The results of the Urban_Performance workshop will be presented at the Thessaloniki Center of Contemporary Art from June 8th to June 13th. The opening of the exhibition is on Tuesday, June 8th, at 20:00

Infrared are presenting Thess Bic Seat? as part of the event "I Thessaloniki Allios" organized by Parallaxi, on Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th. The installation suggests a new way of seating at the Nea paralia of Thessaloniki, combined with a space for bicycle stands. The geometry of the constructed object consists of a sequence of gradually differentiating planes thus creating a fluid, complex form. The shape offers many possibilities of ways of seating as well as playing and climbing for the children.

Urban Performance is a workshop taking place until May 25th at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Aim of the workshop is to explore how parameters concerning site conditions can guide the design process, while exploring at the same time the possibilities arrising from the use of industrially produced recycled materials. Here is the website of the workshop.
Visiting Professors for the workshop are Heather Woofter and Sung Ho Kim of Axi:Ome llc.

Aggregate! has been selected to be exhibited at the 6th Biennale of Young Greek Architects. The biennale will take place in September 2010 at the Mpenaki museum in Athens. Here is a link to the biennale site and here more information for the project.

From December 11 to December 18 the SKG in_flux is taking place at the school of Architecture of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. The workshop is focusing on parametric urbanism, through generative and scripted techniques.
The final review will take place on December 19th, with guest critics Patrik Schumacher and Reiner Zettl.
A link to the blog of the workshop here.

According to wikipedia, sphere packing “concerns arrangements of non-overlapping identical spheres which fill a space”. A classic problem in mathematics and computational geometry, sphere packing can be regular (where the centers of the spheres form a symmetrical lattice) or aperiodic. While regular packing can be of some interest, aperiodic configurations can yield some extremely complex and interesting results, that are worth studying…



You can find a simple sphere packing algorithm implemented in maxscript here. However, in my way to create the algorithm, I made a small mistake; I forgot the obvious: to check that the created sphere was actually inside the volume that I was trying to pack. Which gave some very interesting result, as seen in the second image, that resemble a ‘sphere growth process’. Mistakes in scripting are usually annoying (especially if you can not find them) but sometimes are the best way to discover new directions. This second version of the script is here. The two versions of the code are almost identical; one conditional less for the ‘growth’ option. The last two images show triangles created between the centers of the spheres.