PECONIC BALLET THEATRE

PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
Francis Bitonti Studio developed this Interior for the Peconic Ballet Theater in Riverhead, New York. This 2000sqft facility features reception area changing rooms and a 1000sqft performance and rehearsal space with a sprung floor system. White walls hover between the floor and ceiling, pulling you across, around and in. The reception area sets the space in motion as you enter. A long shelf element pierces through the wall, unfolding and bifurcating becoming the front desk. The solid black finish absorbs the shadows, creating a phantasmal floating three-dimensional object. The lighting is situated to create diffuse space, one without shadows, time or solid ground, leaving us with only the dancers to provide us with a sense of time and place. 

Location:Riverhead, NY
Client: Peconic Ballet Theatre
Dimensions:2000sqft

BURIED TEXTILES

PROJECT DESCRIPTION:

These textiles were designed for Katie Gallagher's Autumn/winter 2013 Collection. Francis Bitonti Studio collaborated with Katie Gallagher to realize these laser wool textiles. The ambition for the project was to create an atmosphere around the body wherein the body’s silhouette would be dissolved into its surroundings. 

Each textile was specifically generated for the garment. Francis Bitonti Studio digitized each of the patterns and developed computer algorithms that would generate the tool paths for laser cutting. We used the dress patterns as an input that informs the propagation of the branching pattern. The result was a dynamic responsive pattern that responds to the shape and curvature of the garment where no two parts are ever exactly alike.

Learn More at our website: http://francisbitonti.com/BURIED-TEXTILES

EVERYTHING FOREVER BELTS

These belts were designed for Katie Gallagher's Spring/Summer 2013 Collection. Francis Bitonti Studio collaborated with Katie Gallagher to realize these stainless steel and leather belts for her collection.

SCHISTOSE MIRROR (update)

We just got some new photos of the Schistose Mirror that was fabricated for the Intersections Symposium.

Visit our website for more info http://francisbitonti.com/SCHISTOSE-MIRROR

SCHISTOSE MIRROR

First photos of "mirror r600" for the intersections symposium.
More photos coming soon.

With mirror finish

CNC Milling (Closeup)

CNC Milling

Conceptual Rendering

INTERSECTIONS SYMPOSIUM

I will be speaking at the Intersections Symposium next week come check it out.

Intersections: Building Interdisciplinary Pedagogy | Building Integrated Practice is a symposium on the topic of leading-edge technology and design and the interdisciplinary collaborations that facilitate the implementation of digital ideals into reality.

Algorithmic Sound Experiment 1

Did some small experiments with algorithmic sound generation today. I am getting some interesting results applying Fourier Transformation to the resulting matrix of an Elementary Cellular Automaton.

Check out the results on sound cloud. This is a link to the output from rule 9. The above image is a visualization of the data used to construct the sound wave.

http://soundcloud.com/francis-bitonti/r9

CATALYSTS Conference

I will be giving a one hour workshop at the CATALYSTS conference this weekend.

http://www.archtechnycct.com/

Download Workshop Materials

Subdivision

Métis Proposal in Green Building & Design Magazine

Francis Bitonti (FADstudio) and Andrew Zientek (Terrain Studios) proposal in this months Jardins de Métis Proposal in Green Building & Design Magazine

L-System with Edge Rewriting

Pirate Branding?

In this Augmented reality application developed on the Junaio Platform.

http://www.junaio.com/

Using the Junaio image recognition capabilities I have linked an image to a logo on a bottle of Poland Spring water. If you touch the image of the lips you will be linked to a Wikipedia article about the product. The article is open and can be edited by everyone, the general public can therefore attach information to this bottle. The bottles and labels are all mass produced therefore this publicly curated information can be attached every bottle of Poland Spring water.

Is this a new kind of Graffiti? Can we use the branding and distribution of everyday objects to distribute information? Can we turn a brand against itself?

Force Directed Graph

Probabilistic force directed graph generated in processing. Each node has no greater than three inputs.

Bio-Bulb

Bio-Bulb is a biodegradable, self powering organic light source. The product uses, Vibrio fischeri a type of bio-luminescent bacteria, to produce an organic renewable light source.

See more at fadstudio.us.

Each bulb is spherical and can be aggregated to produces different types of lighting. When the bacteria deplete the nutrients in the bulb they die off and the biopolymer shell is disposed of. Each bulb is fully biodegradable.

Image credits: Virginia Tech Photo: Petri dish containing

luminescent bacteria

Twist Flatware

My new Flatware design. (currently being prototyped)

See more at...

http://fadstudio.us/#1318791/TWIST-FLATWARE

Fuzz Pavilion

See more at http://bit.ly/hXfRVB

See more on FADstudio.us

http://bit.ly/hXfRVB

Bristle Chair

Many tinny branches work together to for a rigid structural mass. The chair is designed for direct digital manufacturing using FDM 3D printing technology. The entire chair could be manufactured on demand as one ABS plastic part.

Voronoi From 3d Curves

Recently I have been experimenting with generating 3D voronoi structures from points arrayed along curves. The voronoi cells follow the curve and define a continuous space around the curve. Essentially the voronoi is generating surfaces that define the space that falls between these knot like curves. Because of the density of the points along the curve these interesting surfaces are generated that are reminiscent of minimal surfaces.

Spherical Aggregation System

Aggregation of components based on spherical coordinates.