Animo[embryonic]solids
Third Year Design Studio
Using studies from Animal Object Taxidermy projects,
The goal was to develop a completed garden‐museum project.
The architecture not only meets all the qualities of the animal object
but also tells a story through its interiors and spatial atmosphere.
Scenario | Description
Located in Kent across from the CAED, "Animo[embryonic]solids" studio revisits form, space, and
architecture as a set of embryos; things with potential for development at a rudimentary stage, yet
highly specific and sophisticated.
Employing both notions of making and site design, students design an enclosed and open garden/gallery
complex, through multiple conceptual and analytical exercises.
Concentrated on the potential of animation and simulation as a design tool and using "robotically
augmented imaging"‐‐RAIi
method through robotic videography, "Animo[embryonic]solids" studio
precisely studies the notion of growth, deformation, texture, surface, objects inside objects, and objects
above objects, to revisit architectural relationships of ground, massing, and interior.
Animo[embryonic]solids is an attempt to revisit architecture as an alive/animal character, which is
animated in nature, but frozen/static at the moment similar to taxidermy animals! During the semester,
the studio studies‐‐in both digital and analog mediums, the potential of the "phenomenal motion" - "static animation" as a manipulation/design tool to initiate a formal dialogue. The process is augmented
with digital and experimental fabrication, videography, video‐making, and improvised and key‐framed
robotic videography using Oriole (a custom‐made robotic plug‐in for Grasshopper 3D) for activating the
robot arm as the physical translation of the digital camera to closely study form, massing and ground
relationships in hybrid cyber‐physical context.
