Group items tagged architecture - CIS Focal Issue

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architectural experiment constructed at MIT, was “3-D printed” using 6,500 live silkworms
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The project started with experiments to see if the spinning patterns of the silkworms could be controlled by altering the environment they operated in. It turns out they could,
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a silkworm is a sophisticated multi-material, multi-axis 3-D printer.
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Potential applications are varied, but include fashion and architecture, and it’s possible to imagine a system like this being deployed in the aftermath of a natural disaster to build environmentally friendly shelters for refugees
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shared by Olga Bykova on 01 Jul 13 - No Cached

offering customers the chance to be full-body scanned and given a plastic figurine of themselves
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shared by Maria Gurova on 22 Oct 13 - No Cached

collaboration of architecture and design firms consisting of MKThink, Concordia, and DSK are creating what the developers call "a full service community, where the school district and city work cooperatively to improve access to learning and opportunities to all members of the community through a highly coordinated City/School partnership.”
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The local community contributed heavily to the school design. "I’ve been doing this for 30 years, and there’s never been a project that I’m aware of that has required and gone through such an open and transparent communication process with the community,"
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The design team drew inspiration for its "school as the center of community" project from the Harlem Children’s Zone (HCZ)
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education programs for residents of all ages--an attempt to create a healthy environment for local kids
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shared by evgeny lavrov on 28 May 15 - No Cached

L’Oreal makes cosmetics and hair color. It also makes skin
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Now it’s talking about
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printing
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The idea is to produce skin more quickly and easily using what is essentially an assembly line developed with Organovo, a San Diego bioprinting company.
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L’Oreal already
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produce its patented skin, called Episkin
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Organovo pioneered the process of bioprinting human tissues, most notably creating a 3-D-printed liver system
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In concept, it’s the same idea of programming the 3-D printer to print architecture on an X-Y-Z axis
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shared by al_semenchenko on 27 Mar 16 - No Cached

Designers Yitan Sun and Jianshi Wu want to make New York’s Central Park available to more people by digging down to the bedrock of the park. The idea is to create a 1000-feet tall, 100-feet deep mega structure that provides a total floor area of 7 square miles, which is about 80 times greater than the Empire State Building.
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“The ambition is to reverse the traditional relationship between landscape and architecture, in a way that every occupiable space has direct connection to the nature,” – say the authors of the proposal that was awarded first place in eVolo’s annual skyscraper competition.
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