Category: representation
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Earth Day Humor
As a staunch advocate of Earth Day Every Day – the actual date of the big historic 40th anniversary is somewhat unimportant. Much like volunteers rushing to soup kitchens on Thanksgiving – then leaving them abandoned the remainder of the year – the day (or week) offers myriad opportunities for getting out to do service…
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Garden to Go
An interesting proposal from Marie Hermansson entitled Garden to Go takes the concept of small-scale vertical farming and vending as a method of providing fresh food in cities: “G.T.G. is a self-contained mini hydroponic greenhouse the size of a vending machine; in fact that’s exactly what G.T.G. is—a very green vending machine. The purpose behind…
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PICA Coop Design Competition
Based on the work from last year to create the Chicken Cube – I was recently asked to serve on a design competition jury put on by SERA Architects to design the perfect chicken coop. The competition was aimed at benefitting the Portland Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA) for their upcoming TADA 2010 Annual Gala…
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Transparent Cells
Arch Daily offers some great imagery from a project by Aristide Antonas, along with collaborators Katerina Koutsogianni & Yannikos Vassiloulis called ‘Transparent Cells’ which shows a proposal for proposal for a the Architecture School at Delft featuring pixelated spatial arrangements that can be reconfigured as necessary to accomodate new programs. The Hundertwasser-esque vegetal compartments are…
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FLOW: A Competition
Winners of the international competition „FLOW“ arrived via an email today. The european competition is: “… for students in the last two years of architecture, engineer, art, landscape, town planning, sociology and young architects were born after December 31st, 1975 in Europe.” The subject area of the competition is the City of Brussels, covering the…
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Smart Wayfinding
A very interesting project spotted on Designboom: “….as part of the lighting plan in montreal, the quartier des spectacles explores the possibilities of light for creating signage and expressing identity. lead by designers ruedi baur and jean beaudoin from montreal architectural design studio intégral, this recent pilot project experiments with projecting light onto the pavement…
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Telectroscopic Connections
A post by Varnelis mentioned a couple of interesting ideas of crossing space, both virtually and physically through various modern forms of communication. Three items come from his post: 1. Chatroulette—a site that pairs you with a random person somewhere on the Internet so that you have a webcam conversation… which to me just seems…
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Thickened Waterfront from AALU
An email from Jorge Ayala from the AALU shows off some recent Landscape Urbanism work, in this case an academic workshop with a focus on designing a Contemporary Garden in Xi’an, China. I’ve included the full text from Jorge, and some of the images of the project that were sent. Thickened WaterfrontAA Landscape Urbanism Garden…
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Modelling Dynamic Processes
One of the interesting links I found on Bradley Cantrell’s site showed a very cool project being developed by the UC Berkeley to simulate river dynamics, which have notoriously been difficult to replicate. Via Science Daily: “Christian Braudrick, William Dietrich and their colleagues are the first to build a scaled-down meandering stream in the lab…
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More on Digital Media
A follow-up to the interactive interview on Digital Drawing for Landscape Architecture Bradley Cantrell sent me a couple of links to the work he and others are doing in the digitial realm down at Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture at Louisiana State University. :: image via reactscape The first is his own blog, reactscape.visual-logic.com,…