February 2011
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January 2011
1 post
WatchResidual Russia - Louis Koehl
Residual Russia is a proposal for the re-activation of the abandoned ZiL Automotive Factory in Moscow. The project treats the site as a substrate for the development of a new social microcosm amongst the industrial wasteland that surrounds the outer reaches of Moscow. This microcosm is broken down into four programmatically distinct sectors. Each sector is...
September 2010
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WatchNick Kinney graduate Thesis video.
Special Thanks to Nick Poulos, Alyse Sedlock, Louis Koehl and Rob Nack.
July 2010
3 posts
WatchThesis midterm composition.
June 2010
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WatchQuick shot at what I’m working on fo dat thesis joint sonnnnn.
May 2010
4 posts
April 2010
8 posts
Historic Inundation
Long before the Statue of Liberty existed, long before the United States existed, long before even democracy existed, Liberty Island was sitting in the New York Harbor. It was not yet a symbol of freedom, democracy, or welcoming, but it was undoubtedly a key element to New York’s natural history. It sat in the harbor acting as a storm barrier for Manhattan, while supporting a rich and...
WatchAn animation briefly describing my final project for Marc Tsurmaki’s GSAPP Studio. The premise of the studio was to rework the program and landscape of Liberty Island in an effort to protect the Statue of Liberty from the threat of rising sea levels.
WatchFinal for Hernan Diaz Alonso’s XLAB 2010 Studio. Botanical garden on the brink of collapse. Turn up the volume, headphones encouraged.
NEK
March 2010
5 posts
Watchteaser, much more to come. Just playing around with some effects and such.
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WatchHernan Diaz Alonso Xlab midterm animation. Investigation of cellular arrangement and movements driven by inflatable and mechanical kinetics.
NEK
WatchWorking with inflatables as a movement driver for a kinetic botanical garden. pre-midterm, just checking out some movement issues and render settings, more in a week or so…
NEK - XLAB 2010
January 2010
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WatchPart of a series of simulated kinetic machines / sculptures. Xlab 2k10. NEK
December 2009
5 posts
WatchNick Kinney final animation for Hernan Diaz Alonso XLAB fall ‘09
NEK
November 2009
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WatchMidterm presentation for Hernan Diaz Alonso’s X Lab, advanced graduate architecture studio, SCIARC Fall 2009. Presented at Columbia University 11.06.2009
NEK
October 2009
2 posts
WatchXlab cell teaser. Working towards midterm at Columbia in NYC. Hyper surface articulation and micro behaviors. Frame rate is a little slow…
NEK
WatchInflatable sound scape studies I. This experiment will become part of my project as a panel system that encloses a practice room at the Curtis Music Institute, Philadelphia. The sound scape of the space will dynamically change as a result of the input from type of instrument to number of players, etc. More to come… wt_zembrodt + a_tetrault
May 2009
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final review CU core studio II
here is the setup for my final with a few quick pics of my quarter scale model. it is almost 4 feet tall and sits on a 4’ x 2’ base. i will post my drawings and better model pictures at a later date.
_louis koehl
April 2009
3 posts
Final model prints part 1
Photo’s we got from the guys over at Approto (American Precision Prototyping) in Tulsa. You are looking at half of our SLS prints in white nylon PA. object measures in at 18” x 5” x 6”. From here the model will be getting a custom black high gloss autobody finish. Full write up and finished pictures here in a week or so.
museum progress_model
so, we have been working on designing a museum for most of the semester in studio. for the most part, i have been working digitally, however, after spring break i was finding it difficult to really advance my project in the computer. in order to get a better handle on the spatial composition of my project i began building a physical model. this model is built almost entirely by hand...
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WatchThe end result, real time manipulation and instancing of geometry.
nek
March 2009
7 posts
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Nick Puckett workshop
A few quick pictures of our setup from a 1.5 day weekend workshop with Nick Puckett of the AA. The premise of the workshop was to input external devices into maya as a new sort of peripheral or design tool with the use of a “make” or “arduino” board. Our take on the assignment involved three pressure sensors, a light sensor and an animatronic pic. Without delving too...
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Midterm Boards - SciArc
This project is a bus station for the San Francisco bay terminal. The site is located just off the Bay Bridge in SF. Our goal was to create a bus station / fueling hub for the SF bus fleet. The fleet currently runs off of biodiesel, the project aims to create biofuel through the use of algae. The station will not only produce it’s own algae, it will also refine and fuel the buses as...
Midterm Model
Midterm model of our bus station / fueling hub for SF. Model was made on a Zprint 3D color powder printer. Have a video of it at work, will post eventually.
_nek
Midterm Review_CU Core II Studio (Mark Wasiuta)
Midterm Boards…
Our project is the “Museum of Delineation” (nice and vague). Rather than designing a museum, my approach is to design an exploratory landscape upon which new methodologies of museum design can be based… If you are really that interested in my M.O. there is a paragraph on the second board explaining it more in depth.
…had my review on...
I’ve been working in Grasshopper to try and set up a method for modeling interstitial spaces between program blocks in the museum we are designing for studio this semester. I have never used Grasshopper before but I was able to improvise a bit and get some results. Here are some of the nicer configurations (dressed up in Maya).
_louis koehl
Watcha test using particles as a source of an air field in order to rythmically transform a soft body surface composed of instanced square forms.
_louis koehl
February 2009
20 posts
fucking sweet ice drawing.
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WatchFall ‘08 Visual studies, second assignment. Focused on different rendering methods and animating vector renders.
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