Our project is featured in the summer edition of IDSA’s Innovation quarterly. “Design for ________”. by Jacqueline Kern. The article discussed the UC and Live Well Collaborative’s Boeing Onboard project which was covered at UC Magazine in Spring 2018.
Mara Marcu, Ming Tang, Adam Schueler’s project “Optical Illusions of Volume” is exhibited at the ‘DATA & MATTER’ Exhibition in Venice.
Palazzo Bembo, Riva del Carbon, Venice, Italy. May 24th to November 25th 2018.
Images and video creadit to DATA & MATTER Exhibion. GAA Foundation – EUROPEAN CULTURAL CENTRE
“Time – Space – Existence” during the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale
May 26 – November 25,2018 Palazzo Bembo,Venice, Italy
Exhibition curated by: Marcella Del Signore, Nancy Diniz , Frank Melendez.
More information on our exhibtion is avialble on the UC News “UC’s Mara Marcu talks ‘Optical Illusions of Volume’ exhibit at Venice Biennale” by Michele Ralston. August, 2018.
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DATA & Matter Exhibition at the GAA Foundation and European Cultural Centre during the #2018VeniceArchitectureBiennale May 26 – November 25, 2018 – Palazzo Bembo, Venice, Italy
Exhibition Curated by: Marcella Del Signore, Nancy Diniz and Frank Melendez.
https://dataandmatter.wordpress.com
12 projects at the “Time – Space – Existence” during the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale
The exhibition presents a group of projects by leading international designers using emerging and novel forms of reading and producing spatial conditions that connect/visualize data, responsive systems, and sensing/actuation technologies, through micro and macro scales. The exhibition takes the opportunity to exhibit a range of projects, side by side, that transform DATA as an abstraction into spatial and experiential configurations. It aims at triggering discussion and debate on how the use of data in design methodologies and theoretical discourses have evolved in the last two decades and why processes of data measurement, quantification, simulation, ubiquitous technologies and algorithmic control, and their integration into methods of making architectural form and spatial experiences, are becoming vital in academic and industry practices.
Changbai Mountain Forest and Hot Spring Resort
长白山森林温泉度假酒店
Changbaishan. China.
Consultant work for BLVD Architects,
Status:: completed.
Ming Tang worked with BLVD architect develop a parametric roof model for construction. The 3D roof structure was constructed as an information model containing a large number of parameters that were manipulated in various design phases. The construction is completed in 2022.
more information on the project is available at the BLDV project gallery.
MetroLAB is a public-interest design/build program at the University of Cincinnati School of Architecture and Interior Design. This book highlights the mission, participants and projects from 2011-2017. The book is available for preview / order at Blurb.
Prof Tang’s ITSC RENOVATION project is featured in the book. This Metro Lab studio addressed the renovation of an existing interior space in the Information Technology Solution Center (ITSC) on the UC west campus. ITSC is an initiative of the School of Information Technology (SoIT) at the College of Education, Criminal Justice, Human Services and Information Technology (CECH), combining student workers with experienced full-time staff to create innovative technology solutions and reliable support. The objective of the renovation is to create a new high-tech look and an identity for the center and meet the growing needs for client meetings, demonstrations as well as for the staff of ITSC to produce their work.
The proposed design includes new interior surfaces, furniture, and other interior elements. The team also need to complete all fabrications and assembling job within a limited $9,000 budget. The SAID design-build team utilized the cutting-edge computer-aided design (CAD) tools as well as computer-aided manufacture (CAM) tools and completed the entire project under the budget in only thirteen weeks.
In the design phase, students were required to develop a sequence of iterations to reflect the interior surface tessellation and optimization process of plywood panels. Parametric design software Rhino and grasshopper were used to form a network of triangular shapes and optimized the orientation of each panel based on the material performance and the relation to the daylight. This process created a smooth transition between frame-like panels to solid sheet panels. Later, the similar tessellation approach was used to create the table. The same triangular pattern is adjusted to achieve desired aesthetics on the new partition walls.
The inputs for the CAM pipeline include cutting patterns, panel anchor points, labels, and sheet layout while the outputs are sets of flatted triangular panels ready for CNC milling in the rapid prototyping center at DAAP. In the final assembling, fifty-two different wood panels were installed precisely on the wall.
Check more details on Prof. Tang’s MetroLAB studio here.
