Teodor Michalski Portfolio

Teodor Michalski Architecture / Graphic Design

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Imago Research Group robotically-fabricated experimental pavilion.

Final stage of our roboic fabrication project: a full scale, 12.5 x 7.5 m, self-supporting, parametrically-designed and robotically-fabricated pavilion. Consisting of 132 individual elements made of hard styrofoam, it can be assembled, disassembled and reassembled without the use of glue or any additional connectors.

It was fabricated using a Fanuc M710iC/45M six-axis robotic arm, guided by the second iteration of our robot controlling app, which assisted with data conversion from a Grasshopper definition into instructions for the robot. Designed with this method of fabrication in mind, all the elements were defined using ruled surfaces with precise offsets to achieve fabrication tolerances of less then 0.5 mm allowing the 3D-puzzle-shaped to fit tightly together.

My role in the project spanned from design to coding most of the app on both PC and robot sides to prototyping to fabrication supervision.

Proper project documentation will follow as soon as it is completed.

Team: Mateusz Binkowski Kazik Janusz Mateusz Kaczmarczyk Teodor Michalski Marta Noga Michał Sajdek Paweł Sikorski Karol Wawrzkiewicz Wojtek Wojas

Organizational support: dr Farid Nassery (Faculty of Architecture) dr Stanisław Krenich (Faculty of Mechanical Engineering)

Sponsors: Robotrendy FANUC Polska Termo Organika

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Imago Research Group at OSSA Zakopane architectural workshop.

Imago was invited to OSSA workshop as a special robotic fabrication group. We arrived with a cute and handy Kawasaki RS005 robotic arm offered by the Astor company and set to create an installation inspired by local artisan woodworking traditions.

Using a low-tech but efficient gripper and wooden slats pre-cut to specified lengths we assembled a sculpture with three hexagonal faces in the form a truncated tetrahedron. We expanded the features of our robot controlling app to feed data from a Processing-generated design to the robot, allowing it to accurately pick & place the parts.

I was responsible, besides the collective design phase, for coding the new data pipeline and supervising the fabrication process.

Team:

Mateusz Binkowski Paulina Borkowska Kazik Janusz Mateusz Kaczmarczyk Ania Kisiel Kasia Klimasz Jakub Ławicki Teodor Michalski Paweł Sikorski

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DMDmodular logo redesign.

After a major changes, modular building company DMDmodular was in need of a rebrand. As an in-house graphic designer I was responsible for creating a new graphic identity for the company. I have prepared a full set of logotype variants for web and print usage, as well as business cards, layouts for brochures, catalogues etc.

Company site: dmdmodular.com

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First outcome of an ongoing robotic fabrication project at Imago Research Group at CUT in collaboration with the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Astor company.

We coded a Processing/Java application capable of controlling Kawasaki robots on-line. As a first test we used it to create a series of graphics combing the digital outcomes of generative and parametric algorithms and material character of the drawing process. The artworks were displayed during an exhibition in Kotłownia gallery in Cracow.

Team: Paulina Borkowska and Ania Kisiel - project managment Paweł Sikorski and Teodor Michalski - programming & artworks Maciek Bajor, Angelika Owczarek, Mateusz Kaczmarczyk - artworks

Supervision: Farid Nassery and Stanisław Krenich

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Adaptation of 1/9 of the three Marconi towers in Rotterdam made as a group project during Continous Variation studio at TU Delft Hyperbody studio.

The proposal features a vertically adaptive floor system designed for a multi-purpose cultural center with social theater as the key function. Full presentation and description here.

Group:

Dore Blay Leslie Che Rui Jian Teodor Michalski Blanka Omari Tutors:

Kas Oosterhuis Henriette Bier Nimish Biloria

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Interactive Bodies workshop at TU Delft Hyperbody. Full presentation available here.

Group:

Dore Blay Leslie Che Rui Jian Teodor Michalski Blanka Omari

Tutor:

Gary Chang

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The 1930 Wolkenkrabber of Amsterdam redesigned in wood for Delft Seminars on Building Technology. 

Main focus of the project is a passive climate control system, featuring double facades, winter gardens and a solar chimney with adjustable modes of operation. Load bearing structure made entirely out of wood, with mass timber panels as both the envelope and the core together with glulam beams and columns in between. 

Tutor:  Gilbert Koskamp

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Next Big One competiton entry. Aqua estates: disaster-resilient, self-assembling floating habitats for Vancouver.

Emerging Designers Honorable Mention

Group: Monika Chrapczyńska Kasia Klimasz Teodor Michalski Agata Pałach Kuba Senkowski

Tutor: prof. Chris Doray

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Various renderings made during my short period of work for Miastologia.

Here shown straight out of Blender, without any post-processing.

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Proposition and prototype of an interactive art installation made during Design for Conservation seminar at Cracow University of Technology. The prototype was made using Processing programming language and Leap Motion technology. 

See a longer preview of the sketch in my Processing Sketchbook.

Voice:  Ida Mikołajska

Tutor: Katarzyna Kołodziejczyk

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Smart vertical farm. Conceptual project for Rural Design seminar featuring self-contained, movable aeroponics units crawling over empty facades of blocks of flats in need of retrofitting.

Tutor: Jan Łaś

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Submission for an entry competition for "informational.infrastructures" student workshop in Cracow.

Theme: data flow

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Results of an international student workshop in Halle-Neustadt. The aim of the workshop was to create ideas for bringing life back into Neustadt, a half-abandoned district of Halle. Group 9 proposal focuses on connectivity, intending to make the modernist utopia work again by transforming it into a centre of a network of suburbia. A space syntax analysis is used as a proof-of-concept for the idea, illustrating a drastic change in connectivity that may be triggered by making just a few new links to the surrounding.

Group:

Miriam Michon, Delft Sen Mu, Delft Elisa Reschke, Dresden Sarah Holbrouck, Gent Wim L'Ecluse, Gent Teodor Michalski, Cracow

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Housing infill in a dense urban context. Location: Barska Street, Cracow.

During the design process the functional layout of the building is adapted to personal needs of the future inhabitants using a genetic algorithm working within the boundaries of a strict modular system. The individual flats are created and placed according to user preferences regarding the size, number of levels and exposition. In this way the form of the building is established in a bottom-up process, following just a few basic constrains imposed top-down: the boundaries of building site and maximum height. This stage is followed by a further individualisation of both interior and the exterior, resulting in highly customised living space, without abandoning the benefits of prefabrication.

Plomba (”infill” in polish) was my bachelor diploma project.

Tutor: prof. Anna Palej

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Entry for the 2014 Evolo skyscraper competition.

A new take on an old idea by Buckminster Fuller to make a flying building by heating up air inside a huge geodesic sphere. 

Group:

Kasia Klimasz Teodor Michalski Kuba Senkowski Paweł Sikorski

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Movie made during XVII OSSA Wrocław architectural workshops by group 8.

Group: Yuenfung Cheung Karolina Studencka Teodor Michalski Paulina Staniszewska Weronika Bogal Maria Cudecka Anna Pierańska Konrad Onderko Przemysław Smalcerz Adam Łyko Agata Matczuk

Tutors: Kato Hiroshi Tomonori Makita

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Submission for an entry competition for OSSA 2013 student workshop in Wrocław.

Made after I run into some problems with my initial, a bit more serious, idea, which you can see in my Processing sketchbook.

Theme: golden ratio.