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Consulting
Petal Project 5
Petal Project 5 was developed for DesCours 2008, an AIA New Orleans sponsored event, by TZCO (Thaddeus Zarse and Clare Olsen). Anticipating New Orleans’ courtyards—hidden pockets of green within the French Quarter—Petal Project 5 was developed based on a desire to assimilate with an existing courtyard through a subtle insertion to achieve our two programmatic [...]
Displaced Resonance
Consisting of sixteen distinct sculptural forms, Displaced Resonance uses varied length tubing to filter sounds from base-mounted speakers according to particular resonant frequencies. A camera-based computer system tracks the movement of spectators within the installation and responds by controlling and changing the distribution of sound to the tubes and associated LED lighting. Sounds played through the [...]
Systemic Formats Exhibition
As a research fellow with i.M.A.D.E, Joshua Vermillion consulted with design firm, Metamechanics (New York, NY) and a design studio at the University of Pennsylvania on fabrication and modeling of design proposals for the FC Barcelona Stadium and urban surroundings. Two of Vermillion’s models aligned with this collaboration were displayed at the Systemic Formats [...]
Self-Fab House Competition
i.M.A.D.E led a consulting workshop for a dwelling design competition with an architectural design studio from Southern Illinois University. i.M.A.D.E students assisted with script writing and parametric modeling in GenerativeComponents. This intense workshop leveraged computational algorithms as instructions for adaptive growth and change in the assembly of dwellings via nano robotics.
Shelter Charrette
Working with University of Kentucky students in Lexington and New Orleans, the Institute consulted on a small park project for a rebuilding area in New Orleans. Two students and three faculty helped with a cast concret seating design and also gave a presentation on and helped write some design scripts to generate a solar shading [...]
Site Model
i.M.A.D.E assisted Design Group, an architecture firm in Columbus, Ohio, in modeling studies for a recent building project for the Audobon Society. Ball State students used topographic data to create a three-dimensional model of the site for siting studies. This model was eventually used to CNC mill a small scale site model which was used in [...]
South Street reDesign
i.M.A.D.E consulted with A2SO4 on an urban streetscape design proposal for the South Street corridor in downtown Indianapolis. Asked by the city to envision a contemporary South Street, A2SO4 set out to create an urban “park” with narrow green areas in the spaces along the sidewalks and street. In the interest of a solution that [...]
Opening Invitations
The Institute for Digital Fabrication was asked to design and fabricate invitations to the opening for the Ball State Indianapolis Center. The result was a laser cut pop-up design with the Ball State mark and Indy skyline given to all of the guests in attendance.
Student: Katie Marinaro