new york NEW YORK

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

alicia ALONSO, jared DIGANCI, & farzin LOTFI-JAM: Inspired by the Bi-directional Evolutionary Structural Optimization (BESO) algorithm developed by the Innovative Structures Group at RMIT University, this project explores a novel or not-quite-right approach to optimization. A series of forces is distributed through a virtual domain and the negotiation of these forces have been relentlessly interrogated for architectural opportunity. This has resulted in a rich palette of spatial conditions, formal languages and surface articulations.

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zurich SWITZERLAND

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

michael HANSMEYER: this project explores a procedural approach to generating volumetric form. thus, rather than working with surfaces this project uses volumetric cells – voxels- as its basic geometry. the voxels contain data that can interact with proximate voxels according to pre-established rules. this allows information to be propagated through the voxel space.

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GERMANY

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

christoph BADER: Most of my works are based on processes. First a process or a set of instructions is defined and then some variables within the process are varied to get different visual outcomes. These different result then form a series.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

usc school of architecture is pleased to announce the launch of PARAsite. this blog has been set up as a forum for debate about recent developments within the usc school of architecture in the area of parametric and algorithmic design. parasite also serves as a repository of records of past events, such as the intensive fields conference held on 12 december 2009. full video documentation of this conference is now available.

image credit: casey REAS, process 14 (image 3) 2008