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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…
“We are at the beginning of the robotic era in construction” says Joseph Sarafian of Form Found Design Architect Joseph Sarafian, CEO, and co-founder of Form Found Design, discussed the advantages of new design tools and robotic construction in an exclusive interview with Hamid Hassanzadeh of PA. Form Found Design is an LA-based studio that uses industrial robots to cast previously impossible concrete structures. Sarafian’s work has been featured in Time Magazine, Business Insider, Designboom, Dezeen, and multiple conference journals. Along with partner Ron Culver, Form Found Design has completed the MARS Pavilion in Palm Springs. Joseph also designed the City of Rayong’s first built, parametrically modeled façade…
SuperCar Blondie Presents The BMW Vision Next 100 The Australian social media celebrity and YouTuber, Alex Hirschi presents BMW Vision Next 100. The new generation of BMW cars are shape-shifting autonomous cars with artificial intelligence. Alive Geometry is a new feature by BWM which they introduced it as shape-shifting geometry in the Vision Next 100. For example the front part of the outer skin of the car consists of many tiny triangles which they would open and close to allow the car wheels turn to left and right. It allows the care to communicate with the rider. Also inside the…
Tune in to Episode 01 of the PA Talks series with Han Tumertekin, Principal Architect of Mimarlar ve Han Tumertekin on Parametric Architecture and its future in the Middle East, interviewed by Hamid Hassanzadeh, founder and editor in chief of ParametricArchitecture.
The catenary and the Arc by Manuel Bouzas and Santiago del Aguila is a temporary installation occupying the courtyard of Flores & Prats‘ Casal Balaguer Cultural Center in Palma de Mallorca. Displayed during insòlit 2019, a festival of temporary installations that opened the doors of palma’s courtyards to creativity during the first week of july, the project draws from the architecture of the building, confronting two opposing geomtries: the arc and the catenary. Seduced by the beauty of the stone arches in the patio of casal balaguer, an aristocratic house dating back to the 14th century, manuel bouzas & santiago…
UNIC, MAD Architects’ first built project in Europe, is nearing completion. Led by Ma Yansong, MAD was awarded the project in 2012 through an international design competition in collaboration with local French firm Biecher Architects. The projects located in Paris, France. Located in Paris’ 17th arrondissement, Clichy-Batignolles is a newly developing area of the city. ‘UNIC’ emerges as part of the mixed-use masterplan envisioned adjacent to the Martin Luther King Park – a 10-hectare green space. Unlike the static Haussmann apartment blocks that define Paris, MAD’s project is characterised by its interaction with nature in the urban environment. Its undulating floor…
Hyundai Motorstudio’s Kinetic Installation in Goyang Consists of 1,411 Aluminium Rods. The Hyundai Motor Studio in Gyoang, South Korea opened in 2017, with an impressive kinetic sculpture forming the highlight of the thematic parcours, the stage of the exhibition exploring each step of the research and production process. The Hyundai Motor Studio in Gyoang, South Korea opened in 2017, with an impressive kinetic sculpture forming the highlight of the thematic parcours, the stage of the exhibition exploring each step of the research and production process. From the first sketches to the finished car. The Hyundai Design Philosophy, “Creating Design From…
The twisted buildings of Absolute Towers in Mississauga, Canada designed by the Chinese architecture firm MAD Architects, and completed in 2012. The twisted buildings of Absolute Towers in Mississauga, Canada designed by the Chinese architecture firm MAD Architects, and completed in 2012. Text description provided by the architects. Modernism has a famous motto: A house is a machine for living in. However, as we progress further away from the machine age, we are left with a question: what message should architecture convey? What is the house of today? Like other fast developing suburbs in North America, Mississauga is seeking a new identity.…