Intelligent surfaces

CEPT summer winter school lasted for one week. The week-long workshop was an intensive workshop where 25 students participated in it.  Participants learned about the algorithmic modeling on Rhino, Grashopper3d, it's plugins and explored sensors and actuators based technologies to be used in architecture and design. All participants were divided into three groups where they worked on these projects: Deployable Canopy, Octagonal Flasher Spinner and Wave.

The workshop was conducted by SPARRO under the series of Sensing and interactive technologies in art, architecture, and design at MOFA studio and at SPARRO. The workshop was conducted in 8 sessions with over 30 participants. We created a Voronoi table using Grasshopper3D and Rhinoceros3d and fabricated it using a laser cutting machine. We further developed this 4' x 1' 6" table into an interactive table.

The interactive table responds based on the social behavior of people. It was rather created as a small module of a large installation which reacts on how people are reacting on social media and becomes an emoticon for the city. For example, if people are discussing more politics it will turn red, if people are discussing more economics it would turn blue, if people are discussing environment it would turn green and can have also represented a mixed multicolored facet of the society.

 

The interactive facade was created in 2 sessions. It reacts based on the amount of light falling on its facade and will expand or close its aperture.

The modular man was a part of the workshop at SPARRO conducted in 6 sessions where more than 40 people participated in all the 6 sessions. Each session lasted for 1 day and was distributed over 3 weekends. Participants learned how to create complex organic geometries in Rhinoceros3D, they also learned how to fabricate these modules using tools such as nesting use of CNC routers, woodworking, and other workshop tools. 

 

SPARRO is a collaborative lab where individuals are invited to grow their ideas with a team of makers and innovators. SPARRO has been organizing workshops in the field of architecture, design, and robotics from last 3 years. SPARRO has organized over 27 workshops across India and in 5 architecture institutions including CEPT, Ahmedabad Summer winter school.

Current series of our workshop is a vital step in initiating a movement for design thinkers and makers. Parametrized complexities is a five-day workshop that will explore fabrication, 3D-Printing, Laser cutting using computational and 3D modeling tools like rhinoceros, grasshopper, sensing and interactive technologies using Arduino. Take a look at what we created in our previous series of workshops.