HOUDINI FREELANCER

We need a freelancer for a three week gig. Can work from our San Francisco based studio or remotely. Project is to create architectural structures based on parametricism... manifesto can be found here...

http://www.patrikschumacher.com/Texts/Parametricism%20as%20Style.htm
example form references:

http://tarakunst.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/parametric-image.jpg

http://homevoo.com/waterfront-regium-architecture-architect-zaha-hadid/architecture-design-regium-waterfront-by-zaha-hadid/

We are interested in using houdini to create this forms since they can be modified by math rules and procedurally change from one for to another. For example, we can create a spline, then apply a copy node with a copy stamp to modify the vertices of each copy using math, then skin. The idea is to not have regular, symmetrical copies but rather use math. From manifesto: "The negative heuristics formulates strictures that prevent the relapse into old patterns that are not fully consistent with the core, and the positive heuristics offers guiding principles and preferred techniques that allow the work to fast-forward in one direction. The defining heuristics of parametricism are fully reflected in the taboos and dogmas of contemporary avant-gared design culture:
Negative heuristics: avoid familiar typologies, avoid platonic/hermetic objects, avoid clear-cut zones/territories, avoid repetition, avoid straight lines, avoid right angles, avoid corners, …, and most importantly: do not add or subtract without elaborate interarticulations.
Positive heuristics: interarticulate, hyberdize, morph, deterritorialize, deform, iterate, use splines, nurbs, generative components, script rather than model, …

We can provide more detailed references once an NDA is signed.

Matt Silverman  matt@bonfirelabs.com