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Project by Maria Gutierrez

Via Judit Kimpian of Aedas who attended this year’s Bentley Smart Geometry conference in San Francisco in early April comes this post from Jenny Sabin, a director of Philadelphia-based CabinStudio and an instructor at UPenn:

I’ve chosen projects from Smart Geometry 09 that are especially forward thinking in their definition of environment and energy. The rendered and drawn results are generated through models that are constructed from a set of bottom-up rules.  Material, geometry, form and environment are not separate from each other, but share reciprocal relationships through a rigorous modeling of inputs.  The two projects below have a reciprocal loop between code and pattern and with geometry, structure, material organization, fabrication and assembly and most importantly with environment.

WASTE - Devin Jernigan

Devin Jernigan's project, 'Waste'

Devin’s project represents a network of US Environmental Protection Agency dirty waste points in New York City. The points represent a network of different types of waste: sewage, hazardous, air emissions. These are proposed as sensors for the city, which determine highest density regions where cleansing “seed” towers could formulate to store, clean, and redistribute the waste material, acting as a local ecological contact with the city. This geometrical model thinks specifically about self-justifying point sets which will create their own sub-networks specific to individual “seed” locations. In moving forward with this project, Devin hopes to produce analytical data systems, which will program and influence the design of the “seed” towers.

Interface  - Eugene Lee

Eugene Lee's 'Interface'

This project incorporates energy efficient parameters such as natural ventilation and glazing with issues of use and occupation such as ‘view’. Sustainability should include human use and our desire to enter or not to enter a space. Here, the quantitative needs of energy efficiency are  considered equally with qualitative needs of space-making and human occupation. Lee’s project sets up a working model for this hybrid scenario.

Project by Bianca Toth

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