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Of Cobwebs & Crossings - 1 views

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  • india art n design on 01 Mar 13
     
    Artist Reena Kallat's public art installation at Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai opens to public from Mar 3, 2013 weaves powerful stories of Mumbai in the fragile form of a cobweb.
bob lynn

A Tree Formed Tower for the Amazon - 0 views

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  • bob lynn on 12 Feb 12
     
    One major green belt that has seen the devastating results of deforestation is the Amazon jungle. From 1991 until 2001 the total area cleared jumped from 415,000 km2 to 587,000 km2, proving that this massive, unsustainable deforestation effort has not been just a thing of the past. In fact, it was only last year that deforestation figures slowed to their lowest numbers yet. For many in the green building industry, that is how they would like it to continue. Offering to lead this conservation effort is London-based architectural firm Marks Barfield. Who have impressed architecture and environmental communities worldwide with their £6.4m proposal for a research centre in the Amazon, which will include a central, tree-shaped observation tower and 6 miles of tree top canopy walkways. Due to the nature and function of this tower, in addition to the limitations that the rural, fragile Brazilian environment holds, a sustainable building ideology forms the foundation of the proposal.
Ako Z°om

Bell Labs Research on Deep-Sea Sponge Yields Substantial Mechanical Engineering Insights - 0 views

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shared by Ako Z°om on 19 Jan 09 - Cached
  • "This creature's skeleton is a textbook lesson in mechanical engineering, offering valuable knowledge that could lead to new concepts in materials science and engineering design."
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  • identified seven different levels of structural hierarchy in the sponge. Each of the structural levels corresponds to a fundamental construction principle commonly used in civil engineering and sometimes product design, but on a scale 1,000 times smaller than a building.
  • when the diameter of the sponge's skeleton increases beyond a certain point the outer structure is reinforced by ridges in a spiral pattern.
  • Ako Z°om on 19 Jan 09
     
    "Nature has found a way to perfect inherently fragile materials by employing standard engineering principles from the nano to the macro scale,"
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