Architect: McBride Charles Ryan - Rob McBride & Debbie-Lyn Ryan Location: Blairgowrie, Australia Project Team: Adam Pustola, Meredith Dufour, Michael McManus, Angela Woda Constructed Area: 290 sqm Photographs: John Gollings It’s like a half space, half enclosed, half open. Neither in nor out - a new version of the good old Aussie verandah. Its like a giant multi-sensory organ, the sun, the sky, ..
‘softshelf’ is a shelving system which aims to shed the conventional rigid form of book shelves. the design is completely customized by the user who chooses the over size of the unit, size and shape of the individual blocks and the curvature of unit. using CNC technology each shelf can be digitally customized and then built to the specifications. this malleable design system is what gives the sh..
Richard Sweeney and Liam Hopkins of Manchester-based design studio Lazerian have designed a light shade made from modular, birch plywood components. The shade is constructed from 1.5mm CNC-cut pieces, joined with bolts and wing-nuts. The design uses 26 unique components, repeated throughout the structure. Photographs by Richard Sweeney. The following information is from Hopkins: – Modular Form: ..
Architects: Students of the College of Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology, led by Professor Frank Flury Local architect: Ecker Architekten Location: Boedigheim, Germany Client: Protestant Church of Bödigheim Project year: 2009 Photographs: Robert Piotrowski, Dea Ecker, Klaus Hilger & John Ruffalo, Brigida Gonzalez Website: Flurkapelle Buchen/Bödigheim The Field Chapel is a proj..
The manufacturing of curved parts is laborious. Special molds are needed to define the curvature during the forming and joining process ? a factor that is time consuming and costly, especially in individual production and small series. Zipshape is a new universal method that makes it possible to fabricate single curved panels from any plain material without molds. An element consists of two indi..
Characterized by an organic and pleasing appearance, this room divider is about the phenomenon of light. Light is always moving, and due to reflection, refraction and shadow, leaves behind a fantastic impression. To make one feel the movement of light, I divided the wavy sides into many layers so that they reveive light from different angles and reflect it at different angles. As a result, the f..
UXUS Design amazes us with this second stunning post within a week for your eyes only on Yatzer! Merus Winery was just the beginning and Amsterdam Loft is the peak of this architectural journey. Amsterdam Loft could be the house of the mad scientist instead it is the house of a very eclectic owner with a refined taste in design! The skulls, the dead animals, the deer horns, the scissors, and the..
Point b recently served as consultants on an architectural project with LAAB - Laboratorio de Arquitectura Alejandro Biguria. Point b was asked to develop a branching algorithm in RhinoScript that allowed LAABto study various site strategies for the plan of an eco-resort inPuerto Rico. The branching algorithm then translates to a series ofelevated footbridges that connect various parts of the re..
Architects: Drost + van Veen architecten Location: Alemere, The Netherlands Project Architects: Evelien van Veen, Simone Drost Collaborators: Onno Groen, Kees de Wit, Jos Lafeber, Bernhard Jaarsma, Perry Klootwijk Client: Gemeente Almere Contractor: Reimert Bouw Structural Engineer: ABT Delft Project year: 2009 Photographs: John Lewis Marshall Nature-education-centre “The Oostvaarders” is situat..
The Vienna based bkm Design Working Group have created a collection of furniture pieces to show-off new veneer materials from RoHol, an Austrian manufacturer of wood products. The pieces are currently on display at the Artmark Galerie as part of Vienna Design Week. from contemporist
