Geoffrey Sosebee and Max Taschek placed as Finalists in the 2011 Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture ACADIA/FLATCUT_ Design + Fabrication Competition competing against professional designers. Geoff developed the Blowfish Lamp that changes shape from cylindrical to in Nancy Cheng’s Spring 2011 Light and Shadow class. He used Grasshopper software so that lasercutting outlines would be automatically generated for according to the desired final shape. Max Taschek designed the winning graphics that explained the project’s concept and clarified it’s construction. The jury included Tod Williams, TWBTA; Chris Sharples, SHoP Architects; Dror Benshetrit, Studio Dror and Thomas Christofferson, BIG. Nancy Cheng is the 2009-2011 president of ACADIA (http://www.ACADIA.org)
More info at Geoff’s blog: http://gesose.wordpress.com/
Everyone can download a FREE copy of Parametricism (SPC), ACADIA 2011 Proceedings of the Regional Conference! In March, ACADIA held a conference to examine how flexible parametric design thinking could be applied to many facets of architecture. The conference proceedings shows how the digital approach can solve complex architectural problems within social and environmental contexts.