Bloom | DOSU

October 22, 2015 by bg-martin

Bloom by DOSU Los Angeles, California | 2012 A sun-tracking instrument indexing time and temperature, “Bloom”, designed by Los Angeles-based DOSU studio architecture, stitches together material experimentation, structural innovation, and computational form/pattern-making into an environmentally responsive installation. Architecture has long been valued for its static nature and sense of permanence but lately that has changed and the focus is on making buildings more responsive to their uses and the climate. Although this has often accomplished through mechanical means, Doris Kim […]

Categories: DESIGNING, Installation • Tags: architecture, design research, DOSU, installations, material, materiality, pavillion

Reconnecting Tampere | COBE + Lundén Architecture

October 5, 2015 by bg-martin

“Reconnecting Tampere” by COBE + Lundén Architecture COBE and Lunden win the Tampere Travel and Service Centre competition Tampere Travel and Service Centre has not only the potential to become a gateway to Tampere and the rest of Finland, but also the potential of becomming a generator for the future development of the urban centre of Tampere. The vision, “ReConnecting Tampere”, introduces an intermodal transportation hub in the heart of the city as well as a development plan for uniting the city […]

Categories: DESIGNING • Tags: COBE, competitions, design, infrastructures, Lundén Architecture, transit station, urban design, urbanism

Augmented Skin | Doo + Miyamoto + Moudatsou

October 5, 2015 by bg-martin

Augmented Skin by Youngseok Doo, Kazushi Miyamoto & Theodora Maria Moudatsou Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL | GAD, Research Cluster 6 This project explores the design by unique crafting technique by wrapping sticks in stretchy fabric and utilizing them to cassette concrete. This project proposes a design using a unique crafting technique which is a customised, low-budget casting process for the creation of intricate objects and building parts. This technique utilizes different materials that have opposite characteristics, such as solid […]

Categories: Academia, DESIGNING, Digital • Tags: academia, design research, The Bartlett

Vertical Central Park by Jeffrey Lee + Rui Liu + Tina Qiu

August 22, 2015 by bg-martin

Vertical Central Park Jeffrey Lee + Rui Liu + Tina Qiu London, UK Manhattan is filled with some of the world’s tallest skyscrapers. Central Park, situated in the heart of the city, serves as the only source of natural green environment in New York. With 843 acres, stretching from 59th St. to 110th St., the quaint insertion of rolling green meadows throughout the highly urbanised city is in fact a focal point upon which population surrounds its lifestyle around. Devised […]

Categories: DESIGNING, Landscape Architecture • Tags: Landscape Architecture, Skyscraper