Research

These Scripted Flower Vases were completed by Steve with Jon Kontuly in 2006, as their final project for a computational design class taught by Chris Lasch of Aranda\Lasch at Stevens Institute. The goal of the project was to design a series of vases that demonstrated the algorithm used to generate the vases, didactically through their form. This was as much an editorial process, as a generative one: identifying the elements that best represent the algorithm, while still maintaining the form and function of a flower vase.

BLDG 2.0 is a research project initiated by CASE, in partnership with New Buildings Institute, Arup Sustainability, SHoP Architects, Columbia University and IDEO. BLDG 2.0 will address two, somewhat paradoxical, barriers to informed sustainable design: the lack of publicly accessible performance data and the difficulty of extracting meaningful, consistent information from the raw, unstandardized data when it is available. BLDG 2.0 will move beyond this to create a real knowledge resource for building performance.

What happens when you are given a brief to design 500 housing units, a site in the East River between Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn, and 20 minutes to model your idea from scratch? You try to come up with an awesome idea!