI)
- (ALABAMA)
- (TENNESSEE) > Nashville
- (VIRGINIA)
- (MARYLAND)
- (NEW JERSEY)
- (NY) > NEW YORK
for the record – fuel prices going from 3,24 (Houston, Texas) to 5.79 (Death Valley, California) per gallon…
080905_CoLab: R&Sie + THEVERYMANY (003)
LOOPHOLE (Cieszyn, Poland – Cesky Tesin,Czech / 2008)
Collaboration with Francois Roche, principal of R&Sie
http://www.new-territories.com/
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Far from being the final scheme – here is one of the many options studied in February…
Further away from weaving – it had its own flavor as well: the “clips” build up was looked at as an assembly of single ring type with standard pipes (of custom length); a ring-pipe steel interface would have still needed to be developed in order to allow the rings to follow the direction of the weave for perfect snapping…
CREDITS:
LOOPHOLE / Design of a pedestrian bridge on the boundaries of the two countries
Cieszyn, Poland-Cesky Tesin,Czech / 2005-2008
Architect: R&Sie(n)… Paris
Associated partner: Marc Fornes on clips parametric version.
Creative team: François Roche, Stéphanie Lavaux, with Sylwia Bogdan, Toshikatsu Kiuchi
Engineer: VP&Green, Paris
Key dimensions: 60 m linear
Client: The city of Cieszyn, in both part, Polish and Czech
Cost: 2 million €
080727_CoLab: R&Sie + THEVERYMANY (002)
LOOPHOLE (Cieszyn, Poland – Cesky Tesin,Czech / 2008)
Collaboration with Francois Roche, principal of R&Sie (www.new-territories.com)
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THEVERYMANY was primarily asked to develop a 3D weaving system.
Weaving protocols are quite straight forward to code as extremely explicit by nature: basically a set of procedure telling up/down/up/down based on a specific period or pattern.
Though in that specific case THEVERYMANY was required to weave through an existing primary direction (or loom) which is non linear – basically a set of “randomly” weaved curves not following one overall set of rules – therefore as no under laying order or “grid” one can’t expect within the loops to understand its front, back, left & right neighbors, and therefore if those are up or down… no global sequence of weave can’t be applied…
Following a series of tests and options – Marc Fornes / THEVERYMANY in collaboration with Francois Roche / R&Sie ended up developing a set of local agraffes/clips – having to search for their state – here was the very first attempt (February 2008)
(Obviously at that stage no need to run any clash procedure to understand membrure/rib’s integrity limit or structural weakness – but enough though to validate the hypothesis of scenario and its possible effect…)
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You can find the proposal on new-territories;
CREDITS:
LOOPHOLE / Design of a pedestrian bridge on the boundaries of the two countries
Cieszyn, Poland-Cesky Tesin,Czech / 2005-2008
Architect: R&Sie(n)… Paris
Associated partner: Marc Fornes on clips parametric version.
Creative team: François Roche, Stéphanie Lavaux, with Sylwia Bogdan, Toshikatsu Kiuchi
Engineer: VP&Green, Paris
Key dimensions: 60 m linear
Client: The city of Cieszyn, in both part, Polish and Czech
Cost: 2 million €
080603_CoLab: R&Sie + THEVERYMANY (001)
Collaboration with Francois Roche, principal of R&Sie (www.new-territories.com)& THEVERYMANY / February 2008
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THEVERYMANY was initially asked to developed a plug-in looking at weaving structures – first from a series that post is showing the very first generic tests.
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Side notes: WEAVING (ie wikipedia.org)
WEAVING is the textile art in which two distinct sets of yarns or threads, called the warp and the filling or weft (older woof), are interlaced with each other to form a fabric or cloth. The warp threads run lengthways of the piece of cloth, and the weft runs across from side to side.
Cloth is woven on a loom, a device for holding the warp threads in place while the filling threads are woven through them. Weft is an old English word meaning “that which is woven”.
The manner in which the warp and filling threads interlace with each other is known as the weave. The three basic weaves are plain weave, satin weave, and twill, and the majority of woven products are created with one of these weaves.
Woven cloth can be plain (in one color or a simple pattern), or it can be woven in decorative or artistic designs, including tapestries. Fabric in which the warp and/or weft is tie-dyed before weaving is called ikat. Fabric decorated using a wax resist method is called batik.
The ancient art of handweaving, along with hand spinning, remains a popular craft. The majority of commercial fabrics, in the West, are woven on computer-controlled Jacquard looms. In the past, simpler fabrics were woven on dobby looms and the Jacquard harness adaptation was reserved for more complex patterns. Some believe the efficiency of the Jacquard loom, and the Jacquard weaving process makes it more economical for mills to use them to weave all of their fabrics, regardless of the complexity of the design.
WEAVING / PROCESS
In general, weaving involves the interlacing of two sets of threads at right angles to each other: the warp and the weft. The warp are held taut and in parallel order, typically by means of a loom, though some forms of weaving may use other methods. The loom is warped (or dressed) with the warp threads passing through heddles on two or more harnesses. The warp threads are moved up or down by the harnesses creating a space called the shed. The weft thread is wound onto spools called bobbins. The bobbins are placed in a shuttle which carries the weft thread through the shed. The raising/lowering sequence of warp threads gives rise to many possible weave structures from the simplest plain weave (also called tabby), through twills and satins to complex computer-generated interlacings.
Both warp and weft can be visible in the final product. By spacing the warp more closely, it can completely cover the weft that binds it, giving a warpfaced textile such as rep weave. Conversely, if the warp is spread out, the weft can slide down and completely cover the warp, giving a weftfaced textile, such as a tapestry or a Kilim rug. There are a variety of loom styles for hand weaving and tapestry. In tapestry, the image is created by placing weft only in certain warp areas, rather than across the entire warp width.
080530_MF @PARIS | McNeel Europe |_Rhinoscript Workshop
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E.N.S.A.P.L.V. – 17-18 juin – 9:00 to 17:00
http://blog.rhino3d.com/2008/05/rhinoscript-workshop-in-paris.html
http://www.eu.rhino3d.com/e-news/rhinoscript_france0508.htm
Marc Fornes will teach how to get the most from RhinoScript starting from the basics (operators and functions, conditions, arrays) to the final analysis, description, reconstruction and tessellation of NURBS surfaces.
Marc Fornes, Architect DPLG, is the founder of THEVERYMANY, a design studio and collaborative research forum engaging the field of architecture via encoded and explicit processes. Rhino and RhinoScript expert, Marc collaborates with McNeel on a regular basis.
Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris La Villette
11, Rue de Cambrai
Rez-de-chaussée, Bâtiment Nº. 31
Paris 75019
Metro : Corentin Cariou
