architectural model \ Theatre For Magicians by Sara Shafiei

September 23, 2012 by bg-martin

Theatre For Magicians by Sara Shafiei | 2008 “The project attempts to portray how magic and illusion can become an inherent part of the architectural design, which foregrounds the engagement of the user in the building. The proposal begins by exploring how Harry Houdini’s ‘Vanishing Elephant’ trick is manifested within Albrecht Dürer’s ‘cone of light and vision’ to merge showmanship, optics and illusion.The resultant building, a Theatre for Magicians, is located in the National Botanical Gardens in Rome.”

Categories: Architectural Models, Galleries • Tags: Archilibs, architecture, art, design, digital, Drafting, drawing, drawings, mix-media, modelmaking, perspective, Sara Shafiei, The Bartlett

Seattle Central Library | OMA + LMN

September 18, 2012 by bg-martin

Seattle Central Library OMA + LMN | Seattle, Washington | 1999-2004 “The library’s various programs are intuitively arranged across five platforms and four flowing “in between” planes, which together dictate the building’s distinctive faceted shape, offering the city an inspiring building that is robust in both its elegance and its logic.”

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Museum of Simple Technology | Yona Friedman

September 10, 2012 by bg-martin

Museum of Simple Technology by Yona Friedman | Madras, India, 1982 “Friedman and his colleague Eda Schaur sought to demonstrate, in the form of tangible objects, the material results of the techniques and methods covered in the manuals produce by the centre. As those techniques and methods were designed for the disadvantaged in order to enable them to improve their living conditions, it was important that prototypes of those artifacts illustrated in the manuals could be displayed.” — Yona Friedman, Structures […]

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Synthetic Syncretism | Tobias Klein

September 10, 2012 by bg-martin

Tobias Klein | Facade of the altar space in the inverted chapel of Our Lady de Regla | Havana, Cuba | 2006 Synthetic Syncretism project. Model: additive process, rapid manufactured using Z-Corp technology.

Categories: Architectural Models, Galleries, Technology • Tags: CADCAM, modelmaking, technology, Tobias Klein, Z-Corp technology