Diana Saul Studio Architecture + Design + Fabrication

Research
Sustainable agricultural practices
Sustainable agricultural practices

The sketches embark on an architectural exploration of residential buildings, leveraging the capabilities of Midjourney AI. This endeavor seeks to reconceptualize the application of biomaterials such as Mycelium (a special blend of mushroom roots and crop waste, that could grow and self-assemble in 3D-printed PLA molds), transforming it, from a mere structural element, to a […]

Generative systems 2011 | 2017
Generative systems 2011 | 2017

“Generative Design is a morphogenetic process using algorithms structured as non-linear systems for endless unique and un-repeatable results performed by an idea-code, as in Nature” _ Celestino Soddu “Logic has interests in abstract forms. Science investigates exact forms. Design initiates novel forms. A scientific hypothesis is not the same thing as a design hypothesis. A […]

Shell Structures 02
Shell Structures 02

Studio Hadid, Universität für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna 2012   Adaptive Grids and Semiotic Shells, The design consists of an urban field whose main parameters are density programs and environmental inputs. From this parametric interaction, four shell typologies emerge as the non-linear product of different structure gradients, from thin concrete shells to grid shell structures. Efficient […]

Continuous Shells
Continuous Shells

Continuous Shells_Triple Periodic  Minimal Surfaces This research investigates the application of Triple periodic continuous minimal surfaces in the design of shell structures. It presents different formal outcomes derived from the implementation of a computational algorithm which generates Minimal surfaces having a Quadri-rectangular Tetrahedron as a kaleidoscopic cell, as well as derived from the inclusion of […]