My work and collaborations on computational design and software development.
Plugin developed for BuildSystems to create building components based on Environmental Products Declarations (EPDs). The idea was to offer Lifecycle Analysis (LCA) data right at the beginning of the design process.
This calculator simulates bank loans and subsidies, making sustainable constructions and renovations accessible to real estate developers and homeowners.
Developed the BuildSystems website using the Astro framework, leveraging the Notion API as a CMS.
Olafur Eliasson commissioned ArtEngineering for computational engineering, digital fabrication, and logistics.
Studio Other Spaces contacted ArtEngineering for computational engineering, digital fabrication, and logistics. I became involved in the project's mid-development after digital fabrication had started. It was this very project that ultimately secured my position at Art Engineering. Initially, they needed someone to quickly export around 1.5 thousand 2D drawings from Rhino/Grasshopper to be sent for digital fabrication using a plasma cutter.
For this project, Katharina Grosse chose to sculpt with leather. The challenge here was translating the organic leather strips into folded steel plates. The solution was a strategy already used in boat production for millennia: developable surfaces.
Simulation of the deployment and collision avoidance for a 48.8m diameter inflatable radome protecting a parabolic antenna at the Raisting earth station.
It was interesting to understand the computational strategy to generate the geometry for a self-curving cross-laminated timber plate. The trick here is to work with cylinders because timber's natural curvature happens perpendicular to the direction of the fibers.
The design process is a hybrid between a top-down and a bottom-up approach. We worked both with predefined heart-like 3D models as the design base and with agent-based modeling, widely explored by Craig Reynolds in the 1980s. The programming part was developed using Grasshopper 3D, the two-week-old plugin Culebra v2.0 for the agent-based modeling in conjunction with the plugin Firefly to capture the heartbeats. This work became later a paper presented at the ECAAD 2020.
Atelier Marko Brajovic developed this site-specific installation for the celebration of the Air Max Day. In this project, I worked on the concept and the coordination. I also got to work with addressable LEDs, Arduino, and bass pickups.
The O3 Pavilion was conceptualized by the Atelier Marko Brajovic at the same time that I was taking my first steps into the computational design world. I had just graduated from FAU-USP with a thesis in which I learned all the tools necessary to finish this pavilion: Rhino, Grasshopper 3D and Kangaroo Physics.
Parada Coca-Cola was my very first project where I applied computational design. This sensorial experience was inspired by the Coca-Cola bottle, mimicking the bubbles and colors of the drink.