2012年10月5日 星期五
Mechanical Flipbook Kit
In 2011 kinetic artists Mark Rosen and Wendy Marvel created a series of wonderful mechanical flipbooks based on the work of Eadweard Muybridge,
the guy responsible for pioneering photographic studies of motion.
After touring a few art galleries and making a well-received appearance
at the 2012 Maker Faire the duo teamed up with manufacturing designer Steven Goldstein to create kits
that mere mortals such as you and I can use to create nostalgic moving
pictures of our own design. If you’re as ridiculously excited about this
project as I am, head on over to Kickstarter to pledge a few bucks.
Amazing Animations of Fruit and Vegetable MRIs
Andy Ellison works at
the BU medical school in Boston where he frequently works with a
research-only MRI scanner. Over the past few months he’s been sharing
some fantastic animated gifs of his calibration and quality control
scans using assorted fruits, vegetables and other plants. As you can see
the results are absolutely mesmerizing and I urge you to check out his
blog, Inside Insides,
for many more scans and hi-res images. Thanks to Ellison for exporting
some slightly larger images for this post, sorry for the extra load!
2012年10月4日 星期四
bird-apartment
Nendo’s
project:A treehouse designed for the Ando Momofuku Center, a facility devoted to
promoting and increasing access to nature activities. The facility is
located in a forest in Komoro City in Japan's mountainous Nagano
Prefecture. Our treehouse is collective housing for many birds and one
person. On one side, the treehouse has entrances to 78 nest spaces for
birds. The other side has an entrance for one person, who can look into
the birds' nests from inside the treehouse.
2012年9月26日 星期三
OSTRICH PILLOW
OSTRICH PILLOW offers a micro environment in which to take a comfortable
power nap in the office, travelling or wherever you want.Support the Ostrich Pillow on Kickstarter now
2012年9月16日 星期日
Orée wooden keyboard
french design group orée has developed the 'orée board' a bluetooth equipped portable wireless keyboard made from a single piece of premium
maple and walnut. each unit is cut into three sheets to preserve the wood grain across the shell and separate keys to minimize waste.
conceived as a universally compatible device, it works with any tablet, smartphone or PC. sustainably sourced in southern france,
the accessory offers elegant aesthetics to create a warm tactile experience for the user. the orée wooden keyboard will be showcased at TENT during the 2012 london design week.
maple and walnut. each unit is cut into three sheets to preserve the wood grain across the shell and separate keys to minimize waste.
conceived as a universally compatible device, it works with any tablet, smartphone or PC. sustainably sourced in southern france,
the accessory offers elegant aesthetics to create a warm tactile experience for the user. the orée wooden keyboard will be showcased at TENT during the 2012 london design week.
eboarch
Sitting is perhaps the most common condition from which we experience
architecture. Whether we work, relax, watch, eat, sleep, or talk to each
other, sitting is at the core of our relationship to buildings. Sitting
enables the detached observation of our lives in space and time,
whether it’s to look upon the buildings we inhabit, or look out from
them, towards the cultural milieu that surrounds. Sitting enables a
perception of the other and beyond opposite the inclusivity and
interiority of our personal spaces that we carry with us. It conditions a
cosmological covenant between one’s body and one’s place in
architecture. It produces a body space continuum. Sitting structures our
habitable spaces from within to without, determining the proportions of
useable objects, forms, spaces, dimensions, and relationships in an
unfolding sequence of architectonic layers.
Despite the importance of sitting in the use and experience of architecture, the objects we use to sit aren’t considered architecture at all. They are relegated to the domains of industrial design or furniture as mere players in a larger architectural scene. Why the disconnect? Why the disassociation of sitting in a designed object with architecture itself? Our proposal attempts to address this question through the exploration of the architectural Folly not in terms of a mused edifice of boundaries, i.e. walls, floors, and roofs rendered picturesque; but rather that which gives rise to architecture as observed and contemplative: the chair. We’ve turned the Folly inside out, creating a playful object of ornamental repose celebrating the act of repose itself as a fundamental architectural event.
SEAT is composed of approximately 400 simple wooden chairs arrayed and stacked in a sine wave surface drawn into an agitated vortex rising from the ground. It formalizes the transformation of chairs from detached useable objects into structural and spatial components of an ambiguously occupiable edifice. It’s intended to be legible and readable as a collection of individual seats, but when approached, visitors realize that sitting down in any one of them amounts to a deliberate act of occupation one can’t take for granted as usual; a temporary social contract to redefine their perception of sitting embodied as architecture. The structure is zoned by rotational differentiation in groups. Chairs around the immediate periphery are rotated for outward observation of the city and the surrounding neighborhood. At the base of the vortex, chairs turn inward to create an intimate, compressive space for visitors to converse and regard the upward flow of chairs transcending their function. Chairs suspended above ground between these zones re-constitute the role of the seated object as one that can also play as structure, decoration, and enclosure.
The chairs are additively assembled through a modified “corbelling” process achieved by sequentially attaching chairs beginning at the edges and corners working towards the center. At times, the result playfully resembles Persian Muqarnas. The chairs are esiliently connected to each other via simple lag bolts, clamps, and screws that are hidden from view. Parametric detailing manages tolerances and connection pecifics of this hardware. Moment and shear forces are transferred through the entire structure as a continuous diaphragm ultimately loading at the vortex center and the seated periphery on the ground. A number of base connections, platforms, or struts may also augment structural stability and anchorage. Some cantilevered extensions exist to create overhanging enclosure, but are minor in actual weight aloft. Redundancy in aterial and connection will allow for stability, flexibility, and safety overall.
Assembly team: Rudi Matheis-Brown, Tom Roncco, Kyle Holland, Larissa Hand, David Williams, Britni Jeziorski, Megan Mallery, Katie Seifert, Wendy Chou, Kayla Kirchberg, Sarah Turner, Emily Gilbert, Colleen Devoe, Casey Butler, Cydne Mayberry, Maria Lioy, Sydney Styles
Photography courtesy of E/B Office and Eve Style
www.eboarch.com
info@eboarch.com
Despite the importance of sitting in the use and experience of architecture, the objects we use to sit aren’t considered architecture at all. They are relegated to the domains of industrial design or furniture as mere players in a larger architectural scene. Why the disconnect? Why the disassociation of sitting in a designed object with architecture itself? Our proposal attempts to address this question through the exploration of the architectural Folly not in terms of a mused edifice of boundaries, i.e. walls, floors, and roofs rendered picturesque; but rather that which gives rise to architecture as observed and contemplative: the chair. We’ve turned the Folly inside out, creating a playful object of ornamental repose celebrating the act of repose itself as a fundamental architectural event.
SEAT is composed of approximately 400 simple wooden chairs arrayed and stacked in a sine wave surface drawn into an agitated vortex rising from the ground. It formalizes the transformation of chairs from detached useable objects into structural and spatial components of an ambiguously occupiable edifice. It’s intended to be legible and readable as a collection of individual seats, but when approached, visitors realize that sitting down in any one of them amounts to a deliberate act of occupation one can’t take for granted as usual; a temporary social contract to redefine their perception of sitting embodied as architecture. The structure is zoned by rotational differentiation in groups. Chairs around the immediate periphery are rotated for outward observation of the city and the surrounding neighborhood. At the base of the vortex, chairs turn inward to create an intimate, compressive space for visitors to converse and regard the upward flow of chairs transcending their function. Chairs suspended above ground between these zones re-constitute the role of the seated object as one that can also play as structure, decoration, and enclosure.
The chairs are additively assembled through a modified “corbelling” process achieved by sequentially attaching chairs beginning at the edges and corners working towards the center. At times, the result playfully resembles Persian Muqarnas. The chairs are esiliently connected to each other via simple lag bolts, clamps, and screws that are hidden from view. Parametric detailing manages tolerances and connection pecifics of this hardware. Moment and shear forces are transferred through the entire structure as a continuous diaphragm ultimately loading at the vortex center and the seated periphery on the ground. A number of base connections, platforms, or struts may also augment structural stability and anchorage. Some cantilevered extensions exist to create overhanging enclosure, but are minor in actual weight aloft. Redundancy in aterial and connection will allow for stability, flexibility, and safety overall.
Assembly team: Rudi Matheis-Brown, Tom Roncco, Kyle Holland, Larissa Hand, David Williams, Britni Jeziorski, Megan Mallery, Katie Seifert, Wendy Chou, Kayla Kirchberg, Sarah Turner, Emily Gilbert, Colleen Devoe, Casey Butler, Cydne Mayberry, Maria Lioy, Sydney Styles
Photography courtesy of E/B Office and Eve Style
info@eboarch.com
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