PixelSkin02

 PixelSkin02 is a responsive architectural surface made of shape memory alloy (SMA) to actuate each of the four panels that make a 'pixel'.

ParaCloud : Parametric Point Cloud Modeling

ParaCloud's Smart Cloud of Points (SmCP) provides a new parametric modeling environment base on generative point clouds. Each coordinate has an added 4th value "i" for a network of relationships throughout the pointcloud.

Studio : Prophecy Magazine

Prophecy Magazine is an internationally distributed bi-annual magazine of architecture, art, fashion, music + culture. Each issue features theoretical architectural ideas/renderings in the “Studio” section. They are currently accepting submissions (deadline : April 12th). A selection of submitted work will be featured in the upcoming Spring ’06 issue of Prophecy Magazine.

Designers! Architects! Get published!

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Mobile Living

Presented in the spectacular 18,000 sf Skylight Studios Gallery, Soho, NYC, Mobile Living will exhibit the unparalleled advancements in our society that have manifested our modern nomadic lifestyle. . . Mixing design and technology this will be a groundbreaking, curated presentation, running concurrently with the International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF), and DesignDowntown in New York City, May 2006. Mobile Homes, Mobile Phones, Mobile computing, Automobiles, Motor homes, indoor and outdoor furniture will all be topics in the show.

Google Earth + Domus = Hyper Domus

From the March 2006 issue (Domus 890), readers will be able to take a “virtual guided tour” of the buildings published in Domus thanks to a preconfigured itinerary that can be loaded in Google Earthâ„¢. This itinerary will take you on a tour of the most recent architectural projects, viewed in context. [Hyper Domus]

In Search of Maxwell's Demon

Check out this interview with Jon Kher Kaw by POST. [In Search of Maxwell's Demon: Scapes (applet)] Thanks, KT.

Brooklyn Digital Foundry + OMA

OMA’s Museum Plaza in Louisville? neh. Brooklyn Digital Foundry‘s concept video? nice.

via A Daily Dose of Architecture

Maximum Suburbia

Low income homes in Ixtapaluca, Mexico City (10,000 units. It’s real.)
more Mexico City aerial views from the helicopter pilot/photographer C.O. Ruiz

via BLDGBLOG

The Quiet Revolution

The Quiet Revolution , a vibration-free silent wind turbine developed by XCO2, slated for its first installation this March (2006), could produce 10,000 kWh per year at an average wind speed of 5.8 m/s.

via Treehugger

Nevel : Moving Labyrinth

NEVEL is a moving labyrinth (11 X 11 m) consisting of 9 programmable walls able to rotate 360°. Architecture comes alive, walls become doors, spaces open and close, visitors are locked up and set free again.

via wmmna