another type of structure project

structure

London-based Grimshaw Architects has designed a soaring structure held aloft by pneumatic beams from the firm Airlight of Switzerland.

sme structures that I found

This new architectural installation is part Twenty-First century tensile structure and part tribute to Disney Studio's sci-fi cult film "The Black Hole". The installation is designed to warp the flow of an outdoor space with a feather-weight rendition of "the deadliest force in the Universe" constructed in tinted mylar resembling stained glass. It swirls above the outdoor courtyard all summer long. An assembly of 512 unique instances of a single but parametrically variable component, the canopy's extreme intricacy and repetitiveness pay homage to actor Maximilian Schell's character, Dr. Reinhardt, in "The Black Hole", a tyrant who wishes to harness the "power of the vortex" and possess "the great truth of the unknown!"

cloud

'cloud' by monica foerster
a portable room (5.30 x 4 m / 2,30 height)
for rest, meeting or concentration.
rip-stop nylon. fan and case included.

foldning by peter Callesen

Folding, 1999

25 min. performance

Cardboard, tape, Stanley knife and sailor’s costume

Odense International Performancefestival

Denmark

http://www.petercallesen.com/index.html

DISCO TOILET!!!

A Disko Toto! Art cube at 100% Design Tokyo.

Toto x Hiroshi Nakamura at 100% Design Tokyo

London-based collective Abake showing us “Pi” in Katakana - for PingMag! Awesome idea at DesignTide, TideThink area!

Abake’s “limo typography” is, at first glance, a simple black screen with several slots in it. But when you and your buddies jump behind it, you can stick your arms through the slots and make words or images out of your arms. Fun for the whole family… or, as one of the designers demonstrated when he grabbed random people to help him spell things - it’s a good way to make new friends, too!

FLUFFY FLUFFY!!

Towering 7m high the inflatable Solivoid swept last years Australia's Interior Design Awards. The Monash University creation was designed as a temporary coffee lounge for use at trade exhibitions. It provides a space for visitors to wait, while they also inadvertently generate multimedia patterns projected on its surface.

Interior Architecture lecturer Mr Darragh O'Brien said the project was an experiment that attempted to reconcile the ideal with the real. "It is a deliberate exercise in vagueness, reflecting the ambiguous nature of an evolving design process… In response to the contextual environment, occupants of the lounge will be suspended between inside and outside; between here and there; between matter and information.”

meeting point

'eco boulevard' (madrid, spain) by ecosistema urbano arquitectos



eco boulevard' (madrid, spain) by ecosistema urbano arquitectos

MARC FORNES

architecture projects by marc fornes. the works are created by applying
code and algorithms to a simple polyhedron frame structures. the process results in unpredictable new forms.

ORIGAMI - paper sculptures

Jen Stark paper sculptures

BAMBOO TOY WORKSHOP

our latest article: bamboo toy workshop details the trip of 15 students from the toy design course at shenkar college, (israel) to china, where they spent a month designing bamboo toys.

'as professional industrial designers in the premium toy industry and as academy teachers, we found this challenge to be an opportunity to revisit bamboo as a material and its opportunities. the bamboo plant has many outstanding features and qualities. as a material it has been ingeniously used for centuries by generations of artisans, toolmakers and architects. traveling to asia, one can easily notice many amazing structures, furniture and various other common applications utilizing this material.' project directors yoav ziv and assaf eshet

Leer mas sobre este workshop - AQUI

Waterfall bar in Tokyo

This optical glass bar waterfall is installed in a private gallery situated in the heart of tokyo. the building was designed by tadao ando and features work by olafur eliasson. tokujin's bar is made from a 4.2m long optical glass material that creates the impression of a massive block of ice.

ORIGAMI

sombras pintadas

Ese "casi nada" se llama The life of a Shadow y es una acción de street art de Ellis G. un artista de Brooklyn que se ha dedicado a siluetar, con una simple tiza blanca, todas las sombras inspiradoras que ha encontrado a su paso.


Vehículos aparcados en la calle, mobiliario urbano, persianas, mesas, sillas... todo lo que proyecta su sombra sobre las calles de Nueva York es susceptible de ser siluetado por este artista.


Su obra es tan perecedera, que bastan unas pisadas o una simple lluvia para que desaparezca sin dejar el menor rastro de su existencia. Arte con una fecha de caducidad demasiado corta, eso me gusta.