About Danilo Sampaio
Making Hortum Machina B
April 19, 2016 | William Victor CamilleriThis post shares the narrative behind the development of the reEarth project as an agenda, technical investigation, art project, and speculative architectural proposal. First to give you a summary of the processes here’s the making of film.
Largely architecture is understood … Read More
When Architecture goes Beyond
July 14, 2015 | Danilo SampaioIt has long been recognized that architects work to fulfil functional and aesthetic requirements in the production of space, as stated by Vitruvius in his “Ten Books on Architecture”. In so doing, it is widely accepted that architecture exists as a … Read More
The Geodesic Sphere as an Exoskeleton of Life
May 4, 2015 | Danilo Sampaio‘The Geodesic Sphere as an Exoskeleton of Life’ is a hybrid of academic research and physical fabrication, embedded by technologies that promote controlled-dynamic behaviours in both micro and macro scales structures. The idea of Earth as the entire overarching vessel … Read More
The Captaincy of the ”Dymaxegrity” – “Bucky” Fuller
April 12, 2015 | Danilo Sampaio | One CommentThe geodesic sphere, originally invented by engineers of Carl Zeiss in 1928, and reinvented and popularized 20 years later by R. Buckminster Fuller, with all the connotations and associations that it carries of a “model of the Earth”, is what … Read More