DRX 2012

The exhibition in the Dog Ear Films studio Berlin took place on the 7th September 2012 and presented results of  Design Research Exchange 2012– a residency program for researchers hosted by HENN. During the eight-week long workshops we were working in mixed teams from various […]

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Haikou Tower

Type: High-Rise Area: 384.000 m² Location: Hainan, CN Design: HENN Status: Best 1st Prize Client: Hainan Airlines Role: Building & Facade Design, Masterplan & Landscape The 450m tall Haikou Tower is a centerpiece of the masterplan in the new Central Business District of Haikou, the […]

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DIY

Type: DIY furniture design Year: 2011 This lamp filters light through a pattern that continues throughout its 4 sides. The assembly process is fairly simple; perforated plates are lasercut, inserted into wooden frames and joined together. (pic. pattern design on one of the sides)

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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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