MATERIALECOLOGY: Neri Oxman: Ray Counting

Monday, August 6, 2007

Ray Counting

Buildings that Breathe: An Ecological Approach is the title of a recent project currently being researched at the MIT Media Lab. The research has been awarded the Harold Horowitz (1951) Research Fund. Other awarders include my dear colleagues Philippe Block and Kenfield Griffith.

materialecology

materialecology was formed in 2006 by Neri Oxman as an interdisciplinary research initiative that undertakes design research in the intersection between architecture, engineering, computation, and ecology. As such, this initiative is concerned with material organization and performance across all scales of design thought and practice. As such, it seeks to promote and define a design research agenda which is ecological in nature, in ideology and in material practice; it aims at embracing the evolving elements of change in both (and indeed related) social constructs and environmental descriptions of the ever changing built environment. materialecology undertakes research in advanced digital applications for architectural practice and pursuits their contribution to a design paradigm promoting generative design processes.

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