Seeing is Believing

Botanical world-plants: Seeds!

Seeds carry the next plant generation and have specialized external characteristics to increase assurances that the seed, seedling, and plant will survive. The seed below is intended to latch on to feathers and fur for dispersal away from the parent plant.

Santolina chamaecyparissus

Zoological world-animals: Crabeater seals

Crabeater seal's bizarre tooth shape is specialized to lock together and create a sieve to filter antarctic krill from the water.

Organism-built Environment: Bagworm Moth Caterpillar

Bagworm moth caterpillars build their cocoons from silk and twigs or leaves from their environment. The case or 'bag' each moth creates is specific to its own species.

Amicta Bagworm Case

Human-made built Environment

[1] My Two Cars Garage

This garage is built as an immersive environment intended to complement the features and curves of a Porsche Macan while placing it as the main exhibit. The structure is composed of 6,380 unique aluminum strips and 202,203 rivets.

[2] Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport

The airport's T shape was founded on three primary work points, calling the base shape and guiding the curved facade. The curve's radius enables rain to flow naturally into drainage systems and away from the central atrium skylight. The roof and radius of design were tightly controlled to achieve a precise balance between architectural intents and structural design.

[3] livMatS Pavilion

This project brought together an interdisciplinary team of architects and engineers. The unique combination of computational design, fabrication methods, and natural flax fibers leads to an exacting control of mechanical properties and waste mitigation.

Identify two researchers, artists, or designers who work in comp fab

[1] Gijs Van Vaerenbergh

The collaborative practice between Arnout Van Vaernberg and Pieterjan Gijs, which makes up Gijs Van Vaerenbergh, combines technical and theoretical knowledge of architecture with earnest experimentation. Their process begins in in 2D, then adds depth and details, before being modeled and made.

Their works mainly use metal in their designs and installations, which are minimalistic. the routine use of minimal materials in these often grand installations gives the semblance of bones or memories. Forgoten but present.

[2] Dr. Ramtin Haghnazar

Co-founder of Dahi Studio and Assistant Professor at Viginia Tech.

Using imganination as a template and pushing the boundary of what humans can visualize He combines the "overwhelming processing power of computers" to aid in exceptional design. Beginning with sketches and images to share, they are iterated to be a coherent mode of visual communication. Ideas are then digitally modeled, physically modeled, and further iterated before full-scale fabrication.

Being in the architectural design realm, there is massive intrigue about the scale and structural consideration for his projects. recent emphasis has ben put on resiliance and himan centricity of sustainable building projecting; feeding some of my nascent thoughts concerning psycho ergonomics.