NSO Annual Conference

Nonlinear Fabrication: Strange Loops in the Product's Lifecycle
April 03
Opening Remarks: Cecil Balmond
Keynote Lecture: Manuel DeLanda

April 04
9:00am-11:00am
Current Research at the NSO
Moderator: Cecil Balmond
Participants: Ferda Kolatan, Jenny Sabin (NSO Senior Researchers), Peter Jones (NSO Fellow), Winka Dubbeldam (Archi-Tectonics), Anne Plant (NIST), Roland Snooks (Kokkugia), Theo Spyropoulos (AA DRL)

11:15am-1:30pm
Without Tools, The Future of Fabrication
Moderator: David Ruy
Participants: Behrokh Khoshnevis (USC), Andrew Snow (EOS), Marcelo Spina (Patterns), Peter Testa (Testa&Weiser), Chris Tuck (Loughborough University), Tom Wiscombe (Emergent)

3:00pm-4:15pm
Closing Comments

Moderators: Cecil balmond, David Ruy
Participants: William Braham, Winka Dubbeldam, Behrokh Khoshnevis, Detlef Mertins, Anne Plant, Theo Spyropoulos, Peter Testa, Chris Tuck, Tom Wiscombe

CHROMAZON

su11's proposal for this year's MoMA/PS1 YAP

su11 finalists for P.S.1

su11 was named finalist for the 2008 YAP competition, (Young Architects Program)
co-sponsored by The Museum of Modern Art and P.S. 1.

Aura

'Aura' Symposium
Sept.24-26 2007, 6:30pm Meyerson Hall, UPenn

Scheduled Participants:
Lars Spuybroek (NOX, Ventulett Distinguished Chair in Architectural Design, Georgia Tech)William MacDonald (kol/mac Studio; Chair, Graduate Architecture, Pratt Institute) Kivi Sotamaa (Sotamaa Architecture;UCLA) Hernan Diaz Alonso (Xefirotarch; Southern California Institute of Architecture) Ferda Kolatan (SU11; Lecturer, PennDesign) David Ruy (Ruy Klein; Lecturer, PennDesign) Detlef Mertins (Chair, Department of Architecture, PennDesign) Ali Rahim (Contemporary Architecture Practice; Associate Professor, PennDesign)

Intricate Skins/Adaptive Structures

Opening and Reception of Intricate Skins/Adaptive Structures
Research Studio at Pratt, sponsored by Hunter Douglas

Project4 presents USELESS

Gallery Project4 presents the exhibition USELESS in D.C.
su11's Composite House II is on display
http://www.project4gallery.com/

Launch of 'Die Planung/A Terv', Budapest/Berlin

Die Planung / A Terv is edited and published from Berlin and Budapest by Sandra Bartoli, Martin Conrads, Silvan Linden, Levente Polyák and Katarina Šević.

'2011' is featuring Instant Bodies (IB's) by Ferda Kolatan.

http://www.dieplanung.org/

Ferda Kolatan named NSO Senior Researcher

http://www.nso.penndesign.net/about

duneHouse in WIRED

http://www.wired.com/culture/design/multimedia/2007/04/openhouse?slide=4&slideView=2

'Open House' Exhibition, Pasadena Art Center

'Open House-Architecture and Technology for Intelligent Living' opens at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. The show includes su11's duneHouse.
April 14 – July 1, 2007
http://www.artcenter.edu/openhouse/projects/dunehouse.html

'Live for Tomorrow', Open House review in LA Times

http://www.calendarlive.com/architecture/cl-et-design14apr14,0,2900858.story?coll=cl-architecture

Convergence Symposium at UPenn

Ferda Kolatan moderates a roundtable discussion at UPenn titled 'Convergence: New Technologies and New Design'. Speakers are Marc Simmons (Front.Inc), Anna Dyson (Materialab) and William Braham (UPenn). Introduction by Detlef Mertins. Participants: Tony Atkin, Phu Hoang, Hina Jamelle, Shawn Rickenbacker and David Ruy.

dunehouse publications

dunehouse is published in the 'Open House' catalog and the Oct. issue of 'SPACE'

NSO Conference (2) at PennDesign

Ferda Kolatan participates in the annual NSO conference 'Architecture Bits' at UPenn's School of Design. He presents the dunehouse project at a roundtable with William Braham, Peter Davies, Helene Furjan and Peter Lloyd Jones, moderated by Sanford Kwinter.

Detlef Mertins in Archinect

Design in the World : An Interview with Detlef Mertins in Archinect

su11 finalist for Iakov Chernikhov Prize

su11 is selected as finalists for the 'Iakov Chernikhov Prize'
"The Iakov Chernikhov International Foundation (ICIF) announces a competition titled 'The Challenge of the Time' in the field of conceptual architecture. The prize will be given to the best among the contemporary architects of the young generation." website

Entry 2006 opens in Essen

su11 exhibits the project dunehouse at the 'Open House' show at the Zeche Zollverein Essen. Curators: Vitra Design Museum with Art Center College of Design

"Open House – Intelligent Living by DesignPresents innovative and highly promising developments from the fields of architecture, interior design, and communication design. It reveals the wealth of opportunities and risks that are inherent in high-tech houses. The house of the future is crammed full of complex functions. Technological progress plays an important role in this regard, as do the demands and requirements for high-quality habitation in a changing society in which people have a greater life expectancy. ‘Open House – Intelligent Living by Design’ will open its doors for the very first time at ENTRY2006. From Essen, it will move to the United States where it will be exhibited at Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, USA." website

Wolfram Science Conference 2006

Ferda Kolatan speaks about 'Responsive Architecture through Parametric Design' at the Wolfram Science Conference (NKS 2006) in Washington D.C.

Talk 20 in Philadelphia

Ferda Kolatan participates in the 2nd edition of TALK 20 in Philadelphia

1.Morphotheque, Driessens/Verstappen 2.Composite Housing, su11

Lecture at Pratt

Ferda Kolatan and Erich Schoenenberger give a lecture at Pratt Institute titled "Composite Strategies"

1. Composite Sheep 2. Composite Bathouse Unit, su11

Smart Geometry Conference 06

Erich Schoenenberger receives a scholarship and participates at the Smart Geometry Conference at the British Museum in London.


Parametric Adaptations, su11

NSO Conference

su11's work is being presented at the 'Non-Linear Systems Organization' conference at the School of Design at UPenn. Introduction by Detlef Mertins. Keynote speaker: Cecil Balmond

Roundtable 3: Designing Tools, Evolving Instrumentalities. Moderator: David Ruy, Participants: Robert Aish, Benjamin Aranda, Daniel Bosia, Hernan Diaz-Alonso, Ferda Kolatan, Marcelo Spina


NSO Poster, Structural Skins, su11

Scaled Skins

This project by su11 investigates skin-structure composites, which are non-linear in their hierarchical relationships. The resulting models can be controlled on different scales of which each can feed back design information to the overall (networked) model. One inspiration for this project was found in the seamless structure/surface/cell integrity of reptilian skins. The aim is to develop structural skins, which can be applied to a variety of design problems on a range of different scales. The models are tested towards their flexibility and expression of refinement.