Saturday, September 26, 2009
aneX First Presentation
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Monday, September 21, 2009
Architecture of self-help communities - Michael Seelig - 1978
Throw-away culture
Image care of universal wrecking
http://www.universalwrecking.com/Projects-read-6.html
"architects design just 2 percent of American homes"
courtesy of metropolismag
http://www.metropolismag.com/story/20081015/truth-in-numbers
aneX - First Presentation
- Intent -for who? whats the problem?, why solve it?
- Overview -what technology?, what means?
- presidents?
THE WHAT
- the product -first introduction (scale?) = individual user, micro solutions
- the product -density variable
- the product -community scale
- the product -location variable. downtown, suburb, rural
THE HOW
- Custom individual client-brand relationship, online account: User Specific Catalogue, aneXCAD Virtual Lab, costing and ordering.
- Flat-pack and client assembly, minimal reliance on specialised trades and services such as plumbers, electricians, trucks and cranes.
- aneXgrid proprietary super structure- skeletal framework
THE NEXT
- My development - where to next
- Resolution in...
Stochastic Modular Assembly
A stochastic process is one whose behavior is non-deterministic in that a system's subsequent state is determined both by the process's predictable actions and by a random element. Stochastic crafts are complex systems whose practitioners, even if experts, acknowledge that outcomes result from both known and unknown causes. Examples are warfare, meteorology, economics, and rhetoric, where success and failure are so difficult to predict that explicit allowances are made for uncertainty." - wikipedia.org
Cornell Computational Synthesis Lab experiment with "programmable matter, a substance that is able to change its physical properties as directed by the user. ... Objects can be assembled or repaired on-the-fly, and deconstructed to be recycled into new objects once they are no longer needed."
image and text courtesy of Cornell Computational Synthesis Lab