Architorture is a documentary that captures five diverse students in a single studio at one university throughout the entirety of their thesis project.
Architorture. Architorture. Architorture. You just have to love it.
via Land+Living
Money. Fear. Disney. Debt bondage. Mega architecture.
Mike Davis writes on Fear and Money in Dubai at the New Left Review.
Moving Structure by Pavel Hladik is the design of the moving structure takes advantage of the Teflon foils and Shape Memory Alloys (SMAs) NiTiCu. This structure is fixed to the ground or to another structure and is a part of the electrical circuit. The reactions controlled by computer are caused by the various circuits which connect the members of spirals of SMAs. The members are covered by the layered Teflon foil which is welded to the shape which is determined by the critical shape of the whole structure.
via Interactive Architecture dot Org
Elegant Embellishments is developing a decorative, three-dimensional architectural tile that can be installed quickly to reduce air pollution in urban environments. The tiles provide councils, developers, and designers with the ability to rapidly improve urban environments in terms of air quality and visual appeal.
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Interactive Architecture (video) is an illustration of the concept that digital projections can interact with the surfaces upon which they are projected.
SENSITIVE.FLOOR is a new interactive video projection floor by iO also distributed in the Sensitive Space System by 3M.
TED : Joshua Prince-Ramus (2006) – Google Video
Implant Matrx by Philip Beesley Architect Inc.
via BLDGBLOG
Micro.Spheres by Julius Popp takes place in a room, containing around 16 autonomously acting robots, which visitors are allowed to enter and experience. The robots act according to a dogmatic command that drives them to perpetually place themselves in the spatial centre of their immediate environment.
via Interactive Architecture dot Org
