Twisted Architecture. I didn’t set out to tie knots in Norman Foster’s Hearst Tower or wrinkle his Gherkin, but I got carried away. It’s one of the occupational hazards of working with Mathematica. It started with an innocent experiment in lofting, a technique also known as “skinning” that originated in boat-building. I wanted to explore some three-dimensional forms, and a basic lofting function seemed like a quick ticket to results.
I dashed off the function Loft, which takes a stack of three-dimensional contours and covers it with a skin of polygons. Loft uses Mathematica‘s GraphicsComplex primitive to factor out the geometries of the polygons from their topologies. The contour point coordinates are collected in the first argument. The second argument is a list of Polygons whose coordinate values are replaced by integer indices into the coordinate list. I tried out Loft by embedding it in a Manipulate, and was happily on my way discovering some interesting new forms. Dror Designs...an Island. If this comes to fruition, this may be the sweetest, or at least largest-scale design gig we've ever heard of: Dror Benshetrit designs an island for 300,000 inhabitants.
Not just the structures they'll live in, but the entire island. The Canal Istanbul project is the current Turkish Prime Minister's plan to bisect Istanbul on the European side, connecting the Black Sea with the Sea of Marmara. The resultant waterway would create a new shipping lane, reportedly creating a more safe way for 56,000 vessels a year to traverse the two bodies of water.
Dredging the canal would produce a reported one billion cubic meters of earth. What to do with all that soil? Called HavvAda, Benshetrit's jaw-dropping plan involves building an island housing six massive geodesic domes, of varying sizes, that will each be incorporated into their own hill. It all sounds compelling, awesome, and crazy. Ultra Modern and Luxurious Thailand Architecture Building Ole Scheeren.
September 10, 2009 by newhouseofart This is great modern architecture building pictures from Mahanakhon Ole Scheeren, OMA Thailand. All people always say that this is best architectural design. May be you can find and get inspiration to make your modern house design ideas. Ole Scheeren, OMA’s associate and development leader of the newly completed CCTV tower in Beijing, measured one of the majority imaginative achievements of the modern architecture world. With the CCTV complete, Scheeren has moved to its first skyscraper entitled Mahanakhon, an amazing, and pixelated 77-storey tower that will go up to be the tallest construction in Bangkok Thailand.
Through approximately 150,000 square meters, Mahanakhon consist of a lush urban oasis by gardens and a main transportation hub, residences, luxury shops, a innovative open plaza and a five-star hotel shaped by Ian Schrager. No comments yet. Earthscrapers: Is Going Down Instead Of Up A Greener Way To Build? Evolo/via Every year, TreeHugger and all the architectural websites troll through the Evolo competition entries, looking for the most imaginative work from young architects with time on their hands. Sometimes you just have to shake your head and wonder at the creativity and drawing skills. In 2010, I did not pay a lot of attention to Bunker Arquitectura's proposal for Earthscraper, an upside down pyramid in downtown Mexico City. Bunker Arquitectura/via It was not a new idea, and it was not the best iteration of it that I had seen. But in two years, it has become a worldwide sensation. Earthscraper has become the architectural equivalent of a shot heard ’round the world.
She spoke with Jeremy Faludi, who had some issues with the concept: I think it would work much better in a dry area in a northern, colder climate, where solid ground keeps you warm, and the glass top acts as a greenhouse. Evolo/via evolo/via Matthew Fromboluti/via Things To Come/Screen capture. Michael Pawlyn: Using nature's genius in architecture. Milan's Vertical Forest. Wednesday, 12 October 2011 GreenMuze Staff Milan’s Vertical Forest from Stefan Boeri Architects. The Bosco Verticale (Vertical Forest) will be the greenest building in Milan when completed, which is one of Europe’s most polluted cities. Designed by Stefan Boeri Architects, as part of their BioMilano vision to incorporate 60 abandoned farms into a greenbelt surrounding the city. The Bosco Verticale building has a green façade planted with dense forest systems to provide a building microclimate and to filter out polluting dust particles.
Each apartment balcony will have trees (900 plantings are planned for the two buildings) that will provide shade in the summer and drop their leaves in winter to allow in winter sunlight. Visit: Via Inhabitat. An autistic savant spent 20 years designing an entire city on paper. Bjarke Ingels: 3 warp-speed architecture tales.