Lightwall Cirie, Turin, Italy ecoLogicStudio The concept of lightwall reinterpret the traditional massive Italian wall as a thick solid sponge, whose ability to absorb and filter heat, light and view can be changed and adapted to contextual requirements. In a large villa conversion project sun, light and privacy conditions where mapped on the site and a wall solution of pre-cast concrete insulat..
Architects MOS have been announced as the winners of MoMA/P.S.1 Young Architects Program 2009, with their design for a temporary installation outside P.S.1 Contemporary Art Centre in New York. The installation will comprise a series of chimney-like structures, made from an aluminium frame with woven cladding. The architects aim for these ‘chimneys’ to draw cool air upwards from the courtyard’s c..
Designers Keiko + Manabu have created an installation called Heart of Shapes at the Diesel Denim Gallery Aoyama in Tokyo, Japan. Vertical tubes with sections in the shape of hearts, diamonds and stars fill the gallery. The tubes are made from recycled paperboard and will be recycled once the exhibition closes. The installation will remain in place until 8 February. Photographs by Takumi Ota. The..
Here’s another student project, this time a pavilion designed by Alan Lu at the University of California. The conceptual pavilion was designed for a fictional perfume brand and would be situated at the Imperial Palace in Kyoto, Japan. The information below is from Alan Lu: – I am a forth year (last year) architecture student at University of California, Berkeley in the U.S. The work was done as ..
Spanish designers Luzinterruptus have completed a guerrilla lighting installation in a Madrid street. The Luz Interruptus (Red) project temporarily decorated 26 street lamps in Calle del Pez with domestic-style shades. According to the designers the installation, carried out on the night of 12 December, cost 180 Euros, took three hours and lasted seven hours. Photos are by Gustavo Sanabria. Here..
Amarrada a la isla de los impresionistas en Chatou, la Casa Flotante se balancea al ritmo de los remolinos del Sena. Los reflejos cambiantes del agua impregnan las paredes de madera del interior, en las cuales se recortan dos grandes ventanales. Desde el interior del estudio se ve el pintoresco paisaje que inspiró el “Déjeuner des canotiers” de Renoir en 1881. Una atmósfera de fantasía para la i..
[Image: The Waiting Room, Rome, by Jeffrey Inaba/Inaba Projects]. Jeffrey Inaba of Inaba Projects has a new pavilion on display now in Rome, sponsored by Enel, Italy's largest utilities provider. Because of that sponsorship, Inaba "wanted to use numerous forms of alternative energy applications," but decided, in the end, to apply "just one that was highly productive and cost effective." The pavi..
Design Miami 08: An exhibition of sculptures by Belgian artist Arne Quinze is on show at Wolfgang, Roth and Partners Fine Art as part of Art Basel - Miami Beach in Miami, USA. Quinze describes the Bidonvilles as “shanty towns competing with skyscrapers… Social gravity pushes up the social mass, into the sky.” “The houses will extract all the energy they can from wind, water, sun or frequencies t..
mOCEAN 2004mOcean investigated the phenomenological and constructional possibilities of movement and thick space. It was designed for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Contemporary Extension (SFMOMA CX) summer event, entitled Diamond Dust. The event theme was based on the work and production of Andy Warhol's Factory. Drawing from Warhol's Silver Clouds, the installation attempts to capture ..
Lighting designer Bruce Munro has completed his Field of Light installation at the Eden Project in Cornwall, England. The installation is situated on the grass roof of the visitors’ centre, and consists of 6,000 acrylic tubes capped with glass spheres and containing optical fibres. See our previous story for more information about the installation, which will remain in place until spring 2009. T..
