The American Institute of Architects (AIA) and its Committee on the Environment (COTE) have selected the top ten examples of sustainable architecture and green design solutions that protect and enhance the environment. The projects will be honored at the AIA 2008 National Convention and Design Exposition in Boston. The goals and criteria for evaluation are […]
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Homes: Inflatable + Concrete Injection
March 31, 2008 
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“To create this lightweight building out of concrete, a flexible skin with an embedded membrane structure is inflated with air and filled up with a special concrete mixture such as UHPC (Ultra High Performance Concrete)” – Via Core77 – “Concrete But Different” Related: Cal-Earth and their Super-Adobe projects Geodesic Dome (by Bukminster Fuller) – from […]
Read moreHarvesting the Energy of Crowd Movement
October 30, 2007 0 Comments
“Two graduate students at MIT’s School of Architecture and Planning want to harvest the energy of human movement in urban settings, like commuters in a train station or fans at a concert. The so-called “Crowd Farm,” as envisioned by James Graham and Thaddeus Jusczyk, both M.Arch candidates, would turn the mechanical energy of people walking […]
Read moreRedefining visionary architecture
October 17, 2007 0 Comments
Quoting from Treehugger (about the image above): “The Wind Shaped Pavilion is a design proposal by Michael Jantzen for a large fabric structure that can be used as a public or private pavilion. As a lightweight fabric structure, the wind slowly and randomly rotates each of the six segments around a central open support frame. […]
Read moreNew skyscraper to produce all its own energy
May 29, 2007 0 Comments
“A German architect is pursuing an ambitious project in the Middle East. He wants to build office towers in Riyadh, Dubai and Bahrain that produce all their own energy. The zero emissions office building has arrived.” Spiegel Online International: “New Tower Creates All Its Own Energy” >> ………………….. -Daniel Montano ………………….. Keyword: Daniel Montano, Dan […]
Read moreAre you trained to see by your discipline?
April 25, 2007 0 Comments
How we visually scan images seems to be somewhat related to the disciplinary training we have; or at least that’s what we learn from a blog posting on Cognitive Daily. In this blog post they compare how an artist and a psychologist scans an image. If this is indeed the case this may present some […]
Read moreTypes of Questions (part 2)
April 18, 2007 0 Comments
Questions beyond traditional text/spoken communication. Questions may take on a form that transcends traditional spoken or written communication. This means that an object, a structure, a sculpture, a craft, a piece of clothing, a building, a process, all of these may be constructed as a network of questions or as “inquiry activators” (something that encourages […]
Read moreTheo Jansen the merging of art and engineering
April 13, 2007 2 Comments
“The walls between art and engineering exist only in our minds.” – Theo Jansen Sculptor Theo Jansen sets out to give form to wind through kinnetic sculptures. Now, we have seen a few mobiles out there but Jansen’s sculptures energize the imagination. Now the obvious question – how can we apply these ideas in sustainable […]
Read moreInteractive Architecture / Dynamic Architecture ?
April 4, 2007 4 Comments
The wind “designs” / “sculpts” / “activates” this architectural structure. Related Theo Jansen’s Wind Sculptures>> The paradox of space >> Interactive architecture dot org >> (highly recommended)
Read moreAdvanced math in architecture
March 20, 2007 0 Comments
“Intricate decorative tilework found in medieval architecture across the Islamic world appears to exhibit advanced decagonal quasicrystal geometry – a concept discovered by Western mathematicians and physicists only in the 1970s and 1980s. If so, medieval Islamic application of this geometry would predate Western mastery by at least half a millennium.” Source: Harvard University Gazette: […]
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