Architects: Students of the College of Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology, led by Professor Frank Flury Local architect: Ecker Architekten Location: Boedigheim, Germany Client: Protestant Church of Bödigheim Project year: 2009 Photographs: Robert Piotrowski, Dea Ecker, Klaus Hilger & John Ruffalo, Brigida Gonzalez Website: Flurkapelle Buchen/Bödigheim The Field Chapel is a proj..
The manufacturing of curved parts is laborious. Special molds are needed to define the curvature during the forming and joining process ? a factor that is time consuming and costly, especially in individual production and small series. Zipshape is a new universal method that makes it possible to fabricate single curved panels from any plain material without molds. An element consists of two indi..
Characterized by an organic and pleasing appearance, this room divider is about the phenomenon of light. Light is always moving, and due to reflection, refraction and shadow, leaves behind a fantastic impression. To make one feel the movement of light, I divided the wavy sides into many layers so that they reveive light from different angles and reflect it at different angles. As a result, the f..
UXUS Design amazes us with this second stunning post within a week for your eyes only on Yatzer! Merus Winery was just the beginning and Amsterdam Loft is the peak of this architectural journey. Amsterdam Loft could be the house of the mad scientist instead it is the house of a very eclectic owner with a refined taste in design! The skulls, the dead animals, the deer horns, the scissors, and the..
Point b recently served as consultants on an architectural project with LAAB - Laboratorio de Arquitectura Alejandro Biguria. Point b was asked to develop a branching algorithm in RhinoScript that allowed LAABto study various site strategies for the plan of an eco-resort inPuerto Rico. The branching algorithm then translates to a series ofelevated footbridges that connect various parts of the re..
Architects: Drost + van Veen architecten Location: Alemere, The Netherlands Project Architects: Evelien van Veen, Simone Drost Collaborators: Onno Groen, Kees de Wit, Jos Lafeber, Bernhard Jaarsma, Perry Klootwijk Client: Gemeente Almere Contractor: Reimert Bouw Structural Engineer: ABT Delft Project year: 2009 Photographs: John Lewis Marshall Nature-education-centre “The Oostvaarders” is situat..
The Vienna based bkm Design Working Group have created a collection of furniture pieces to show-off new veneer materials from RoHol, an Austrian manufacturer of wood products. The pieces are currently on display at the Artmark Galerie as part of Vienna Design Week. from contemporist
“Smell the newness, smell the wood, smell the aliveness of this place… To begin, I just want to invite you to open your imaginations today… When we built this, we were not absolutely certain how it would be used because we are a church and we don’t determine the use of our lives and the use of our materials and the use of our abilities. We leave that to God. I just heard this little one here ste..
Anders Johnsson and Petter Thörne are a couple of young designers based in Stockholm, who are graduating from Sweden’s Konstfack University this spring. The two designers have created the Mold chairs as part of their final project for the Interior Architecture and Furniture Design program. While visiting various Swedish furniture manufacturers, they noticed the large quantities of waste material..
Architects: Consortium Daoust Lestage + Williams Asselin Ackaoui + Option aménagement Location: Quebec, Canada Project Team: Réal Lestage, urban planner, principal in the project team, Renée Daoust, architect, urban planner, principal / Caroline Beaulieu, architect / Lucie Bibeau, landscape architect / Martin Adam, b. arch. / Maria Benech, b. arch. / André Nadeau, landscape architect / Simon Mag..
