"Or, as Saint-Just put it succinctly: "That which produces the general good is always terrible." [3] These words should not be interpreted as a warning against the temptation to impose violently the general good onto a society, but, on the contrary, as a bitter truth to be fully endorsed. - The further crucial point to bear in mind...

A top secret film shot by the CIA of a naval burial performed by the US Navy for six Soviet submariners found dead in the water. Listen to the words of the officiator. "The story leaked and the press were hounding Washington. The CIA Boss at the time admitted to a Congressional Hearing they had brought up pieces of the submarine,...

top: effect of having different horizons bottom: gradual horizon change when looking...

Diagram - Connections between different Spaces SPACE EARTH

+ rethinking the form in terms of incorporating dynamics - twisting and toroidal forms opening...

+ preview for massing strategies

+ revision of the sections based on the canonic section of Mies van der Rohes ...

+ just a little test on polar coordinates and behaviour of classic [terrestrial] sections, ...

showing the layered view to the top thinking about the facade as outer layer that would...

massing

in process THE KIMBELL-DIAGRAM-TRANSFORMATION -how to transform the ceiling into...

in this version, the long body is flipped horizontally (the new program is living) and the...

space collective rough massing model training center rough massing model

note the programs pack a long organ with an entity of its own which runs through the...

horizon/ boundary of the building in space is not cleary defined- opposed to the situation on...

several 3D samples with a continuous skeleton / hard core element, the soft core is in progress,...

1. General and local affinity versus individuality 2. Uniformity in the origin, but not...

_shaping towards rotational horizon

section showing program distribution section showing mass versus...

stuff i´m looking at right now in terms of "cells" and "form" ON...

from beauty to the beast / mystic, bizarr, strange / elegant / out of space alienated /...

Out of the section of the Unité d'habitation, the stacking and arraying of several...

The differentiation between private and public spaces, and the differentiation...

Ernst Häckel - Ophiodea

simple scheme of the section more detailed versions

side view top view detail view

I started building the three landscape elements and connected them to a ring. the part on the...

DIAGRAMS OF GROUND AND GRAVITY TOPICS ...the friction of two interlocking surfaces, like teeth...

model diameter: 20cm

model diamteter: 47cm

DIAGRAM_PROGRAM - VOLUME - SURFACE RELATION DIAGRAM_PROGRAM

...says biommimicry guru Janine Benyus in an interview she gave to Jennifer Leonard of Massive Change Radio. Benyus links rhino horns with self-healing plastics, coral reefs with interconnected economies. More here and here.

Inspired by the asthetic of fluid dynamics in the rayleigh taylor experiment the focus of this...