Put your hand up if you thinkg light is understated in landscapes.This is one of many installations Spanish Luzinterruptus has installed. Playing with light, latex gloves, and a frozen pond.
Lots more at their blog.
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Monday, January 12, 2009
Landscape Architecture to the rescue?
Linked is a very interesting article that takes me back to 1st year uni. It talks about the necessity of green spaces within an urban setting or at least the opportunity for the occupants to take some time out and leave the city periodically, to help with the mental health of the occupants. Apparently a fair few studies done in the States as well as here concluded that even with the smallest amount of green space the test subjects were able to achieve better scores on memory tests and the such, in relation to similar test subjects without the same exposure to green or nature.
Read it, on a side note they mention something about drinking Red Bull and designing office spaces...little do they know that Landscape Architects probably drink a lot of Red Bull and design landscapes...as if it's a bad thing!
Link via The Boston Globe.
Linked is a very interesting article that takes me back to 1st year uni. It talks about the necessity of green spaces within an urban setting or at least the opportunity for the occupants to take some time out and leave the city periodically, to help with the mental health of the occupants. Apparently a fair few studies done in the States as well as here concluded that even with the smallest amount of green space the test subjects were able to achieve better scores on memory tests and the such, in relation to similar test subjects without the same exposure to green or nature.
Read it, on a side note they mention something about drinking Red Bull and designing office spaces...little do they know that Landscape Architects probably drink a lot of Red Bull and design landscapes...as if it's a bad thing!
Link via The Boston Globe.
New way to analyse site?
Industrial Research Ltd in New Zealand have developed a scanner that can scan a site and build a 3d model to millimetre accuracy. Aimed at forensic investigators and scientists the scanner is based on digital camera's, pulse lasers and a GPS like device that draws its position from the laser pulses. About 20 tripods equipped with the laser pulses are needed, but the more the merrier.
Link via New Scientist
Industrial Research Ltd in New Zealand have developed a scanner that can scan a site and build a 3d model to millimetre accuracy. Aimed at forensic investigators and scientists the scanner is based on digital camera's, pulse lasers and a GPS like device that draws its position from the laser pulses. About 20 tripods equipped with the laser pulses are needed, but the more the merrier.
Link via New Scientist
Thursday, January 08, 2009
Lego in real world application. Not Structural.Jan Vormann has done a collection of work called Dispatchwork. It is a form of architectural graffiti using pieces of lego to fill voids within brickwork or other vertical elements to create intriguing colourful peices of work.
Link via Life without Buildings
Dispatchwork Jan Vormann
The Opposite to a popup book.Have you ever tried to build a model that can explain or portray the spatial quality within an enclosed space? Models with parts that can be taken off to show the inside space, and yet it doesn't really show how the space works?
Well maybe you can do what Olafur Eliasson has done for MoMA, a laser cut book with the interior of a building meticulously cut out of each page to create the space.
Link via Origami Tessallations
The laser cutters Kremo
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