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Caustic Architecture is featured on the first edition of Lobby Un/Spectacle

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This Futuristic Tentacle Pavilion Morphs With Your Thoughts | The Creators Project

From researchers Bijing Zhang and Francois Mangion, 'Furl' is a model of a kinetic pavilion that changes shape according to brainwaves.

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Consequential Spaces is an interactive experience which explores the consequences of marine water ballast and the unintentional transport of marine life across oceans. This research-based narrative is part of Fascinate 2014 (Falmouth, Cornwall, UK) and is carried out by B-Pro graduates and IAL members:  William Bondin, Francois Mangion, George Tsakiridis, Eleftheria Varda and Chryssa Varna

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Evoking back historical applications of light architecture to exploit its strong communicative ”power” towards a new type of optical architecture in the future.

This research project proposes a desire to challenge the use of technologies available in the architectural field to overcome any historical limitations and conceive an all-round tool of form, function and experience. From analogue to digital to computational, this research engages in a continual serial exchange between the visual and the technical. The computational translation of light itself follows the complex nature of optics hitting a pre-designed undulating surface, the same way as natural caustics, generating multiple 3D light iterations. This process generates intricate and elaborate geometry that represents an architectural vision and a creative digital form finding, combined with the possibilities of design through rules of nature and manufacturing methods. For the very first time the natural focusing of light into form, was able to generate tangible physical architectural surfaces, generating an architectural language where form, matter and function co-exist through a one cohesive process.