‘Printing’ human organs with 3D bio-printer

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12520951

Laser Update

Laser cutter is back on line…………

Laser Cutter

Currently the laser cutter is out of service.

We are working to resolve this issue and  will post notification here once it  is resolved.

Although the signup sheet might still be active your asked not to sign in at this point.

Announcement

Our lab will be close from August 5th to August 28th. New hours and assistants will be announced shortly.
Please wait update on contacts for your help.

Have a wonderful summer.

Now DFL is Open in Summer

In Summer ’11, DFL will be operating only for laser cutting for 10 hours per a week from June 13th to August 5th.

Please check online sign up sheet for the schedule.  If you have any concern or question, please contact Yuko Aoki.

Year at its Best

Steven Kocher | William Sedig | Brandon Veith

And their project titled Privacy Wall

Grasshopper, Rhinoceros, Arduino:  Physical Exploration of Digital Protocol, 

Faculty Mentor:  Shai Yeshayahu

has received  the 

REACH

Outstanding Arts/Creative Project Award

Congratulation on this accomplishment and for your instrumental role at the DFL.

End of Spring Semester ’11

May 3rd will be the last day of Digital Fabrication Lab in Spring semester 2011.

We will open only Monday and Tuesday in Week 16.

We will re-open the lab on Second week of Fall semester 2011.

During Summer semester, the lab is not scheduled  to operate with volunteers.

The lab has requested a paid position for the summer but it is still unclear whether the department has the funds to fill this position.

Have a wonderful summer break!!

Spring break ’11 –

The Digital Fabrication Lab will be close between March 14th and March 18th due to  spring break.

The Lab will resume normal operation hours after March 21st.

Performative Modeling Workshop

Southern Ilinois UniversityFeb. 24-26, 2011

Instructor: Omar Khan, University of Buffalo

 

 

 

DAY 1: Constructing a System

The understanding of a building as a composition of distinct systems – fenestration, circulation, enclosure, roof, mechanical, structural- is a particularly modern approach to architectural design. It breaks the complexity of a seamless whole into more easily understandable parts that can be rationalized and designed around functions, costs, materiality, etc. It is arguable whether as a consequence architecture becomes more functional, but it surely becomes modern; profoundly affecting the building’s organization, its materiality and the way it is built. By imagining a building as distinct systems, labor can also be systemized; the steel worker does the structure, the carpenter the enclosure, the electrician the electricity and the plumber the plumbing.

In contrast, one can also imagine a system as not an object but an artificial bracketing of a part from the whole. This provides a way to isolate specific parts without compromising their contingency on a whole. Imagine it as the frame of camera that cuts a 3×4 view into the world. We don’t see all of reality but what we do see continually is in communication with what’s beyond the frame. Take an example: a woman walks into the frame of view, picks up a ball that lies on the ground and throws it out of the frame. She waves her arms, hopping up and down, and then suddenly runs out of the frame. What we have witnessed in the frame is contingent on events outside the frame. The former we observed, the latter we inferred. Now instead take the same frame of view and look at your building (in plan, elevation and isometric). Zoom in and out until you have a view that observes a few things but also infers other things outside the frame.

We will call this view a system:

1) List the “variables” of the system- The variables are quantifiable properties of the objects within the frame.

2) List the “parameters” of the system- The parameters are quantifiable properties that can alter or effect the “variables” within the frame.

Assignment: Develop a composite drawing that combines the view, its variables and parameters.

Location Quigley 304

Time 9am-11:50am

Day Friday February 25th

To signup for the workshop Click here

ARCHITECTURE | – HATCH Asheville

 

 

 

Vision // Design for Action!!!

To bring together and amplify the presence of leading figures in Architecture and the tremendous innovation going on in our discipline internationally.  The theme for HATCH Asheville 2011 Architecture will be “Design for Action” with leading and up and coming figures in architecture that are re-inventing our field with new models of “practice” that are driven by social justice and environmentalism…… read more