#ezct

[aan1]

#xtreee #3dprinting #impression #beton #centregeorgespompidou #MutationsCreations #vertigo #computationaldesign #philippemorel #felixagid #ezct (at Centre Pompidou)

[aan1]

AA[n+1] Architecture & Analysis brings together incisive, creative young minds, formally taking on what would best be described as curatorial roles. They belong to a small but outspoken group of digitally-literate individuals who, for the most part, have received teachings – or worked closely – with architects from EZCT Architecture & Design Research – a Franco-Dutch, research-oriented multidisciplinary studio which, for the last few years, has been tirelessly promoting the immeasurable potentialities of computational design and fabrication through both practice and academia. In 2012, some of the firm’s principals were associated with the creation of the Digital Knowledge educational programme, a course plan taking roots at the École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture Paris-Malaquais, seeking to present an updated view on the discipline – something that remains a contentious topic among the faculty’s professoriate – and allows students to get a first-hand look into the use of digital tools and methodologies to widen the scope of architectural design and reassess its processes. AA[n+1] Architecture & Analysis thus decided to kick-off its curatorial activities with the exhibition and screening of the department’s most recent student work. Set up in the organisation’s workspace in the 11th arrondissement of Paris, the event showcased a series of creative experiments, ranging from the sleek and pristine laser-cut object to the busted, glue-dripping tectonic mock-up. Yet, all of them appear to make a compelling case for a widespread use of robotics in architecture and construction. The projects were ambitious and tackled far-reaching technical and technological goals. Most of them were fed from a common yearning for a greater efficiency of the various industrial manufacturing strategies out there. Squeezed between rowdy kebab shops and edgy, counter-culture themed contemporary art galleries, the host venue became for the evening, a place where one could rub shoulders with architects, artists, teachers and geeky tech-heads to casually discuss, over a glass of French wine, coding, algorithms, concrete and resin. More recently, AA[n+1] Architecture & Analysis held its first masterclass, a one-week workshop that ran as an intensive, highly-focused training opportunity, promoting a progressive exploratory and trandisciplinary agenda. As part of this advanced educational outreach, the participants – young programmers, engineers and designers – had been given the opportunity to witness how collaboration and experimentation are two key inputs to realising innovation. Going back and forth between seminar-like courses and tutorials for a hands-on introduction to computational software of the latest generation and prototyping/manufacturing techniques, the programme was set up to achieve tangible outcomes, in this instance, the production of a composite chair – made of resin and carbon – which shape was calculated/determined by genetic algorithms. Interveners included Philippe Morel, a French architect, theorist and co-founder of EZCT Architecture & Design Research who also holds teaching positions at the École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture Paris-Malaquais and at the Bartlett School of Architecture in London, as well as Achille Lerpinière, polytechnicien and École des Ponts ParisTech-trained architect-engineer. It is safe to say that the initiators of such a project are paving the way for a new generation of recent graduates of the arts and applied sciences, driven to succeed and longing to instrumentalise their cultural capital by means of knowledge-sharing events, set up on their own initiative. Photos courtesy of AA[n+1] Architecture & Analysis

Great team ! I love you guys ! 

[aan1]

Still #computing for #composite #chair #masterclass @aan1 #lab. Now #resin #coating With #ezct #deluxe #workshop #stayingupallnightforhardworkers

[ecoarch]

Seroussi Pavilion / EZCT

http://scriptedbypurpose.wordpress.com/participants/ezct/

[aa-nplus1]

[cydoniangaijin]

Fate Is A Wonderful Thing

For the final grading of my course we need to do an independant final major project. This wednesday we will need to pitch our ideas, but this time last week I had no idea what my concept would be. That was until I stumbled across a book called Future Cities in the library. I had gone to the architecture section with a blind hope I would find some inspiration for this weeks project, which is on architecture. Turns out that this book has some amazing architecture in it. It was there I found EZCT Architecture & Design Research and Objectile, both design companies that use a combination of technology and maths to create their designs.

And that is what gave me my idea for my final major project theme. Basically, my concept is a dark prediciton of the future of the fashion industry: what if computers took over?! This world is relying more and more on technology and other industries are becoming automated; the production side of the fashion industry is already highly automated. But what if designers themselves became obsolete and designs were generated by computers using optimisation algorithms? That is what I will be exploring for my final major project.

Algorithms to create designs already exist, to a certain extent, in architecture and it's really quite fascinating. I'm a nerd deep down, not your average fashion girl, so I'm not going to lie, I am really excited by this! The best part is when I went for an interview at my current college (for the degree course there, I'm only on foundation at the moment), one of the reasons I didn't get in was because the interviewer thought I should have done a maths degree and didn't think I was committed enough to fashion because I did best in my maths A-Level. (why that matters to her I still don't know) So I'll show her that an A* in A-Level maths can be put to good use on a fashion degree.

I still wonder what would have happened if I'd never picked up that book... 

[forvillelser]

Hyperexperience.com rapporterar om EZCTs experiment med att framställa stolar på (artificiellt) biologiskt vis. De använder en genetisk algoritm (komplett med mutering) för att få fram generationer med stolar som besitter olika egenskaper och därmed utseende. Utforskningar som dessa faller mig i smaken. Mer info och bilder hittar du som sagt på Hyperexperience men även på EZCTs hemska flash-hemsida.