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DewAlex Welcome

amzo — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 15:54:00 +0000

Alexandros Helidonopoulos recently joined forces with Topotheque and as it seems he’ll be around for some time!

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Bits and Pieces

amzo — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 13:06:49 +0000

ETH’s sand_molds

vague — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 11:30:57 +0000

A photo from ETH’s D_Fab research on making re-usable custom molds out of sand.

Different tools are attached on the robot, depending on the desired final effect/texture.

The robot is applying pressure on the sand up until it solidifies and then concrete is poured in.

After that the sand can be re-formed to create another pattern.

|omega|

vague — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 21:30:16 +0000

Following our previous collaboration for his début album (”hanging on a dream”), Spyros Pan invited topotheque again to design the graphics for his second musical journey, “Ω” (omega).
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bifur_ring

vague — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 21:21:44 +0000

Some images of topotheque’s latest collaboration with traditional handcraft jeweller Faidon Ilias for the production of three collections.
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|nice ceiling|

vague — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 02:54:27 +0000

“At the beginning of the nineteenth century we abandoned tradition,

it’s at that point that I intend to renew it because the present is built

on the past just as the past was built on the times that went before it. ”

Adolf Loos

Ceiling snapshot of the extension of ETH Main Building /Zurich

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{retro}

vague — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 19:38:47 +0000

a photo compilation…

vague — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 23:01:53 +0000

…made in china.

”Isn’t it delightful to have friends coming from distant quarters?”,Confucius /孔夫子

(“有朋自遠方來, 不亦樂乎? “/”You peng zi yuan fang lai, bu yi le hu?”)

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|updated masonry|

vague — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 09:29:33 +0000

Photos from the current works in progress at the SEA hall in Schlieren/Zurich…

After,

spending long hours feeding the robot with bricks…

observing the “kuka&The Jigsaw” choreography…

inhaling a lot of ytong-dust…

becoming one with the glue…

and getting puzzled by the assemply,

the structure is finally nearing completion!

More images to come soon…

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medieval tiling_Ve_2.0

vague — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 11:46:41 +0000

An output of the current research that focuses on the implemenation of various ways of medieval tiling in Processing

This is a replacement morphing. There are four tiles, based on four orientations of a motif (i.e. any image masked with a shape)

This set of tilings is based on the so-called Truchet Tiling and the four tiles are available as a Truetype font.

Replacement is then made cyclically: A B C D becomes B C D A becomes C D A B becomes D A B C.

So, a variety of tilings emerge:

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