Title: Phototropia
Category: #smartmaterial #bioplastics #electro-active polymers
Author: Computer Aided Architectural Design, ETH Zurich
Year: 2012
Url: https://vimeo.com/materiability
Description: Phototropia is part of an ongoing series on the application of smart materials in an architectural context and was realized in April 2012 by the Master of Advanced Studies class at the Chair for CAAD. The project combines self-made electro-active polymers, screen-printed electroluminescent displays, eco-friendly bioplastics and thin-film dye-sensitized solar cells into an autonomous installation that produces its required energy from sunlight and - when charged - responds to user presence through moving and illuminating elements.
Slow House - Diller + Scofidio
‘Our client came to us and said he wanted a house with a view’ - Diller + Scofidio
Diller + Scofidio first became known with their iconic project the ‘Slow House’, built in 1989 for a Japanese art investor as a weekend retreat on the Long Island waterfront. The view was the most important part of the building, prompting them to explore the notion of the picture window and the terminology of real-estate ads. ‘Why is architecture a technology that creates a view?’ Diller recounts. ‘Because it mediates it with a window frame.’ The couple argued that the picture window represents a more advanced technology than the video display. ‘because it strips away the hardware that you have on a TV monitor and leaves only the effect.’
Sara Shafiei
Anamorphic tectonics-theatre for magicians
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Singapore’s botanical attraction, Gardens By The Bay, features two “Supertrees” — vertical hanging gardens that stand about 50 meters tall and are connected by a walkway. The Gardens formally open in June.
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(Fuente: inothernews)
Title: Responsive Architecture
Category: #responsivearchitecture
Author: Chin Koi Khoo
Year: 2012
Url: http://www.nzarchitecture.com/blog/index.php/2012/03/06/responsive-architect-koi-khoo/
Description: A materially responsive architecture. Suspended on an aluminum tensegrity frame, Khoo gets his architecture to sense, react, and move, by carefully composing material composites to naturally contract in certain weather, or illuminate in low light levels, or to sense the proximity of a human passing by.
In the left, the original Jansen’s mechanism with it’s walking curve, and in the right, a simplified version.
A la izquierda, el mecanismo original de Jansen y su “curva de caminata”, y a la derecha una versión simplificada.
IRRIGATION DEVICES_Prótesis nº81
Descripción de la prótesis a través de un mash-up representado como un software que remotamente controla una prótesis en concreto del todo el ecosistema a través de diferentes escalas (la escala ecosistema, la escala entorno y la escala próteis) permitiendo en su conjunto establecer un imaginario para dicha prótesis en concreto.
La prótesis nº81 del ecosistema se sitúa en las lagunas de Rabasa (Alicante), un entorno protegido en extinción debido a los largos periodos de sequía, regenerando a través del riego de cultivos con agua sobrante procedente de la depuradora Rincón de León.
Miguel Ángel Fernández González
Centre Pompidou - Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano
Concept drawing and model
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© sou fugimoto - apartment block project - tokio, japan
(Fuente: ecoarch)
