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Downtown Studio utilized parametric design tools to design and create Rapana, a street library pavilion in Varna, Bulgaria. The Rapana is a wooden structure made out of 240 pieces of wood that which makes the pavilion very light and transportable. The pavilion, consists of an undulating natural form that develops in a semicircle, is constructed by a series of wooden modules that provide a public space with shelves to store and share books. “Rapana is the first street library in Varna, Bulgaria created by a team of young architects and designers.” Downtown Studio Nowadays young people’s lives are almost entirely based on digital…
ReNa Design’s Qorveh House with Rhythmic Brick Facade in Iran Tehran based practice, ReNa Design has completed Qorveh House in the City of Qorveh in the west of Iran. Led by architect Reza Najafian, ReNa Design used rhythmic method of brick to design and construct the facade of the Qorveh House. Text description by the architects. Qorveh house is located 90 km from the center of Kurdistan province in Iran. Given the client desires, the house is designed in two separate units; a duplex residential unit and a multi-purpose private living and working suite. Regional studies and analysis on the…
God’s Eye Team’s Winning Design for Sukkahville Pavilion 2013 Sukkahville is a design competition that is now being running for a couple of years to raise awareness on the issue of homeless people. The 2013 Sukkahville 2013 invited students, architects, designers artists, builders and design professionals to submit their design proposals for the third annual Sukkahville Design Competition. The participants were called to re-imagine the traditional Sukkah, a temporary structure, constructed for the holiday of Sukkot. The competition was organised by Kehilla foundation, a non-profit organization funding affordable housing and was aiming to raise awareness on the issue of homeless…
Marc Fornes / TheVeryMany created Zephyr as a shaded meetup point for students at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas.
AMPHIBIO is a 3D printed amphibious garment which function as a gill. Designed for a future where humankind lives in very close proximity with water, it provides daily comfort to people who spend as much time in the water as on the land. By 2100, a temperature rise of 3.2? is predicted to happen, causing a sea level rise affecting between 0.5 – 3 billion people and submerging the megacities situated in the coastal areas. It was designed by designer and material scientist Jun Kamei at the Royal College of Art, in collaboration with the RCA-IIS Tokyo Design Lab, an…
Robot-made Voxel Chair 1.0 Designed by Bartlett Researchers Design: Gilles Retsin and Manuel Jiménez GarciaTeam: Manuel Jimenez Garcia, Miguel Angel Jimenez Garcia, Ignacio Viguera Ochoa, Gilles Retsin, Vicente SolerFabrication support: Nagami Design, Vicente Soler Via > Design Computation Lab
The Durotaxis Chair is a fully 3D printed multi-material dual position rocking chair designed by Synthesis Design + Architecture.
Bamboo Pavilion Designed by ZUO STUDIO Expresses the Natural Beauty of Taiwan in the Industrial City of Taichung ZUO studio designed and constructed the ‘Bamboo Pavilion’ exhibition hall to express Taiwan’s natural beauty in the industrial city of Taichung. Text description provided by the architects. Taiwan’s second largest and most habitable city is called Taichung. The city grows and like other indursties, it keeps the construction industry alive in. Located in the fourth area of Fengyuan Huludun Park, the Bamboo Pavilion exhibition hall is sponsored by Taichung Real Estate Development Association. Since the association is mostly composed by the greatest building…
Luai Kurdi experiments with 3d printing concrete by using parametric design and digital fabrication tools Luai Kurdi is an architect and designer who is exploring and investing in parametric design and digital fabrication. The emergence of technologies such as 3D Printing has enabled him to combine both design and fabrication disciplines using a 6-axis robotic arm (Kuka) to 3D Print with Concrete. Concrete has been used in the construction industry for thousands of years and today the hope is to bring this material closer to a world where design and geometrical complexity doesn’t impose a barrier for using this material…
Farshad Mehdizadeh Lecture at Contemporary Istanbul Art Fair Iranian architect Farshad Mehdizadeh will be lecturing at the Contemporary Istanbul art fair, CIF Dialogues on September 12th, at 15:00. This event is organised by the GAD Foundation and Contemporary Istanbul. Time : Thursday, September 12, 2019 at 15:00Country : TurkeyCity/Town : IstanbulLocation : Istanbul Congress Center Website : www.contemporaryistanbul.comEvent Type : Art FairLecture Topic : The Structure of ContextOrganized By : Contemporary Istanbul – GAD Foundation Termeh Office Building Termeh Office Building Farshad Mehdizadeh of Tehran based Architecture Studio has created a unique architecture for Iran in experimental and built work over the past…
