2011 Spring
Designer: Atsushi Sugiuchi
LatticeSnap_v2.0 is a MEL script and works based on "polyFace number." In this example, two polygon surfaces are topologically identical, and the object is duplicated and placed between them.
//as_latticeSnap_v2.0
//By Atsushi Sugiuchi
//Update: 2011.05.05
//Status: Working
global proc as_latticeSnap(){
string $selection[] = `ls -sl`;
string $part = $selection[0];
string $upperSrf = $selection[1];
string $bottomSrf = $selection[2];
string $upperSrfTemp[] = `polyListComponentConversion -tf $upperSrf`;
string $upperSrfFaces[] = `filterExpand -selectionMask 34 $upperSrfTemp`;
string $bottomSrfTemp[] = `polyListComponentConversion -tf $bottomSrf`;
string $bottomSrfFaces[] = `filterExpand -selectionMask 34 $bottomSrfTemp`;
int $number =(size($bottomSrfFaces) -1);
for ($i = 0 ; $i <= $number ; $i++)
{
string $upperSrfVtxTemp[] = `polyListComponentConversion -tv ($upperSrf + ".f[" + $i + "]")`;
string $upperSrfVtx[] = `filterExpand -selectionMask 31 $upperSrfVtxTemp`;
int $numberC =(size($upperSrfVtx) -1);
string $bottomSrfVtxTemp[] = `polyListComponentConversion -tv ($bottomSrf + ".f[" + $i + "]")`;
string $bottomSrfVtx[] = `filterExpand -selectionMask 31 $bottomSrfVtxTemp`;
int $numberE =(size($bottomSrfVtx) -1);
//duplicate Object and create Lattice
duplicate -n Object0 -rc $part;
string $latticeOBJ[] = `lattice -divisions 2 2 2 -objectCentered true -n LT0 -ldv 2 2 2 ("Object" + $i)`;
string $latticePt[] = `filterExpand -selectionMask 46 ($latticeOBJ[1] + ".pt[0:1][0:1][0:1]") `;
vector $pointA[];
vector $pointB[];
string $tokenizedListA[];
string $tokenizedListB[];
for ($j = 0 ; $j <= 3 ; $j++)
{
//upperSrf face/vertex point positions
$pointA[$j] = `pointPosition -w ($upperSrfVtx[$j] )`;
tokenizeList($pointA[$j], $tokenizedListA);
move -a $tokenizedListA[0] $tokenizedListA[1] $tokenizedListA[2] $latticePt[$j];
//bottomSrf face/vertex point positions
$pointB[$j] = `pointPosition -w ($bottomSrfVtx[$j] )`;
tokenizeList($pointB[$j], $tokenizedListB);
move -a $tokenizedListB[0] $tokenizedListB[1] $tokenizedListB[2] $latticePt[($j+4)];
}
}
}
2008 Summer
Designer: Atsushi Sugiuchi
Line drawings for art exhibition
2008 Spring
Designer: Atsushi Sugiuchi
Upholtered over Seat-back and arms stamped from eight pieces of material to fit into injection mold metal shell.
2007 Summer
Designers: Atsushi Sugiuchi, Marcus Friesl, Can Sucuoglu, Jerry Figurski, Joshua_Sprinkling
Instructor: Hernan Diaz-Alonso, Bemjamin Bratton
New techniques of cellular aggregation and methods of formal accumulation have created an opportunity for the generation of non-hierarchical formal systems. However, combining multiple formal systems remains problematic from the standpoint of clarity and legibility of form. A primary concern of working within a group is the negotiation of diverse formal systems to generate a unified architecture. This thesis will investigate the potential of a system of clarification capable of negotiating multiple formal systems.
A contemporary trend in architecture is the mimicking of biological systems, such as cellular aggregation, for the creation of new form. A weakness of the system is the disconnect between the scale of the individual cell and the size of the resulting architecture. The designer can impose rules on the aggregation which will prevent formal disorder, however, the output of a biologically inspired system can still be hard to read.
How can the architect insure some degree of formal clarity while maintaining an unpredictable outcome? Clarity of form is not simple form. However, it must reference specific intention and be legible.
The role of the group is to enhance the obsessions of every individual while creating a platform that can take advantage of the clashes in between freedoms. S3F2 has been a self-explorative device operating through a social act. It began with a “perfect democracy” and ended as tribal warfare. This little community based on equality has shifted into an obsessive development of expertise.
The goal from the outset was immediately realize a complete architectural project. As such, initial research was avaluated in relation to the information generated through designing. Points of simillarity and dissimilarity were equally supported in order to produce an outcome that otherwise would not have occurred. As a result, the culmination of these obsessions provided an excessive aesthetic that is manifest in their heterogeneity. Consensus is reached in an atypical manner. Rather than agree on what is done, which would result in mediocrity - agreement is reached based on the differences that are needed to produce the whole.
Situated in Manhattan, our project occupies the Hudson Rail Yards. It contains a combination of strategies that integrates the scale of a large architectural project to that of the individual citizen of a city. Programmatically it encompasses components related to housing and warehousing, and a public monument in the form of a concert hall.
2006 Fall
Designers: Atsushi Sugiuchi, Marcus Friesl
Instructor: Hernan Diaz-Alonso
The studio proposed a new space for the Mutter Museum in Philadelphia. That allowed to re-configure the notion of infrastructure and spaced to mutate into a new state of dynamism. As is one that transforms from one state to another, it started as one thing and then become others formally and programmatically.
The research was forcused on accumulative micro behaviors and systematizing random point cloud.
2006 Fall
Designers: Atsushi Sugiuchi
Instructor: Jay Vanos
This course investigates issues related to the implementation of design: technology, the use of materials, systems integration, and the archetypal analytical strategies of force, order and character. The course includes a review of basic construction methods, analysis of building codes, the design of structural and mechanical systems, the development of building materials and the integration of building components and systems. Students are asked to select their studio project from the previous semester to develop, focusing on the detailed design of a single component of the building and the resolution of its structural system and building envelope as a whole.
2006 Spring
Designer: Atsushi Sugiuchi, Cameron Lewis
Instructor: Peter Testa, Tom Wiscombe, Marcelo Spina
The course was rigorously oriented towards the value of research in design, with an emphasis in form, tectonics, and structural morphology and their consequent impact in contemporary practice. As the second and final studio in the Core sequence, the objective of the course is to rigorously explore the generative procedures, tectonic and spatial qualities and constructive and assembly processes necessary to produce and deploy emergent forms of Cellular