The importance of the family - eCAADe Milan
The idea, present in a conceptual manner in the designer’s mind, must be split into elementary rules of construction, linked by a...
Apparent contours
Lesson held at Quasar Design University during the workshop #www15stanze. In my lecture I spoke about the possibility to create a...
Represented models and typological algorithms
The project of design, even more of the architectural project, in its evolution from idea to object, needs investigations that use the...
Data Tree and Christmas Tree
Watch the video: http://youtu.be/UrqpXDlaWE4 This is just an exercise between the first plate and the second plate of this long day, that...
Digital polyhedra
In this days I'm reading about polyhedra because of a lesson that I'm preparing for my students. Very interesting is the icosaedro. It is...
Fabricate the Design. How to make a bench...
In this last period i have had a meeting with an important company which makes complex wood furniture. it showed me this image and asked...
Make the spoon intelligent!
Here we are again! This post follows the previous one; In the first I tried to explain how to make a shape, in that example a spoon,...
From the spoon to the city - a hybrid way to modeling
During the last days of this strange summer I have had enough time to think how to model things in an alternative way. I love a...
From core mesh to complex shape
There are some shapes, in architecture and design, which are very difficult to represent with NURBS (mathematical representation). Have a...
Apparent Contours - Digital Algorithms for the Movement of Articulated Surfaces
Articulated surfaces are defined as the category of surfaces that arise in the plane and that, when folded properly, build patterns...
