Vinyl & Fan Blown Air, 21'-0" x 9'-0" x 28'-0", 2007 A Sac of Rooms Three Times a Day stuffs the four rooms of an 800 square foot house into a building envelope of a 500 square foot bungalow. Through this misfit, an architectural space results with deformations, writhings, and contortions as the rooms inflate and readjust to their volatile adjacencies. Although the timed "score" of fans turning ..
Architects: Xavier Vilalta Studio Location: Els Alamús, Spain Client: Alamús City Council Structural Engineering: GN Arquitectos Quantity Surveyor: Mario Campos Design year: 2005-2006 Construction year: 2007-2008 Budget: US $304,088 Constructed Area: 254 sqm Photographs: Jordi Anguera Els Alamús, a small village of seven hundred inhabitants, is situated on a hill in the middle of the plain of Ll..
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Designer Karim Rashid has created a chair for Belgian furniture brand Feek featuring a two-colour seat of two parts that snap together. The chair consists of a metal frame, which supports two expanded-polypropylene pieces that form the seat and backrest. It was launched at Interieur 08 in Kortrijk, Belgium, in October. Here’s some text from Karim Rashid: – Snap Chair The chair is 99% recyclable ..
Vinyl and Fan Blown Air13’-9” x 15’-0” x 10’-0”, 2008 Sited in an extant aperture of a roll up door, two forms of the same size pass air back and forth all day long. As one arch inflates the other collapses and air to fill the engorging arch is sucked from the other. The two arches are in mirrored orientation, participants can pass through the bottom arch until it becomes volatile and the upper ..
A group of graduate students called Team 01Para, from the MArch Design Research Laboratory course at the Architectural Association in London have sent us these images of a conceptual design called Snap! - Bistable Structure. The team consists of Stella Nikolakaki, Sevil Yazici, Jesse Chima and Eugene Leung. According to Leung, the project proposes a workspace that can be reconfigured using “the ..
Austrian designer Christian Precht has designed a compact living environment called OrganiCube. The conceptual nine square metre apartment is made of Corian and comprises facilities for living, sleeping, working and bathing. Here’s some more information from Precht:–OrganiCube explores the creative potential of the material world on the one hand and a study of living in a limited space on the ot..
As a result of diminishing resources and rising prices the age of oil is drawing to a close. Accordingly there is increasing interest in renewable raw materials as alternative sources of energy and as a basis for the production of plastics. These new bio materials are above all useful for packaging, because they are naturally degradable and break down into their original components. The best fut..
Architects Tobias Wallisser and Chris Bosse designed a lounge for Architonic at the IMM Cologne furnishing fair held earlier this month in Germany. The lounge was inspired by arctic slabs of ice and provided the setting for a party to celebrate architectural materials database Architonic’s fifth birthday. Wallisser is formerly a partner at Dutch architects UNStudio while Bosse designed the Aquat..
