The Real Tetris

La estudiante de arte Sergej Hein construyó este ingenioso Tetris que resulta una muy creativa crítica a las insipidas soluciones masivas de vivienda

Berlin Block Tetris from Sergej Hein on Vimeo.

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Junquillos chapel by Claudio Baladron and Diego Grass

A new chapel for 100 people in the remote countryside of Southern Chile.

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BIDESHI, Estudio Fotográfico

El fotografo austriaco Kurt Hoerbst construyo un estudio básico para hacer retratos de los habitantes de Rudrapur en Bangladesh y posteriormente dejarlo en manos de los pobladores como una oportunidad para que puedan obtener ingresos economicos.
El proyecto arquitectónico es de Anna Heringer y la construccion fue realizada por los habitantes de la aldea.


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Bookstore Selexyz Dominicanen

Un antiguo templo medieval sirve de envoltorio arquitectónico para una librería...
El ábside del antiguo templo donde se ubicaba el altar, es ahora el espacio destinado a los amantes del café....

Los arquitectos Merkx+Girod realizaron la remodelación de un templo construido durante la Edad Media logrando crear una gran riqueza de espacios.

Este proyecto obtuvo el premio "Dutch Interior Design Prize" 2007








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Algo de Rural Studio

Un documental acerca de Samuel "Sambo" Mockbee y el espiritu de Rural Studio.

Samuel Mockbee, Peter Eisenman, Richard Meier, Michael Rotondi, Steve Badanes, Hank Louis,Coleman Coker, Lory Ryker, William Christemberry, Chip Lord y otros....





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Loft House - 2007/2008 thesis class at Rural Studio

The 20K project is a continuing project, now in its 6th year. It is a project based on trying to design|build|create alternative forms of housing on a very tight budget. The project was originally conceived on the 502 loan program from the United States Agriculture Program. The loan program was set into action through the works of HERO (Hale Empowerment Revitalization Organization) setting up persons with appropriate loans that they could be approved for, with loans starting at $20,000 for new housing. The concept of the 20K is to design and build a house for $10,000 in materials and $10,000 in proposed labor cost.

At the Rural Studio, the students are the designers and the contractors, acting out all manors of the project. For the 2007/2008 thesis class from Auburn University, the project for all was the $20K. Joining the thesis class for that year was the outreach class, students not from Auburn University, but from all across the globe....

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Cardboard Cloud

The “Cardboard Cloud”, an exhibit design by Fantastic Norway, opened this weekend in Oslo to the public. The exhibit was designed for the Center for Design and Architecture (DogA, previously featured on AD) and will display the works of Norwegian design students.


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Soe Ker Tie House - Thailand

TYIN Tegnestue is a non-profit organization working humanitarian through architecture. TYIN is run by five architect students from NTNU and the projects are financed by more than 60 Norwegian companies, as well as private contributions....

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The Idea of A Tree

Viennese designers Mischer’Traxler have created a solar-powered machine that makes furniture, with the shape and colour of each product determined by the amount of sunlight available during manufacture.

"The idea of a tree
This concept was inspired by a certain fascination for machines and nature. A tree is a product of its specific time and place. It reacts and develops according to its surrounding and constantly records various environmental impacts in its growth process. Each single tree tells its own story of development.
The goal of ‘the idea of a tree’- project was to bring the recording qualities of a tree and its dependence on natural cycles into products.
“The idea of a tree” is an autonomous production process which combines natural input with a mechanical process. It is driven by solar energy and translates the intensity of the sun through a mechanical apparatus into one object a day.
The outcome reflects the various sunshine conditions that occur during this day. Like a tree the object becomes a three dimensional recording of its process and time of creation.
The machine starts producing when the sun rises and stops when the sun settles down. After sunset, the finished object can be ‘harvested’.
It slowly grows the object, by pulling threads through a colouring device, a glue basin and finally winding them around a mould. The length/height of the resulting object depends on the sunhours of the day. The thickness of the layer and the colour is depending on the amount of sun-energy. (more sun = thicker layer and paler colour; less sun=thinner layer and darker colour)
This correlation between input and output makes the changes visual and readable. The product becomes a three-dimensional ‘photograph’ of the time and the space where it is produced and communicates certain characteristics of locality. The process is not just reacting on different weather situations, but also on shadows happening in the machine’s direct surrounding.
Each object represents one day at one spot where it was produced. The concept of introducing natural input into a serial production process suggests a new way of looking at locality. What I would like to call industrialized locality, is not so much about local culture, craftsmanship or resources, instead it deals with the climatic and environmental factors of the process surrounding.
Various shapes and various colours are possible"

WABI SABI

Hurry quickly to see this programme by novelist Marcel Theroux on 'Wabi Sabi', a japanese theory on aesthetics that classes itself as undefinable. It's only available online until MONDAY and evokes such tranquility in design and philosophy that it's worth taking time out for.

Raw.

Though a large architectural firm, Marcio Kogan aspire to bring us back to basics. With the use of untreated, raw concrete blocks juxtaposing the sleek San Paolo designer furniture, they give off such a humble-yet-striking image. Definitely a technique to embrace, albeit better with more environmental consideration...

"We used the materials in their extreme condition, such as visible concrete executed without any concern about precision or finishing, or the skin of the back volume where we used various layers of a steel frame which is usually used on the inside of the concrete slabs and were found at the site. Likewise, the interior walls did not get any special finishing and still have the original chalk markings left by the workers during the construction, almost an archeological discovery. The external floor is made of pebbles which are also used to mix concrete.
Almost an x-ray of the materials."

"Back to the Drawing Board"

"Louis Kahn: The making of a room" Es una exhibición enfocada en los dibujos realizados por el arquitecto donde se evidencia su sensibilidad para comprender el espiritu de los espacios internos a partir de las vivencias de quienes los habitan. Esta muestra se realiza en la Galeria Arthur Ross de la Universidad de Pennsylvania.


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Louis Kahn: The making of a room Brochure de la exhibición y catálogo de imágenes