While PTFE and ETFE have made significant contributions to architecture, the range of architectural types they have affected is rather limited. They have been applied exclusively to tensile and pneumatic […]
While PTFE (Teflon) can certainly be considered a bit of a miracle material, and has certainly had a significant impact on our lives in it’s own special non-stick way, architecturally […]
Project: Pentagon Memorial, Arlington, VA US Architect/Designer: KBAS Studio Sources: http://www.kbas-studio.com Featured material: Stainless Steel The pentagon memorial required the collaboration of a network of disciplines from melting, pouring, and […]
Project: Ningbo Tengtou Pavillion, Shanghai, China, 2010 Architect/Designer: Amateur Architecture Studio, Wang Shu, Principal Sources: http://www.worldarchitects.com/en/amateur Featured material: Reused/Repurpose brick+tiles Responding to current China’s thirst for impatient¹ urbanization, Architect Wang […]
Project: Green Cast, Odaware-shi, Kanagawa prefecture, Japan Architect/Designer: Kengo Kuma and Associates Sources: http://kkaa.co.jp/ Featured material: Aluminum die cast panels and plant material. This vertical green facade by KK+A leaves […]
And now the moment you’ve been waiting for. A three part series on variations of tetra-fluorocarbons in architecture. Get some popcorn and pull up a chair, you’re in for a […]
Rope has been a tool used throughout time to pull, tug, loft, tie, connect, carry, lift, and attach. Its no wonder that it is also used in many forms of […]
The Loblolly House by Kierantimberlake provocatively rethinks the pre-fabricated home in a way that attempts to reconcile the mass-customization capabilities of 21st century fabrication with more elemental aspects of place. […]
So in the last post we just rolled over a few of the lighter applications of tires in architecture, mostly because true sustainability is terrifying and you’re not ready for […]
Plastic is a tricky material. On one hand I reject it because of the tremendous negative impact it has on the environment and health. The production of plastic requires large […]
Cardboard is perhaps the most vernacular engineered material today. Almost everyone has had interaction with cardboard and most have experimented in their own construction using cardboard. Remember that toy you […]
Precedent: Winery Gantenbein (2006) Architects: Gramazio & Kohler, Bearth & Deplazes Architekten Location: Fläsch, Switzerland Process: This project uses a robotic arm to precisely place 20,000 bricks according to programmed […]
The clients who came to the architecture firm R & Sie had one request: they wanted a house designed that would allow them to look out, but not allow people […]
Several days ago, I stumbled across a manifesto by Bruce Mau – no, not the “Incomplete Manifesto” but rather, one written for Icon Magazine1 in 2007. In it, Mau makes […]
If you has to sum up the world around us in four letters what would you say? Any guesses? …. CMYK Things we design, print and make are always in […]
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