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Headspace could be considered as micro-architecture for the head: it incorporates digital exploration of free fl owing forms, translates computerized concept into physical model, and tests out the functionality of design through digital fabrication. This allows for much more complex and detailed forms with ultraprecision, but still has a solid structural grounding. Furthermore, throughout the process the design could be presented digitally, modifi ed instantly and shared simulaneously; which has led to a new way of project coordination and has tremendously shortened the timeline of architectural design today.

Stateof ART

Through a transformable wall system which integrates furniture, storage, exercise equipment, lighting, office equipment, and entertainment systems, CityHome, with a very small footprint (840 square feet), can literally function as an apartment two to three times that size. This not only provides a solution to the soaring urban sprawl, but also opens a new age of housing customization; for each occupant can engage in a process to personalize the precise design of the wall units according to his or her unique activities and requirements. Above all animation in this project effectively helped the architects envision how a robot controlled multiuse space might function. http://cp.media.mit.edu/research/67-cityhome

CityHomeMIT Media Lab

Dirichlet Modular Decomposition Arthur Toth

In mathematics, a dirichlet tessellation is a special kind of metric space decomposition that is determined by distances to a specified discrete set of objects in the space, by a discrete set of points. High order dirichlet diagrams also subdivide space. In this London competition entry, the designer with the application of dirichlet tessellation divided the room exterior into geometric algorithms, which at the same time matches its interior organization. The modular computational geometry can be easily introduced into computer-aided design and manufacturing, which in turn benefit from its 3D model accuracy and fast prototyping capabilities. Furniture can be designed to comply to its spatial subdivision, and can be integrated from early stages of modular construction. Moreover it also addresses environmental issues since the frame structures are made of high content, light-weight recycled material. This means comparatively they require less energy to produce, less cost to assemble, coming with a low maintenance/low environmental impact, and can be easily de-commissioned and moved to another location.

http://www.archdaily.com/97040/dirichlet-modular-decomposition-arthur-toth/