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Physical Manifestations of Invisible Forces:
My graduate thesis project which uses environmental parametrics as input for emergent morphological development. This project explores the emergence of tectonic systems through the simulation of fluid & thermodynamic forces simulation modeled after seasonal climate data.

This project uses fluid & thermo-dynamic simulation to challenge traditional legal & public boundaries, while informing the development of tectonic architectural systems that exploit stochastic climate change. By setting up a simulation environment that using annual prevailing wind speed & temperature data within a the confines of the property line and the required building cores as obstacles the natural flow of air speed & temperature creates complex fluid geometry with inherent logics drawn from their behavioral interactions.

By choreographing the stochastic nature of fluid & thermo-dynamic systems within a simple geometric simulation environment complex geometries emerge. These morphological behaviors give rise to geometric, programmatic & tectonic systems that feed from and respond to the environment in which it lies. Active mechanical systems expand & contract, open & close, in response to the shifting wind and temperature patterns within a choreographed stochastic mechanical & architectural system response.

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* Featured in the SCI-Arc 2010 Spring Show

adaptive material behavior logics within a robotic fabrication feedback loop analyzing adaptive material behavior logics within a robotic fabrication feedback loop analyzing adaptive material behavior logics within a robotic fabrication feedback loop analyzing adaptive material behavior logics within a robotic fabrication feedback loop analyzing adaptive material behavior logics within a robotic fabrication feedback loop analyzing adaptive material behavior logics within a robotic fabrication feedback loop towards material centric construction processing variable material which creates hybridized material ecologies that infrom new material centric construction processing variable material which creates hybridized material ecologies that infrom new material centric construction processing variable material which creates hybridized material ecologies that infrom new material centric construction processing variable material which creates hybridized material ecologies that infrom new material centric construction processing variable material which creates hybridized material ecologies that infrom new material centric construction processing variable material which creates hybridized material ecologies that infrom new material centric construction processing variable material which creates hybridized material ecologies that infrom new material centric construction processing variable material which creates hybridized material ecologies

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Morphodynamic generation of structural membrane system logics for output to fiber strand layup via robotic fabrication.

Path length analysis algorithm:
Particle motion paths are analylized & sorted
by length into five fiber strand categories
using a grasshopper defintion. Each fiber
strand category varies in length and thickness
creating an emergent material logic based on
particle velocity.

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Morphodynamic generation of structural membrane system logics for output to fiber strand layup via robotic fabrication.

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Robotic fabrication cell design.

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Massive scale lightweight pneumatic structure & membrane system.

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* Featured in exhibition, and winning entry in
SCI-Borg Competition 2010

An experiment in freeform robotic fabrication using thermo-pneumatic molding.

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Morphodynamic generation of structural membrane system logics for output to fiber strand layup via robotic fabrication.

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* Featured in the SCI-Arc 2009 Spring Show

The rail terminal is an archetype whose function deals primarily with the movement & motion of people & vehicles. Our formal approach takes the kinetic forces of this movement and transfers them to the creation of a set of helical systems through infrastructural tectonics.

Through various prototypical module tests we have settled upon a potentially evolving system whose makeup consists of four primary helical members connected by a series of secondary spanning lattice members. Each one of these elevated modules will then be connected to one another at their aggregated intersections, providing circulation intensities at each designated entrance/exit node.

These intricate geometries are created through a series of deformers and wraps applied to a framework in which one can define lattice, transparency, enclosure, and an array of systems according to its function.

Our project defines a singular prototypical cell and utilizes its growth outputting a mass aggregation of interactions and relations between each. The expansion of the double helix allows for a conceptually sound strategy in providing an infrastructural architecture.

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Mid-term submission for the San Francisco Transbay Rail Terminal featuring high-speed maglev trains.