Changing Rooms | Easton + Combs

October 22, 2012 by bg-martin

Changing Rooms: an experimental environment | Easton + Combs | 2011 CHANGING ROOM redefines boundaries and expected conditions of intimacy while transforming into a subtle spectacle of the expectations and boundaries of intimate experience in the public realm. Expressed as a structural and material veil and suspended from above, the lightweight structural skin dilates along the bottom edge creating oblique visual corridors to the interior as well as passages for the body to move through. The skin culminates in an […]

Categories: Digital • Tags: art, changing room, design, digital, digital fabrication, Easton + Combs, modelmaking

Celular Clay Multifamiliar Habitation | Saken Narynov

October 18, 2012 by bg-martin

Celular Clay Multifamiliar Habitation | Saken Narynov | 2005-06 Kazakh architect and artist Saken Narynov created a superstructure able to host what we could call an adobe vertical city. In fact, the structure is used as a matrix that can be more or less densely filled with multifamily habitation units. The traditional earth based material thus hybrids with the steel structure in a very unusual and interesting way and the space resulting between the habitation units and the structure is […]

Categories: Architectural Models, Galleries • Tags: Archilibs, architecture, design, modelmaking, Saken Narynov

From Models to Drawings | Marco Frascari

October 14, 2012 by bg-martin

This edited collection addresses the vital role of the imagination in the critical interpretation of architectural representations.

Categories: Bookcase, books, Media • Tags: architecture, design, drawing, Marco Frascari, modelmaking, Routledge

La Voûte de LeFevre | Matter Design Studio

October 13, 2012 by bg-martin

La Voûte de LeFevre is the result of a call for help. This call is sim­ple. It asks archi­tects to cut it out with the addic­tion to the thin. It begs for an inter­ven­tion, which came in the form of a one-year fel­low­ship ded­i­cated to exper­i­ment­ing with this request. La Voûte de LeFevre by Matter Design Studio Knowlton School of Architecture, The Ohio State University | 2012 mate­r­ial: Baltic Birch Ply­wood | size: 15′ X 20′ When posited the task of build­ing […]

Categories: Galleries, installations • Tags: Archilibs, art, design, digital, geometry, installation, Matter Design Studio, modelmaking, plywood

Swithch | Katsumi Hayakawa

October 13, 2012 by bg-martin

Swithch by  Katsumi Hayakawa | 2010 Paper on paper, 30 x 21cm (Framed 33 x 25cm)

Categories: Architectural Models, Galleries • Tags: Archilibs, art, Katsumi Hayakawa, mix-media, modelmaking, paper

Here & There: A Horizontal Project of Manhattan | BERG

October 13, 2012 by bg-martin

Here & There: A Horizontal Project of Manhattan | BERG Map looking downtown from 3rd and 35th. These horizonless maps of Manhattan are made by BERG, a design company based in London. “As the model bends from sideways to top-down in a smooth join, more distant parts of the city are revealed in plan view. The projection connects the viewer’s local environment to remote destinations normally out of sight.”

Categories: Digital, Mapping • Tags: 3dmodel, architecture, BERG, diagram, digital, modelmaking

Quasi Architecture Psuedo Landscapes | Smout Allen

October 11, 2012 by bg-martin

Quasi Architecture Psuedo Landscapes | Smout Allen | 2009 Mark Smout and Laura Allen Nostalgia and wonder permeate our collective perception of the urban and rural landscape that surrounds us. They trigger an emotive rather than analytic response and profound reverence for the complexity of nature.Architecture can be a generative agent for our sensitisation of the environment. As author and architect we provide the prescription of spaces and of spatial experiences, we control the porosity of architecture to the phenomena of […]

Categories: Architectural Models, Galleries • Tags: Archilibs, art, design, landscape, mix-media, modelmaking, Smout Allen

Meanders | Giuseppe Randazzo

October 10, 2012 by bg-martin

Meanders | Giuseppe Randazzo | Novastructure | 2011 Meanders is a generative system driven by the interaction of growing agents. The agents are defined by their initial position, a velocity vector (ordered or random), and a constraint boundary (usually a circle), moreover they are able to avoid proximity events with other agents (and their own body too) by means of their bow sensor. However while the bodies fill the available space, an agent may experiencing a kind of ‘blind alley’ […]

Categories: Archilibs, Art, Digital • Tags: Archilibs, art, digital, Giuseppe Randazzo, modelmaking, scripting

Concept | Ian Lambert

October 7, 2012 by bg-martin

Ian Lambert | 2012 Through the development of analysis the drawings illustrate the connection between todays presence and yesterday’s forgotten elements. Hand drawings are from movement through site which consist of warped signs, exposed manhole covers and cut off I-beams etc.

Categories: Architectural Models, Galleries • Tags: Archilibs, architecture, art, design, Drafting, drawing, drawings, Ian Lambert, Lincoln University, mix-media, modelmaking, sketch