Studio description
supermanoeuvre is an architectural practice dedicated to advancing the application and theory of computational design. The practice was co-founded in 2006 by Dave Pigram and Iain Maxwell and operates out of New York and London. The practice has exhibited in UK, USA, China, Italy and Australia and have lectured on their work at the AA, Columbia University, London’s Royal College of Art, The Pratt Institute, Aalborg University, University of Technology Sydney and the University of Canberra.
Statement on Digital Primitive
supermanoeuvre sees computation as an means of opportunistically collaborating with the heterogeneity and flux of social, cultural and ecological substrates. Seeking to move beyond the diagram as the dominant mode of architectural understanding, supermanoeuvre employs both genetic and phenotypical strategies of formation in which multiple intelligences and behaviors compete for the gift of instantiation. The resulting complex and adaptive morphologies achieve their definition performatively as the emergent outcome of highly specific architectural concerns embedded within generating rulesets.
Project 1: TRABECULAE
Location: NEW YORK
Date: 2008
Client: SELF INITIATED RESEARCH
Digital tools: CUSTOM ALGORITHMS, RHINOCEROS, ISOSURF, 3DSMAX, VRAY
Credits:
Design/ fabrication / Implementation
DAVE PIGRAM, IAIN MAXWELL
WITH BRAD ROTHEMBERG & EZIO BLASETTI
supermanoeuvre is an architectural practice dedicated to advancing the application and theory of computational design. The practice was co-founded in 2006 by Dave Pigram and Iain Maxwell and operates out of New York and London. The practice has exhibited in UK, USA, China, Italy and Australia and have lectured on their work at the AA, Columbia University, London’s Royal College of Art, The Pratt Institute, Aalborg University, University of Technology Sydney and the University of Canberra.
Statement on Digital Primitive
supermanoeuvre sees computation as an means of opportunistically collaborating with the heterogeneity and flux of social, cultural and ecological substrates. Seeking to move beyond the diagram as the dominant mode of architectural understanding, supermanoeuvre employs both genetic and phenotypical strategies of formation in which multiple intelligences and behaviors compete for the gift of instantiation. The resulting complex and adaptive morphologies achieve their definition performatively as the emergent outcome of highly specific architectural concerns embedded within generating rulesets.
Project 1: TRABECULAE
Location: NEW YORK
Date: 2008
Client: SELF INITIATED RESEARCH
Digital tools: CUSTOM ALGORITHMS, RHINOCEROS, ISOSURF, 3DSMAX, VRAY
Credits:
Design/ fabrication / Implementation
DAVE PIGRAM, IAIN MAXWELL
WITH BRAD ROTHEMBERG & EZIO BLASETTI
Description
Trabeculae is the result of re-imagining the central atrium office tower. Replacing the traditional operation of repetitive extrusion, a heliotropic branching system actively seeks out those areas within the zoning envelope with greatest access to daylight.
Forking and swelling in response to varying light conditions the atrium is thus conceived as a site specific network that traverses intelligently and freely from one facade to another. The atrium becomes the defining element of differentiation within otherwise normative floor plates while maintaining efficient floor space ratios. Within the atrium a second order proliferation of the same system at a finer scale develops a structural meshwork - the trabeculae. The swellings and coagulations of this topologically free structural network-within-a-network accommodate meeting & function rooms, bridges and communication stairs as well as supporting the atriums glazing. An instantiation of the proto-synthesis algorithm this project embraces the specific heterogeneity of a given scenario and points towards the possibility of architectural speciation.
Project 2: DYGOCITIES I & II
Location: NEW YORK
Date: 2009
Client: THE BRIDGE GALLERY, NEW YORK
Digital tools: CUSTOM ALGORITHMS, RHINOCEROS, 3DSMAX, VRAY
Credits:
Design/ fabrication / Implementation
DAVE PIGRAM, WES MCGEE, IAIN MAXWELL,
PAULIS AUSTRINS
Description
The bronze portion is created with a custom written genetypical formation algorithm. Both sculptures have the same underlying DNA with different epigenetic results. In this was the two pieces are non-identical twins. The forms are then 3D printed in Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene (ABS) before undergoing a process just like lost wax casting which destroys the positive mold and makes the pieces one of a kind. The bases are CNC (Computer Numericaly Controlled) milled laminated timber/wood.
Project 3: SELFRIDGES STOREFRONT
Location: LONDON, UK
Date: 2008
Client: NOUS GALLERY, LONDON
Digital tools: CUSTOM ALGORITHMS, RHINOCEROS, VRAY
Credits:
Design/ fabrication / Implementation
DAVE PIGRAM, EZIO BLASETTI,
PERRY HALL, IAIN MAXWELL
Description
A collaboration between supermanoeuvre, Ezio Blasetti and artist Perry Hall, this project combines an alchemical engagement with matter’s self organizing properties with various digitally augmented feedback mechanisms. These mechanisms engage the subject as viewer in a complex inter- and extra-personal collaborative network wherein the crowd, sound waves and liquid matter are entwined through algorithm. The literally infinite and entirely aperiodic waveforms proliferate continuously with lasers used as a reflection based projector. Internal rulesets employed as stimulii when no people are within the sensor zones allow the creation of an infinite feedback loop. This project was commissioned by the Nous Gallery of London and is part of a series of curated installations planned for highly public storefronts in London. Other participants in the series are Phillip Beesley, Kokkugia, Xefirotarch [Hernan Diaz Alonzo], theverymany and SJET.
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