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Parametric Permanent – Stuttgarter Fernsehturm Tattoo
I started my second internship in Stuttgart on April 1st two years ago, and since then I have had a glance of the Stuttgart TV-tower practically every day on my way to the office.The Stuttgarter Fernsehturm is one of my favourite structures, and holds a very special place in my structural-engineer-heart. So, now when I’m…
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Grasshopper Easter Egg – Multi coloured meshes
My Rhino 6 asked to update and I discovered a brand new feature in Grasshopper after the installation! Apparently you can now color your own easter eggs with the gradient tool! All you need is an egg mesh which you plug into the gradient tool, and voilà, it will color eggs in all kinds of…
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Creating non-physical, negative spaces from sound – Waveforms in Grasshopper/Rhino
Today I got an email from the the Baltic International Summer School (B.I.S.S at HafenCity Universität Hamburg, HCU) with a link to the newly (online) published book about the workshop in which I was a participant in the summer of 2016. The topic of the workshop was “Urban futures – think the link”. But my…
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Rigid origami – Form finding and dynamic relaxation
A couple of years ago I stumbled upon the term rigid origami while doing research for a university architecture project. The project was part of a course called “Optimized structures” and our task was to conceive an optimized structure. As with most crazy architecture projects we were allowed to roam free and conceive any kind…
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A very fractal Christmas, and a recursive new year
This December is apparently extreme with regard to weather in Stuttgart, where I am currently doing my internship. There have been storms, extreme cold and “heavy” snow fall. For a northerner like me it’s practically a pretty decent winter so far, and I really do like snow. So much in fact that I decided I…
