Roll it - Experimental Housing. Roll It, a cool experimental house, resulted from the collaboration among different institutes within the University of Karlsruhe.
This cyclindrical design is a modular protype that provides flexible space within a minimum housing unit. Three different sections are dedicated to different functional needs: there’s a bed and table in section, an exercise cylinder, and a kitchen with a sink. Small Bathroom? Make It Vertical With Vertabrae® If you live in an apartment or older home, your bathroom is probably hurting for space.
A sink, a shower stall, and a toilet in your bathroom leave but a few extra square feet to turn around. You could enlarge the bathroom at the expense of reducing your bedroom? Or... I know! Get a vertical bathroom! This stylish aluminum sculpture of seven stacked modules that rotate from the center "spinal column," has every basic item you need in a bathroom, plus it leaves you some room to bend down to touch your toes without hitting your head on the way up. SleepBox. | by Senay GOKCEN SleepBox is a contemporary and organic piece of furniture, designed for the demands of an increasingly urbanized environment.
It is a sinuous life-sized object which creates a place of comfort and relaxation within airports, offices or other semi-public spaces, providing peace and quiet in busy urban environments. The solid, smooth and uniform shell is made of HI-MACS, and contains a leather covered mattress. The project was designed by Caspar Lohner at the Chair for Computer Aided Architectural Design, Department of Architecture, ETH Zurich, supervised by Mathias Bernhard and Manuel Kretzer and produced in collaboration with Klausler Acrylstein AG. The free-form shell is made from HI-MACS, an extremely robust material that can also be thermoformed and visually seamlessly connected. Caspar Lohner was in charge of each stage - from design to fabrication - of his first project using Solid Surfaces.
Photos: Manuel Kretzer Sponsored Links. 10 Crafty ways to recycle wooden pallets: « craftbritain. Upcycling is becoming ever so more fashionable as people are realising the negative effects of Mass production and over consumption.
Pallets recycling is an easy way to furnish and decorate your home! Pallets can be found in skips, road sides and often given away over freecycle! Here is our the top ten recycled pallet ideas! 1. Pallet Plate Rack An adorable plate rack! 2. Create a Sliding Storage System On the Garage Ceiling. If you don't have unused space above the garage door, you can install this system just about anywhere.
However, keep the totes at least 2 ft. from light fixtures, door springs and garage door openers. The special reinforced totes we used (available from internet suppliers like usplastic.com, simplastics.com and others) are a bit stronger than those you'll find at home centers or department stores. The reinforced rims on these containers will support weights of 35 lbs. or more, which is perfect for lightweight storage. And the totes will be easy enough to lift into place while you're standing on a ladder. To be on the safe side, the total weight of all the totes shouldn't exceed 210 lbs., so find a different place to store books and heavy hardware. If you use other types of containers, measure the rims carefully and adjust the bottom flange width to assure full support. Before you order your totes, measure the height above your garage door and find totes that'll work. Buildings Design. The project had to face two preliminary constraints: a surrounding area burdened by the aesthetic and cultural tradition of the Spanish row-house concept and, on the other hand, the plot’s exposure to solar radiation during the hottest months of the year.
Photo © Courtesy of Miguel de Guzmán "The project had to face two preliminary constraints: a surrounding area burdened by the aesthetic and cultural tradition of the Spanish row-house concept and, on the other hand, the plot’s exposure to solar radiation during the hottest months of the year. " Isang Litrong Liwanag ADVERTISEMENT. Less is the New More: Making the Most of Small Spaces. Good Design For Living in Small ApartmentsAs people migrate to smaller spaces, good design helps a lot.
This is something they figured out in Europe long ago, that if you don't have a lot of horizontal room you can go vertical. Tumidei in Italy makes some of the nicest stuff, like this unit with lots of storage under the bed. This unit just raises the floor high enough for beds to slide under. This one looks a bit clinical, but has two single beds plus a pull-out double bed in between. When you read in the New York Times that professional couples with children are moving into small one-bedroom apartments in Manhattan and sleeping in closets, perhaps this stuff could be useful. None of this stuff is cheap, nor, as far as I can tell is it available in North America, but there are ideas here that demonstrate how people can share a space and still get a little privacy, a good place to work and a lot of storage in a very small envelope. Like this? False Bay Writer’s Cabin by Olson Kundig Architects.