We have recently installed our Mits Eleven Lab CNC.  This means we now have the capability to produce custom PCBs in house.  First output soon.

Graduate studio taught with Erick Carcamo of X|Atelier is featured on the UK CoD website .

Last Friday the College of Design opened its end of year show at LOT. The show featured work from the graduate studio I co-taught with Erick Carcamo of X|Atelier.
Over a 2 week period the World Equestrian Games will increase the population of Lexington by approximately 400% and radically alter the city’s notion of infrastructure, [...]

AltnResearch recently completed a collaboration with Robofold to develop a robotic folding system for Studio Joris Laarman. The system of 4 robots simulates production of Laarman’s Asimov chair by folding it from a flat sheet of metal. The prototype is currently on show at the Friedman Benda Gallery in New York City. – [...]

The Xiamen Energy Masterplan Model will be on display @ the Peter Behrens School of Architecture in Dusseldorf Germany from the 24th of March until 4th of April.

We are now accepting applications for summer Internships @ AltN.
Applicants should preferably be familiar with 3D modelling/animation software (particularly Maya) and have a knowledge of both software and hardware programming.  Interested candidates should send a CV/brief portfolio (No files larger than 5mb) to:
internships{AT}altnresearch.com

I will be presenting my paper: “Explorations of Agent-Based Simulations for Architectural Design” at the Symposium on Simulation for Architecture and Urban Design in Orlando Florida.  It examines the initial research into using Massive as an agent-based design tool and new typologies of scale “constructing” drawings for simulation.
About SimAud:
Symposium Chair

Azam Khan (Autodesk Research)

Program Committee

Robert Aish [...]

Curved Folding Network
The new and official home for all research into curved folding as a method formal research and new manufacturing techniques.  It is being run by Greg Epps of Robofold.  I’ll be contributing to the site via my ongoing research into these methods

The Xiamen Energy Masterplan Model is featured in a special Issue of Arch+.  It is on display at the IFA gallery in Stuttgart until March 20.

During the Spring Semester I will be teaching a visiting Workshop Series on Custom Design Hardware for Hernan Diaz Alonso’s studio @ SciARC