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Foam Tower

A final foam experiment

Foam Tower is an experimental structure that expresses a tension between architectural tendency to build and control and the unpredictable behavior of expanding polyurethane foam.

The transcription of a shape into material is made through computed voxel grid - a transcriptions normally used for the opposite process: to make computer understand the space. The tension between  material, architecture and computation at its essence.

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Ars Electronica 2019!

The project was chosen to be the part of presentation of the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design at Ars Electronica Festival in Sptember 2019. As a contribution to the topic “The Ornaments of Postanthropocene“ we presented the live-time robotic production and assembly of structures. Uncontrolled, expanding foam as an unexpected ornamentation.

Some impressions from the exhibition, works by students of A3.

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Foam Structure I

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Alien Moods in Post-Digital Era

The production of grid using a robotic arm, resin and carbon thread.

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New Grids

Reconstructing some new fine grids to give directions to the streaming foam.

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GSM4 Qatar 2019

We presented CoEx at the prestigious conference Game Set and Match at the Qatar University in Doha, Qatar.

Organized by the Qatar University and prof. Kas Oosterhuis, the conference hosted many great speakers, among others Philippe Block, Marcos Novak, Philippe Morel, Shajaj Bhooshan (Zaha Hadid Architects) or Hafid Rakem (Jean Nouvel Architects).

Few impressions from the novel architecture of Qatar - The National Library of Qatar (OMA) and the Faculty of Islamic Studies (Mangera Yvars Architects).

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Publications in 2018:

Material Moods in the book Academical Platforms for Computational Design

Material Moods in the presentation sheet for the Acoustic Caves Exhibition

Material Moods at the conference Design Computing 2018

Material Moods in the magazine Architektura & Urbanizmus

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Acoustic Caves in Vienna

the complete Acoustic Caves exhibition + one bonus project were exhibited in the Czech Center in Vienna, Austria in summer 2018.

Photos by Louai Abdul Fattah