The summer holds the promise of long summer days and warm summer nights. We can imagine nothing better than watching a movie outdoors under the stars. So there is no better time to present our 5 movies you must see as a (budding) structural designer. Structural design and cinema seem to have little in common. Structural designers create and realise long span bridges and towers … Continue reading 5 Movies You Must See as a Structural Designer
Yousef Anastas is an architect and structural engineer. He holds a Master’s in Architecture from l’Ecole d’architecture de la Ville et des Territories (2011), and a structural engineering Master’s degree from l’Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (2014). He is currently a PhD candidate at Geometrie Structure Architecture (GSA) research lab in Paris. In 2014, he conducted a research at the Form-Finding lab of Princeton … Continue reading StoneMatters: a new future for Palestinian stone
Our research “Programmable matter: A multi-physics modeling approach for low-tech architectural adaptive systems using hygroscopic properties of wood,” Computer-Aided Design, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ca has just been published. We are very happy to share our brand new paper on this topic. Get a copy free here https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1XhO22O2yECEV When the relative humidity in the air increases, wood increases in volume as the water molecules become suspended between the wood cellulose … Continue reading Water, Wood and Temperature: Hygroscopy at its best
Bill Washabaugh is an artist, aerospace engineer, roboticist, designer, and maker. Bill is the founder of Hypersonic Engineering & Design, a firm in NYC working at the intersection of technology and art. He has designed flight control software for Boeing, music instruments for Bjork, and a massive stage show for U2. Trained as an Aerospace and Mechanical Engineer, he pushes the boundaries of the art … Continue reading What I am thinking: bio-inspired engineer and artist Bill Washabaugh
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