AA Rio de Janeiro Visiting School
30 março a 07 abril 2012
Barracão Escola de Carnaval – Santo Cristo, região portuária do Rio de Janeiro

“Activating Networks”

A segunda fase da série de workshops Supple Pavilion irá focar no desenvolvimento e fabricação 1:1 de uma série de pavilhões interativos e dispositivos relacionados a eles. Esses elementos reagirão a sensores, gerando variados efeitos espaciais de acordo com um loop entre comportamento sócio-ambiental e resposta em tempo real. Para responder a esses parâmetros, os projetos serão desenvolvidos usando modelagem paramétrica, Processing, Arduino e fabricação digital, através de CNC e Laser Cutter. Os participantes poderão desenvolver projetos novos e/ou trabalhar na evolução do Supple Pavilion projetado no Workshop 1.

Supple Pavilions

Workshop 2:  30 March – 7 April 2012

Pimpolhos da Grande Rio Escola de Samba

Rio de Janeiro

Activating Networks:

The second stage of the Supple Pavilions workshop series will focus on the development and 1:1 fabrication of a network of interactive pavilions and related artifices.  These elements will react to sensors, creating a range of different lighting and spatial effects that will trigger further movement and produce a feedback loop of behaviour and response. To accommodate this respon­siveness, the design will be developed using parametric associative modeling, processing, arduino, and digital fabrication using the CNC and Laser Cutters.  Students can both develop completely new designs, and/or work on the evolution of the Workshop 1 Supple Pavilion project.

AA Rio de Janeiro Visiting School 2011

Allegoric  Molding at Cubango

2011 BARRACÕES DE SAMBA – PORTO DO RIO

AA Rio de Janeiro Design Workshop

5- 14 April 2011

Complementing the venues associated with Rio de Janeiro’s annual Carnival, 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympic Games, this workshop will explore alternative, informal and grass-roots sports and cultural programmes as a way of transforming precarious urban environments and communities and help guarantee a community legacy for these global events. The 10-day workshop will promote a design philosophy that mediates between global and local sensibilities, between formal and informal economies, and between high-tech and low-tech fabrication processes. In contrast to imported and pre-fabricated end-products, it will employ a hybrid methodology, using raw goods (matéria prima) and other found-objects (inspired by the work of artist Ernesto Neto and the Campana Brothers), yet evolving these projects with novel computational-design and fabrication techniques that emphasise the introduction of component-based logics.