Students: Liz von Hasseln, Kyle von Hasseln
Studio Title: Graduate Thesis Summer 2012
Instructor: Peter Testa & Devyn Weiser

This work is centered on the development of a system for generating material volume from streaming information. The system uses UV light from a modified DLP projector to continuously and selectively cure photo initiated resin within a shallow vat system we developed for the project. The cured part is simultaneously and continually pulled away from the vat, allowing un-cured resin to flood in beneath it to be subsequently cured.
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Students: Liz von Hasseln, Kyle von Hasseln
Studio Title: Testa ESTm Vertical Spring 2012 ‘Real-Time’
Instructor: Peter Testa
Research Fellows: Brandon Kruysman, Jonathan Proto, AT: Curime Batliner

Our project is about the visualization of the body.

In the New Representation in Scientific Practice Bruno Latour states:
“The information for the perception of an object is not its image. The information to specify something does not have to resemble it…Scientific imagery is never mimetic. If it was, there would be no gain of information between one step and the next.”

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Students: Peter A Vikar
Studio Title: Testa ESTm Vertical Spring 2012 ‘Real-Time’
Instructor: Peter Testa
AT: Curime Batliner
Research Fellows: Brandon Kruysman, Jonathan Proto, AT: Curime Batliner

Approxymotion is research project focusing on motion based forming. Its an attempt to apply the logic of digital design into the physical space.
Traditionally in architecture forms are transferred from paper/virtual space to building through fixed shaped moulds or as an assembly of many elements. My goal was to set the mould into motion, while maintaining the parametric nature inherited from the digital model. The result is a motion-form that computes between the initial motion input, the built geometry and its material properties.

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Students: William Hu, Haleh Olfati, Jasmine Park
Studio Title: Testa ESTm Vertical Spring 2012 ‘Real-Time’
Instructor: Peter Testa
AT: Curime Batliner
Research Fellows: Brandon Kruysman, Jonathan Proto

In the search for new materials and fabrication methods, the team’s approach establishes a constant dialogue between design intentions and the physical properties of a material – hot glue – within a robotic shaping environment. Glusion addresses geometry, motion control, variable material and free form fabrication.

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Students: Erin Besler
Studio Title: Testa ESTm Vertical Spring 2012 ‘Real-Time’
Instructor: Peter Testa
Research Fellows: Brandon Kruysman, Jonathan Proto, AT: Curime Batliner

This work involved subverting the inherent logic of space and time as characteristic of filmic things in order to capture change in material behavior.
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