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Architecture Fieldwork Design & Architecture have collaborated with the Nike Workplace Brand Design group to design some feature walls for the NIKE expansion buildings. The wall is constructed of salvaged maple gym flooring, and creates a branded, meaningful statement of arrival at the office in Beaverton, Oregon. Continue Reading » cityofsound The primary interface between the UK’s planning system and the people and places it serves is a piece of A4 paper tied to a lamppost in the rain. OK, not always rain. But rain often enough. The paper is a public notice describing a planning application for some kind of ‘development’ somewhere in the vicinity. If it’s a significant development, and very close to your property, you may also get a notification in the post. However, this bit of A4 paper, via the local council, is essentially the only attempt to communicate how a neighbourhood may be about to change.
House in Rokko by Tato Architects This hillside house by Japanese studio Tato Architects comprises a metal barn on top of a glass box (+ slideshow). Located between a mountainous district and the harbour-side town of Kobe in southern Japan, the two-storey House in Rokko contains a kitchen and dining room inside its transparent ground-level storey. A balcony surrounds the gabled first floor, creating an overhang that shades the glazed facade below. Upstairs, the bathroom is separated by a transparent glass partition. During construction, the foundations had to be dug by hand as no machines were able to climb the steep terrain to reach the site, while the streel structure had to be pieced together from sections small enough to be carried up one by one. We've featured a few houses in Japan with glazed bathrooms, including one with a garden behind its walls and one with a whole room dedicated to plants.
Evolutionary Principles applied to Problem Solving There is nothing particularly new about Evolutionary Solvers or Genetic Algorithms. The first references to this field of computation stem from the early 60's when Lawrence J. Fogel published the landmark paper "On the Organization of Intellect" which sparked the first endeavours into evolutionary computing. The early 70's witnessed further forays with seminal work produced by -among others- Ingo Rechenberg and John Henry Holland. Evolutionary Computation didn't gain popularity beyond the programmer world until Richard Dawkins' book "The Blind Watchmaker" in 1986, which came with a small program that generated a seemingly endless stream of body-plans called "Bio-morphs" based on human selection.
Multiplicity and Memory: Talking About Architecture with Peter Zumthor This interview was completely conducted and translated by Marco Masetti, done as his bachelor’s degree thesis in Italy. The idea of multiplicity is innate in Peter Zumthor’s projects since his very first works: works of art surrounding us put on various meanings, which do not always remain on parallel levels combining well with dialectical relationships. The vague is planned strictly, holding by the rules of the architectural language. Beauty is in the undetermined, the multiple, but it is obtainable only through precision.
Incubadora Social ITESM-Bancomer -Opportunity for social development- This refurbishment intends to offer a new quality-based, morphological-exploration for a social entrepreneurship incubator in a low-income area in León, Guanajuato, México. The initiative of these social interventions is lead by two main institutions: Tecnológico de Monterrey (one of the best private universities in México) and Bancomer (one of the main banks of the country). This projects has two aims: the first is to provide low income people with the best quality of higher education, thus, the same received by the students in university classrooms, just in a virtual way.
From line to hyperreality - Architecture If we were to describe our street in the manner of Georges Perec, we might start by counting how many buildings are in the street, describing the door of the bar next to the supermarket, the window beside that door and the hand that is cleaning the window, the texture of the street, the cigarettes that lie in that street, the leaves near the cigarettes. But how can we represent it in a visual way? With photographs, drawings, models or all of these at the same time? The need for representation techniques that create a context for the viewer and transmit and communicate dreams and projects has a long history. It has guided architects and artists to researching the best ways to communicate their innermost thoughts, just as Giovanni Battista Piranesi did when he transformed reality with his Carceri d'invenzione, or "Imaginary Prisons".
Istanbul Disaster Prevention and Education Centre \ Shine Architecture -Safe Enclosures for Istanbul- … It’s time to transmit calm state of mind, to keep focus… to concentrate, to gather for a common cause… a time to look for the others…to shelter life…to learn from our environments… been aware and responsive. Organization is the key.