this blog is dedicated to the Bucky Lab from the TU Delft faculty of Architecture. Within the mastercourse we design, develop and at the end build architecture and building construction related prototypes. Its a "get your hands dirty" approach in which the students learn how to translate concepts from sketch into working prototypes. We try to live the spirit of buckminster fuller: what ever you can imagine, you can also build!
Monday, September 22, 2014
Licht 2014 Workshop
stuffing 6 Bucky Lab prototypes in the back of our car and meeting the experts of the Licht2014 symposium in Den Haag….
We did the last semester in cooperation with NSVV in preparation to join the Licht2014 event in Den Haag, today was the final day and we had a nice workshop with a group of experts. After a short introduction of the Bucky Lab we invited the guests to have a discussion with our students about their projects. Each of the guests were able to give a feedback via a sticker and after an hour all the projects charts were filled up with coloured dots.
A nice wrap up at the end of the session made clear that everyone loved the projects and were amazed about the innovative spirit the students. Also it was clear that the more simple projects seemed to be easier to implement than the more complex ideas.
We had a great day and the smile of the students showed that they enjoyed the discussions and admiration of the guests, its quite a rare opportunity for us to have a discussion about our concepts with a group of experts.
We would like to thank especially Paul Settels for the invitation and of course the team behind him from the NSVV and the Stichting Living Daylight.
Thursday, September 18, 2014
Projects in a box
We got an invitation to speak in Vienna / Austria during the Energie and Architecture session organized from the austrian journal energie: bau.
Not only Dr. Bucky Lab was invited to speak there but also two models ...to join the event ...so we had to build a box to ship the two models safely to Vienna ...oh cross fingers.
Monday, September 15, 2014
Sunday, September 14, 2014
Friday, September 12, 2014
Wednesday, September 10, 2014
a short update
Up to now we have quite a nice mix of projects on the table. While a few are still in discussion we are proud to announce that we are doing a cardboard project with our phd researcher Jerzy Latka and we will also put our hands on a truck that will be transformed into a mobile daylight laboratory ... as you can see already quite a nice set up ...cross fingers for more to come.
if you are interested to see a few projects from last semester, we will be at guest on the LICHT 2014
symposium in Den Haag monday the 22nd of September, Dr. Bucky Lab will speak in Vienna about our latest developements on the 9th of October and then again during the Building Material and Innovation symposiun in Den Haag on September the 30th.
Check the website for more information, maybe also something within your interest.