Digital Towers

Leach, Neil (author)

Architectural Design ; 79 ; 68-79

2009-07-01

12 pages

1554-2769 , 0003-8504

https://doi.org/10.1002/ad.920

Article (Journal)

Electronic Resource

English

Optical fibres , Rojkind Arquitectos , Automorphic Strand Tower Testa & Weiser (Peter Testa, Devyn Weiser and Emily White), 2006 , minimal surface geometries , robotically spun basalt fibre groups , Fibrous Tower Kokkugia (Roland Snooks, Rob Stuart‐Smith, Juan De Marco and Timo Carl), 2008 , ‘modulo’ , N Towers Will Hosikian and Suby Lui, Fab* Hab 3, Master of Architecture (Jerome Frumar and Tom Kovac), Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), Melbourne, Australia, 2008 , horizontal public shopping base , ‘automatic writing’ , gradients of transparency , Hong Kong , accelerated condition of design and construction in China , surface folds up from the landscape , tissue engineering , Peristal City Neri Oxman and Mitchel Joachim, MIT Computation Group (William Mitchell), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2006 , ‘scripting’ , Code , Evolutionary Computation moh architects (Jens Mehlan, Christoph Opperer and Jorg Hugo), 2006 , Rhino‐script , form‐finding strategies , organic templating , Rising Masses Max Kahlen, Diploma Unit 5 (George Legendre), Architectural Association, London 2008 , complex patterns , verticality and the madness of repetition , Compressed Complexity Peter Mitterer and Matthias Moroder, Studio Hadid (Zaha Hadid and Patrik Schumacher), University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria, 2006 , vertical mobility , composite material , cellular aggregation , Swells: A Prototype for Dense High‐Rise Cityscapes Biothing (Alisa Andrasek), 2004 , anexact construction , Phototaxic Anagenics Sergio Araya, MIT Computation Group (William Mitchell), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2008 , Resonance: Between Repetition and Difference THEVERYMANY (Marc Fornes, Vincent Nowak and Claudia Corcilius), 2006 , mono‐functional stacked private office or housing slab , Singapore's office district , emergent swarm intelligence , ‘hives’ , freedom of depth , mixed‐use tower iterations , shell geometry , differentiated and complex architecture , the Cloud , parametric modelling softwares , genetic blueprint , textile technology , skyscraper , extreme fibre networks , fibrous concrete shell , relations/rhythms through explicit and encoded protocols