AWARE

29/04/2016

Columns being 3D printed with a new kind of cement.

24/04/2016

The actual question is: How architects can contribute to solving the problems of the city - growth and poverty? And it is not about having power but about innovating.
So in short the answer to the questions at the end of the news report is - NO, innovate instead! "Should architects organize themselves to demand more power in the development of the built environment? Are these the biggest challenges facing architects and architecture today?"

On Tuesday night, seven Pritzker Prize laureates—Richard Rogers, Glenn Murcutt, Christian de Portzamparc, Wang Shu, Renzo Piano, Jean Nouvel, and the newest among the group, Alejandro Aravena—gathered at the United Nations headquarters in New York to discuss what they thought to be the greatest chal…

24/04/2016

3D printing an object that's larger than the 3D printer is one of the biggest hurdles of the revolution that additive manufacturing promised. This swarm of tiny spider-bots by Siemens however can collaboratively complete prints for car bodies, ship hulls, airplane fuselages and most likely buildings.
It is a promising start in breaking the constraining envelope of the 3D printer but lets admit it - spiders are creep! That's why at AWARE we envisioned a similar approach with much more friendly looking robots. Check out our 3D printing chickens here: http://www.aware-studio.com/crowd-sourcing-the-home/

Tweet Share 0 Reddit Pinterest LinkedIn 0 Email There are a number of major tech-driven companies that are researching 3D printing technology at a rapid rate, but very few invest as much as time and money as Siemens. Whether they’re building their own €21.4 million metal 3D printing facility or help…

23/04/2016

Can you imagine? Designing a building, just having in mind the pros and cons of the soil type, it is going to stand on, can make the life and experience of its inhabitants so much better - it can provide structural stability, may be used as water filter or serve as a thermal provider.
Just in the beginning of reading "Natural Solar Architecture - a passive primer" by David Wright. More insights are coming :)

15/04/2016

"We can't rely anymore on a minority to shape the world we live in, architecture should be a communal democratised process" Well said!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steven-schkolne/how-videogames-will-chang_b_9684226.html

I've been working a lot lately at the intersection of creativity and gaming. It's not news to anyone in gaming that there's something brewing. We have se...

13/04/2016

Check out how with at Smartgeometry, we used Minecraft, an Universal Robotics arm and Grasshopper3d to create three different scenarios for buildings created by players.

https://20000blocks.wordpress.com

This is "Smartgeometery 2016: 20,000 Blocks Above the Ground" by on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

26/03/2016

Manufacturers have used 3D printing for several years to create everything from automobile parts to submachine guns to eyeglasses. However, the idea to use such technology to create large building structures is a relatively new one. As the research institutions highlighted below suggest, it is indee…

03/03/2016

"20000 Blocks" is using Minecraft to create 3D architectural models and then Universal Robots A/S to build them. Crowdsourcing architecture and construction!

The research project, “20,000 Blocks Above the Ground”, started with the question: “Can gameplay be used to guide groups of non­-experts through…

24/02/2016

Aimed at both kids and adults alike, companies such as 3Doodler and Future Make have been trying to put the power of 3D printing in the hands of the people, developing 3D printing pens that allow users to be their own 3D printer. These 3D pens have come in many different styles with various levels […

23/02/2016

Get your screwdriver and a 6-pack of beers. That is all you need to assemble this great Ikea-style house by French studio PopUp House.
http://www.popup-house.com/en/

21/01/2016

The selected ideas for Future Architecture Platform are in. Go check them out here: http://futurearchitectureplatform.org/news/3/the-call-for-ideas-results-are-in/
Congratulations to the selected architects, designers and artists! We've enjoyed being part of such a potent pool of ideas and will follow with interest how the platform grows

11/01/2016

At AWARE, we submitted an idea to the Future Architecture Platform.
We imagined an Architecture made by 7,000,000,000 people with computer games and 3D-printing.

Please help us get selected to present this idea at a series of architecture festivals and exhibitions across Europe in 2016. Like it here: http://goo.gl/wtP4Sq

Imagine a world where computer games and 3D-printing robots help you shape your surroundings.