2007.12.19

Car Light script v3.0 (MEL)

Designer: Marcus Friesl

A little script that animates an object or group over a selection of curves to simulate traffic over a given time frame. You only need to name the object "carSet" and specify the start and end frames for your animation

The full script is here. You will need to enable pop-ups on this site to get it

2007

Tableware

Designer: Marcus Friesl

Advisor: Hernan Diaz Alonso

Tableware set interation 1

Designed while working at xefirotarch

2007

speeder v002

Designer: Marcus Friesl

Another little thing to pass the time. The idea was to create a more city friendly speeder for some future date. Real renderings to come soon.

2007_thesis

Everything and the Flowers

Designers: Can Kadir Sucuoglu, Jerry Figurski, Joshua T. Sprinkling, Atsushi Sugiuchi, Marcus G. Friesl

Advisors: Hernan Diaz Alonso / Benjamin Bratton

When multiple systems are required to fit together, there is a level of compromise that occurs. This compromise results in a homogenization where each component is weakened by their inclusion in the whole. This inclusion foregos a component independence and results in something that can no longer stand on its own. This is especially true for components with both drastic formal and logistical differences. The negotiation of these differences results in a focus on the macro scale to create an ordered whole. Although the overall system reads as a whole, it fails to benefit from the strengths inherent in the individual components. A robust system would include the diversity within, it would not be a homogeneous system at the micro level, but would allow each component to function individually and interact within the system through strategic points of connection.

What becomes of interest is how these disparate systems resolve themselves at these points of convergence. These ideas are tested through two methods. First, is the production of ideas in a collaborative environment, where each micro system responds to its own set of criteria and its own logics, which are not controlled at a macro level. In turn each additional system needs to respond to each change in order to maintain the whole. The second method is based on the project proposal, which is a large scale proposal in manhattan at the hudson rail yards. The scale of the proposal allows room for the collaboration to deploy the system in an actual setting, as well as allowing those systems to respond to external variables that they would not otherwise do.

2007

Speeder v001

Designer: Marcus Friesl

A little something to pass the time

2007

Guest houses

Designer: Marcus Friesl

The scope of the project was to study the integration between manmade structures with the natural environment. The main concept in the proposal is to use the skin as a layering sytem to gradually transition from exterior to interior

2006

Mutter Museum Expansion

Designers: Marcus G. Friesl, Atsushi Sugiuchi

Advisor: Hernan Diaz Alonso

Using a proposal for the mutter museum, research was conducted into accumulation and how to systematize and organize a randomly generated point system. The tools created for this proposal allowed for the rapid testing and re-deployment of specifically designed modules, creating multiple iterations within a short period of time.

The initial design phase generated a random point system. From this, proximity tests were used to connect the points, resulting in node clusters and bridging connections between clusters. Based on specific criteria; position and proximity to other connections, scale, orientation, modules designed with specific functions were deployed. Built into the modules are panels designed to react to their counterparts within a certain distance allowing them to structurally support their neighbors. Research was begun into the communication between modules and more generic systems already present on site.

2006

Cellular Aggregation

Designers: Marcus G. Friesl, Dan Wolfe

The initial experimentation was directed to bringing together multiple methods of surface articulation into one cohesive system. Using the surfaces inherent geometry, primarily two methodologies were used to translate the form. Commonalities between the primary systems resulted in a tertiary system that bound the two together. These common points of connection varied depending on surface curvature as well as boundary points on the surface. Different input geometries were tested to see the range of control that could be had with the primary systems.

The final experimentation resulted in using the three systems experimented with while adding a fourth tectonic system. This last system imbedded the overall assembly with a structural logic, based on calculations of the overall height of the surface in the experiment. This fourth system, also based on the connection points between the primary systems traced vertical structural load transfers through the assembly as well as reacting to extreme curvatures found in the input geometry. The dialogue between these systems introduced areas on the surface for fenestration which integrated with the assembly as well as help influence interior spaces.