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ESTM APPLIED STUDIES SEMINAR VISITS NORTH SAILS NEVADA FACILITY
SCI-Arc Magazine Issue 004 Editor-in-Chief Hsinming Fung Contributing Writers Hernan Diaz Alonso Georgiana Ceausu Hsinming Fung Todd Gannon Eric Owen Moss Aimee Richer Justine Smith Sarah Sullivan Peter Zellner SCI-Arc Publications Project Manager Justine Smith Online Media and Public Relations Georgiana Ceausu Senior Graphic Designer Alicia Patel Graphic Designer Kate Merritt Manufacturing equipment at North Sails. Photographers Nicolas Backal Julian Brummit Laura Kwak Chung Ming Lam Ryan Tyler Martinez Bryant Suh Joshua White
A team of students in the ESTm Textile Tectonics class led by Bill Pearson of North Sails and Marcelo Spina of SCI-Arc completed a site visit at the North Sails facilities in Minden, Nevada. The highlight of the trip was the chance to observe the evolution of a sail, from a computer model all the way to its final details. Students also presented their research to North Sails engineers. A first collaboration between SCI-Arc’s Emerging Systems, Technologies & Media (ESTm) post-graduate program and North Sails, the course offered at SCI-Arc this Spring aimed to speculate on the future of extreme light materials in architecture by experiments in the design and fabrication of quasi-rigid, and quasi-flexible, objects that blur the threshold between hard and soft, textile and composite. Taking advantage of the advanced manufacturing knowledge and capabilities from North Sails 3DL systems and technology, the class focused on the possibilities offered by composite materials for architecture and design, paying close attention to the role of computation and robotic manufacturing in the fabrication and new modes of adhesive assembly in its construction. The course encompassed several areas of design, from digital computation needed to digitally and physically distribute yarn pattern over complex surfaces, to the construction of necessary intricate mechanisms for laying carbon fiber, aramid and other yarn reinforcements within a resin matrix.
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Rendering of Screenplay, installation featured at Dwell on Design 2012.
2012 EMERGING VOICES AWARD GOES TO OYLER WU COLLABORATIVE Faculty members Jenny Wu and Dwayne Oyler of Oyler Wu Collaborative are among eight emerging practitioners winners of the 2012 Emerging Voices Awards from the Architectural League. Oyler Wu’s installations, pavilions, and façade experimentations are informed by and explore fabrication processes and materials. Most recently, they completed Netscape, SCI-Arc’s 2011 Graduation Pavilion—a hand-woven canopy made from 45,000 feet of rope, and reALIze, a tribute installation dedicated to Muhammad Ali, designed in collaboration with artist Michael Kalish. Currently, Oyler Wu is at work completing Screenplay, an installation to be featured at Dwell on Design 2012. Celebrating its 30th annual edition, the Architectural League award spotlights individuals and firms based in the U.S., Canada, or Mexico with distinct design voices and the potential to
influence the disciplines of architecture, landscape design and urbanism. Winners were invited to present lectures at the Cooper Union in New York in March. Being named an Emerging Voice by the Architectural League is one of the most coveted awards in North American architecture, and the program has a superb track record of identifying firms that go on to have influential practices. SCI-Arc alumni Benjamin Ball (B.Arch ’03) and Gaston Nogues (B.Arch ’93) of BallNogues Studio, and design faculty Marcelo Spina of Patterns were awarded the 2011 Emerging Voices Award. Other SCI-Arc related winners include Director Eric Owen Moss, alumni Jennifer Siegal (M.Arch ’94) and An Te Liu (M.Arch ’95), faculty members George Yu, Wes Jones and Andrew Zago, and former directors Chris Genik and Neil Denari. Past Emerging Voices have included Morphosis, Steven Holl, Tod Williams, Toshiko Mori, Enrique Norten, Brad Cloepfil, Michael Maltzan, Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi, James Corner of Field Operations, SHoP Architects, Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis Architects, and Office DA.