Parametric Design
WIP: LaN Live Parameters 2010
Images from the second day of the Live Parameters workshop being held at the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IaaC). What you see here are images of the first LaN Urban Sensing Kit (working title). This kit was designed by Felipe Pecegueiro do Amaral Curado, Oriol Carrasco, and Alba Armengol Gasull and includes a [...]
WIP: IaaC Summer School 2010
http://fablabbcn.org/informalism/
The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia Summer School has been in session since Aug 19th 2010. This one month course is about to come to an end next week, but before we finish, we want to share some of the work in progress. The road to this summer school began with a mutual agreement [...]
LaN @ Advances in Architectural Geometry 2010
LaN will be instructing a workshop at this years Advances in Architectural Geometry Conference 2010 in Vienna, Austria. Workshops for AAG10 are Saturday September 18th and Sunday September 19th 2010 and the conference will be September 20 and 21. We are pleased to be included in the program for this year’s event as there are [...]
LaN @ AA Shanghai Visiting School
LaN Co-Director Luis E. Fraguada has been invited to teach a unit at the Architectural Association’s Shanghai Visiting School, directed by Tom Verebes. The visiting school takes place from Friday August 13th – Saturday August 21st 2010. The event will be hosted at the University of Hong Kong Faculty of Architecture Shanghai Study Center and [...]
Project for UDON Restaurant Madrid
Project Architect: Quim Girbau & Neus Mateu
Design Consultation and Fabrication: Medio Design
Parametric Design and Geometry Consultation: Luis E. Fraguada – LaN
This project for the design the UDON Chueca restaurant in Madrid was recently completed by Arquitects Quim Girbau & Neus Mateu. Medio Design and LaN collaborated on the ceiling which traverses the span of the [...]
Live Parameters: LaN On-Site Barcelona 3 Workshop
LaN announces its third On Site Barcelona workshop August 23rd through 29th at the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IaaC): Live Parameters.
One of the key elements in any associative design model is the data to which it responds. The ‘Live Parameters’ workshop will investigate several modes for interacting with real time, real life data [...]
Collaborative Cloud Project
Collaborative Cloud is an installation which investigates distributed and decentralized design and fabrication. The interface (in the link above) allows you to design and give information to a piece of the cloud, thus anyone can participate in the project’s growth over the next 8 months. The physical construction will take place at the Disseny Hub [...]
Smart Geometry 2010 Barcelona
These images show a glimpse into what were the workshop sessions during the Smart Geometry 2010 event, which took place at the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IaaC) from the 19th through the 24th of April (with Conference sessions taking place at the Petit Palau). This event came to Barcelona and IaaC thanks to [...]
Designing Interface Architecture – Brazil 2010
UPDATE: The fund raising for the first edition of this workshop series has been successful! In 30 days, 54 wonderful supporters pledged from $1 – $1000 to make this event possible. We want to thank them and everyone else who’s actions were paramount in spreading the word.
FABberz (www.fabberz.com) and LaN (www.livearchitecture.net) are collaborating to hold [...]
Generate Seminar Review, Oulu, Finland
Photos from a recent trip Oulu, Finland. LaN co-director, Luis Fraguada, was invited to Oulu to lecture and teach at the Generate Seminar. The seminar was organized by the Algorithmic Architecture Project Group at the University of Oulu, Department of Architecture. Many, many sincere thanks to Eetu Arponen, Eva Haggrén, Aulikki Herneoja, Eeva Hinkka, Hannes [...]
HTWK Leipzig Workshop Results
Henning Rambow, professor at HTWK Leipzig organized the First Parametric Design Workshop last June, 2009. Six tutors and 40 participants from all around Europe and beyond took to Leipzig for 4 days of intense teaching, learning, and production.
Rhino Grasshopper was utilized as the main design tool, allowing participants to explore various aspects of the workshop [...]
LaN OnSite BCN2 Workshop Results
LaN OnSite Barcelona v2 workshops concluded with composite fabrication processes and associative design production. Participants joined a two phase / six module workshop series that immersed them in contemporary digital design and fabrication techniques. McNeel Rhinoceros was the base platform for all design and parameterization. Through the Grasshopper plugin for Rhino, participants [...]
Axis Mundi Tower Proposal
‘Vertical Neighborhood’ MoMA Tower Proposal
July 2009
PARAMETRIC CONSULTATION
NEW YORK TOWER PROPOSAL
Vertical Neighborhood is a mixed Use New York high rise scheme conceived by the New York based architecture Firm – Axis Mundi with Parametric modeling and digital design by Live Architecture Network members Carlo Ciampoli and James Coleman.
“A more diverse, complex, heterogeneous, and environmentally-minded city need [...]
