Behavioral Urbanism
Its title might be self-explanatory and it sure looks intriguing… however kokkugia fails to give a thorough description for this architectual piece. Classified as ‘peculiar image’ until further notice.
What is Next Nature?
With our attempts to cultivate nature, humankind causes the rising of a next nature, which is wild and unpredictable as ever. Wild systems, genetic surprises, autonomous machinery and splendidly beautiful black flowers. Nature changes along with us.
Posts Tagged ‘Dynamic-architecture’
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Grasscutter Architects
Ten tons of cement were pourred into this grasscutters ant colony, revealing a subterranean structure of 8 meters / 26 feet deep. ‘Ant-City’ was built including circulating ventilation shafts and funghi gardens interconnected through pipelines.
Assuming that this is the work of a collective mind – would be logical. But then; imagine how would advanced aliens – studying earths cities – describe our architectual skills? Hence the real question should be: “How do aliens communicate?!”
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Multifunctional city farming
This installation in P.S. 1 countryard (NY) serves as a music stage, leisure space and a vertical public farm. It grows – amongst others – peas, mint, rhubarb, and fennel. Cardboard tubes from concrete casting are used as planters while structural columns contain phone-charging stations and juice dispensers.
It is one of the 99 actions that investigate positive change in contemporary cities around the world, exhibited at the Canadian Centre for Architecture.
Public Farm One is a project by WORK Architecture Company.
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Waves of Asphalt
Set amid farmland in rural Japan, this small project is a bizarre hybrid of landscape art and infrastructure. It consists of a square, 20-space car park that looks as if it has been struck by an earthquake – its corners have been lifted into the air, its surface ripples and buckles and a great gash has been torn in its black asphalt surface.
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Design for dummies
Creativity for all! Design used to be predestined to a select group of qualified brand–owning designers. That model is made redundant. At least, if it is up to Studio Ludens in Eindhoven (The Netherlands). Today you can sculpt and buy your lamp or coaster on the internet; tomorrow it’s your house, car and mother–in–law. In the Next Nature everyone is a designer.
Related: Sexual behaviour totems | Park buildings | Digital Trashcan brought to virtual office
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Liquified Furniture
Never, 1999. By Nina Saunders
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Rotating Skyscraper
Remember the wind shaped pavilion? In Dubai they do it bigger. Architect David Fisher designed a skyscraper that rotates by wind power. Each floor rotates independently at different speeds, resulting in an ever changing shape that is not only spectacular but – with a wind turbine on every floor – should also be self-powered.
On the inside: Luxury penthouse villas, which will be over 1,000 square meters, will be completely custom-made to fulfill individual buyer’s personal needs, they will also include an indoor swimming pool, voice activated features, demotic control systems, built in phone system. Villa’s residents will have the possibility to drive directly into the building were a special elevator take their car to their floor and park at the entrance to their Villa’s.
You’ve got to see it to believe it. Although – as we write – construction is yet to start. The rotating tower is one of those structures to become famous already from their computer renderings. Seems to be a whole architectural category of its own nowadays. We call it image building… and Dubai is taking the lead.
See also: Modernistic vs Next Nature architecture, Artificial Island Dubai, Lilium Urbanus, Wind Shaped Pavilion.
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Interchange
Ken Ohyama makes Japanese interchanges look like a beautiful forest. How about a picnic?
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Wallpaper blooms when the heat is on
Now this is spot on information decoration: a heat–sensitive wallpaper of which the printed flowers will be blooming when the radiator is on. Created by Shiyuan.
See also: Dataplant, Feelings to Plants, Speaking at the Wall, Light Weeds. Thanks Tinkebell.
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Lilium Urbanus
Lilium Urbanus is a collaborative senior thesis project by Anca Risca and Joji Tsuruga, recent graduates of SVA. Pretty cool to watch, the video is a metaphor of urban landscapes applied to a flourishing plant!Via Cpluv. See also: Exploding City. Growing rooms, buildings & cities.
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Growing rooms, buildings & cities
With their project ‘Rules of Six’ architects Aranda & Lasch envision an unpredictable, self-generating landscape of interlocking hexagons that could represent rooms, buildings or entire urban neighborhoods. The work explores self-assembly and modularity across scales. Using Rhino3D, high-density foam and an algorithm that mimicks the growth patterns of microscopic structures, they create a sprawling matrix of three-dimensional structures that can multiply indefinitely without sacrificing stability. Is this the organic-algorithmic city of tomorrow?
Growing buildings from crystal-like structures not only sounds utterly nextnature & fantastic, but also familiar: I bet these architects loved Superman’s Fortress of Solitude as kids.
The work was created for the Design and the Elastic Mind expo at MOMA New York. Have a look at their previous studies for more in-dept info.
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Observing Next Nature
You can watch it grow in front of your eyes. Via Core.form-ula.
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Futuristic Bird Dwellings
Every fashionable self-conscious modern bird needs one of these futuristic dwellings, no? Designed by Kevin Sethapun.
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Museums becoming billboards
After selling his school, entrepreneur Teun Castelein is now selling the Dutch museum of graphic design.
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Nature as a material
Very nice bench, designed to use plants as a building material. Buy them here
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There has to be a line…
Playground Fence by Tejo Remy This is the fence of the week.
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Kokon Chair
Our peculiar object of the week is the ‘Kokon Chair’ created by Dutch designer Jurgen Bey, who wrapped existing chairs with tight, elastic synthetic fiber resulting in a highly imaginative hybrid. Futuristic nostalgics? Sure. The conceptually interesting thing here, is that instead of using raw material, existing products are recycled as a design material for a new product. Furthermore Kokon furniture subverts the idea of an ideal form by suggesting infinite variations of the archetype; Form follows Form.
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BlobWall
Who would not need a blobwall in their officegarden? This modular freestanding, indoor/outdoor wall system was designed by Greg Lynn. It is made of a low-density, recyclable, and impact-resista polymer.
