Villa in Cape Town An exotic villa was built in Cape Town, South Africa with a fabulous view of 270 degrees at Atlantic ocean, mountains and surrounding wild. A project by Stefan Antoni architects is unusual for its support construction. One of the main support elements is a big console that determines the overall look of the house. The construction was a must considering a steep slope on which the villa was built. photos: home-designing-com
Biblioteca online completa sobre permacultura, bioconstrucción, agricultura ecológica y más Apreciados lectores, Parece un contrasentido, crear un método en la Apicultura del “no hacer” (Wu Wei, como lo denominó su creador), cuando precisamente esta “cultura” estudia a las abejas, que conforman uno de los modelos asociativos más complejos, organizadas y trabajadoras que se conocen de los seres vivos. Sin embargo, si juntamos las técnicas… En "CSA ENTRANSICIÓN 2.0" Qué es la permacultura y cómo podemos aplicarla La permacultura es una respuesta que entrega herramientas factibles a nivel individual y colectivo, a la inquietud interna de cada ser humano, por querer conectarnos con la tierra. En "Permacultura"
Carrara House The family house Carrara House by the architecture firm Andres Remy Arquitectos was built in the town of Pilar in the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The two-storey house 650m2 large is located in the back part of a square lot. The south-west entry is parallel to the street and the house opens into north-east and so offers the living space hideout against aggressive sun rays. photos: homedsgn.com. Scholl Residence During the 1950s and 1960s a number of outstanding architects including Mies van der Rohe, Richard Neutra and Ray Eames were commissioned to build model homes that were inexpensive and efficient as part of an architectural experiment. The result were rectilinear homes, which were mostly built in California and became famous very quickly. Recently Studio B architects designed something similar – Scholl Residence located in Aspen, Colorado, USA. This house was designed as a low-cost, efficient, modern and comfortable living space. Its owner is an art collector who wanted a spacious house that would accommodate and serve as a showcase for his collection. photos: home-reviews.com
Hill House / Andrew Maynard Architects Architects: Andrew Maynard Architects Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Team: Andrew Maynard, Mark Austin, Tommy Joo Building Surveyor: Metro Building Surveying Engineer: Robin Bliem & Associates Builder: Ficus Constructions Landscaping: Bonnie Grant Year: 2012 Photographs: Nic Granleese, Courtesy of Andrew Maynard Architects Design is complex. There is little that is more complex to design than a home, however fundamental issues offer an architect a starting point; where is the sun? How do we capture it in winter, how do we exclude it in summer? The thin allotments that dominate Melbourne’s northern suburbs often provide indomitable constraints to solar access and therefore require the production of unorthodox ideas to overcome these constraints and convert them into opportunities. The site faces north therefore relegating the backyard, the family’s primary outdoor space, to shadow throughout the year. Thomson street no longer provides the main entry to the home.
Studio400 thesis book installation A quarter of a million zip ties altered a gallery into a bristled vortex of swirling, cavernous zip tie fabric magnified through reflective cellophane and augmented by subtle changing color. ZIP expresses the story of collaborative effort through research, acquisition, design, and construction of an environment designed as haptic reading room. Designed as an experience to exhibit thesis books, Professor Karen Lange’s fifth year studio (Studio400) at California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly), San Luis Obispo, was assigned a collaborative installation project to showcase their previous personal research and transition into the design phase of their individual thesis projects. Nineteen students worked tirelessly through the zipping, snipping, and stitching of the zip ties together composing an intricate three-dimensional fabric that could be swirled onto itself to create multiple experiences within a small storefront space. Studio400 Professor Karen Lange
D´espresso bar A new bar called D´espresso Bar has been opened recently at Madison Avenue, New York city. It was designed by the architectonic studio Nemaworkshop. Architects have literally turned the bar on its side using impressive wall-papers. The initial idea of the client was to build a unique and creative space that links to the style of the near-by Grand Central Station. As for the inspiration, a next-door Bryan Park library was used, what it is evident at first sight. This illusion is created using wall-papers not only on the walls, but as well on the ceiling and floor. photos: beanhunter.com Doc Sofa by Giulio Manzoni — designose.com Doc is a comfortable sofa which can be transformed into a bunk bed with a simple motion without any effort. It utilizes gas pistons mechanisms to ease the opening. The bottom bed lifts up along with the ladder and protective bar with a circular motion. The ladder also serves as a support for the top bed and keeps it stable. Each bed can carry up to 150kg (330 lb). The cover is removable for easy maintenance and can be made of fabric, leather or other material that the customer specifies. Photos: enpundit.com
ROTS by Andrea Vattovani Architecture Back2rots. It is a concept of a new working environment for young people. We develop first of all a program in which we decided what we wanted to reach and who was our target. After a initial research the decision was to develop a sort of big creative block in which young talented people could find everything they need to be creative and to make their dreams real having all tools they could need. Program. Icons. Public Terraces. Final. source: Andrea Vattovani Architecture MIT's New Self-Assembly Lab Is Building A Paradigm Shift To 4-D Manufacturing Sitting on a table in Skylar Tibbits’s lab, at MIT’s new Center for International Design, is a 200-gallon-fish tank--it's large enough to hold one of Damien Hirst’s pickled sharks. If Tibbits’s experiment goes according to plan, within the next few weeks, it will be the scene of a sort of fractal monster movie. A 50-foot-long strand of coded mystery material will be dumped into the water-filled tank, and transform--without benefit of human hands!--into a sweet little 8-inch square Hilbert curve. How long will it take? “It will probably depend on how hot the water is, or if I add a little salt,” jokes Tibbits, the 28-year-old wunderkind architect-designer-computer scientist behind what may be the next wave in manufacturing: 4-D printing. The concept of self-assembly isn’t new: It has been used at nanoscale for years. On the wall is a large aluminum and polyethylene structure called a Voltadom, bent into curves that mimic a vaulted ceiling. But Tibbits is no ordinary grunt.
Vyta Boulangerie Italiana by Colli Daniela architetto Vyta Italian Boulangerie offers the oldest and most traditional food product, bread and its derivatives, in one of the most representative places for our society, Porta Nuova Train Station, the symbol of Turin’s hectic urban life. ”Through simple products offered by Nature, such as water, wheat and fire, thanks to Man’s expert hand, patience and creativity, forms, savours and fragrant flavours have been created for millennia, giving birth to bread, ancient and modern nourishment for manhood.” This food philosophy was the starting point that inspired the architectural concept. A contemporary look has been reformulated for the most “minimal” product on our tables. The project features contrasting materials and colours: oak and corian as representatives of tradition and innovation, an integration of nature and artifice.
The Internet Is Making Us Poor Everyone knows the story of how robots replaced humans on the factory floor. But in the broader sweep of automation versus labor, a trend with far greater significance for the middle class—in rich countries, at any rate—has been relatively overlooked: the replacement of knowledge workers with software. One reason for the neglect is that this trend is at most thirty years old, and has become apparent in economic data only in perhaps the past ten years. The first all-in-one commercial microprocessor went on sale in 1971, and like all inventions, it took decades for it to become an ecosystem of technologies pervasive and powerful enough to have a measurable impact on the way we work. This feature is Part II in a series on the rise of the machines. “Software is eating the world” Marc Andreessen is funding the companies making the software disrupting labor markets the world over. Economist Andrew McAfee, Brynjolfsson’s co-author, has called these displaced people “routine cognitive workers.”