090325_THEVERYMANY_Log

SAN FRANCISCO RHINOSCRIPT WORKSHOP March 28-29, 2009
Marc Fornes will be teaching for MCNeel US a two days Rhinoscript workshop as part of FLUX, an event hosted by CCA - California College of the Arts.
Invitation: McNeel US - Scott Davidson
(Thank you to Andrew Kudless from MATSYS - www.materialsystems.org/ - to make it happen!)
http://mlab.cca.edu/?p=453


SAN FRANCISCO RHINOSCRIPT WORKSHOP V2 March 30-31, 2009
Marc Fornes will be teaching a second Rhinoscript workshop while at the Flux event; that one will be hosted by the CCA Industrial Design Department - California College of the Arts.
http://design.cca.edu/graduate/
Note: that second workshop was organized through a direct student request - thank you to Kristin Neidlinger to make that one happen! - if also interested in such rhinoscript workshops do not hesitate to contact me...

090315_(n)CERTAINTIES_DieAngewandte

(n)certainties v3.0 | Cross Over Studio | Die Angewandte
STUDIO: Francois Roche, Marc Fornes, Stephan Henrich
Student's work exhibition - Opening: 17. March 2009, 20:30



/// Adam Orlinsky

SCENARIO [ SUBSTANCE > ROBOT > PROTOCOL OF MORPHOLGY ]




/// Jan Gronkiewicz and Valerie Messini



/// Dominik Strzelec and Galo Moncayo


/// Raffael Petrovic


/// Martin Kleindienst and Vladimir Ivanov




/// MirkoDaneluzzo and MartinaJohannaLesjak


FINAL REVIEW //////////////////////////////////////////////////////
(from left to right)Stephan Heinrich, Staphanie Lavaux, , Francois Roche, Alisa Andrasek (Biothing) + (not on the photo) Kivi Sotamaa and Marc Fornes

090309_POLY-FACETS Ceiling (DD)

Few images of a entrance hall project developed for a famous high end hotel brand in Bahrain.

The design is pretty simple and mainly relies on a dramatic "weaved" ceiling: its overall surface geometry - symmetric - is responding to two grand staircases; it is "dressed" through similar tiling (non repetitive) based on a simple mix between a honeycomb pattern and a faceted diamond shape.




1.6m x 1.6m mock up (1:1) - Fabrication Milgo/Bufkin, Brooklyn, NYC
The sample panel was fabricated from 8 continuous folded strips, laser cut from flat sheets (1/16" thick stainless steel) and welded together (the overall weights around 90 kilos!)



Originally thought as golden anodized aluminum it was finally replaced with a metallic golden lacquer finish apply once assembled mainly to avoid the maximum of scratches due to processing (laser cut, folding, etc...)



note: many thanks to Lucios Santos for the photos!