Monthly Archives: October 2010

GHOST_TRACK VIIIth VENICE BIENNALE EXHIBITION “Contexts”. Exhibition at the French Pavilion. 2002 Site: French Pavilion, Venice Client: French Ministry of Culture Size: 3200mm x 1200mm Cost: € 15,000 Design Team : David Serero & Elena Fernandez | ITERAE + Arnaud Descombes & Antoine Regnault | DZO “…It is easier to create a digital model of [...]

CROATIA’S ”FLOATING PAVILION” FOR THE 12TH INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE BIENNALE IN VENICE, ITALY image courtesy pavilion.hr photo by zelimir grzancic For the event of this year’s venice architecture biennale, croatia has designed and built a floating pavilion on an existing barge to be tugged by a tow boat to the site of the international event. Constructed [...]

Cite du Design Cite du Design, Centre International du Design, is a center for research and studies in design completed in 2009 is located in St. Ettiene , France. LIN Architects won this international competition with a proposal that consist in a 3d triangular skin pattern that becomes the structural walls and roof of the [...]

Clouds by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec French designers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec have designed a           modular room-dividing system called Clouds for textile                       manufacturers Kvadrat.Clouds consists of textile pieces held together with elastic bands to make free-standing or hanging structures, which can be used to divide space and absorb sound.

“The world around us is becoming increasingly immaterial. We are now used to write emails instead of letters, to pay online, to download music and touch virtual buttons on touch screens. We live in a society of images, a visual culture full of colours, advertisements, television and the internet. There is not much left to [...]

The (X) house is designed to address the extreme changes in temperature that the region faces throughout the year.The project’s name refers to the funnels found within the house which channel sunlight and air from the outside in. The architects were interested in “designing the conditions as opposed to conditioning the design”, and thus sought [...]

This Chamber Music Hall designed by Zaha Hadid Architects. The design process involved architectural considerations of scale, structure and acoustics to realize a dynamic formal dialogue inseparable from its intended purpose as an intimate chamber music hall. A layering of spaces and functions is achieved through the ribbon wrapping around itself, alternately compressing to the size [...]

Beige Architecture, in collaboration with Proces2, covered the AirSpace Tokyo with a layer of artificial vegetation.The building, located in the Kitamagome Ota-ku district, is a four story multi-family dwelling unit with professional photography studios.The exterior building skin is conceived as a thin interstitial environment, which articulated densities of the porous and open-celled meshwork are layered [...]