After the first post and second post about Open Architectural Design at MIT, here you can find a thesis about the MIT Open Source Building Alliance Operation (OSBA) developed by Kalaya Kovidvisith at MIT and submitted on June 2007: “Open Source Building Alliance Ecology. The Internet Framework for Consumer Driven Participative Design”.
The primary purpose of [...]

Tags: Architectural Design, Community, Mass-customization, Technology

After the first post about the MIT Open Source Building Alliance Operation (OSBA) project, here is another one reporting the paper that started the project, written by Larson K., Intille S., McLeish T.J., Beaudin J., Williams R. E.1 .

In this paper, we argue that new technologies and strategies for design can enable a more responsive [...]

Tags: Architectural Design, Business/Service, Mass-customization

I’ve just discovered that people at MIT are studying how to develop Open Source Houses and therefore Open Architectural Design projects.
MIT Open Source Building Alliance Operation (OSBA) is a project run by the House_n department, and it will operate as an open source organization. A website will be established for idea generation, technical evaluation of [...]

Tags: Architectural Design, Distributed Generation, High-tech, Mass-customization, Technology

After the post where I wrote about flocking algorithms used in a site-specific art/design installation by Todo Design, I ‘d like here to write about another experiment with such algorithms.
While surfing on Vimeo I found this video by Aaron Westre from Minneapolis (Minnesota, USA), where he explains very well his master’s degree thesis on using [...]

Tags: Architectural Design, Complex Systems, Design Methodology, Generative system, processing.org, Swarm / Flock / Crowd, USA

Back from Toshare.it, where I saw some interesting projects and met very interesting persons…
From there, I’d like to suggest you a project that shows how design could get inspiration from complexity. This is maybe the first step a designer could take confronting complexity, and therefore projects like this are not only fascinating but also promising [...]

Tags: Architectural Design, Complexity, Design, Emergence, Interaction Design, Italy, Movie Design, Realtime, Self-Organization, Swarm / Flock / Crowd

People Make Places

People Make Places, Melissa Mean, Charlie Tims, Demos, London (2005), (pdf file, in english)

Based on in-depth studies of three British towns and cities Cardiff, Preston and Swindon, People Make Places explores how the best public spaces are created by people and communities themselves. The book sets out the forms of governance, design principles [...]

Tags: Architectural Design, City, City Planning, Co-Creation, Community, Emergence, Institutions, Local Services, Locality, Participation, Self-Organization, UK