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“Architecture is the frozen music ; music is the flowing architecture…” - Goethe

Cymatica is an architectural thesis investigation exploring the synthesis of spatial proportion and form generated from sound. This thesis is the first step in an attempt to interpret the intelligent proportions of waves we commonly experience as sound into expressions of formal proportion in architecture.

The goal of unlocking the cymatic language is not to display truth or beauty- but to be able to translate and re-interpret the communication of sound through form; to better understand how to create atmosphere and effect, to compose architecture more rapidly; to play by ear.

This site will document the research and design work of Benlloyd Goldstein , Master of Architecture II | Southern California Institute of Architecture | 2009
( http://sciarc.edu).

__100% original design content and referenced research__

Benlloyd Goldstein

Cymatica is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

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E x t e r n a l _ L i n k s |
ambientAlternity
Cymatics:Hans Jenny
Cymatics.org
Journal of Cymatics

Dec 7 2009
Harmonic Structure 
Rapid Prototyping of Cymatica structures_Series 1

Harmonic Structure

Rapid Prototyping of Cymatica structures_Series 1

Nov 19 2009

Thesis presentation 2009.09.12

Nov 18 2009
Dissonance_Rapid Prototyping Series _ 1

Dissonance_Rapid Prototyping Series _ 1

Nov 17 2009
Threshold _ elevation
Rapid Prototyping of Cymatica structures_Series 2

Threshold _ elevation

Rapid Prototyping of Cymatica structures_Series 2

Threshold _ interior
Rapid Prototyping of Cymatica structures_Series 2

Threshold _ interior

Rapid Prototyping of Cymatica structures_Series 2

Cymaticave
Rapid Prototyping of Cymatica structures_Series 1

Cymaticave

Rapid Prototyping of Cymatica structures_Series 1


Harmonic Structural Surface _CNC Milled

Harmonic Structural Surface _CNC Milled

Oct 8 2009
LongWave Diagram-
This surface is generated from a frozen sample of thick electronic music pushed through 4 source points of wave disturbance.

LongWave Diagram-

This surface is generated from a frozen sample of thick electronic music pushed through 4 source points of wave disturbance.

Cymatic fluid being slowly scaled through frozen audio

Longwave diagram in Xray = 4 source points of sound plus a Cymatic Shell.

4 standing waves ( extracted from an audio input )
set up in C-shell diagram to explore the spatial consequence of wave lattice interference.

Sep 24 2009
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