Posts Tagged ‘special’

Órgano

Órgano is a sculpture designed by the Spanish artist Eusebio Sempere and built in Madrid, Spain. Composed of a three-dimensional array of polished stainless steel pipes, the installation rotates to filter and reflect sunlight dynamically. Recently, researchers at the Institute of Materials Science in...

March 18th, 2011 | feature, metals | Read More

QuaDror

QuaDror is described as a new structural joint offering myriad design applications at a variety of scales. Designer Dror Benshetrit of Studio Dror unveiled this new geometrical approach at the recent Design Indaba conference in Cape Town. Recalling the strategy of the diagrid, QuaDror uses diagonal framing...

March 4th, 2011 | feature, wood | Read More

Pneumocell

Pneumocell is an assembly-kit consisting of inflatable building elements analogous to biological cell-structures, which can be connected in numerous combinations to form complete constructions. By specifying a common polygonal edge length for all of the cells, designer Thomas Herzig has ensured that...

November 26th, 2010 | feature, plastic | Read More

Litmuscreen

Jordan Geiger developed Litmuscreen as an architectural and product design material based on the performance and properties of litmus paper. Litmuscreen is a simple modification to an old technology—the adaptation of chemical properties found in lichen to indicate acid/base imbalances in a liquid....

September 10th, 2010 | feature, fiber | Read More

Softwall LED

Softwall + Softblock is a modular, space-shaping system of expandable/compressible honeycomb seating, partitions, and lighting conceived from the desire for flexible, spontaneous spacemaking. Opening a Softwall + Softblock element is a captivating tactile experience, as the honeycomb unfolds to create...

July 30th, 2010 | feature, light | Read More

Airtecture

Building with air, the most natural of all materials, is a special challenge because air-inflated components are used in place of the usual load-bearing components. The idea behind Airtecture is based on mechanically pre tensioned membrane constructions that have been used for several interesting buildings...

September 17th, 2009 | textile | Read More

Texlon

Foiltec’s Texlon foil system offers designers new opportunities in the development of climatic and transparent envelopes. The system can be engineered to virtually any size or shape and can incorporate variable solar and thermal controls, enabling the envelope to be tuned to the ideal climatic or programmatic...

August 19th, 2009 | feature, plastic | Read More

Gore Tenara KT

Gore Tenara KT is a three-dimensional moldable fabric made from 100 percent knitted polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE). Developed in a collaboration with fabric artist Jens J. Meyer and the Denkendorf Institute of Textiles and Process Technology, the fabric is immune to UV rays and is weather resistant,...

July 31st, 2009 | feature, textile | Read More

Concrete Canvas Shelter

The Concrete Canvas Shelter is a rapidly deployable hardened shelter that requires only water and air for erection. It can be deployed by two people without any training in approximately thirty minutes and is ready to use in twelve hours. The shelter consists of a cement-impregnated fabric (Concrete...

September 7th, 2007 | concrete | Read More

Bloomframe

Bloomframe is a window frame that can be transformed into a balcony. Designed by Amsterdam-based Hofman Dujardin Architects, the Bloomframe balcony offers a flexible living environment by making it possible to extend the domain of one’s facade. In this way, the dynamic balcony enables adding outdoor...

March 25th, 2007 | metals | Read More