Testing Posts Tagged ‘Consulting’
Sky Rail
Final Prototype (Image by SUM Arch)
Final Design (Image by SUM Arch)
Site Diagram (Image by SUM Arch)
Process: Step 1: Select Guidelines
Process: Step 2: Mesh creation through script
Process: Step 3: Convert to Polysurface
Process: Step 4: Convert to Mesh and Weld Seams
Process: Step 5: Smooth Mesh
View inside the railing of the twisting holes
Prototype image showing the angled aperatures
Year: 2007-2008
Location: San Francisco
Description: Matsys was hired as a computational geometry consultant by SUM Arch on this residential project to help create tools to design a stair railing. Using a series of user-generated guidelines, the script builds a irregular cellular pattern of apertures on the railing. Based on a field of attractors, the apertures rotate in the plane of the railing causing the entire railing to open towards certain views as a person walks up or down the stair. Dozens of script iterations were explored before the final design was achieved.
SmartCloud
Physical prototype by Cook + Fox
Digital prototype: natural light
Digital prototype: artifical light
Digital prototype: night lighting
Labeling system for prototype
Ceiling plan of built prototype
Unrolled cells for laser-cutting
Early design prototypes
Early Design Prototypes: Scripts were created for each scenario for design team exploration and testing
Early Design Prototypes: Fabrication issues
Early Design Prototype: Fabrication diagram
Early Design Prototype: Plan of Scheme 5
Early Design Prototype: Section through Scheme 05
Year: 2007
Location: New York
Description: Matsys provided computational design consulting for Cook + Fox on this project. The project was sited in the lobby of a fashion designer’s studio in a Manhattan tower. The design team needed tools to help them model, visualize, and fabricate their design. Matsys created several rhinoscripts that could be used by the design team to iteratively explore their design concept.