Free Woodworking Plans, Furniture Plans - Over 200 Categories Miss Moss Day 3 - The Nolli Plan Of Rome | Coffee With An Architect For day three of architecture week 2012, I’ll explore Giambattista Nolli map of Rome, created in 1748. I know nothing of cartography, of mapping, or of Giambattista Nolli for that matter. I know nothing of his life, but, this is what I do know: Nolli didn’t just make a map of Rome, he charted and recorded and encapsulated the fabric of a city. He chose to illustrate the positive and negative spaces of the city; the solid and open; the structure and the public spaces. He did this in stark black and white. It’s a very powerful way to analyze the form of a city. Please enjoy, The Map of Rome drawn by Giambattista Nolli, 1748: Images of the Nolli plan were from a digital archive from the UC Berkeley Library Archives – HERE An interactive map of Nolli’s plan is available from the University of Oregon department of Architecture – HERE Tweet
How to Build a Garden Arbor: Simple DIY Woodworking Project The obvious way to define your yard is to put up a fence. The cool way is to forget the fence and just build a gateway -- a portal from here to there that implies a change of space without presenting a physical barrier. Materials are readily available -- 4 x 4s for the posts, 2 x 6s for the arches and braces, and 1 x 6 stock ripped to width for the remaining pieces. While you're in the planning stage, decide whether you'll plant the posts in the ground, or use post brackets to secure them on concrete blocks, as we did. Model designed in Alibre Design Xpress. Download the full printable plans and a larger version of this animation. Making the Arches The curved top pieces are made of two layers of 2 x 6 segments fastened together with screws and exterior glue. Assembling the Top This part is tricky because the arches must be upside down to attach the arch crossties. Side Panel Construction To build perfectly square side panels, we drew the post positions directly on the garage floor [9].
Computational Design and Robotic Manufacturing The Institute for Computational Design (ICD) and the Institute of Building Structures and Structural Design (ITKE), together with students at the University of Stuttgart, Germany have realized a temporary, bionic research pavilion made of wood at the intersection of teaching and research. Under the leadership of Achim Menges of ICD and Jan Knippers by ITKE the project explores the architectural transfer of biological principles of the sea urchin's plate skeleton morphology by means of novel computer-based design and simulation methods, along with computer-controlled manufacturing methods for its building implementation. A particular innovation consists in the possibility of effectively extending the recognized bionic principles and related performance to a range of different geometries through computational processes, which is demonstrated by the fact that the complex morphology of the pavilion could be built exclusively with extremely thin sheets of plywood (6.5 mm).
Homemade Vegetable Oil Lamp Page created: 26 January 2008, updated: 20 February 2009 If you like candles, live without electricity, or like to have some lighting back-up, you might like this simple little DIY project. An oil lamp can have a number of advantages over candles and mineral oil lamps: very cheap to run - can even burn used cooking oilthe fumes are less toxic than those of paraffin candles or mineral oil lampsthe production of renewable vegetable oil is less harmful to the environment than petroleum based products (including paraffin candles)for the extreme survivalist, vegetable oil is easier to store in bulk, or can even be produced on the home farm due to the wider base, more stable than candles, and the flame of any burning wick falling into the oil will be extinguishedodour free when using olive oil Making an oil lamp is very easy, quick and cheap, and gives plenty of opportunity for a creative outlet. You Will Need: Making the Wick Holder The Wick Most plant fibre twine should work. Container Oil Update
VAERK-STED » AKTUEL Un banc de jardin à faire soi-même ©Antoine Bosse-Platière Que ce soit pour le repos du jardinier ou celui de ses hôtes, pour une sieste digestive ou pour une conversation en tête à tête au milieu de la verdure, le banc de jardin se doit d’être confortable. Nul besoin de connaître les secrets du nombre d’or pour le réussir, mais rien ne vaut un bon modèle. Quel bois choisir ? Evitez le recours aux bois exotiques, bien sûr, malgré l'excellente durabilité de nombre d'entre eux. Une essence locale, comme le mélèze, convient parfaitement, mais dans d'autres régions, vous pouvez choisir du châtaignier ou du douglas. Il faudra cependant rentrer votre banc à l'abri pendant la mauvaise saison. Assemblage des différentes pièces ©Christian Galinet Pour les fixations, vous pouvez faire des avant-trous (foret de 4), mais il est plus simple de rentrer les vis au marteau jusqu'à ce que la pointe traverse la première planche, puis de finir à la visseuse (pour les essences de bois pas trop denses). Votre banc est prêt. Willy van Landeghem
The Open-Office Trap In 1973, my high school, Acton-Boxborough Regional, in Acton, Massachusetts, moved to a sprawling brick building at the foot of a hill. Inspired by architectural trends of the preceding decade, the classrooms in one of its wings didn’t have doors. The rooms opened up directly onto the hallway, and tidbits about the French Revolution, say, or Benjamin Franklin’s breakfast, would drift from one classroom to another. Distracting at best and frustrating at worst, wide-open classrooms went, for the most part, the way of other ill-considered architectural fads of the time, like concrete domes. (Following an eighty-million-dollar renovation and expansion, in 2005, none of the new wings at A.B.R.H.S. have open classrooms.) The open office was originally conceived by a team from Hamburg, Germany, in the nineteen-fifties, to facilitate communication and idea flow. In 2011, the organizational psychologist Matthew Davis reviewed more than a hundred studies about office environments.
LA VILLE RAYÉE Bricoleurbanism MobileAcademy - Flight Case Archive Flight Case Archive Since 2004 different film and audio archives with the topic of “Narratives about Places, Cities and Territories” are evolving from the projects of the Mobile Academy, now merged in a transportable archive unit. Flight Case, Van Abbemuseum, Photo: Peter Cox Flight Case, Van Abbemuseum Flight Case, Bregenz Flight Case, Steirischer Herbst Helmut Höge at the opening at HAU Visitor watching the talk Eyal Weizman and David Cambell/ Space Controll 1 and Matthias Lilienthal listening at a team meeting Flight Case Archive in the office of HAU2 >> more photos from the openin From the 5th - 8th of November the Flight Case Archive has been shown in Hamburg, Kampnagel at the Dance Congress 2009 Drawing: Florian Stirnemann - raumlaborberlin Content: Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge 2005 – 2011 700 talks with experts (200 hrs. KIOSK for useful Knowledge 2003 - 2011 I. Night Lesson Nr.1 2008 Joseph Vogl, "On Hesitation" (1.20 hrs.
Aggregated Porosity DAL WKSHP Aggregated Porosity is an exploration of digital fabrication and fluid forms structures, the canopy was produced by students and architecture professionals in the ‘digital architecture laboratory’ workshop held in changsha, China. The installation was created under the direction of professor Biao Hu and Yu Du of Zaha Hadid architects with invited tutors like Suryansh Chandra also from Zaha Hadid architects and Shuojiong Zhang of UNstudio, who were asked to propose a design scheme aligned with the workshop’s theme and that could provide shade and fit in a volume of 3 x 3 x 6 meters. Architecture