January 2009
14 posts
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All In One Kitchen →
Water Pavilion by MIT for Zaragosa Expo →
a video after the jump
the real thing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pb7w3fsTnZY&feature=related
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Natural Light Underground →
This project from Parsons student Caroline Pham could channel sunlight by fiber. Plus, because of combing with urban art, it’s also a good fresco.
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Musical/Tuned Stairs →
for a blind person?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3BR_AD79jg
The End of the Bilbao Era - Time Magazine →
“Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.”
– Frank Gehry
TRANSLUCENT CONCRETE
Yes. Believe it! This translucent concrete, made by Porjoel Sosa and Sergio Omar Galvan (students at UAM in Mexico), is 30% lighter and has the same strenght, consistency and resistance as regular concrete, while allowing 80% light transmittance.
The inventors are not willing to reveal the materials used yet, since is being patented, but it is possibly a mixture of glass fibers, crushed stone,...
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Ghost House
This is Ghost House designed by Japanese architecture firm Datar. Instead of creating a traditional Japanese house, they chose to exaggerate the building’s ghostly silhouette, presenting a mute character. Scale less from the outside, the house has three levels with a complex set of ramps and steps. The house was Commended at the 2007 AR Awards For Emerging Architecture.
BUS STOP SWING →
Maybe I’d take the bus more often if I waited on one of these cool things! Video after the jump.
Victorian Grunge
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Jellyfish House
Open House: Intelligent Living by Design
Vitra Design Museum and Art Center College 2005-06
Jellyfish House is modeled on the idea that, like the sea creature, it coexists with its environment as a set of distributed, networked senses and responses. Jellyfish have no brain, no central nervous system, no eyes, and consist largely of the water around them. Yet, they sense light and odor, are...
A Blind Man Remodels Home (Jan, 1937)
PHOTO CAPTION: “Although totally blind, M.F. Jones of Tampa, Fla., remodeled his large five room home into a modern building consisting of eight apartments. He did all carpentry work unaided.”
TEXT: “Overcoming the handicap of being blind, M.F. Jones, of Tampa, Florida, remodeled an entire house unaided. One of the features of the job was the removal of an enclosed stairway...
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An Immortal Jellyfish
As I watched Will Smith’s “Seven Pounds”, I was enamored by the character’s pet jellyfish. It made me want to know more about it, and then I came across this:
Turritopsis nutricula is a hydrozoan with a life cycle in which it reverts to the polypsexually mature. It is the only known case of a metazoan(Piraino et al. 1996, p. 302). It does this through the cell development process of...
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At Home with Coco Chanel →
Is this what you would have thought her apartment would be like? Mind you, it WAS in the early half of the last century.