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You take the blue pill, the story ends. You wake up in your bed and believe…

Digital Heritage

Computer graphics technologies, such as photogrammetry and panoramic (360) videos enable new forms historical and built…

Integrated Design+

This Integrated Design Studio investigated high-performance architecture in the context of historical settings on Roosevelt Island…

Digital Twin: BIM Asset Tracking

The goal of this project is to develop a plug-in for Autodesk Revit software that updates…

Robotic Construction

This “Robotic Fabrication and Assembly Processes: Prototyping Construction Tools” design option studio (Fall 2019) investigated strategies…

Building 197, Kearny Point, NJ

Integrated Design

This Integrated Design Studio investigated high-performance and low-energy-footprint architecture. Students researched strategies and technologies for zero-energy,…

Performance-Based Designs

This research studio focused on the process of knowledge development through experimentation, prototyping, and testing. Students reviewed…

Smart Fixtures

Light–Sounds–Air (LSA) is a smart fixture that functions as an element of the broader building–user interface…

Pneumatic Façade

The project focused on the development of the intelligent façade mimicking natural systems of living organisms…

Augmenting Reality

Virtual environments allow for explorations of inaccessible or not-yet-materialized designs. They can be precursors of future…

The Mirror Stage

The editorial by Andrzej Zarzycki titled: The Mirror Stage  for issue 1:2, SIMULATIONS of TECHNOLOGY | ARCHITECTURE…

Embedded Systems

Hardware developments for the Internet of Things (IoT) research projects. These technologies are concurrently used in…

Mom’s Tray

Mom’s Tray is a dietary monitoring system that integrates a smart tray with embedded sensors, prearranged…

LiDAR + Building Materials

The future users of the built environment will include a wide range of autonmous agents, such…

Computer-Human Interactions

KAIST student projects Smart Ballet Point Shoes Wearable electronics (physical computing) project by HyeJi Kim, KAIST…

Embedded Infrastructure

This research investigates localization and guidance systems as one of important future considerations for autonomous mobility…

Overcoming HTTP404

The editorial by Andrzej Zarzycki titled: Overcoming HTTP404  for the inaugural issue VIRAL of TECHNOLOGY | ARCHITECTURE…

Kinetic Facade

These design research case studies integrate building assemblies with distributed sensing and actuation systems in the…

Sensing Wall

The Sensing Wall project investigates sensing building skins for real-time performance monitoring. Specifically, it looks into…

Technology | Architecture + Design

Andrzej Zarzycki is a Founding Editorial Board Member of TAD and the inaugural Executive Editor. TECHNOLOGY…

Projection Mapping

Projection mapping installation developed by Geoff Tsai (student @ MIT) for an academic event in Fall…

Material Interfaces

This project integrates remote sensing  into building materials and propose a new form of user interface…

Smart Egress

The Smart Egress project facilitates building occupant evacuation during emergencies.  It integrates distributed sensing and traffic/occupancy…

3D-Printed Camera

This 3D printed camera was part of the Digital Design thesis project by Amos Dudley, NJIT’2016.…

Smart Closet

Smart Closet app+project allows users to select daily and prearrange outfits through a mobile app. This…

Simulating | Fabricating

Fabrication-with-simulation projects were developed as part of the building technology course at NJIT. Parametric design and…

Interactive Print

Augmented Reality (AR) provides opportunities for highly engaged and immersive knowledge-scapes. The projects below were developed…

Taking a Stand (3)

Motion graphics and animations developed as a part of the senior Digital Design studio. Students were…

Adaptive Media Façade

Adaptive Media Façade design team looked at media displays not only as visual communicators but also…

Algae Façade

The Algae Façade project integrates façade and building technology research (performance, materiality, and feasibility) with embedded…

Character Design

This course is an in-depth exploration of 3D character design, modeling, and animation for video games…

Prototyping

Prototyping as a form of conceptual thinking and design methodology has been on the rise since…

Taking a Stand (2)

Motion graphics and animations developed as a part of the senior Digital Design studio. Students were…

Gaming for Health

Video game environments designed and developed as a form of physical therapy for stroke patients. Student…

Kinetic+Adaptive

Kinetic and adaptive assemblies can play an important role in future resilient and sustainable architecture. In…

Context Awareness

Augmented reality (AR)-based applications provide an opportunity to reconnect and better realign virtual and physical worlds…

Gaming for the Environment

Minecraft: Sustain Mod This video game mod was developed by Mateusz Mrowiec (NJIT) to introduce sustainable…

Taking a Stand

Student-developed commercials addressing current social, cultural, or environments concerns. These projects were created as parts of…

Wall to Wall: Architecture Boston

This article discusses contemporary digital media culture and its impact on the built environment. Direct link…

Building System

The following examples illustrate projects produced by students to complement building technology coursework for the Building…

Parametric Construction Details

Presented projects employ parametric definitions of buildings assemblies in order to interpolate between  various construction alternatives:…

Digital Object: Architecture Boston

Position piece for Architecture Boston Magazine in Winter 2011 issue reviewing MoMA exhibition titled: Digital Object. …

Formal Mutations

Designing a transformative experience Digital Design Studio @ RISD, 2007 This digital design studio focuses on…

Designing the High Line: Architectural Idea Competition

Jury Selection, New York, 2003…

Im/Possible Spaces

Envisioning New Experiences in Architecture, Defining Limits Digital Design Studio @ RISD, 2006 This digital design…

Narrative Spaces

The introduction of a spatial narrative refocuses the discussion in architecture from the depiction of a…

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