Vray-materials.de - Your ultimate V-Ray material resource architecture and hygiene - home rctc industrial zombie llc movie making machine department of mechanized architecture emergency house eco-orphanage moma deitch yahoo ding-dong cnn contact sonofderrida@aol.com copyright © 2014 adam kalkin all images and materials are the properties of their respective owners The 20 Most Inspiring TED Talks for Architects Are you feeling short on inspiration today? For a jump-start, try watching one of these twenty TED Talks – a follow-up to last year’s post “The 10 Most Inspirational TED Talks for Architects.” Wherever your interests lie, the passionate people featured in these videos – from WikiHouse founder Alastair Parvin to famed photographer Iwan Baan and architectural great Moshe Safdie - will get your creative juices flowing. 1. Before agriculture, permanent settlements did not and could not exist. 2. When Alastair Parvin graduated from architecture school a few years ago, many European architects were out of work. 3. Tim Brown calls upon designers to move beyond their professions and “focus less on the object and more on design thinking as an approach.” 4. Iwan Baan lives out of a suitcase 365 days a year, famously traveling and documenting architecture around the world. 5. What makes Le Corbusier‘s Ronchamp, Tadao Ando‘s Church of Light, and Peter Zumthor‘s Therme Vals so special? 6. 7. 8. 9.
Projekte - Möhring Architekten Kastanienhof, Born a. Darß Palmanova Palmanova (Friulian: Palme) is a town and comune in northeastern Italy, close to the border with Slovenia. It is located 20 km from Udine, 28 km from Gorizia and 55 km from Trieste near the junction of the Autostrada Alpe-Adria (A23) and the Autostrada Venezia-Trieste (A4). Satellite image of the fortress History[edit] American professor Edward Wallace Muir Jr. said on Palmanova: "The humanist theorists of the ideal city designed numerous planned cities that look intriguing on paper but were not especially successful as livable spaces. Along the northeastern frontier of their mainland empire, the Venetians began to build in 1593 the best example of a Renaissance planned town: Palmanova, a fortress city designed to defend against attacks from the Ottomans in Bosnia. The Ideal City of the Renaissance[edit] Palmanova is a city in Italy constructed during the renaissance and it is a city built following the ideals of a utopia. Main sights[edit] The cathedral[edit] Central plaza with Cathedral.
History of the Karakalpak Yurt Contents SummaryIntroductionEarly History of the Portable DwellingThe Origin of the Trellis-Walled YurtThe Arrival of the Yurt in Central AsiaThe Qipchaqs and the TurkmenYurts in the Pre-Mongol TribesThe Mongol YurtYurts within the Golden HordeTimurid YurtsUzbek YurtsQazaq YurtsNoghay Cart TentsThe Karakalpak YurtPronunciation of Karakalpak TermsReferences Summary From the time of the Bronze Age the cart has probably been the most widespread portable dwelling for nomads throughout the Eurasian steppes, although numerous simpler shelters were used as well. The appearance of the trellis-walled yurt was a later development that coincided with the emergence of the Turks, who subsequently introduced it to western Central Asia and to neighbouring tribes in the East. The Mongols used the ger instead of the trellis-walled yurt, a lighter dwelling with wattled walls that could be easily transported on an ox-cart. Introduction The real origin of the Karakalpak yurt is far more complex and uncertain.
MIMOA | Modern Architecture Guide | Contributed, organised, and mapped by you. competition Honorable Mention 2014 Skyscraper Competition Henry Smith, Adam Woodward, Paul Attkins United Kingdom A cylindrical matrix of super tall structure centered on an electromagnetic vertical accelerator to eliminate the hydrocarbon dependency of aircraft during takeoff. Commercial air travel is celebrating its centenary in 2014 and over the last 100 years aviation has made an unprecedented impact on the way people can experience an interconnected and relatively open world. The future of Aviation is anticipated to rely on energy dense hydrocarbon fuels to provide the power required to make flight possible. An electromagnetic vertical accelerator, utilizing the technological principles developed at CERN’s LHC and maglev train propulsion, provides a method for commercial aircraft to be accelerated to cruising speed using renewable electrical energy sources from ground based infrastructure. The concept is essentially a helical version of the classic urban grid environment.
100 Ideas That Changed Architecture By Maria Popova “Art is a discovery and development of elementary principles of nature into beautiful forms suitable for human use,” legendary architect Frank Lloyd Wright famously observed. Indeed, this convergence of practicality and beauty is perhaps the central defining characteristic of architecture itself, and of every meaningful development that has pushed the discipline forward over the millennia. Weston writes in the introduction: Surprisingly few of the ideas are philosophical or theoretical in character; indeed, some readers may wonder whether some of them — like Fireplace with which the book begins, and Wall and Brick which quickly follow — are ideas at all…. ‘A door,’ observed the Dutch architect Aldo van Eyck, ‘is a place made for an occasion.’ ‘Without symmetry and proportion there can be no principles in the design of any temple; that is, if there is no precise relation between its members as in the case of those of a well shaped man.’ Images courtesy of Laurence King
The M-House Living out of the old LV is really only enjoyable up to a point. Though a few excellent apart-hotels have come to our rescue in New York and Barcelona, we particularly pity our executive friends flying into the City of London. What there is simply isn’t enough, and international commuters are forced to leave the City to find an adequate base. Which is why Tim Pyne (architect of the much-written-about m-house and founding creative director of 100% Design), along with various collaborators, has decided to come to the rescue. Their plan is to set up a number of m-house ‘scapes’ (encampments of up to 40 m-houses) in Europe. Each house has an optional clause allowing it to be let when they aren’t using it. And Shoreditch looks set to be the first base. The idea of an m-housescape certainly has a number of USPs. Councils, of course, are very happy about the idea of a new apart-hotel with very few planning issues and the partners just need an operator before the scheme is off the ground.
Retrofitting our Skyscrapers For Food and Power Nicolai Ouroussoff writes about all the new glass towers architects are designing in New York these days; they are lovely things, but what will power them or feed their occupants in years to come? Green roofs won't do it, they are too small. Daekwon Park has a great idea, seen in the 2008 Evolo skyscraper competition: a way to reunite the isolated city blocks and insert a multi-layer network of public space, green space and nodes for the city. Clipping onto the exterior of existing buildings, a series of prefabricated modules serving different functions would be stacked on top of each other, adding a layer of green space for gardening, wind turbines or social uses to make new green façades and infrastructures. There are modules for vertical gardens and connections to other buildings through a network of skywalks; Wind turbine units and program units that could serve many public functions.