Author: Hamid Hassanzadeh

Text description provided by architects. Flux Vault is a stone vaulted pavilion designed by Maurizio Barberio and Giuseppe Fallacara in collaboration with the French company S.N.B.R. The pavilion represents the design of the representative stand of the same company and is designed for Rocalia, the fair dedicated to natural stone to be held in Lyon in December 2017. Flux covers an area of ??36 sq.m. (4.5 x 8 m) and has a maximum height of about 3.20 meters. The shape of the pavilion derives from a base surface formed by a network of exclusively catenary curves, in order to make…

Odunpazari Modern Art Museum by Kengo Kuma and Associates has opend its doors to public in Eskisehir, Turkey. The 4,500m2 museum houses an internationally significant collection of modern and contemporary art spanning the 1950s to the present day. The museum was founded by businessman and art collector Erol Tabanca. Text description provided by architects. Odunpazari Modern Art Museum is to exhibit the owner’s collection of Turkish modern art. The Museum is located in the city of Eskisehir where the owner, Mr. Erol TABANCA was born and raised. The project is to realize the owner’s ambition to promote Turkish art and…

“We are at the beginning of the robotic era in construction” says Joseph Sarafian of Form Found Design Architect Joseph Sarafian, CEO, and co-founder of Form Found Design, discussed the advantages of new design tools and robotic construction in an exclusive interview with Hamid Hassanzadeh of PA. Form Found Design is an LA-based studio that uses industrial robots to cast previously impossible concrete structures. Sarafian’s work has been featured in Time Magazine, Business Insider, Designboom, Dezeen, and multiple conference journals. Along with partner Ron Culver, Form Found Design has completed the MARS Pavilion in Palm Springs. Joseph also designed the City of Rayong’s first built, parametrically modeled façade…

Luai Kurdi experiments with 3d printing concrete by using parametric design and digital fabrication tools Luai Kurdi is an architect and designer who is exploring and investing in parametric design and digital fabrication. The emergence of technologies such as 3D Printing has enabled him to combine both design and fabrication disciplines using a 6-axis robotic arm (Kuka) to 3D Print with Concrete. Concrete has been used in the construction industry for thousands of years and today the hope is to bring this material closer to a world where design and geometrical complexity doesn’t impose a barrier for using this material…

San Francisco based British artist, James Owen, creates Flourishing named series of motion graphics using complex mathematical formulas in 3d modeling software. Flourishing is a study of light, shadow, form, and function. Built on the basic principles of trigonometry and a simple mathematical formula, this series aims to encapsulate the beauty of repetition while embracing the familiarity of space. About James Owen: James Owen is a Director and designer with meticulous attention to detail. He is originally from London, United Kingdom and he is currently based in San Francisco, California. He is an artist and designer who’s spent over a…

Vessel at Hudson Yards by Heatherwick Studio in New York, USA. Heatherwick studio was invited to design a public centerpiece for Hudson Yards, a new 11-hectare development on Manhattan’s upper west side being constructed above a huge rail yard. To create something memorable, the studio decided to create a structure that visitors might be able to use and touch, not just to look at. A design was developed for a new social landmark that could be climbed and explored by everyone. Influenced by the Indian stepwells of Rajasthan, formed from multitudes of stone staircases reaching down into the ground, the…

Digital Substance The Digital Substance of Oleg Soroko was generated by algorithms in Rhino3D and Grasshopper3D. Russian artist and designer Oleg Soroko of AfterForm explores the new possibilities of geometries and creates forms, modified by digital substance, generated with algorithms in Houdini, Rhino3D, and Grasshopper3D. Oleg is researching how procedural forms can bring a new fresh look to different objects like furniture, cars, architecture, and cloth. His goal is to create a new form of language by procedurally generated structures, based on the different physical processes, mixed and changed by an algorithm. The basic idea of this spiral look algorithm…

London Meets Melbourne as International Designers Reimagine The Suburban Shopping Mall. With the recent completion of the Sage Hotel, Ringwood, QIC has fnished its radical overhaul of the 1960s Eastland Shopping Centre. Located in a suburban fringe of Melbourne, Australia, the Eastland Town Center is the product of an unusual partnership between three design practices in London: ACME, Universal Design Studio and Sofroom. QIC commissioned Seventh Wave to appoint these three studios and oversee the project which spanned half the globe. Architects ACME designed the new hotel, as well as creating a town square, a sculptural entrance to the mall (the…

Melike Altinisik Architects showcased the Motion in the Shell installation at the 4th International Architectural Biennale in Antalya in 2017 and at the Design Week Turkey 2017. The installation, which is the end result of integrating traditional construction traditions in nature with modern and digital fabrication technologies, is inspired by the unique Mediterranean geographical location. The two main shells produced are designed as tools that create different areas of experience within the nature, using different materials and different fabrication techniques. Watch PA Talks 20, our interview with Melike Altinisik. While the ‘shell’ represents a static concept for its own existence,…

With their early work inspired by Russian Suprematism, Zaha Hadid Architects’ pays homage to the historical lineages of collective research that has led to the major works of today’s contemporary architecture at the 2012 Venice Biennale with the installation ‘Arum’. The pleated metal structure is derived from the work of German architect Frei Otto, who paved the way for material-structural form-finding processes. Arum is a response to David Chipperfield’s belief that the theme of ‘Common Ground’ is meant to “reassert the existence of an architectural culture, made up not just of singular talents but a rich continuity of diverse ideas…