100423-25_MF_Workshop@PennState

PENN STATE (PA)| RHINOSCRIPT WORKSHOP | APRIL 23-25th, 2010
Marc Fornes will be teaching a three days Rhinoscript workshop at Penn State: Stuckeman School of Architecture & Landscape Architecture
(Invitation: David Celento)

Note: the workshop will be followied in the next two weeks by the production and assembly of a new prototypic structure / installation...
more to come...

100205_Rhinoscript-Workshop @TexFab

TEXFAB (ARLINGTON, TX) | RHINOSCRIPT WORKSHOP | February 05th, 2010
Marc Fornes will be teaching a two sessions Rhinoscript workshop at the University of Arlington, Texas.
(Invitation: Kevin Patrick McClellan)

100127-29_Rhinoscript-Workshop_@TexasTech

LUBBOCK (TEXAS) | RHINOSCRIPT WORKSHOP | January 27-29th, 2010
Marc Fornes will be teaching a three days Rhinoscript workshop at the College of Architecture, Texas Tech University.
(Invitation: Christian R. Pongratz)

090820_ALOBLUMS (Chile) (2)

ALOBLUMS Valparaiso (Chile) August 2009
THEVERYMANY / Marc Fornes, Skylar Tibbits, Mathew Staudt
+ collective BANGS & many students from the workshop...

marc fornes installation. from ameliechucky on Vimeo.

Many thanks to Pablo C. Herrera for the video...

090820_ALOBLUMS (Chile)

ALOBLUMS | Valparaiso (Chile) | August 2009

Design: THEVERYMANY
Design Team: Marc Fornes, Skylar Tibbits, Mathew Staudt
Assembly team: collective BANGS and many students from the workshop...





ALOBLUMS SUM OF ITS PARTS:
sphereoid - 2m (6') approx. diameter...
70 modules (4 types)...
12 sheets of golden anodized aluminum...
cnc cut in Philadeplhia (Continental Signs)...
3700 rivets...
all packed with me on the plane as 2 check in bags (40 and 35 pounds)...



MORE TO COME SOON......

Many thanks to the collective BANGS for the invitation - especially Marcela Godoy for making that workshop happen...

Students:
Eduardo Hirose, Daniel Concha, Diego Moreno, Juan Pablo Klempau, Felipe Valdebenito, Pablo Banda, Francisco Quitral, Hermann Zbindenn, José Luis Guzmán, Victor Bunster M., Drago Vodanovic, Claudio Troncoso, Tomas Jacobsen, Miguel Aravena, Pablo Silva
Francisco Calvo, Camila Rock De Luigi, Francisco Lara, Oscar Terrazas , Gabriel Santander, Oscar Ignacio Contreras, Hernán Castro, Natalija Boljsakov, Brian Miller, Manuel Díaz, Rodrigo Ramírez, Gonzalo Andrade, Andre Geoffroy, Matias Carrera...

BANGS:
Pablo Barría, Begoña Arellano, Claudio Astudillo, José Narea,, Marcela Godoy, Linda Schilling

Extras:
Pablo C. Herrera, Tristan Al Haddad...

090804_Echinoids_(re)configured

NEW YORK | Bridge Gallery | Echinoids (re)configured


How many people do actualy believe in "failures"?

I do! - while giving talks/lectures I am often arguying about it - "operative failures" - in philosophy, empiricism is a theory of knowledge which asserts that knowledge arises from experience - one of many ways to gain experience is through test and trials - and within the recent jump in scale of the digital craft and the "Do it yourself" paradigm - experience requires failures...

Experiencing failure within prototypes - yes! - and despite often being displayed within art gallery THEVERYMANY's "constructs" are partly installation partly prototypes - though not so much prototypes to see if the systems is actually going to fail? - but rather when? - can failures be expected? - even better anticipated up to embodied within the geometrical system tested potential response?


"the lion sat" - a localized part of Echinoids v1.0 slowly saddled - it didn't break but suffered from "fatigue" - unexpected failure? - blind future? - I would argue for curated ones...

Temporary installation are related to time - but also budget - aggregate systems and their inherent qualities are highly depending on numbers - unfortunately numbers are often the exact opposit vector to time/budget - then if no budget the system requires carefull compositionnal search methods to maintain a scale large enough to be experienced by its viewer as architectural artefact - homogeneity could be one way to go - unfortunately spreading the elements all accross the construct while maintaining structural integrity often requires down sizing...


"until where can one go too far?"

Echinoids system is based on "calculated risk" - calculated risk is different from denying risk or maximising efforts to avoid falires - here the aggregate is designed through variation of desnties - balancing strengh and weakness - fully closed macro-systems as stable larger parts and low density members at transitional areas - a curated aggregate system allowing within its own geometric nature possible partial re-configuration - "explosion" as safe away exit strategy - allowing second lifes for a piece: from construct to environment...


That (re)configuration is only the first one possible - and therefore to be followed along the summer for eventual other ones...

090722_WORKSHOP_in_CHILE

CHILE | Valparaiso | August 10-14th
Marc Fornes will be running a week long workshop:
-partly technique oriented (rhinoscript)
-partly looking at protocols of "Precise Indetermination" into design...
Invitation: "bangs"
(more information on their website)

090717_at_BRIDGE GALLERY (NYC)

Echinoids | THEVERYMANY | Bridge Gallery | 2009 | nyc


"-oid" is derived from the Latin suffix -oides taken from Greek and meaning "having the likeness of". Thus it is a suffix much used in the sciences and mathematics to indicate a "similarity, not necessarily exact, to something else".
Thus Rhomboid means "like a rhombus". Because -oid denotes similarity, not necessarily exact, but can also denote exactness, in chemistry the suffix refers to a very large class of related compounds, natural and/or synthetic. Examples include steroid (of which sterols are just one smaller group) and alkaloid. (ie wikipedia)


From many parts...
Long. 13.5ft - Larg. 5ft - Height 7.5ft
530 modules
25 Sheets (4*8") Walnut veneer (800 Sft) + olive oil
1600 of Elastic bras straps (Brown, Black, Navy Blue)
4500 screws

To logistic of parts...
Lacing time: 1/2h/module - 40 modules/day!

"RUSTIC COMPUTATION"...


THEVERYMANY | Marc Fornes, Skylar Tibbits, Mat Staudt

090706_at_BRIDGE GALLERY (NYC)

Once more many parts...

THEVERYMANY @ BRIDGE GALLERY (NYC)
98 Ochard Street New York NY 10002
Opening: Thursday July 9th
(as part of the collective show "Wild child" curated by Peter Macapia)



It is all about "rustic computation"...


Full credits shared with the MANY who made this installation possible...
Also many thanks to PRATT INSTITUTE and our friends at ANYLINE NYC for the laser cutting...

090706_for_SEED MAGAZINE

“Approximation of the Mind”

Commissioned by Seed Media Group and The Council on Competitiveness as a gift to Sheryl Handler, CEO of Ab Initio, at The State of Innovation Summit in Washington D.C..

Sponsor (Rapid Prototyping): Harbec Plastics

090524_THEVERYMANY @ SELFRIDGES

Proposal for an installation:
SELFRIDGES - CORNER STORE FRONT LONDON October 2008
The scheme was part of a design call under the theme of "Explosion"...




ON ANALOGIES:
THEVERYMANY very much acknowledge the fact that - even though it focuses exclusively its research and practice on what it self-defines as “explicit and encoded” techniques of design (also described by Marc Fornes as “text based morphologies”) – any design process - whenever based on a top down “idea” or theme - requires first a process of translation back into the design paradigm which is very much based on selective reading, subjective interpretations and analogies…


EXPLOSION (ie Wikipedia.org)
An explosion is a sudden increase in volume and release of energy in an extreme manner, usually with the generation of high temperatures and the release of gases. An explosion creates a shock wave.
DUST EXPLOSION (ie Wikipedia.org)
A dust explosion is the explosive combustion of a dust suspended in air in an enclosed location, which results in harmful effects of overpressure, thermal radiation, and ensuing projectiles.
DEFLAGRATION (ie Wikipedia.org)
Deflagration (Lat: de + flagrare, "to burn down") is a technical term describing subsonic combustion that usually propagates through thermal conductivity (hot burning material heats the next layer of cold material and ignites it). Most "fire" found in daily life, from flames to explosions, is technically deflagration.
DETONATION (ie Wikipedia.org)
Detonation is a process of combustion in which a supersonic shock wave is propagated through a fluid due to an energy release in a reaction zone. It is the more powerful of the two general classes of combustion, the other one being deflagration. In a detonation, the shock compresses the material thus increasing the temperature to the point of ignition. The ignited material burns behind the shock and releases energy that supports the shock propagation. This self-sustained detonation wave is different from a deflagration, which propagates at a subsonic rate (i.e., slower than the sound speed in the material itself). Because detonations generate high pressures, they are usually much more destructive than deflagrations.
SHOCK WAVE (ie Wikipedia.org)
A shock wave (also called shock front or simply "shock") is a type of propagating disturbance. Like an ordinary wave, it carries energy and can propagate through a medium (solid, liquid or gas) or in some cases in the absence of a material medium, through a field such as the electromagnetic field. Shock waves are characterized by an abrupt, nearly discontinuous change in the characteristics of the medium.
When a shock wave passes through matter, the total energy is preserved but the energy which can be extracted as work decreases and entropy increases. This, for example, creates additional drag force on aircraft with shocks.




TRIGGERS:
While that design proposal isn't about “reproducing”, "simulating" or even "mimicking" the esthetic of an explosion – the project is proposing a very articulated geometrical assembly based on specific and curated themes extracted within the field of explosion…

- Projectiles – the project is investigating the concept of numerous “parts” able to produce a non linear assembly – all the parts owns to a precise initial catalogue and can be reconfigured in a similar manner then projectiles can be re-assembled (in theory) into their original parent morphology…
- Increase of volume – the project is looking at ways to create volume from planar components all CNC cut from sheet based materials…
- Propagation through medium – while there is a very limited amount of initial geometrical primitives – the project investigates construction sequence through color differentiation across the entire construct…
- Enclosed location – well…

To be continued...


CREDITS:
Proposal for: SELFRIDGES London October 2008
Design: THEVERYMANY
Team: Marc Fornes, Skylar Tibbits
Scripting: Marc Fornes

090325_THEVERYMANY_Log

SAN FRANCISCO RHINOSCRIPT WORKSHOP March 28-29, 2009
Marc Fornes will be teaching for MCNeel US a two days Rhinoscript workshop as part of FLUX, an event hosted by CCA - California College of the Arts.
Invitation: McNeel US - Scott Davidson
(Thank you to Andrew Kudless from MATSYS - www.materialsystems.org/ - to make it happen!)
http://mlab.cca.edu/?p=453


SAN FRANCISCO RHINOSCRIPT WORKSHOP V2 March 30-31, 2009
Marc Fornes will be teaching a second Rhinoscript workshop while at the Flux event; that one will be hosted by the CCA Industrial Design Department - California College of the Arts.
http://design.cca.edu/graduate/
Note: that second workshop was organized through a direct student request - thank you to Kristin Neidlinger to make that one happen! - if also interested in such rhinoscript workshops do not hesitate to contact me...

090309_POLY-FACETS Ceiling (DD)

Few images of a entrance hall project developed for a famous high end hotel brand in Bahrain.

The design is pretty simple and mainly relies on a dramatic "weaved" ceiling: its overall surface geometry - symmetric - is responding to two grand staircases; it is "dressed" through similar tiling (non repetitive) based on a simple mix between a honeycomb pattern and a faceted diamond shape.




1.6m x 1.6m mock up (1:1) - Fabrication Milgo/Bufkin, Brooklyn, NYC
The sample panel was fabricated from 8 continuous folded strips, laser cut from flat sheets (1/16" thick stainless steel) and welded together (the overall weights around 90 kilos!)



Originally thought as golden anodized aluminum it was finally replaced with a metallic golden lacquer finish apply once assembled mainly to avoid the maximum of scratches due to processing (laser cut, folding, etc...)



note: many thanks to Lucios Santos for the photos!

090215_THEVERYMANY_Log

SAN FRANCISCO | RHINOSCRIPT WORKSHOP | March 28-29, 2009
Marc Fornes will be teaching for MCNeel US a two days Rhinoscript workshop as part of FLUX, an event hosted by CCA - California College of the Arts.
Invitation: McNeel US - Scott Davidson
Location: California College of the Arts, San Francisco Campus
Eligibility: Open to all design students and professionals
(Thank you to Andrew Kudless from MATSYS - www.materialsystems.org/ - to make it happen!)
http://mlab.cca.edu/?p=453
Note: that event is somehow victim of its success and got fully booked within less than a week time! Never mind further Rhinoscript workshops can be organized! if you are interested to host one (or a summer course) do not hesitate to contact directly McNeel or me - it can easily be organized within a University framework or custom tailored for offices to specific problems solving...


LOS ANGELES | ART CENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN | Friday February 27th
Colloquium – Design Dialogues | Environmental Design Program
Marc Fornes will be doing a lecture as part of "Efficient, See!"
Times Media Center | Hillside Campus
Invitation: Jenna Didier & Oliver Hess

SPRING 2009 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////


ANN ARBOR | UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | Spring 09
TAUBMAN COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN PLANNING
Marc Fornes has been kindly invited by Tom Buresh (Chair of Architecture at TCAUP) to lead a design studio as visiting faculty.
(Thank you to Karl Daubmann from www.paramod.net to make it happen!)
http://arch.umich.edu/newsandevents/news/?news=3168773550373911885
NOTE: Marc Fornes will give an Informal Lecture/Presentation on Wednesday February 18th - A+A Building East Review Space

JANUARY 2009 ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////


BOSTON | MIT | Jan 26th 2009
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Marc Fornes was invited as guest critic to the final review of "Commands and Control", a design and Rhinoscript workshop hosted at MIT.
Invitation: Simon Kim and Skylar Tibbits
With: Dave Pigram, Kyle Steinfeld, Ana Miljacki, Juhong Park and Sigurdur Adalgeirsson (HRI - Human Robot Interface)
http://commandcontrol.wordpress.com/


VIENNA, AUSTRIA | DIE ANGEWANDTE | January 22nd 2009
Final review - Cross Over studio 2008/09
nCertainties v3.0
Studio Francois Roche, Marc Fornes & Stephan Heinrich
With: Kivi Sotamaa & Alisa Andrasek (Biothing)
www.ncertainties3.wordpress.com


CALGARY, CANADA | RHINOSCRIPT WORKSHOP | January 05-07th 2009
Marc Fornes gave a three days Rhinoscript workshop at the FACULTY OF ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN | University of Calgary | Canada
Invitation: Jason S. Johnson

DECEMBER 2008 ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////


PHILADELPHIA | UPENN | December 2008
Marc Fornes @ Final review of "Form and algorithm"
Invitation: Roland Snooks
With: Dave Pigram, Ezio Blasetti, Kyle Steinfeld


NEW YORK | GSAPP | December 5th 2009
Final review - Columbia University (Advanced studio)
nCertainties v2.0
Studio Francois Roche, Marc Fornes
with Paula Antonelli (MoMA), Bruce Sterling (cyber punk writer - Italy), Marco Vanucci (AKT - London), Mark Wigley (GSAPP), Roland Snooks (kokkugia)
www.ncertainties2.wordpress.com