gc university showcase in sydney

The culmination of this semester’s hard work from all the students that have been involved in the current incarnation of the Generative Components university program will be at UTS on the 27th and 28th of this month (November)So far it’s shaping up to be a fascinating 2 days, mainly because unlike last time, I won’t be the main presenter!!
We’ve got a great lineup of speakers from LAB, Arup, Woods Baggot, University of Sydney and a few others TBC.The first day will be presentations of the work that the five universities have produced this semester (nearly all of it very very impressive, and I’m grumpy cynical these days). So that’s work from UTS, QUT, university of Queensland, university of Melbourne and Auckland university. Read the rest of this entry »
dda models
this is a collection of the pics i took yesterday at the crits. i’ll do a full post when i’ve had a look through the work properly after the show tonight!
dda @ melbourne uni

Here are the first images from the class that I’ve been teaching with Bharat Dave at Melbourne Uni.
Everyone has worked amazingly hard, and there are some really great outcomes so far.
here are a few of them.
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There are real physical models of all of these in the pipeline, so check back soon for the latest!
brounge
Brounge is a design methodology coined by Barnaby Bennett, watch the video for a bit more info!
multitouch train platform
here’s a little flick through a sequence of how a multi touch floor could work in a train station to make the experience “well betta’ ”

There have been plenty of examples of people using multi touch displays for useful and interesting things, but the idea behind this totally ignores the practical things like the cost element of having hundreds of beamers and a server farm to rival Google, and just goes for the hope that something cool might come from the thought experiment (such is the nature of architectural education)
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