Arcus >A dense and horizontal roll cloud or wedge-shaped accessory cloud, sometimes appearing ragged and turbulent. Animus >The basic impulses and instincts which govern one’s actions; A feeling of enmity, animosity or ill will; The masculine aspect of the feminine psyche or personality. Architecture, through the involvement and execution of smart, kinetic technologies, allow buildings [...]

Our newest installation for Riley Hospital for Children is nearing completion. We have finished all the fabrication and pre-assembly of the work and are ready to begin installation. Please enjoy the video above highlighting all of the work done so far. The Simon Family Tower addition began in summer 2006 and will be completed by [...]

Now for sale online are our LightForm mylar luminaires! The system was developed by PROJECTiONE over the last couple of years and is now in full production. Each lamp is crafted utilizing parametric digital software, CNC hardware, and hand assembly. We developed a definition in Grasshopper, a plugin for Rhinoceros, that can produce all the [...]

An updated version of these luminaries can be viewed and purchased HERE! PROJECTiONE recently participated in Indianapolis’s First Friday event last week. People for Urban Progress hosted us Friday, April 1st. They are located in Studio 213 in the Murphy Building at Fountain Square. Displayed for the next month, are our fully parametric LightForms that [...]

EXOtique is a quick design through fabrication installation at Ball State’s College of Architecture. The Institute for Digital Fabrication invited us to lead the workshop/installation with student help, following three main constraints: *Timeline- 5 Days: One day devoted to design, one day of modeling in Rhino / Grasshopper and materials testing, and three shared days [...]

PROJECTiONE was invited to put together an art proposal for the New Wishard, which is under construction. We are amongst 27 artists that have been chosen as finalists out of 550 applicants. Wishard is looking for art that speaks to our time, is for the people, and provides benefit to all the employees and visitors [...]

An updated version of these luminaries can be viewed and purchased HERE! PROJECTiONE has just participated in the Muncie First Thursday Gallery Walk this February. Kirk’s Bike Shop (awesome shop!), located at the corner of Walnut and Jackson in downtown Muncie is hosting the exhibition. On display are our latest generation of mylar luminaires, LightForms. [...]

This custom Case was designed and fabricated around an iPod Nano (5th Generation) for a private client. The case was milled from a solid piece of white HDPE, making it extremely durable while still soft to the touch. At its thinnest it is 0.03″ allowing the contrast of the dial and the glow of the [...]

PROJECTiONE was recently invited to exhibit work at the Kasian Gallery within the Faculty of Environmental Design (EVDS) at the University of Calgary by Assistant Professor of Architecture, Jason Johnson. Work from our thesis at Ball State University was presented along side a new version of bitMAPS, and multiple MyLights. This installation of bitMAPS experiments [...]

Hoosier Topo is a fabrication commission we received from wPurpose, an urban and public design collaborative. The project involved the creation of an all Hoosier themed, craft beer, bar- The Tomlinson Tap Room. Our charge was to take topological information from Indiana maps and create a master graphic that would be milled into repurposed, old [...]

People for Urban Progress [PUP] is an Indianapolis based non-profit do-tank that focuses on enhancing the urban quality of life in Indy. They operate at the intersection of transit, environment, and design, often working with local artists, designers, and community leaders to make things happen. Their products help support these initiatives and promote a more [...]

INTRODUCTION: Radiance covers a standalone brick fireplace in a mid century ranch home in Broad Ripple, Indiana. The clients rarely used their existing wood-burning fireplace and wanted to change its function. We proposed an ambient lighting piece that still hosts traditional qualities of the hearth. As an artist and an architect, the clients’ liberal and [...]

bitMAPS was initiated through a client’s interest in a sketch prototype, and developed as an inexpensive patterned wall system. It integrates a custom design through a repeatable mold and integrates multiple functions of the room. The project is intended to create a clean but complex texture that is engaging to sight and touch, encouraged through [...]

An updated version of these luminaries can be viewed and purchased HERE! myLight is a “Do It Yourself” luminaire intended to provide a user with a memorable experience and appreciation for design and fabrication. Made from durable mylar, myLight is hand assembled by the user following a video as a guide. The object becomes more [...]

An updated version of these luminaries can be viewed and purchased HERE! LightForms is based on the same production system used in Luminares. The profile curve of the shade is first generated in Rhinoceros and can be customized to any shape. A Grasshopper script interprets this curve, determines the number of components needed, and lays [...]

The Begley Art Source, A Division of the Evansville Museum Shop, has recently invited us to feature a selection of our work in their gallery. The Begley Art Source is a consignment gallery for artists and designers, and has consulted with area corporations and individuals to develop their art collections, heightening connoisseurship and broadening appreciation [...]

This version of Bodhi Tree was customized and designed for a residence in Evansville, IN. The clients originally articulated the desire to replace an existing plastic tree, with something more expressive and elegant. The system was reinterpreted for this specific application, consisting of more than 3,000 wood veneer components, which were redesigned at 2/3 scale [...]

This is a prototypical process growing out of our previous experiment CNC Pen, combining precision digital tools with loose analog tools. This method has been further developed as a study of the relationship between these tools. The process includes translating a raster image file into vector format, separated into various color levels. These vectors are [...]

Information about the wood was collected through a Computed Tomography (CT) Scan. This technology is traditionally used for visualizing structures within the body. The CT scan takes X-rays of the wood in section using increments as small as 5 millimeters. The scan of curly maple (above) reveals the grain of the wood. This data was [...]

Pop Panel is an exploration in the relationship of mold creation and customization. The manufacturing of molds for vacuum forming is often the most cost intensive process, making it difficult to create mass customized objects. Bubble wrap is an inexpensive and fun material to work with that solves many issues of customization. It can be [...]

Hiroshi Ishii and Brygg Ullmer created a vocabulary for Human Computer Interfaces (HCI) and Tangible Media in their paper “Tangible Bits: Towards Seamless Interfaces between People, Bits and Atoms”. They describe “foreground” interfaces and “background” interfaces which are distinct in that foreground interfaces allow users to “grasp and manipulate” where background interfaces are ambient and [...]

FABRICATION>> Over the past year PROJECTiONE has been engaged in an ongoing project, focused on innovative fabrication techniques paired with traditional materials, in partnership with the Institute for Digital Fabrication. reBarn began in November of 2008 with a large donation of reclaimed barn wood from the Newton family’s local “Pennsylvania-style” barn. Working with the Muncie [...]

Before our trip to New York we decided to make business cards that would both represent what PROJECTiONE is about and stand out as something different among a wallet of others. We recognize that many of our projects find meaning within their design/fabrication processes as much as in their final state; we intended to take [...]

This exercise was a quick three day project that PROJECTiONE undertook in order to graphically represent our research over the last week in New York. Since most of our research took the form of interviews we thought it appropriate to represent the emotion or experience of the events. We intended these vignettes to express the [...]

Projection was intended to be an internal exercise, a study of PROJECTiONE’s methods of process, from design to fabrication. It was created as a display system for our previous and future work, while in itself representing our design methodology. The system was made from available materials: 1” steel angles, 1/8” translucent white acrylic, stainless steel [...]

As part of the ninth edition of the BEYOND MEDIA festival hosted by Image in Florence, Italy, the SPOT ON SCHOOLS exhibition explored the didactics in the field of architectural design and of the new media of communication, while focusing on the most recent development of the use of digital technologies for design research in [...]

MorphoLuminesence is a kinetic ceiling prototype, originally described as a simple surface in Rhino. The surface was triangulated into panels or ”petals” using a combination of the PanelingTools plug-in and manual modeling based on a specific tessellation logic. “Morpho” consists of these kinetic petals, laser cut from white acrylic, which hang from stems of clear [...]

Indiana has a long tradition of producing hardwood veneer from regionally harvested trees. Made of Indiana hardwood veneer, these prototypes highlight some of the more subtle properties of hardwood. The thinness of veneer allows wood to bend, twist, and glow—revealing latent and innate qualities of thinly sliced wood. These qualities are exploited in projects that [...]

Bodhi Tree exists as an interrogation of component based design and an exploration of alternative design processes as part of collaboration with Steve Deters from UCLA, who led a workshop with a group of Ball State University graduate architecture students in collaboration with the Institute for Digital Fabrication. The project began as a series of [...]

Twist was our introduction to sensor technology and kinetic architecture. We began with simple LEGO NXT programming, sensors, and servos to investigate its uses in achitecture. TWIST focuses on transition spaces in order to create an awareness of self and of others in space. The lycra fabric twists using an inner, acrylic frame connected to [...]