MyPlace_01 exhibited at the RIBA Exhibition ‘Architecture Open’.
The exhibition runs between 6 October – 4 November 2011.
Further details here.

the wet dream: making of, long from kim walker on Vimeo.

A stop-frame ‘making-of’ video of the interactive installation built by at the Burning Man Festival this year by Guy Woodhouse in collaboration with WarmBaby.

And last but not least, a brief clip on the notion of school as an aspirational local beacon.

The second of three Surface shorts re-exploring the design of our Endike Primary School project.

A short film exploring our class-base strategy for Endike Primary School, Hull.

A selection of the influences that inspire our work.

An International Peer Reviewed Conference, FABRICATE was organized by the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London and managed to bring together some of the most prominent figures in the professional and academic world of architectural design and digital fabrication. Focused on the potential of the integration of computation, materials science and digital manufacturing into architecture, engineering and construction processes, the discussions have touched on the present and future opportunities of materializing a digitally enhanced creativity through the absolute control of the materials and cutting edge crafting methods. Along with debating the inspiring content of the presentations, the panel discussions proved to be interestingly effervescent in passing from the pragmatic and technical aspects of the projects to the potential social and political implications of the future of architectural design as a multidisciplinary profession already involving computer science and robotics or even biology and nanotechnology.

‘Physical Processes’ , ‘Material systems’ , ‘Machines & The Bespoke’ and ‘Representation & Manufacture’ were the themes of the four sessions of presentations each of them being essentially defined by the corresponding keynote lecture. Accordingly,  Mark Burry’s engaging incursion behind the curtains of the construction site of Gaudi’s Sagrada Familia and Neri Oxman’s captivating ‘material ecology’ design principles and maybe not so utopian visions of 3D printed buildings, were followed by Matthias Kohler’s presentation of  the new possibilities of additive fabrication processes by industrial robots  and the almost poetic illustration of the sensorial experiences within Philip Beesley’s ‘hylozoic’ responsive environments.

The exhibition was organized around the live demonstration performed by the Gramazio & Kohler’s  6-axis robot using both laser-scanning and digitally controlled assembly in the building process of the installation. Another part of the exhibition was a very impressive set of visualizations of the 3D scanned 2010 Bartlett Summer Show produced by ScanLAB.

Fabricate Venue Scan from ScanLAB on Vimeo.

The publication – ‘FABRICATE: Making Digital Architecture’ illustrates 32 case studies of academic and professional projects involving the latest digital manufacturing methods and processes. Research work from famous institutions such as the AA, Bartlett, MIT, Harvard and Delft is presented along with ongoing or completed projects from leading practices including Zaha Hadid Architects, Foster and Partners, Arup, Buro Happold, Amanda Levete Architects and Ron Arad Associates.

Having  Ruairi Glynn and Bob Sheil as co-chairs and Marilena Skavara as conference administrator, Fabricate was a big success and prooved to very inspiring  for all the participants already looking forward to taking part in the next similar event.

_Vlad_08/07/2011

Surface have been shortlisted to design a prestigious new entrance for the Science Museum, London.
Our team includes Jason Bruges Studio, Fluid Structures and Max Fordham LLP______Sam_01/07/11

Another from the archive.
This animation was done for our entry to the Victoria and Albert’s Contemporary Space Competition.

[One from the archives]
The cutting sequence and animations that drove the design of our Centre for Film and Visual Media, Birkbeck.
To see the finished project click [here]

Music by Max Richter

Animation produced for concept design stage of Endike Primary.
To see more about Endike click [here]

‘Dream Hull’ – presented by Richard Scott on 06/06/2011 -
To see our latest work on Beverley Road click [here]

Surface’s new website is now up and running. For those who miss the old one, here’s a colourful dose of nostalgia_Sam_02/06/2011

Planning permission received May 2011. Due to be completed Easter 2012.

Planning permission granted January 2011

Planning Permission granted in May 2011

First aired on Channel 4 on 15/02/2007

First aired on Channel 4 on 15/02/2007