Crystal_Chambers - Ammar Eloueini Lecture

Ammar Eloueini is an architect who opened up his own business called AEDS (Ammar Eloueini Digit-all Studio). They work with different materials and try to devise expertise. They’ve worked with many different materials such as Polycarbonate and Corian. At the beginning of his lecture he showed how he divided all of his projects starting in 1996 (when he started) to the present time by the materials he used. In 1996 he attempted to get one of his works 3D printed but it was a failure. He has collaborated with many different people like Issey Miyake and John Jasperse. He has created many different types of objects such as suspended art forms from the ceiling, chairs, tables, and has even re-done some interiors in apartments. He currently is working on building houses in New Orleans that he has been working on for the last 4 years and only now is it starting to be built in the coming month. It is a steel structure that has a 56’ skylight along the top. At the end of the lecture we asked him what software he was using and he said he uses a range of different ones as to not be just stuck to one and to not be limited as a designer. He uses Mya, Rhino, Autocad, Illustrator, Photoshop and Pepe Cura to name a few.

Sitting in his lecture and hearing him speak was really influential because it opened my eyes to all the potential that a single material can have which I would never expect. He definitely thinks out of the box and it shows in all of his work. His work will definitely make me think about my approach to my designs differently and help me to explore all the different possibilities that I have and make it not feel like I am limited. If I was given to project of designing and fabricating a curtain wall, I would definitely study the material that I would be using and through trial and error figure out the best and most interesting way of using it for that application. Seeing how this innovative designer works is a very positive way to keep students motivated and to see how many different ideas there are out there and how many things have not been done that can be.