Fobe Residence in Marrakech, Morocco by Guilhem Eustache Studio
Guilhem Eustache - a Belgian studio built the 'Forbes Residence'in Marrakech, Marocco. The architect aim was to create a dynamic equilibrium despite the difference of scale. Eustache played with light and shadow to enhance and strengthen the volumes and used local materials and techniques like clay for the exterior walls, tadelack for the baths and stones from the Ourika valley for the floors. The architect has preserved the wildness of the land although they have planted more than 500 trees. The walls have been doubled to help deal with the climate creating high-rise rooms and sun protection.
Mobile ‘Bed Cube’ Bedroom
This Mobile Bed Cube bedroom is the perfect way to hang on to some privacy in a shared space. This unique “bedroom” is the perfect solution for people who live in shared bedrooms or dorms. You can move it around in any direction according to the space in your apartment. It is compact, and can easily fit into any room.The cube evolved out of wanting cozy with the option of keeping a big, open space at the same time.
S-house, Ukraine by KO+KO Architects
The starting plan was to create a holiday home for a young couple and their two children. The main challenge for KO+KO architects was to make transformation to the house using the most advanced technology construction, without losing the warmth and inside comfort, that's why they decided to create a wooden frame. Thus, there was a radical solution to create a concrete sarcophagus, on the facade resembling a Latin letter "S" hence the name of the house. The house is located on a long, narrow area, 35 meters wide and 65 meters in length, on a hill, facing east, ...
Cube Tube by Sako Architect
Developed by Sako Architects “Cube Tube” office and restaurant is a nine storey building with square structure, intersected with a vertical succession of criss-crossed corridors which terminate as open-air terraces overlooking the landscape. Contrasting the style of the existing context, a fenestration pattern of varied squares surfaces the main cubic volume and adjacent linear block, generating their respective names, “cube” and “tube”. The configuration introduces light and breezes into the internal core while allowing a divided working space with an airy atmosphere.
Heliocosm, Cosmetic Shop by FREAKS Freearchitects
FREAKS freearchitects have been commissioned for the interior design of the shop for a new natural comestics brand Heliocosm located in Herold street, Paris 1st ward.Clément Sauvet from Helicosm wanted to create a brand that banishes the chemical ingredients of conventional cosmetics and respects both the consumer and their environment. The architects have inserted a rectangular timber tunnel inside this Paris cosmetics shop. An opening cut away from the wooden box provides the location for a salvaged second-hand table, while integrated shelves display products. Read More…
Bamboo Booth 2012 by Vo Trong Nghia
‘Bamboo Booth’ was exhibited in the “Vietnam Architecture Exhibition 2012″, held in Hanoi for 5 days in April, 2012.Bamboos were chosen to express Vietnamese architecture culture. To cope up with the short construction time period, bamboos are placed straightly like brickwork to create massive wall, floor and roof in a minimalist manner.The Company calls it “bamboo masonry”, or a quasi log house structured by bamboos.
Accordingly, bamboo nails and wedges, rather than metal joint, are used for the connection. Steel wire is minimally installed to decrease the deflection of the wall and roof.
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Breathing Partition Stand by Jinsun Park & Seonkeun Park
The air-conditioned air seems like to be out-of-dated as the green living arise. Duo designers Jinsun Park & Seonkeun Park have designed the Breathing Partition Stand which will be good for offices.
It has an exclusive area to place the plants whilst acting as a divider between work-desks. An automatic watering system takes care of the watering chore, and it would be a good idea to place low-maintenance varieties. Read More…
Magnifying Glass Vase by Cottage Industry
Cottage Industry has created a giant magnifying glass vase that combines a test-tube with a magnifying lens to show off tiny single blooms.
Whangapoua, Prefab Hut by Crosson Clarke Carnachan Architects
Whangapoua is a Prefab Hut built by Architects Crosson Clarke Carnachan on the shore of an idyllic white sanded beach in New Zealand’s Coromandel Peninsula rests an elegant hut. Closed up, the rough macrocarpa-cladding blends into the landscape and perches quietly on the dunes, as passersby wonder how it could possibly function for a family of five.
Designed to close up against the elements, the hut measures a mere 40 square metres and rests on two thick wooden ‘sleds’ that allow it to be shifted around the beach front section. This innovative portability is a response to the ever changing landscape that line the beachfront in this coastal erosion zone. Read More…
Connect:Homes Launches a New Line of Modular Houses
Jared Levy and Gordon Stott sent a the pictures of thhier latest project announced today; the launch of Connect:Homes. In a first for the prefab industry, the company will manufacture modern, green, and affordable prefab homes from a single California-‐based factory and ship these homes to national and international markets using a patent-‐pending modular system.
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Villa Widlund in Öland, Sweden by Claesson Koivisto Rune Architects
This house built by Claesson Koivisto Rune is like a funnel of light, space and sea views. The location is the west coast of the Baltic island of Öland. The white concrete box is “corsetted” in the middle, creating slightly sheared wall and roof angles. This gives the house both its direction and character, while also marking the difference between the rear private two-storey bedroom part and the communal double ceiling-height front part.
Precast concrete is perhaps not the most common choice for a private house at this scale, but was ideal for achieving the ultimate precision in manufacturing tolerance and colour/finish.
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Flying Hovercraft
This $190,000 flying hovercraft has integrated wings that allow it to fly.The wings are removable in 15 minutes and the Hoverwing™ becomes the UH-18SP hovercraft. It was designed for people who love to play. The hovercraft is safe to operate in both fresh and saltwater, and is also capable of traveling on sand, mud, grass, swamp, ice, and snow terrains with inclines of up to 30 per cent.
The wings roll up and can be stored aboard the craft for easy transportation and rapid deployment. The UH-18SPW Hoverwing™ is the only ground-effect hovercraft to be released as a plan or kit. Click the links below to see the UH-18SPW in action.
Crash Bench by Liliana Ovalle
What happens when a force of nature changes the visual aspect of a design ? Liliana Ovalle illustrates with finesse, that the unrehearsed, and uncontrolled can add impact both visually and emotionally to a design. Crash is just such a piece. The sleek and perfect lines of the bench have been transformed by an unexpected impact which has imposed a new reality, a new way of being and created an outstanding piece of design.
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Camper Shoe Store in Lyon by Studio Makkink Bey
Studio Makkink & Bey were inspired by basic walking movements for the design of a new concept store for Camper in Lyon. Movements forward, upward and downward are shaped in staircase pedestals, stools or stepladders and outlined in bright red lines on the stairs, walls and floors. The stairs represent the conjunction of separate places. While performing as a place to meet, sit on or pass through, they expand places and establish rhythm, depth and infinity of spaces. This is the studios first cooperation with Camper as part of the Together Project.
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Church Covered of Grass by Heather Ackroyd & Dan Harvey
British artists Heather Ackroyd & Dan Harvey recently transformed a landmark church in South East London by covering the interior in a layer of living grass. Their artwork makes explicit connections with urban political ecologies by highlighting the temporal nature of processes of growth and decay in sites of architectural and ecological interest as well as contemporary art galleries and museums worldwide. The project is organized by the The London International Festival of Theatre (LIFT). You can see it for yourself in Dilston Grove’s Clare College Mission Church, South London.
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Bulavkus USB Flash Drive by Art Lebedev Studio
This USB flash drive called Bulavkus and designed by Moscow-based Art Lebedev Studio combines a safety pin with and a 4GB storage unit. This USB flash drive is both aesthetically pleasing and extremely functional.
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Aan Zee Restaurant by Emma Architects
Aan Zee which mean ‘ at the Sea’ in Deutch is a new restaurant along the beach path in Oostvoorne, The Netherlands. This amzing restaurant built by Emma Architects has wooden wall that rises up from the sand dunes and curls up to a watchtower. The wood is layered and in small parts mounted on the facade. It is exposed to the elements and will weather beautifully to blend into the surroundings. A glass façade ensures light and views. A third wall is concealed in the dunes and is formed by a series of buried shipping containers.
The building has a special water and energy management. Electricity is generated by windmills and solar panels. Heating and cooling is extracted from geothermal energy, and a natural convection system is used for the ventilation. The wastewater is treated in a helofytenveld. The regional, seasonal food is prepared on a wood burning stove and grill. Finally, the building is constructed so that it is possible to dismantle it again. Thus, the materials can be reused and the location again be returned to nature.
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Architect’s Eye by SPeeCH Tchoban & Kuznetsov
Sergei Tschoban and Sergey Kuznetsov, partners of the Moscow based architecture studio SPEECH Tchoban & Kuznetsov. As part of this year’s Interni Legacy event at the Università Statale in Milan,
A stainless steel sphere, completely smooth and reflecting, features an LED system to create the image of a huge human eyeball that rotates to look to the sky as well as at visitors, or at visitors, or at the ground, changing the color of the iris and the size of the pupil. Inside the eye, there are images of monuments of the Russian avant-garde, which now lie abandoned: a strong message about the need to conserve our history and cultural legacy. Read More…
More 4′ s New Identity
After winning a competitive pitch,British television Channel 4 commissioned ManvsMachine to create a new brand identity and on-air look for More4. The package aligns with a re-focussed range of content on the channel.
The graphic device is carried across a range of idents featuring installations made up of 400 mechanical ‘flippers’. 15 differently coloured triangular shapes, which also animate, again making up the numeral with the text similarly placed. Each one is made up of hundreds of mechanical ‘flipper’ units that, when set in motion, reveal a range of colours and patterns. These structures are placed within a series of different environments, such as a cafe, a staircase, on a tree, and on an abandoned boat on a beach in Dungeness. Read More…
Starry Night by Lee Eunyeol
Korean photographer Lee Eunyeol creates beautiful nighttime scenes by installing lights in various landscapes that appear as if the night sky was flipped upside down with glowing stars and planets nested inside tall grass or between deep earthen cracks. Eunyeol will be showing this series of photos at the Gana Art Space in Seoul starting this week.
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Cocoon House, Resort in Jeju, Korea by Planning Korea
Seoul-based architectural practice, Planning Korea, completed their design for the Cocoon House, an amazing project of inhabitation for the volcanic island of Jeju. Inspired by the cocoon organisms, the team chose to organize the house around a spheric volume with round windows.
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‘Badboot,’ Green Public Outdoor Swimming Pool by Sculp(IT) Architecten
Sculp(IT) Architecten annouced the opening of one of world’s biggest floating openair swimming poolsin Antwerp, Belgium at the Kattendijkdok in mid-August. The pool, with a total length of 120 meters (394 feet), can accommodate 600 people and consists of a swim basin, two event venues, several floors and a restaurant with a lounge terrace.
