Articles in the Architecture Category
Posted in Architecture, Concept, Eco Friendly, Electricity, Furniture, Home Appliances, Solar, solar gadgets on 24 September 2008
The scientists at Tel Aviv University and MIT have joined hands to build homes using trees. Unlike the traditional topiary airophonics, the idea is to the use a technique where in plants are grown without soil and then use these live plants to build homes and structures. This would allow architects and scientists to create basic structures such as park benches and bus shelters from plants.
These ecological homes come along with more of greenery to control pollution and save trees.� Designed by a group called PlantWare these homes are made in an eco friendly way, and are equipped to convert massive quantities of carbon dioxide to oxygen, use solar panels and wind turbines for generating power and special composting septic tanks that convert human waste into nutrients for the tree.
Posted in Architecture, HDTV, Home Theatre, dvd player on 28 August 2008
The connoisseurs of good cinema and quality art residing in remote rural areas may finally start feeling joyous and stop feeling alienated from the rest of the movie lovers in great cities. Thanks to fashion brand Hermes and architect Didier Fiuza Faustino and their creation the ‘H Box’, we can expect art to reach and be available in the most remote locales. H Box is a high-art mobile museum (a nomadic object) designed on the lines of 1970s spacecrafts and can be moved to any part of the world.
The H Box intends to make art movies, avant garde productions by revered directors and producers like Dora García, Su-Mei Tse, Judit Kúrtag, Yael Bartana, etc be available to people who have a good taste in movies but are cut off from large urban centers. The H Box plans to reach major cities like London, Paris, and also lesser known places such as Bucharest, Oslo, Abidjan etc. The next halt of this mobile entertainment craft is going to be Yokohama, Japan!
Via: Dvice
Posted in Architecture, Concept, High tech, Japanese gadgets, Projectors on 18 August 2008
Interactivity is the buzz word today and buildings were the only static thing untouched by this phenomenon until the concept of Talking Towers came into being.
Designed by Bieling Heydekamp Klotsche Zelmer, this is an Interactive Video-Installation, which gives participants the power to modulate and move the particles with the help of a light stick. Following this, the moving particles are then projected on the newly built Kranhaus Süd in Cologne.
The installation is open to public viewing post August 16 during the “New Talents” Design Biennale.
Via: Design Spotter
