Venus chair by Tokujin Yoshioka Second Nature – Born of Memory: Thinking About the Future of Design Nature shows us a beauty that exceeds our imagination. On the other hand, it contains a strength that is sometimes frightening. The forms of nature are unique and cannot be reproduced. This endows them with mysterious beauty and makes them fascinating to us. I believe that a design is not somethin..
The Brick Accumulator BY JAZZYTHUMPER The fort unruly, wayward, neglected for hundreds of years stands on the edge of the River Medway, incomplete from years of abuse, more recently teenagers have taken away bricks but the River Medway has always. Wyllie a painter, his house Hoo lodge overlooks the Medway, he used bricks from the fort to repair his dining room. The fort is now distributed across..
Chris Chalmers will be presenting the following essay at ACADIA 2008. It is based on research done for the Master of Architecture program at California College of the Arts, San Francisco. download it here. More background & supporting research can be found at Chris’ thesis blog site. Abstract Vegetation is divided into natural sets in which diverse species reciprocally limit each other and in wh..
StairCASE This is one of my favourite projects, which realised in 8 weeks, from assigned theme to an almost finished and working prototype. The initial keywords: space, storage, future. In the future space becomes more desireable because big apartment buildings are taking over normal 1, 2 or 3 level houses. Building vertically is more efficient because less ground square meters are needed to hou..
