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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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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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The missing ellipse – Grasshopper plugin
In Rhino there are a few options to create ellipses, but let’s face it, it’s not every time that know the two radii or foci of the ellipse, but rather only one radii and one point on the boundary. Why is the option to create an ellipse with these paramaters not already in the software?…
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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…
