Author Archives: iaac

The Cybertecture Egg, an office building, located in Mumbai , India, was design by a firm based in Hong Kong called James Law Cybertecture International Ltd. They have started to use technology to create a new language called cybertecture, which they apply to this building. The main concept is planet earth working as an ecosystem [...]

The Jellyfish House, a recent project by San Francisco’s IwamotoScott Architecture, has been “modeled on the idea that, like the sea creature, it coexists with its environment.” Jellyfish have no brain, no central nervous system, no eyes, and consist largely of the water around them. Yet, they sense light and odor, are self-propulsive, bioluminescent and [...]

This is an interesting concept called the HyperGreen Tower by Jacques Ferrier, which was recently submitted to an architectural competition in Paris. The 246 meter tower design has an unusual curving exterior lattice facade made out of concrete that acts as the building’s primary structural system. This allows for adaptable floor plates and vegetated sky [...]

Materinal: Gloss  Laminated  Polyurethane  resin, silicone The enigmatic liquid form of the Aqua table awakens one’s curiosity. The user is invited to explore the forces of motion that created such a form. The form is blurring the relationship between the horizontal top and vertical legs. The three blisters bulging out to form legs below the table [...]

The “Water Cube” is a rectangular-shaped steel building covered by a membrane of brightly lit blue bubbles which is incredible to look at but it is also important on an environmental level.  The Water Cube consists of 100,000 sq m of ETFE, (Ethylene Tetrafluoroethylene) a unique transparent plastic which absorbs solar radiation and reduces thermal [...]

 “Between the corporeal units there lie the various empty fields of tension that hold the parts together like planets in a void“ (Manifeste du corréalisme, F. Kiesler). The Endless House is called the “endless” because all ends and meet continously. It is endless like the human body. There is no beginning and end to it. [...]

As it happens in the lines of nature, Ito seeks formal freedom in the design that best adapted to the needs of their spaces. Ito embraces the apparently irregular qualities of nature’s ever-evolving presence. The capabilities of the current collaboration between design and structure calculation allow this game. The design is composed of three covered [...]