FULL PRINTED by nueve ojos
Directed by Carles Mora and Mariona Omedes
Post Production by Carles Mora, Mariona Omedes, Karin du Croo, Jordi Ferrera y Josep Mª Balada
Music by Micka Luna

“1,200 custom-designed cars race around the large scale sculpture metropolis II by artist Chris Burden. The piece will soon be exhibited at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art on a long-term loan. The huge kinetic sculpture contains a massive roadway in which the small toy cars race around. The road system contains 18 lanes with 13 toy trains and a variety of buildings made from lego and lincoln logs. The whole system is designed to mimic a real freeway, as you will see in the video below.”

Can you imagine seeing something like this when you were nine or ten? It would have kept me up at night.

[via designboom]

Students at at the University of Bologna are using 3D printing technology to prototype exciting new directions in architecture for their thesis project.

The model above was made to explore curvature driven porosity:

“Surface tessellation depends on curvature radius: strating from this simple principle a family of tessellations (with different parameter values) was produced and from the selected model holes were produced by percentage of vertex-to-vertex distance.” (see the Flickr photostream by Ale2x72)

Ideas like this can be quickly built using additive manufacturing techniques to determine if the design is viable and small scale versions of very large elements can be built for proof of concept.

via BLDGBLOG