cambridge MASSACHUSETTS

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

skylar TIBBITS: This installation lines the concrete and glass hallway with hundreds of vaults, reminiscent of the great vaulted ceilings of historic cathedrals. The vaults provide a thickened surface articulation and a spectrum of oculi that penetrate the hallway and surrounding area with views and light. VoltaDom attempts to expand the notion of the architectural “surface panel,” by intensifying the depth of a doubly-curved vaulted surface, while maintaining relative ease in assembly and fabrication. This is made possible by transforming complex curved vaults to developable strips, one that likens the assembly to that of simply rolling a strip of material.

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cambridge MASSACHUSETTS

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

skylar TIBBITS: Logic Matter: Digital Logic as heuristics for physical self-guided-assembly
Given the increasing complexity of the physical structures surrounding our everyday environment; buildings, machines, computers and almost every other physical object that humans interact with, the processes of assembling these complex structures are inevitably caught in a battle of time, complexity and human/machine processing power. If we are to keep up with this exponential growth in construction complexity we need to develop automated assembly logic embedded within our material parts to aid in construction.
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cambridge MASSACHUSETTS

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

alan LU: This project explores the notion of programmatic extremism in a design incubator facility where a central defined figure that contains a vertically integrated manufacturing/workloft arrangement occupies the void and recoups the emptiness left by the existing ice storage facility. Such a figure inverts the typical relationship of a theater by converting the space usually dedicated to an event space into a piranesian conflation of design/production/manufacturing where in effect, these work processes become the spectacle themselves and the theater is one of production.

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cambridge massachusetts

leadership transition in MIT architecture

nader TEHRANI
head of mit architecture
[from july 2010]

andrew SCOTT
march director

meejin YOON
director of the undergraduate architecture program

yung ho CHANG will step down and continue to teach as a professor.

cambridge MASSACHUSETTS

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

skylar TIBBITS: the decibot is part of the larger *bot family of programmable matter 1d folding chains. the *bot family contains electromechanical folding @ nm, mm, cm, dm part lengths. the decibot is the largest of the family with overall dimensions of 144″x18″x18″ unfolded and 36″x36″x36″ folded into a cube.

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