I recently had the opportunity to share a few questions with Dr. Rachel Armstrong, specialist on living architecture and protocell technology, Senior TED Fellow and Co-Director of AVATAR (Advance Virtual and Technological Architectural Research) in Architecture & Synthetic Biology at The School of Architecture & Construction, University of Greenwich, London. Here, I ask Rachel about her design philosophy involving protocells, sharing what its future place might be in the architectural profession. Read the full interview...
During the last day of ACADIA, an informal workshop using basic chemistries was held in F_RMlab with Rachel Armstrong. The workshop gives a broad look into the ideas behind protocell technology and self-assembling chemistries, helping to introduce an understanding of future methods for creating intelligent material from the bottom up. In this workshop, Rachel shows us how to take the notion of the collective protocell and turn it into a material using common bubble wrap as...
Presented by Waterloo Architecture Integrated Group for Visualization, Design and Manufacturing (IGVDM), F_Rmlab, BRIDGE, and Centre for Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (CPAMI) ALL WELCOME, FREE To confirm workshop attendance: enter your name in the following online poll and check off events that you plan to attend: http://doodle.com/xy97qvxghi4xce7g The computational design and research UK group from the leading international design practice, Aedas, will be visiting Waterloo Engineering and the School of Architecture this coming week, teaching methods...
The annual ACADIA (Association of Computer Aided Design in Architecture) conference is coming to Cambridge and will be held at our school this year. In anticipation of this international event, the ACADIA 2013 Management Team, F_RMlab and Graduate Research Elective: ARCH 684 will feature a series of posts on Bridge to introduce the keynotes and presenters at the conference. We’d like to introduce an overview of the conference to start and we hope you are just...
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Meeting July.2013 2013.07.04 4:00PM Ward Room Meeting Minutes In Attendance – May Wu, Connor O’Grady, Mark Tam, Miriam Ho, Vikkie Chen, Caitlin Perry (skype), Boian (drop-in to report on Nostalgia Tour) 1. Pecha Kucha Progress This term’s graduate Pecha Kucha will happen in early August, the exact date will be announced within the next two weeks. We are still working on becoming an official Pecha Kucha City so before that happens this event will be...
‘Field Guide’ – Designing Interactive Components – an Uncovered Lecture by F_RMlab Thursday, July 11th @ 12:30pm in the F_RMlab (Rm 2019) Field Guide is an interactive installation composed of an intricate modular surface which is manipulated by an embedded digital infrastructure. Programmed to respond to the motion of passing viewers, the installation provokes our participation and dynamic engagement with everyday spaces. F_RMlab created the installation Field Guide for the Gladstone Hotel’s Grow Op exhibition...
On June 18th and 19th, The Stop Community Food Centre will be hosting their second annual Stop NightMarket in the Honest Ed’s alleyway in Toronto, inviting over 50 Toronto chefs as well as showcasing the food cart designs of Waterloo Architecture students and alumni. A call for proposals back in February got the juices flowing, and local designers submitted one-panel proposals for this year’s food carts. 36 designs were chosen, 16 of which belonged to...
For those of you who do not already know this… F_RMlab [Digital Research and Media] is a grad student initiative to promote digital technology and computational discourse in architecture at our school. F_RMlab’s current initiatives and extended goals exist in the areas of software and scripting; physical computing and interactive systems; digital fabrication; environmental simulation; and the ACADIA Adaptive Architectures conference of 2013. We would like to open the doors for communication between our initiatives, the undergraduate and graduate curriculum, as well...
As some may already know, the ADAPTIVE ARCHITECTURE 2013 ACADIA conference will be held at Waterloo Architecture in Cambridge, Ontario, Canada on October 24-27, 2013. The event is going to bring together professionals from all over the world to discuss ideas related to computer aided design in Architecture. A little background on ACADIA: ACADIA is an international network of digital design researchers and professionals. ACADIA supports critical investigations into the role of computation in architecture, planning,...
If you’ve seen a couple of masters students laser cutting endless rolls of mylar and/or playing with arduinos, motors and a bunch of wiring in the past month, you may know F_RMlab has been busy preparing for an installation at GrowOp. GrowOp is an exhibition at the Gladstone Hotel that celebrates innovative ideas and conceptual responses to landscape and place across a broad range of creative practices. The event will run from April 25-28, with...
