Month: December 2011

Designed by light

Type: Data-driven Design research Status: Master Thesis Institution: TU Delft Year: 2010 This project investigates the potential of real-time simulations in the conceptual stage of the design process. A case study for this exploration is a museum of contemporary art in Warsaw; an annex of the Center for […]

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Watertoren Tegelen

Type: Residential Location: Tegelen, NL Status: Case study Design: NIO Architecten Role: Building & Façade design Watertoren Tegelen is an adaptation of an existing water tower into apartments. Re-design focuses on two main aspects: new communication system: indoor elevator and outdoor staircase new facade providing equal amount […]

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Real-time simulations in the design process

Type: Design computation Research Institution: TU Delft Design: Agata Kycia, Krzysztof Gornicki Year: 2009 This project aims at investigating continuity of the computational design processes, starting from behavioural analysis systems, through generative procedures up to the final construction. Proposed building is a result of a real-time programming based […]

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Concept of adaptability in associative design

Institution: IAAC, Barcelona Design: Agata Kycia Tutor: MartinSobota Status: Master Thesis Year: 2008 This project aims at exploring concept of adaptability and the role of computer in the design process, focusing on on the associative software as a basic design tool, investigating potentials of component-based […]

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Helsinki Library

Type: Culture Area: 14 000 m² Location: Helsinki, FI Client: City of Helsinki Status: Competition Design: HENN Cooperation Partners: ARUP Role: Building Design Year: 2012 The new Helsinki Library is a design that reinterprets the classical library. The new library is represented as a meeting point of urban life, a place […]

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The Dome

Type: Digital Fabrication/ Associative modelling Institution: IAAC Barcelona Studio: Digital Tectonics, group project Tutor: Marta Male Alemany Year: 2007 Digital model of the dome was developed in Top Solid. A simple model controlling the overall geometry was a base for almost 1200 triangular components, which were inserted and […]

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WF

WF_101 PARAMETRIC MODELLING AND CAM TECHNOLOGIES Location:  Warsaw University of Technology, Faculty of Architecture Dates: November 2009 – February 2010 Tutors: Krzysztof Gornicki,  Dorota Kabala, Krystian Kwiecinski, Agata Kycia, Michal Piasecki Description: The seminar taught by co-founders of WF aimed at introducing principles of parametric […]

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ProtoSPACE 3.0

“Protospace is a vehicle for transdisciplinary research, education and design in form of a virtually augmented transaction space” (prof.ir.Kas Oosterhuis [ONL]) It is developed by Hyperbody at the Delft University of Technology as a revolutionary real-time collaborative design environment. Design of the ProtoSPACE 3.0 pavillion was part of the […]

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Plug-in architecture faculty

Type: Education Design: Agata Kycia, Krzysztof Gornicki Year: 2008 Plug-in faculty of architecture is a proposal for the future faculty submitted for the Open International Ideas Competition – Building for Bouwkunde. Design addresses notions of changeability, adaptability and self-organization. Instead of a building perceived as one uniform […]

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House Wrap

Type: Assosiative Design Research Institution: IAAC Barcelona Design: Krzysztof Gornicki, Agata Kycia Year: 2007 HOUSE WRAP is a customized summer house design driven by the needs of its future inhabitants. Design is inspired by the art of paper folding, exploring three-dimensional qualities of folded planes. Building geometry is driven by […]

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Aesthetics and creativity in evolutionary design

Institution: TU Delft Researchers: Aurelie Hiao, Roxana Palfi, Agata Kycia Year: 2010 This research project focuses on the issues of subjectivity in evolutionary design processes, exploring its potential and constraints in terms of aesthetics and creativity. It provokes questions about what should be the right balance […]

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