A Line of Force

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A Line of Force

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status : on-going

Visualizing the threshold of failure

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Elemental Worlds

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Elemental Worlds

unity, c#

status : complete

The Science Museum Oklahoma Elemental Worlds exhibit consists of a two-part custom designed hardware/software system co-authored with Pete Froslie. The interactive exhibit fully engages and immerses visitors into a virtual dynamic environment and includes both touch-based interactive experiences and ultra-wide panoramic projected environments.

Visitors design an array of digital creatures and customize their selection through a set of digital drawing tools. Using a touchscreen, visitors use touch gestures to apply color, select drawing tools and bring their creations to like within a surrounding projected virtual environment. The projected environment is a rich and immersive experience with time-of-day-based dynamic lighting and weather, gorgeous atmospheric effects and interactive AI driven wildlife.

Despite its playful, lighthearted nature, the project offered a number of research opportunities. Of primary note, the development of novel processes to dynamically consume two-dimensional visual data and apply it as a wrapper to three-dimensional objects that are projected in real-time.

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Process

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Surface Flux

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Surface Flux

python, c#, grasshopper, pla, wood, steel

status : complete

Surface Flux is an architecturally driven exhibit of spatial exploration through computationally designed and digitally fabricated surfaces. Each of the three surfaces have been inspired by a philosophical text that describes networks, objects or an individual’s relationship with their environment. The exhibit was created by Deborah Richards and Ken Marold and combines their unique and complimentary research and design interests.

Computational design is a specific process where algorithmic or step by step logic is used to generate a design. We see algorithms with feedback loops generating design all around us in nature – from snowflakes to trees to the swarming behavior of a flock of birds. Architects have been designing computationally for hundreds of years by allowing embedded characteristics of materials to perform calculations. For the past 30 years architects have primarily used computers and digital tools to generate computational designs that explore materials and structures that can address a variety of problems in the built environment or create new types environments.

Using computational processes and experimental 3D printing techniques, each surface in the exhibit Surface Flux engages the malleability of plastic and form, yielding artifacts that are both similar yet unique. Deborah and Ken experimented with computer code, the material characteristics of the plastic and the capabilities of the 3D printer to develop components that were light weight but structural, could fluctuate between aggregating as a surface or maintaining their identity as an object, and could play with light, shadow and projection. As the components aggregate together through specific rule sets, networks emerge as distinct surface conditions. These network patterns are further extended through a series of mapped projections that function as a dynamic overlay, an immersive network layer upon the physical surfaces.

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    pawtucket, rhode island

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    providence, rhode island

  • Norterly Island Nature Center

    Chicago, Illinois

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    old town plaza, santa fe, new mexico

  • Corrales Comunity Pathway + Pedestrian Park

    corrales, new mexico

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    providence, rhode island

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    Fred Jones Jr Museum of Art

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  • Acoustic Diffusion Panel

    grasshopper, rhino, cnc, rigid insulation

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  • Sweet Crude

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  • Ruling Lines

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  • Cholla

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© [wpsos_year] Ken Marold USA, Inc. All rights reserved.

Continue reading