Circular Kyoto – Flows
During the Atelier Huang Fall Semester 2022 students focused on a particular shokunin (artisan) and their craft, which ranged from kaiseki (seasonal, traditional cuisine), wagashi (Japanese confections), sake (Japanese alcohol), paper products (Karakami), kyo-shikki (lacquerware),to tatami and architectural parts. The analysis of the different flows undermining the making of the product, from material sourcing to (…)
Gangnam Living Blocks
Atelier Huang Fall 2021Superblock, Gangnam, Seoul, South Korea.Gangnam District, the newest city center of Seoul, South Korea which has drawn attention internationally due to the worldwide K-Pop song “Gangnam Style” is the site and field of experimentation. With a grid network – superblocks with a division of smaller urban blocks of various scaled buildings – (…)
Virtual Parliament
Atelier Huang Spring 2021On December 11, 2020, the Swiss Parliament in Berne urgently accepted an initiative to allow congress members (Nationalrat/Conseil national) to vote remotely due to COVID-19, and a few days later, Sophie Michaud Gigon, the Green Party Representative from the Canton Vaud, became the first parliament member in Swiss history to cast a (…)
Singapore Studio 01
This fall 2016 our studio site is Changi Business Park in Singapore, a rapidly growing island-nation that has evolved from a port city to a logistics, service and knowledge hub. The site is located at the eastern edge of Singapore, directly adjacent to the Changi Airport; which ranks among the busiest airports in the world (…)
Workshop: Aesthetics of Data
For the last two days we have been very lucky to have the landscape architect Liam Mouritz leading our students in a workshop entitled, ‘Aesthetics of Data.’ Combining algorithmic technique with state-of-the-art datasets Liam has worked with our students to create critically-articulate, and visually-persuasive cartographies of the Changi airport area in Singapore.Liam Mouritz practices as (…)
Singapore Prototypologies
We would like to announce the publication of our latest studio retrospective: ‘Singapore Prototypologies.’ Reviewing two semesters of students work from the MediaxDesign lab’s masters of architecture studio, the book explores the uniqueness of Singaporean urbanization and the challenges and opportunities of designing for the creative economy.https://morphogenesis16.wordpress.comImage credits: MxD
Singapore Studio 02
This Spring 2017 we are holding our second Singapore Studio and asking our students to propose innovation prototypologies- architectures that cater to the creative class. Our site, as in the previous semester, is the innovation district of Changi Business Park, anchored by the new Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD).Designing for innovation requires that (…)
Studio Launch: Xixinan Rural Return
This year’s studio develops the architectural implications of the Rural Return: a movement combining reverse migration of China’s urbanized villagers back to their ancestral homes and the renewed interest of China’s urban elite in rural history and lifestyle. The studio takes place in Xixinan village, a historic rural village near the Huangshan Mountains in Anhui (…)
Xixinan Dynamic Model
Students have begun overlaying dynamic content onto the Xixinan site model. This technique allows us to focus on urban dimensions of time and motion which have been important throughout the semester. Augmenting the traditional architectural model with animated sound, color and lights expands our narrative range and helps us think of the village as a (…)
Design Decoder
An initial software prototype capable of automating the process of decoding a commonly used parametric design data (PDD) file format and then re-encoding it with new set of metrics to facilitate multiple PDD searchability, comparability and interoperability, via an integrated web interface querying a design data repository. All PDDs are conceptualized as genealogies of numerical (…)
Forming/Unforming Book Design
Forming/Unforming is a publication for SUTD’s Architecture and Sustainable Design programme. The design process of the book involves the creation of algorithms to both extract and curate its very content. Natural language processing algorithms are used to measure, identify and summarise documents’ textual content, while image processing algorithms are used to extract and quantise documents’ (…)
Remix
An on-going research that explores the potential of algebraic recombination of learned high-dimensional vector representations for generative design. A series of interfaces were developed to investigate these latent design spaces. In progress.keywords: Dimensionality Reduction, Computer Vision, Combinatorics, Voxel, Javadesign research: Immanuel Kohcreative-coding: Immanuel Kohvideo 1video 2Image credits: Immanuel Koh
Voxel Synthesis
In the ever-evolving world of computer rendering technologies, the demand for more original and diverse 3D models is ever-increasing to the point where the man-hours for creating these models for video games, movies and architectural designs are counted in hundreds, if not thousands. This project proposes a new way to generate relatively large voxel models (…)
Markov Spaces
Creating two-dimensional tile maps by hand is a long and tedious process. Tile maps contain an inherent structure and repetition that we should be able to exploit. We provide a way of generating these maps automatically using machine learning techniques. With these set of tools level designers will be able to create worlds that are (…)
The Next 50
The Next 50 showcases innovations from SUTD at the intersection of design and technology for a Better Singapore. It is a SG50 exhibition about the future, the next 50 years, rather than the past — reflecting the forward-looking spirit of the new university. The design was generated artificially by algorithms: it was primarily driven by (…)