The Expanded Environment
The Expanded Environment is a nonprofit 501c3 organization devoted to demonstrating alternate ways of responsibly and synthetically integrating biological and ecological agents into the built world. Its goal is to assist governments, municipalities, provinces, organizations, businesses, and individuals to understand, appreciate and envision a more productive relationship between architectural and biological systems.
2 Comment on “Bug Hotel Winner Announced”
Matthew Wettergreen
July 2, 2010 at 10:15 am
The Arup entry is particularly interesting because it is built off a 2D cellular growth algorithm. The three dimensional version of this model converges to Kelvin solids, a conglomeration of ~14 sided open/closed cells which maximize surface area but not volume. With my limited understanding of insect housing interests, their interest is not in volume but aperature of the holes itself. Therefore, the real advantage of using this type of model to generate the design is that the resulting multi-varied openings allow objects of varied topology to pack the holes with similarly resulting varied pore space for different insects.
Beyond the Hive Results » The Metropolitan Field Guide
July 3, 2010 at 12:57 pm
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