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Contemporary architecture exists in a condition of software abstraction. From CAD to BIM, the building’s state is that of a pliable parameter space of structural possibilities.

Digital architectural renderings are the stuff of juries and prizes, designed to impress. Dotted with render ghosts sparsely populating impossibly gleaming structures, these immaculate design fictions suggest and promise, but above all they appeal to the imagination. They invent.

11 Fictions Are takes digital renders of contemporary architectural projects and further fictionalises them. An automated pointilism procedure is used to abstract the renders using algorithms prevalent in parametric design itself, closing the loop of fictions with a machinic reference to the human hand.

 

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“Immensity is an intimate dimension”
Gaston Bachelard

 

stro’ phe’ nome is a visual series produced using a gestural interface which amplifies mouse input, creating complexity out of subtle fluctuations. Panoramas emanate from small gestures. Unseen architectures are made tangible.

27 original graphics.

 

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]]> http://stdio-london.com/?feed=rss2&p=348 stdio.005 http://stdio-london.com/?p=316 http://stdio-london.com/?p=316#comments Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:33:37 +0000 admin http://stdio-london.com/?p=316 Supersurface A is a series of graphical works produced as a study into volume, rhythm and surface. The generative graphics are composed of a field of lines subject to deformations through the placement of attractors at different points in space.

The series represents a set of spatial configurations that offer a glimpse into a large state space of potential compositions, produced through the use of 1 or 2 activators and inhibitors acting on up to 1600 line elements.

The concept of spatial order arising through activators and inhibitors comes from developmental cell biology, in which pattern creation arises out of a reaction-diffusion dynamics, first formulated by Alan Turing in his landmark paper on morphogenesis.

The term supersurface was introduced into architectural discourse by Superstudio, but has later been associated with morpho-ecological (ME) architectural practice.

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]]> http://stdio-london.com/?feed=rss2&p=316 stdio.004 http://stdio-london.com/?p=8 http://stdio-london.com/?p=8#comments Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:54:25 +0000 admin http://stdio-london.com/?p=8 Auxin is a sound work produced using principles from systems biology. Inspired by morphogenesis in cellular systems, the act of composition becomes a question of placing attractors, activators and inhibitors into a sound environment in order to cause deformations and growth patterns.

]]> http://stdio-london.com/?feed=rss2&p=8 stdio.003 http://stdio-london.com/?p=164 http://stdio-london.com/?p=164#comments Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:21:13 +0000 admin http://stdio-london.com/?p=164 Permutopia is an assemblage of found sound — tape loops, turntable manipulations and field recordings combined into textured compositions. Based on 6 different visions of utopia — from techno-agrarian island idylls to anarchic moon colonies — sound is used as an evocation of new forms of living.

Taking its cues from the work of superstudio, Ursula K. Le Guin, Aldous Huxley, Ivor De Wolfe and others, the work is a tribute to past futures.

Permutopia was recorded by cacao, April-July 2009 in Hackney, London. The download comes with six original pieces of artwork.

“A stunningly beautiful piece of work…”
Drowned In Sound

“Glitches & judders work the more obviously pretty into something richer & deeper…”
Lend Me Your Ears

01 Life Without Objects 06:11
02 Kallipolis 09:18
03 For Civilia 02:33
04 Anarres 09:53
05 Circum Europa 03:15
06 Palanese 07:53
]]> http://stdio-london.com/?feed=rss2&p=164 stdio.002 http://stdio-london.com/?p=11 http://stdio-london.com/?p=11#comments Sun, 29 Mar 2009 19:54:49 +0000 admin http://stdio-london.com/?p=11 Tropisms I-VI was recorded and produced by cacao in 2008 as a series of environmental reflexes encoded in sound. The six compositions look to biological form to express states, the term tropism referring to the directional reaction of biological organisms to stimuli.

The project started out as a re-reading of Nathalie Sarraute’s 1939 collection of vignettes of the same name, which sought to re-establish relationships between the biological and the psychological in literature, describing inner movements of the mind as physical phenomena.

01 Tropism I 07:06
02 Tropism II 08:55
03 Tropism III 06:35
04 Tropism IV 04:01
05 Tropism V 06:31
06 Tropism VI 12:52
]]> http://stdio-london.com/?feed=rss2&p=11 stdio.001 http://stdio-london.com/?p=144 http://stdio-london.com/?p=144#comments Thu, 19 Mar 2009 20:18:09 +0000 admin http://stdio-london.com/?p=144 The stdio logotype. One of over 30 musical notation symbols used in Ancient Greece, each capable of communicating note pitch and duration for vocal & instrumental music over 2 millennia ago.

The logo is utf-8 compliant: Its code is 1D235. You can download it in vector & raster formats below.

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