Constellation 2.0 from Jerome Delapierre on Vimeo.

Constellation 2.2 is the latest formation of the Constellation travelling exhibition in Montreal. The responsive screen gently holds to the existing structure of the Agora building at UQAM to create an interactive field of visualizations and sound to welcome the visitors to the headquarters of the 39th edition of  Festival du Nouveau Cinéma.
Activated with  a series of embedded touch-sensitive sensors across the continuous surface, the sonic environment designed by Navid Navab responds to the presence of visitors, wind, rain and surroundings of the site. The visualizations designed by Jerome Delapierre create a dynamic field that interacts with the composed sound-art and the visitors presence.
Constellation 2.2′s architecture hints at the importance of built-environments adaptability to media and the next generation of smart spaces. Constellation series are an attempt to create a flexible and versatile architectural infrastructure for media and performance artists to engage. With embedded sensors, speakers and video projections the Constellation series are flexible environments that allow for any artist with  any software platform bring the constellation to life.

Architecture in collaboration with Matthew Fielding , Cosmin Iancu
Sound Art: Navid Navab
Visualization: Jerome Delapierre

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Constellation2.2 from Navid Navab on Vimeo.

Create/Destroy from Fishtnk on Vimeo.

Create/Destroy is the first collaboration, of a series with Tom Ngo + Will Klassen

Create/Destroy is an interactive drawing machine that uses colourful lines for expressing the visitors mass-decision. This piece is based on the principals of crowd-sourcing and participatory new media.

As the visitors enter, they are given the option to chose between two paths, “Create” or “Destroy.” Based on the individual’s decisions, the sensors detect their interaction and the machine expresses their decision as a whole by drawing a series of colour coded lines on a white surface.

Each time a visitor enters the space, a marker is removed from the stack of markers and a new marker is added to the queue. Choosing ”Create”, the  participant would add a colour marker to the stack of markers drawing on the surface. “Destroy” would add a black market to over-write the previous lines.

Fun Palace: Cedric Price, Joan Littlewood, Gordon Pask

In a sense the ideas and approach of  Fun Palace, [1959 ,Cedric Price + Joan Littlewood + Gordon Pask] has been the basis and foundation of this piece.

Commissioned by relativespace ; For  Toronto International Design Festival, Design Symposium: Conversations in Design,

“On January 27, 2011 the symposium will challenge its audience to think outside the box, and ultimately illuminate and inspire on the provocative subject of Crowdsourcing Creativity and Community. Is crowdsourcing—better known as “tapping talent from the crowd” — helping or hindering creativity? How are crowdsourcing and open source contributing to design for social change? These are just a few of the issues and questions that will be debated by 10 international thinkers who will share their practical experiences with crowdsourcing and open source design as it relates to humanitarian projects and commercial design.”

Creaty/Destroy – elevation from Fishtnk on Vimeo.

Tunable Sound Cloud is a responsive architectural application that allows for real-time modification and enhancement of acoustic performance of space. TSC focuses on our auditory experience of architecture.

Designed with a responsive modular structure and interactive smart surface.
Interfaced through Grasshopper/Rhino 3D modeling tool + Max/MSP software.
Actuated with Arduino micro-controllers/geared motors  + SMA wires.

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Tunable Sound Cloud 1.0 from Fishtnk on Vimeo.

Constellation 2.1 is a responsive environment built for Timisoara Student Festival at D’arc terrace. Map

A revisit to out previous project Constellation 2.0 this project was part of a lecture series in Timisoara,Romania to be followed by a series of workshops in Fall of 2010.

Constellation 2.1 is an interactive installation which responds to the sound of it’s surroundings with a series of microphones and audio sensors. The visualizations  projected on the fabric is effected by the sound picked up by the microphones.

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Design/ Built team:

Mani Mani, Cosmin Iancu, Dan Crasnic [superman]

Constellation 2.0; a responsive environment from Fishtnk on Vimeo.

AutoCAD; and the Representation of architecture

Architecture:(Latin “architectura”, from the Greek “arkitekton”, ὰρχιτεκτονική – arkhitektonike, from ὰρχι chief or leader and Τεκτονική builder or carpenter) is the art and science of designing buildings and other physical structures.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture

• architecture has changed
• architects don’t do what they used to do
• we only represent the ideas and we are removed from the construction process
• the tools we choose to design with are very limiting/weak tools of representation

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An experiment in music/architecture

This project has been an attempt to compose space from sound. Or capture the space between two musical notes.

Two notes, C and G have been translated through Max/MSP application to a series of numbers. These numbers create coordinates to a point cloud which define a space in Rhino 3D modeling environment. Through a series of exploration with different methods of surfacing some forms and objects were contrived. Each note created a virtual object that was unrolled and unfolded to a group of flat surfaces.

These surfaces were translated through a laser cutting method to two physical models. Each model representing a note became a base for a network of stretchable fabric to connect the inside edges of the two panels together. The space captured between the surfaces is a note between C and G which expresses a Cmaj7 chord.

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December 2007
Toronto

Bulbnest

Insipred by the animals architectural instincts, specifically bird-nest construction this collection is a study for a series of hand crafted light-shades. The lights are all handmade and the fabrication process makes each piece unique.

The bulbnest Collection is available at fishtnk shop!

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Refrences:

Oropendola nest.
Osprey nest
Hornero nest

Bird Nests and Construction Behaviour

This piece is a revisit to a series of my studies in architecture and furniture design; a second chance for the elements and ideas that were developed but never made it with the final piece. Two lives of a white chair is an attempt to capture the malleable design process and the impressions of site and surroundings on our subconscious.

Handmade sculptural chair.

Crafted with: Steel,Canadian Birch.

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