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Research Studio III: Digital Tectonics
Faculty: Marta Male-Alemany
Co-Faculty: Victor Viña
Assistant: César Cruz Cázares
Student Team: Mia Layco, Georgia Kotsari, Tomasz Starczewski

Project Name: Mimicry

Emergent systems found in nature such as the huddling of penguins or the building of termite mounds demonstrates how self organized systems prove to be most efficient.  Swarm behaviour has been studied in depth as well as simulated however never has it been applied to an over all process.  The Mimicry Group aims to harvest these qualities to create a fabrication process far more efficient than the current practice of CAD, CAE, CAM.  By doing away with these regimented steps and creating a hybrid system, fabrication process could potentially design, optimize and fabricate simultaneously.

Research Studio I: Emergent Territories
Faculty: Vicente Guallart
Assistant: Hemant Purohit,
Student: Ander Gortazar Balerdi, Jacek Markusiewicz

Self_ Sufficient Ecobarrio II Term: Director Vicente Guallart, Assistant: Hemant Purohit

The main issue of the Hyperhabitat research project is to try to develop a general theory about the understanding of the structures and logics where the construction of the urbanity is based, considering urbanity as a complex and diverse ecosystem were the people is able to develop their lives in a artificial environment exchanging information between them.

The understanding of this complex reality as a system of networks that are mixed between them is the starting point for the methodology of analyse; ‘urban network structures’ are based on four elements:

Nodes > concentrate the information and specific contents

Nets > distribute the information between nodes

Environment > supports all the systems in a specific context

Protocols > organise the ingredients of the system: the information

Research Studio I: Emergent Territories
Faculty: Vicente Guallart
Assistant: Hemant Purohit,
Student: Renata Helena Uebe Nogueira , Roberto Javier Dumont

The turistizens transformation potential as a tourist and a citizen, both distinct and equal is directly proportional to that of a fictitious argument inside a real hotel: the relation between the hotel and the movies, between Lost in Translation and The Park Hyatt of Tokyo, between
Transpotting and The Royal Eagle Hotel in London, or between Octopussy and The Lake Palace Hotel in Udaipur, in India.

The study will focus on this paradigm working in abstract and generic forms, analyzing the argument of fiction and real space, between the tourist and the citizen, between sleeping or dreaming, translating them into new concepts and designs: We can investigate with these
concepts new

Research Studio III: Digital Tectonics
Faculty: Marta Male-Alemany
Co-Faculty: Victor Viña
Assistant: César Cruz Cázares
Student: Melat Assefa, Joao Nuno Palaio Albuquerque, Brian Peters

Research Studio II: Self Sufficient Buildings
Faculty: Willy Muller
Assistant: Maite Bravo
Student: Marianne Villalobos Emonet

Research Studio III: Digital Tectonics
Faculty: Marta Male-Alemany
Co-Faculty: Victor Viña
Assistant: César Cruz Cázares
Student: Joel Letkemann, Viraj Kataria, Fabio Lopez

The studio project is centred on the development of a CNC robot, which creates molds in sand, as an ecological alternative to standard molds used in making concrete wall panels and other building components.

Seminar: Designing Associativity
Faculty: Luis Fraguada

The ‘Designing Associativity Seminar’ is titled as such in order to acknowledge the effort of designing relationships versus explicit objects or forms.  In term 2 students have looked at ways to construct logics which take advantage of diverse data sources, algorithms, geometry, and manufacturing processes.

Designing Associativity

Faculty: Luis Fraguada
Student: Joel Letkemann

Sun Shade

Grasshopper Solution
The sun panel is a fully parametric model, which is connected to a single attraction point within the Rhino file. Several different parameters can be manipulated within this solution, as the shade device ‘pulls’ towards the sun.