Kinetic Architecture & Art

Kinetic #1

This Kinetic Architecture & Art Video will showcase some of the examples of Kinetic design in Art and Architecture. Albahar Tower, Kiefer Technic showroom, Arab world institute, Megafon Pavilion, South Korea Pavilion (Expo 2012), Media-tic Facade, Shanghai Theatre facade & Flare Facade are some of the examples of how kinetic design affect buildings.

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Asinas Sculpture - Kinetic Art & Architecture

Asinas Sculpture

Kinetic Art & Architecture : The elements consist of three straight line segments that are conjoined like a Z with 90 degree angles. Alternating them on the axle in a mirrored position makes the two helixes twist in opposite direction.

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Parametric Waffle Structure - Interior Architecture

Interior Design Process

Interior Architecture : In this short video you can see the Parametric interior Design process for a waffle wooden structure. The process consists of designing the structure in Rhino and then the installation is started with connecting the parts together.

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Seed Cathedral - Architecture Design

Seed Cathedral

Architecture Design : the UK pavilion at Expo 2010, colloquially known as the Seed Cathedral, was a sculpture structure built by a nine-member conglomeration of British business and government resources directed by designer Thomas Heatherwick.

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ArboSkin Bioplastic Facade - Parametric Design

ArboSkin Bioplastic Facade

ArboSkin is a Bioplastic Façade Research Project developed at ITKE (Institute of Building Structures and Structural Design) ,Institution that has many years of experience in teaching and research in the fields of computer based design, simulation, and production of cladding for buildings with complex geometries.

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Amazing Science Toys #2

Amazing Science Toys #2

Sit back and relax. Enjoy 10 minutes of oddly satisfying scientific curiosities featuring various engines with candles, ferrofluid toys, kinetic art that uses physics, optical illusions, various forms of dices, math toys/shapes and more mindblowing stuff!

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Wooden Coasters #4 - Laser Cutting Designs & Ideas

Laser Cutting #26

Wooden Coaster Design & Ideas #4: Carl Friedrich Gauss distinguishes between three types of curved surfaces, single curved – neutral (cylindrical), and double curved – negative (hyperboloid) and positive (spherical).
Curved surfaces are very attractive, especially negative double curved surfaces, but also very complicated to perform. What’s interesting about them in constructive terms is the increase in stiffness and load capacity as the surface is bent in one and two directions.

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Wooden Coasters #3 - Laser Cutting Designs & Ideas

Laser Cutting #24

Wooden Coasters Design & Ideas #3: This would make a wonderful gift for tea and coffee drinkers. It can be used as a decoration, an art piece or as a coaster. It looks great on your table and protects its surface. Diameter: 3.1inches (8cm), Depth: 0.08inches (0.2cm). In mathematics, a Voronoi diagram is a partitioning of a plane into regions based on distance to points in a specific subset of the plane. That set of points (called seeds, sites, or generators) is specified beforehand, and for each seed there is a corresponding region consisting of all points closer to that seed than to any other.

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Wooden Wall Clock #6 - Laser Cutting Designs & Ideas

Laser Cutting #25

Wooden Wall Clock Design & Ideas #6: Unique, high quality handmade geometrical wooden wall clock, inspired by geometric structure -Voronoi diagram. Our clock „Diagram“ is designed in a contemporary style. These honeycomb-like, asymmetric, mesh shapes are used in many types of mathematical analyses as well as to create interesting fill patterns in things like furniture and wall panels. Extraordinary wall clock has been created using lazercut machine, and fitted with quartz mechanism. Untreated matte natural oak color. Assembled with three different types of arrows.

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Wooden Pendant Lamp #3 - Laser Cutting Designs & Ideas

Laser Cutting #23

Wooden Pendant Lamp Design & Ideas #3: This is an early version of the Moon Lamp designed by Verner Panton for the Danish lamp manufacturer Louis Poulsen, produced in the 1960s. The lamellae can be placed in any conceivable position. In order to reinforce the impression of the spherical shape, each of the rings is slightly arched. It is in a very good vintage condition.

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Wooden Clock #5 - Laser Cutting Designs & Ideas

Laser Cutting #21

Wooden Wall Clock Design & Ideas #5: A large, modern lotus design wall clock that really makes a statement. Made from laser cut birch plywood. Available in natural with a matte polyurethane, or water based matte brown or matte black stain. It is 18″ in diameter and floats 1/2″ off the wall creating a soft shadow. Designed and made in Canada. 12″ and 23″ sizes also available. -Built in hanger, -1/4″ thick wood, -Quartz movement, -Silent continuous sweep movement available

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Wooden Pendant Lamp #2 - Laser Cutting Designs & Ideas

Laser Cutting #22

Wooden Pendant Lamp Design & Ideas #2: It`s simple and minimalistic and in the same time creates a warm and ambient atmosphere. It suits classic or modern furniture and is designed to bring a cosy light to bedrooms, offices, living rooms, dining tables, kitchen islands or sideboard. MATERIAL: 4 mm plywood (all scraped with sandpaper and varnished), black metallic canopy, black fabric wire. DIMENSIONS: 60cm (24 in) height – 50cm (20 in). 100% HANDMADE.

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Wooden Bowl Decor - Parametric Design

Deployable Soft Composite Structures

Deployable structure composed of smart materials based actuators can reconcile its inherently conflicting requirements of low mass, good shape adaptability, and high load-bearing capability. This work describes the fabrication of deployable structures using smart soft composite actuators combining a soft matrix with variable stiffness properties and hinge-like movement through a rigid skeleton.

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Wooden Box #1 - Laser Cutting Designs & Ideas

Laser Cutting #19

Wooden Box Designs & Ideas #1: Laser cut and handcrafted storage box made from birch wood. Displays a geometric cube design. Great for jewelry, greeting cards, personal effects and storage or as a presentation and gift box. The lid is designed to stay in place without a lock or hinge. The measurements of the box are 6-1/2″ wide, 6-1/2″ Long and 4-1/2″ high when fully closed.

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Wooden Joinery #1 - Laser Cutting Designs & Ideas

Laser Cutting #20

Wooden Joinery Design & Ideas #1: Laser cutting is widely used by industrial designers and mechanical engineers as a rapid modeling tool. However, designing and fabricating laser cut assemblies can be a complex and tedious process, especially for novice designers. Joints between different parts of an assembly is a key aspect of translating a digital model into a physical model through laser cutting. Joinery was developed to facilitate this rapid modeling process as a parametric joint generation toolkit for laser cut assemblies.

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Wooden Coasters #2 - Laser Cutting Designs & Ideas

Laser Cutting #17

Wooden Coasters Designs & Ideas #2: Unique wood coaster set! In each set are 4 coasters. Great as home decor or gift to friends and family. Each coaster is 3.9 Inches / 10 cm diameter. Each of our coaster is unique with natural wood texture. Made of FSC certified birch wood.

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