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ALBA Exposition La Seine ALBA L'Alba recompensée lors de deux festivals de cinema RECHERCHER: albawww. PLAN DU SITE AGENDA CONTACT WEBMAIL ALBA Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts, Université de Balamand. Page d'accueil...Aleksandra Kasuba explains how to install curved fabric structures (under tension) in environmental and architectural projects. Examples of her installations. Biography, bibliography.
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Curvilinear surfaces Aleksandra has built shell houses in a mountain desert in New Mexico Site, models, etc. KASUBAWORKS.COM KASUBABOOKS.COM read: The Seven Faces of Time Curvilinear Surfaces Aleksandra Kasuba, artist A New Vocabulary for Environmental Art Architecture...An interactive tour of Utopian designs by various architects. Devised by Dellbruegge and de Molls, it formed part of the exhibition "models of resistance" in Copenhagen May/June 2000.
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Dellbrügge de Moll: COPENHAGEN SUBSTITUTE ...Igor Kebelour presents a concept of domestic, working, public and mobile institutions merged into one. Includes model, analysis and discussion.
http://www2.arnes.si/~sudikebe/jit/html/
Architecture students at the Auburn University Rural Studio are designing and building what may be the first house out of bales of waste waxed corrugated board, commonly known as cardboard.
http://www.corrugatedconstruction.com
Illustrated article by Alfredo Andia and Claudia Busch on the designs by New York based architectural firm Asymptote on a virtual New York Stock Exchange.
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Architecture Internet Cyberspace Arquitectura Internet y Ciberespacio Much has been theorized about the role of architecture in Cyberspace. However, there has been little evidence that architects can engage professionally in such projects. Today, architects may have the first example of these new...Mobile, low cost and functional - a new species of pre-fabricated structures designed by Edgar Blazona.
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Modular Dwellings Detecting Flash...Russian architect Anvar Khairoylline enthuses about the possibilities of tent structures. His profile, illustrated summary of his thesis and examples of projects using the principles of tent construction.
http://www.mi.ru/~anwar-da
The winning project of the competition "The Future Home", promoted by the Danish Building Research Institute. The novel settlement will be built as an experiment.
http://www.danmarksdesignskole.dk/boase/
Innovatory technologies, notably 'glued brickwork' and panels of compressed straw bales, turn a campus building into a teaching resource.
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White Design, Uwe, Architecture Planning Studio England brings together innovative technologies to deliver a new environmentally friendly home for the first jointly RIBA and RTPI accredited undergraduate Architecture and Planning course in the UK. The building has also been selected as...An experiment in modern house design using light steel framing at the University of Nottingham, UK. Context, project outline and progress. Feedback form for comments.
http://www.foursteelwalls.co.uk
Creating homes from a harmonious family of geometric forms. Includes definitions, symbolism, images, and construction.
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Zomes Concept Zome Design Bienvenue Welcome Bienvenido Benvinguda www.zomes-concept.com site optimis 800 x 600, flash player requis, mise jour 29/09/05, photo/texte yann Lipnick photo/3D/cra site ivan@oeildura.com...Finnish architect Matti Suuronen designed this UFO shaped dwelling in 1968, initially for use as a ski-cabin or holiday home. Description, photographs and QuickTime movie clips.
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70s The Futuro house The idea behind the design reflects the optimism of the sixties. At the time people believed technology could solve all problems for the human race. The ideal was of a new era, a space-age, where...Over 4 days in Paris designers, architects, artists, and landscape planners will share architectural experiments with the public. Descriptions, goals and participants.
http://fav2004.free.fr/english
The former head of the Munich Experimental Design Unit, Argentinian architect Patricio Pouchulu, displays his portfolio of futuristic designs, including those for major competitions.
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P o u c h u l u c o v e r ...Malcolm Turpin describes the distinctive new City Hall, London, shaped like a great tilted egg, which is also a model of energy-efficient design.
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Civil Engineering Magazine August 2003 One of the most distinctive structures ever to grace the London landscape, the new City Hall, at More London, is also a world-class model of energy-efficient design. By Malcolm Turpin, C.Eng. Suggestive of an immense...A housing project at Lille. Yung-Yin Yen of Atelier Pochoy explains the concept of transforming traditional terraced housing into habitable cargo containers, customised and transportable.
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Pas de fichiers ou de dossiers...Takes a look at vernacular and self-educated strands in architecture. Materials and techniques, fantastic architecture, domes, and zomes. [French, English, Spanish]
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Wired News: Need a Building? Just Add Water In a world with millions of refugees, numerous war zones and huge areas devastated by natural disaster, aid agencies and militaries have long needed a way to quickly erect shelters on demand. Soon, there will...Margot Kasojevik presents dynamics, simulation and animation design processes in architecture. Includes animations.
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Decodeine.Org It should download automatically. Enter Non-Flash Site...Frames are used to delimitate space and to expose visitors to a new three-dimensionality.
http://www.spacepat.com
Christopher M. Willett demonstrates a method for constructing arcologies based on community-level decision-making.
http://www.geocities.com/willett1000/ciad.html
Sabine von Fischer explores space in material and thought, in the form of drawings and texts – from concept and criticism to construction. Projects focus on sensorial and invisible boundaries such as "sonic barriers", and on completely collapsed objects in the "event horizon" series.
http://www.diaphanarch.ch
A utopian idea of a place for living that would be an extension of the owner’s brain. A collective project bringing together theoretical essays and innovatory design concepts. [English and French].
http://www.neurhome.org