drawings, textual records, photographs
AP178.S1.2000.PR08.030.1
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Original file title: 2002 01 Art Center Peter's folder visit This file also includes a project budget and topographic maps.
January 2004
Project documentation, drawings, and photographs of project site, Art Center College of Design (Ampliação), Pasedena (folder 1 of 2)
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AP178.S1.2000.PR08.030.1
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Original file title: 2002 01 Art Center Peter's folder visit This file also includes a project budget and topographic maps.
drawings, textual records, photographs
January 2004
drawings, textual records
AP178.S1.2000.PR08.030.2
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Original file title: 2002 01 Art Center Peter's folder visit This file also includes the preliminary master plan and topographic maps.
January 2004
Project documentation, drawings, and photographs of project site, Art Center College of Design (Ampliação), Pasedena (folder 2 of 2)
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AP178.S1.2000.PR08.030.2
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Original file title: 2002 01 Art Center Peter's folder visit This file also includes the preliminary master plan and topographic maps.
drawings, textual records
January 2004
books
Álvaro Siza.
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2 volumes : illustrations ; 36 cm
[Portugal] : Fundação de Serralves, ©2005.
books
[Portugal] : Fundação de Serralves, ©2005.
Project
AP174.S1.1999.D1
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This project file documents an unbuilt design for the Kings Road Apparel Shop (1999), a retail store that was to be located in West Hollywood, California. The project was Testa & Weiser’s first all-composite design. The file consists of a single project folio in Adobe PDF format created by Devyn Weiser in 2014.
ca. 2014
Kings Road Apparel Shop (1999)
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AP174.S1.1999.D1
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This project file documents an unbuilt design for the Kings Road Apparel Shop (1999), a retail store that was to be located in West Hollywood, California. The project was Testa & Weiser’s first all-composite design. The file consists of a single project folio in Adobe PDF format created by Devyn Weiser in 2014.
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ca. 2014
Project
Filament Tower (2006)
AP174.S1.2006.D1
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This project file documents multiple configurations and variations of an unbuilt design by Testa & Weiser for Filament Tower (2006), a carbon fibre tower made of filament strands and wrapped in a molecularly imprinted membrane. The file consists of a single project folio in Adobe PDF format created by Devyn Weiser in 2014.
ca. 2014
Filament Tower (2006)
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AP174.S1.2006.D1
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This project file documents multiple configurations and variations of an unbuilt design by Testa & Weiser for Filament Tower (2006), a carbon fibre tower made of filament strands and wrapped in a molecularly imprinted membrane. The file consists of a single project folio in Adobe PDF format created by Devyn Weiser in 2014.
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ca. 2014
books
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1 folded sheet ([6] pages) : illustrations, plan ; 28 cm
[Cambridge, Mass.] : [Albert and Vera List Visual Arts Center, MIT], [1986]
Álvaro Siza, buildings and projects / organized by the MIT Committee on the Visual Arts.
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1 folded sheet ([6] pages) : illustrations, plan ; 28 cm
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[Cambridge, Mass.] : [Albert and Vera List Visual Arts Center, MIT], [1986]
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Carbon Tower (2001)
AP174.S1.2001.D1
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This project file documents an unbuilt design by Testa & Weiser for Carbon Tower (2001), a forty-storey building made almost entirely of carbon fibre. The project was developed in parallel with scripting software designed while Peter Testa and Devyn Weiser co-directed the Emergent Design Group at MIT. "The tower consists of an interdependent set of parts: floor plates hang from a diagrid structure of bundled fibres reinforced by two double-helix covered ramps, which are run in and out of the structure and are themselves made of strands woven at a finer scale. A thin composite skin—glass would be too heavy—wraps the tower’s parts together. A collaboration with Arup in 2002 allowed Testa & Weiser to simplify the scheme even further, by moving all core elements, from elevators to structural supports, to the tower’s perimeter. To take full advantage of the flexibility and energy efficiency of composite materials, Testa & Weiser also imagined that the carbon fibre structures would be formed on site through a process called pultrusion."[1] The file contains a large number of digital files documenting the conceptual and design development of the project; consultation with Arup Consulting Engineers, New York; research on composite materials; fabrication of 3D printed physical models by 3D Systems and Windform; and exhibition of the project at several museums and galleries, including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and the Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, New York. Also contained in the file are 56 paper drawings (including some sketches done on top of printed computer-aided designs) and two 3D printed physical models produced by 3D Systems. Sources: [1] Canadian Centre for Architecture. Archaeology of the Digital 12: Testa & Weiser, Carbon Tower, ed. Greg Lynn (2015), ISBN 978-1-927071-25-0.
2002-2014
Carbon Tower (2001)
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AP174.S1.2001.D1
Description:
This project file documents an unbuilt design by Testa & Weiser for Carbon Tower (2001), a forty-storey building made almost entirely of carbon fibre. The project was developed in parallel with scripting software designed while Peter Testa and Devyn Weiser co-directed the Emergent Design Group at MIT. "The tower consists of an interdependent set of parts: floor plates hang from a diagrid structure of bundled fibres reinforced by two double-helix covered ramps, which are run in and out of the structure and are themselves made of strands woven at a finer scale. A thin composite skin—glass would be too heavy—wraps the tower’s parts together. A collaboration with Arup in 2002 allowed Testa & Weiser to simplify the scheme even further, by moving all core elements, from elevators to structural supports, to the tower’s perimeter. To take full advantage of the flexibility and energy efficiency of composite materials, Testa & Weiser also imagined that the carbon fibre structures would be formed on site through a process called pultrusion."[1] The file contains a large number of digital files documenting the conceptual and design development of the project; consultation with Arup Consulting Engineers, New York; research on composite materials; fabrication of 3D printed physical models by 3D Systems and Windform; and exhibition of the project at several museums and galleries, including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and the Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, New York. Also contained in the file are 56 paper drawings (including some sketches done on top of printed computer-aided designs) and two 3D printed physical models produced by 3D Systems. Sources: [1] Canadian Centre for Architecture. Archaeology of the Digital 12: Testa & Weiser, Carbon Tower, ed. Greg Lynn (2015), ISBN 978-1-927071-25-0.
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2002-2014
Series
Weaver software
AP174.S2
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This series contains records relating to Weaver, a software script developed by the Emergent Design Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and written in Maya Embedded Language (MEL) for Alias|Wavefront Maya. Weaver algorithmically generates woven strands and applies these strands to a surface within a 3D design model. The resulting weaves “can be complex, and depend on both the description of the weaver pattern and the topology of any user-defined surface or scaffolding in Maya on which Weaver is applied.”[1] The records in this series date from approximately 2001-2004 and include the script in Maya Executable Language (MEL) and standalone executable formats, annotated source code, tutorials, and file outputs such as images and Maya 3D models. Sources: [1] Testa, Peter and Devyn Weiser. “Material Agency,” in Network Practices: New Strategies in Architecture and Design. New York: Princeton Architectural Press (2007): 128.
ca. 2001-2004
Weaver software
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AP174.S2
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This series contains records relating to Weaver, a software script developed by the Emergent Design Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and written in Maya Embedded Language (MEL) for Alias|Wavefront Maya. Weaver algorithmically generates woven strands and applies these strands to a surface within a 3D design model. The resulting weaves “can be complex, and depend on both the description of the weaver pattern and the topology of any user-defined surface or scaffolding in Maya on which Weaver is applied.”[1] The records in this series date from approximately 2001-2004 and include the script in Maya Executable Language (MEL) and standalone executable formats, annotated source code, tutorials, and file outputs such as images and Maya 3D models. Sources: [1] Testa, Peter and Devyn Weiser. “Material Agency,” in Network Practices: New Strategies in Architecture and Design. New York: Princeton Architectural Press (2007): 128.
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ca. 2001-2004
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Strand Tower (2006)
AP174.S1.2006.D2
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This project file documents unbuilt designs by Testa & Weiser for Strand Tower (2006), a continuation of the Carbon Tower research project. Various iterations of Strand Tower are woven out of carbon fibre according to a pattern algorithmically generated by the Weaver software. “The complexity of the final design is produced by arraying a basic fiber bundle of 114 strands; stacked 70 times for a total of approximately 8,000 strands.”[1] The file contains a large number of digital files which document the conceptual and design development of the project, fabrication of 3D printed physical models, and exhibition of the project at several museums and galleries, including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. The file also includes six physical models produced by the 3D printing firm 3D Systems. Sources: [1] "Strand Tower project and credit text" (AP174.S1.2006.D2.007). Testa & Weiser records, Centre Canadien d’Architecture/Canadian Centre for Architecture.
2006-2014
Strand Tower (2006)
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AP174.S1.2006.D2
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This project file documents unbuilt designs by Testa & Weiser for Strand Tower (2006), a continuation of the Carbon Tower research project. Various iterations of Strand Tower are woven out of carbon fibre according to a pattern algorithmically generated by the Weaver software. “The complexity of the final design is produced by arraying a basic fiber bundle of 114 strands; stacked 70 times for a total of approximately 8,000 strands.”[1] The file contains a large number of digital files which document the conceptual and design development of the project, fabrication of 3D printed physical models, and exhibition of the project at several museums and galleries, including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. The file also includes six physical models produced by the 3D printing firm 3D Systems. Sources: [1] "Strand Tower project and credit text" (AP174.S1.2006.D2.007). Testa & Weiser records, Centre Canadien d’Architecture/Canadian Centre for Architecture.
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2006-2014
books
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478 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
New York : Monacelli Press, 1998.
Slow space / edited by Michael Bell and Sze Tsung Leong.
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478 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
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New York : Monacelli Press, 1998.