Catskills Cottage « ECLECTIC LIVING HOME. Catskills Cottage 15Aug12 It’s true, we don’t do much shabby chic or Victorian style here at Eclectic Living, actually, we do none at all.
67027678.jpg (JPEG Image, 1323x1323 pixels) - Scaled (46. 12 Gorgeous Gourds: Tropical Lamps Swirl Light & Shadow. Art circles craft all around these exquisitely carved, drilled and etched gourd shells shipped from Senegal.
The elaborate patterns are not just for show, though – they are made to cast spectacular light displaces on interior ceilings, walls and floors. Designed and executed by Calabarte, some small etchings are intentionally superficial, remaining opaque or translucent, while others are cut deep for full transparency. Each is naturally unique, but so are the shapes scooped out of it by hand (after each shell is hand-selected, emptied and dried). Some feature abstract patterns while others form more literal representations (a globe, for example) – many are fractal-like, creating a sort of secondary-but-still-natural layer of visual interest across the surface and in terms of projected light.
Temperature-Sensitive Glass. Product Details Color-changing dyes and additives have been offered in paper, plastic, and textiles for some time, but this product takes the idea into a new area: glass tiles.
Offered in a range of colors and sensitivities, the tiles change color based on ambient temperature, body temperature, or water temperature. The textured glass surface layer protects and highlights the color-change film on the tile. The base color of the tile can match almost any color, and the temperature change point can be fit to the user’s environment and requirements. The dynamic color change begins at the selected activation temperature and shimmers through three phases, one with each 6–10° rise in temperature. The tiles come in six standard lines. Steen.jpg (JPEG Image, 680x453 pixels) FLICKER FLAME BULBS. Flavor Paper : Tasty Handscreened and Digital Wallcoverings.
Gallery - The Classic Rock Realm of Ferro-Cement. Shelter Documenting a personal quest for non-toxic housing.
The Classic Rock Realm of Ferro-Cement The peculiar title of this article originates with the equally peculiar source of my introduction to this building technology. You see, rather than learning about this from books or by examining some building first-hand, I was first exposed to this, and the exotic styles of architecture commonly associated with it, through the album covers for classic rock bands created by the artist Roger Dean. A number of these album covers featured glimpses of very fanciful buildings designed with a sensual non-Euclidean geometry, buildings which hinted at some fantastic biorganic technology able to grow structures like plants or animals. At present the most well known designers exploring this type of design are the brothers Roger and Martyn Dean, Eugene Tsui, Kendrick Kellog, Antti Lovag, Luigi Colani, and Peter Vetsch.
Tectonic architecture - Roger and Martyn Dean Eugene Tsui High Desert House - K. Michael Hansmeyer: A cardboard column with 16 million facets. Zurich-based Michael Hansmeyer is a computational architect who examines the use of algorithms and computation to generate architectural forms.
His latest project, Subdivided Columns – A New Order is a 9-foot column that weighs nearly 2,000 pounds generated by iterating a subdivision algorithm and then utilizing a laser to delicately slice each segment of cardboard. Via his web site: A full-scale, 2.7-meter high variant of the columns is fabricated as a layered model using 1mm sheet. Each sheet is individually cut using a mill or laser. Sheets are stacked and held together by poles that run through a common core.The calculation of the cutting path for each sheet takes place in several steps.