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WaterLilly @ the Milano Design week show off
Ecco un po’ di immagini di WaterLilly alla Milano Design Week 2013 in mezzo ai suoi amici smanettoni!
WaterLilly a Milano
Continuano le scorribande di WaterLilly che, scoprendo di avere il dono dell’ubiquità, sara’ contemporaneamente presente a due eventi durante il Salone del Mobile in qualita’ di creatura figlia di un modo di fare aperto in cui i tanti progettisti e inventori che hanno partecipato in modo condiviso alla sua nascita hanno apportanto il proprio contributo … Read more
Massachussets Institute of Technology senseable city Lab
As part of the Fulbright Research Scholar program, Cesare Griffa is joining the MIT Senseable City Lab in Cambridge (MA) as Visiting Scholar to further develop the research on the integration of algae photo bio reactors within architectural surfacing.
making Egg(bot): Buona pasqua!
Per festeggiare Pasqua, abbiamo montato una stampante Eggbot e ci siamo messi a plottare sulle uova. Gran divertimento, e tante frittate! Buona Pasqua!
Algae Lettering
Recipe for doing Algae Lettering: make a Sushi Seabreeze Salad by combining together seaweed, agar, black fungus, sesame, seed oil, red chili pepper, sesame seeds, lemon juice: or buy one ready made. Prepare a white background as photo set, combine algae to form letters and numbers and shoot them one by one. Or just use … Read more
Algae and the making of a photobioreactor presentation
A presentation that explains why it’s valuable to include algae as an architectural feature, and how we built our photobioreactor prototypes WaterLilly.
WaterLilly at MIT
Last February 19th cg presented WaterLilly at the SENSEable City Lab weekly Tuesday lunch meeting.
Waterlilly on Tinkerkit
Waterlillly has been published in the Tinkerkit project page. WayerLilly is a social creature: when people come close to her, she gets emotional and increases the algae biomass through the augmentation of light and CO2 released in the bio-solution. The electronics that make that happen are based on an Arduino board, and sensors and components … Read more
Waterlilly alla festa di compleanno di Fablab Torino
WaterLilly ha partecipato alla festa del primo compleanno del Fablab Torino (e presentazione della pirma Maker Faire che si terrà a Roma il prossimo autunno): brava Sara che sei stata la sua voce :) Tanti auguri Fablab Torino! L’evento è stato pubblicato in giro per la rete: http://barcamper.it/barcamper-per-la-makerfairerome/ http://www.technonews.it/2013/02/18/technogeek-meet-the-makers/ https://plus.google.com/u/1/photos/+Arduino/albums/5845205026614888657 https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.488159311248020.110536.124208224309799&type=1
WaterLilly su RAI 3
Franco Magni che racconta di WaterLilly al Fablab Torino alla trasmissione “E se domani domani” andata in onda il 9 febbraio 2013 su Rai 3 in un serizio sullo “strano mondo degli inventori”. L’intera trasmissione è disponibile on-line a questo link, Franco e WaterLilly sono a 1h 28min circa. Il servizio racconta abbastanza bene di … Read more
Center for Architecture Science and Ecology
As part of my Fulbright program, over the next few months, I will spend some time as a visiting scholar in CASE (Center for Architecture Science and Ecology) inside SOM Wall Street Office in New York. It will be a chance to explore the possibilities embedded in parametric generated smart components for sustainable architecture in terms of … Read more
advanced parametric tools for sustainability in architecture
Below, an abstract of the Research Brief Proposal submitted to the Fulbright Commission to develop my research on smart creatures. Riding through the topics of parametric design, rapid prototyping, electronic hacking, biological hacking, with the final destination of setting up a solid background for innovative sustainable building technology design. ——————————————————————————————————————- Parametric design methods applied to the production of sustainable architecture Project Statement Based … Read more
RPI School of Architecture, Troy, Ny
cg just arrived in Troy (NY). I will spend the next 6 months researching on the topic of parametric design methods applied to the production of sustainable architecture here at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute School of Architecture, thanks to a Fulbright Research Scholar Grant sponsored by the U.S. Government. During the research, we plan to fabricate some new working prototypes of … Read more
19 dicembre, Milano: apre il De’Longhi Group Official Store
Un po’ flagship, un po’ showroom, il nuovo De’Longhi Group Official Store apre i battenti in San Babila svelando il concept spaziale minimale ed equilibrato creato dall’architetto Cesare Griffa, che con il suo team e Fred srl ha vinto la gara ad inviti per la progettazione. L’ambiente omogeneo e desaturato miscela in una unica esperienza … Read more
Water Lilly @ Abitare il Futuro Conference in Napoli (I)
On 12-13 december, a paper on Water Lilly has been presented at the Conference “Abitare il Futuro” in Universita’ Federico II Napoli. Unfortunately, cg couldn’t go to lecture in Napoli, but the paper is available in the official proceedings.
annotazioni di cantiere
Annotazioni sul cartongesso: da particolari tecnici a aforismi sui massimi sistemi. Si tratta di un modo spiccio e veloce per spiegarsi in cantiere e trovare un linguaggio comune tra architetti, ingegneri, geometri, muratori, impiantisti, cartongessisti, falegnami, fabbri, vetrai, ecc. con buona pace dei pittori che a breve faranno sparire per sempre queste importanti testimonianze di … Read more
Water Lilly Brick
We’re beginning to explore new directions in the Water Lilly project, looking for a brick system that can be used to create architectural envelopes to grow micro-algae. This very first brick array is the starting point of an entire new research branch that aims to deveop real architectural components that can be used to create … Read more
Coming soon: De’Longhi Group Official Store
We started from a concept design in spring 2012, and we won the invited competition organized by De’Longhi Group from Treviso. Then we went through an intensive development design session during the summer, and we’re now working hard on the San Babila site of the new De’Longhi Group Official Store in Milan. Opening (very) soon! Project credits … Read more
WaterLilly @ SUPSI Disruptive Design Conference
A demo of WaterLilly will be presented in Switzerland next Friday @ SUPSI for the 8th Swiss Design Network Symposium 2012. We will show a video and spare parts of the installations now on in Venice and Ljubljana. Check out the Conference Program for more info.
Water Lilly @ Share Festival 2012 in Torino
water lilly algal bloom from cesare griffa on Vimeo. From October 30th to November 11th the video “Water Lilly algal bloom” is on show in Torino at the “Share Festival 2012 – Open your City“. While introducing the basic concepts of photo bio reactors, the 3 minutes clip shows the construction and the public exhibition … Read more
