Monthly Archives: October 2010

Sculpture of Morton C. Bradley, Jr.  These two mathematical sculptures by Morton C. Bradley are 16″ and 20″ in diameter, respectively, made from 2-ply Strathmore paper. The geometric forms are each based on twelve copies of a Kepler-Poinsot polyhedron, with twelve great dodecahedra on the left and twelve small stellated dodecahedra on the right. If [...]

(C)SPACE PAVILLION – Temporary Pavilion for the DRL10 (AA) ALAN DEMPSEY+ALVIN HUANG London, United Kingdom October 2007 (Competition winner announced) Febrary 2008 (Expected completion) Area – 100mq [C]SPACE is the winning competion entry in the ‘AADRLTenPointZero’ Pavilion project, an advanced technology concrete structure that was erected in Bedford Square (London) in February, 2008 as part [...]

Architect: Faulders Studio (california) Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates Project year: 2009 Typology: Vertical Salt Deposit The building features a large super structure which will, over time, grow  a skin façade on its own. the system utilizes a vertical salt deposit growth systemthat uses water from the adjacent persian gulf. the water is sprayed onto [...]

Architect: Jesse Reiser + Nanako Umemoto Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates Project year: 2006 Typology: commercial tower The shell is not only the structure of the building, it acts as a sunscreen open to light, air, and views. The openings on the shell modulate depending on structural requirements, views, sun exposure, and luminosity. The overall [...]

Artist:  Joris Laarman A young Dutch designer, Joris Laarman, working together with carmaker Opel has designed a range of furniture based on the way bones grow, generating constructions using the exact same principle as bone growth. This idea was first developed by Claus Mattheck and further developed by Opel in Germany to create elegant lightweight [...]

I All Cave, a landmark designed for Paris bid’s to host Olympic game 2012,by Hojung An, Yunghee Kim and Sangun Yeo,not only stands as an physical emblematic statement by mean of its tall permanent existence, but rather orients to cultural sphere actively co-evolving with user’s desires. It is a curious thing in a state of [...]

De place was founded in 2004 by Jeong-Der Ho and Deland Leong, and has been exploring the Relationship between urban dynamics and prototypes embedded within urban flows. The studio also researches the Digital technologies that develop the evolvement of physical formation and its links to the living environment. Volatile architecture. As for the urban dynamics, [...]

Architects: Shigeru Ban, Jean de Gastines The Centre Pomidou in Metz – a platform for exchange between artists, curators, researchers and graphic designers – is project has great relevance to us as it explores the concept of executing ideas in computational form and digital fabrication. Made by architects Shigeru Ban and Jean de Gastines, who [...]