KURT9000

2016年3月2日星期三

Capstone | Wall

Project |

From hotwire cutting, we established the molds for our bricks. Every brick can be aggregated up and create voids. By shifting the middle pieces of the molds, we can create different bricks, in other words, the mold can be seen as a reconfigurable mold.

Wall, T.C. Kurt Hong & Amogha Krishnaiah, Winter 2016

Void in the Wall, T.C. Kurt Hong & Amogha Krishnaiah, Winter 2016

Brick 1, T.C. Kurt Hong & Amogha Krishnaiah, Winter 2016

Bricks 4 & 5, T.C. Kurt Hong & Amogha Krishnaiah, Winter 2016

Casting Brick 4, T.C. Kurt Hong & Amogha Krishnaiah, Winter 2016

Casting "Brick 1", T.C. Kurt Hong & Amogha Krishnaiah, Winter 2016

Casting "Brick 5", T.C. Kurt Hong & Amogha Krishnaiah, Winter 2016

Test Wall, T.C. Kurt Hong & Amogha Krishnaiah, Winter 2016

Molds, T.C. Kurt Hong & Amogha Krishnaiah, Winter 2016

2016年1月20日星期三

Capstone | Hot wire cutting

Project |

The goal of this project is to develop advanced technics for concrete precasting. In the beginning of capstone, we are required to practice using hot wire cutting foams. By cutting foams, complex frameworks can be produced for casting concrete. The hot wire cutter is mounted on a small robot, KUKA KR6. Hot wire cutting is easy to use and can create complex curvature surfaces. Besides using hot wire, the design goal is to make a wall which can be assembled with many components.

Cutting test 4, T.C. Kurt Hong & Amogha Krishnaiah, Winter 2016

Cutting Paths, Kurt Hong & Amogha Krishnaiah, Winter 2016

Simulation in Super Matter Tool, T.C. Kurt Hong & Amogha Krishnaiah, Winter 2016

Cutting test 4, T.C. Kurt Hong & Amogha Krishnaiah, Winter 2016

Cutting test 2, T.C. Kurt Hong & Amogha Krishnaiah, Winter 2016

Cutting test 3, T.C. Kurt Hong & Amogha Krishnaiah, Winter 2016

Cutting test 1, T.C. Kurt Hong & Amogha Krishnaiah, Winter 2016

2015年12月6日星期日

Design Computation | Wild Planet

CMYK Index of Wild Planet, T.C. Kurt Hong, Fall 2015

Project Description |

One of the developments in architecture nowadays is focusing on biomimicry. The mechanism of the growth of the organic creature starts with a single stem cell. The stem cell mutates into different specific cells in relation to the external conditions. Illustrating this mechanism into architecture design may help us push the research of formation further. Stem cell has a genetic code inside, and it will mutate into different cells once the code is activated by external parameters. The growing process of the cell is similar to permutation but more complex. Thus, the algorithm of the cellular differentiation may integrate the permutation, growth and agent-based code. The target of our project is to mimic the mechanism of the DNA in the creature which would represent the skin of the architecture. Therefore, we are going to develop the cell which can grow into a facade for a building. And the cell can transform into different cells with the different shapes to form an animallike skin. The mutation may be based on the position of the cell, for example, the cell in a top position may grow into the hairs or a horn, the cell in a lower position may grow into a foot or a tail, the cell in the middle part may grow into limbs or spots. To sum up, our project is to adopt the mechanism of cellular differentiation to generate an architecture component, the facade, and to approach the growing process in nature.

Mutation of Wild Skin, T.C. Kurt Hong, Fall 2015

Section of Wild City, T.C. Kurt Hong, Fall 2015

Mutation of Wild Skin, T.C. Kurt Hong, Fall 2015

Wild City, T.C. Kurt Hong, Fall 2015

Virtual Engagement | Webby Dome

Project Description |

The goal of this project is to use agent-based algorithm to generate a dome by Python, Processing or Grasshopper scripts. The webby dome is generated by an algorithm written in Python and has 5000 agents. There is no main structure such as beams, columns and arches for supporting the dome, instead, hundreds of thousand of thin rods play the role for supporting the dome. Like a straw hut, the rods in the dome act like the straws weaving together and hence form a structural surface. In the end, we are required to make it real in FabLab. Robot arm with an extruder (for extruding PLC) becomes a tool for us to realize the digital model.