Think Tank - Design Fugitives

Moving into our first ThinkTank. Yet to install the laser-cut, acrylic windows. It'll look slick. Who wants one?

Benefits and Features
+ Mobile
+ Secure
+ Dry
+ Acoustically separate- Quiet
+ Customizable - unique facade pattern
+ Gangable
+ Efficient use of materials
+ Built-in shelves and desk
+ 2 sizes. 4'x8' or 8' x 12'

Meditation Screen - Grasshopper attractor

This grasshopper definition uses a length and width input along with an attractor point to create a varied and complex attraction script. Many variables may be controlled via sliders including: the tube shape (fillet size based on proximity to attractor), impact of attractor on tube length, the end condition of the tubes (flat stepped or rotated), the number of tubes in u v direction, as well as many other preview options and final components to bake to rhino.

Roller Coaster Text

This grasshopper definition uses a spline to create a roller coaster. Parameters include the number of cross braces holding the rails and the width, depth and size of the rails. The definition automatically creates vertical supports and performs an intersection test so vertical members do not interfere with the track when it cross over itself.

Waffle Wall

this folded wall can be created from any spline in plan... its elevation (heights of the layers) are drawn and input into the grasshopper definition. Several variables can be controlled including, with of either half, the randomness of the folds, how many folds and some corrections for length differences when walls are curving.

how to do a thesis.

http://archinect.com/features/article.php?id=96699_0_23_0_M

by Sergio López-Piñeiro posted at Archinect

Design Fugitives

www.designfugitives.com

some links

http://www.good.is/
http://www.utne.com/daily.aspx
video for water competion- Lateral Architects
ideas for GOOD magazine
Decade of Design
traffic

other updates:
The official name for Marcus Prize 3 is:

Forecasting Milwaukee for the Urban Age

Alejandro Aravena, the Marcus Prize winner, will be giving a public lecture on Friday, March 5th at the School of Architecture & Urban Planning

Marcus Studio v.3

Marcus Prize Studio 2010

10 Proposals for the City.

Alejandro Aravena

Ryan O’Connor

"The greatest difficulty of this vertiginous and massive urban growth in world globalization is that the socially conflicted city and the wealth-generating city are joined in an unprecedented way. Never before has the relationship between the city as a problem and the city as an opportunity, between the city as a time bomb and the city as a goldmine had such clear ties to cause and effect.” –Alejandro Aravena

Scope: Attractive Milwaukee, Inclusive Milwaukee

The context of this studio, is that we should operate from both ends. To make a city competitive, identify and implement proposals for the elite and for the disadvantaged.

Attract the knowledge creators which are going to make the difference in the economies of the cities and countries by creating high quality urban environments able to persuade these people to choose this city: redevelop urban leftovers, improve public space connected to geographical events, enhance transport and mobility, intensify urban amenities and cultural offerings, have an excellent educational offerings embedded in the neighborhoods (one of the main reasons for knowledge creators to choose a city where to work).

On the other end, cities are a shortcut towards equality, since they can improve the quality of life of the poor, without having to wait for income redistribution. So we need to identify strategic projects that can reshape declining communities and neighborhoods and integrate them with the network of opportunities that cities concentrate, using housing, public space, transportation and urban infrastructure as tools.

Students will each identify a problem or opportunity in the city, which belongs to the broader discussion (newspapers, city council, academia) at very different scales and create an architectural or urban proposal that then can be collected into a set of propositions for the city.

Why take the Marcus Prize Studio?

• Internationally known studio
• Work with an internationally respected architect (Icon Magazine online: top 20 architects under 40)
• Professional publication opportunity (e.g. Skycar City, available at Amazon.com)
• Exhibition potential (e.g. Marcus Prize 1: Skycar City, exhibited at Venice Bienalle, Marcus Prize 2: Designers as Builders, exhibited at Deutsches Architekturmuseum in Berlin)

Marcus Prize 3 - Spring 2010

Design Thinking

“Design thinking is an approach that uses the designer’s sensibility and methods for problem solving to meet people’s needs in a technologically feasible and commercially viable way. In other words, design thinking is human-centered innovation.” —Tim Brown (IDEO)

www.ideo.com

Design challenges are inherently complex and deserving of more than a step-by-step plan in order to resolve emerging nuances and provide pathways to implementation. Because design is messy and non-linear, each project we do is bespoke. We customize it for the challenge at hand. The scoping of the project plan is when our approach starts to take shape, and where our partnership with you begins. We refer to our overall approach as "design thinking": a means of problem solving that uses design methodologies to tap into a deep reservoir of opportunity. These methods include observation, prototyping, building, and storytelling, and can be applied by a wide range of people to a breadth of organizational challenges.

An inherently shared approach, design thinking brings together people from different disciplines to effectively explore new ideas—ideas that are more human-centered, that are better able to be executed, and that generate valuable new outcomes.
Design thinking also enables us to collectively tackle problems and ideas that are more complex than the lone designer can imagine: inaccessible healthcare, billions of people living on a few dollars a day, energy usage outpacing the planet's ability to support it, education systems that fail students, and beyond. These problems all have people at their heart. They require a collaborative, human-centered, iterative, and practical approach to finding the best ideas and ultimate solutions. Design thinking is just such an approach to innovation.

CEO Tim Brown is using his blog to share ideas about design thinking.

Connect the dots:

Connect the dots: Dubai, labor, urbanism, sustainability, and the education of architects

By Michael Sorkin

http://archrecord.construction.com/features/critique/0908critique-1.asp

alignments

Dimensions

http://www.tcaup.umich.edu/architecture/publications/dimensions/recent_volumes/

great publication, worth checking out. this is number 21.

Imagining Recovery Competition Entry

Team: Ryan O'Connor, Dan Hesketh, Kevin Dunphy