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bob lynn

Addressing China's Rapid Urbanisation | Affordable Housing - 0 views

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    China's twelfth 5-Year Plan (released in 2011) addresses the country's rapid urbanisation by including a target to deliver 36 million new social housing units by 2015. Shenzhen in southern China, located in the Pearl River Delta in the Guangdong Province, is one of the fastest growing cities in the world. It has a large stake in this project and is aiming to deliver 240,000 new units which will house approximately 800,000 people. At the vanguard of China's economic reform, Shenzhen has grown 400 times its original size in the last 40 years, following high levels of investment by the government and through mass migration of workers from all over China. The city has a huge transient working population comprising mostly young people, in particular single women. Most residents come to the city from various parts of the country, leaving family, friends and other support networks. Shenzhen is rapidly running out of space, with only limited land available to house future population growth.
bob lynn

A Tree Formed Tower for the Amazon - 0 views

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    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.
bob lynn

Flood Resistant Architecture Becomes Top Priority - 0 views

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    Even with all of the effort going into infrastructure and damming solutions to support flood-ravaged areas of Australia, Queensland and New South Wales continue to battle against water levels that are simply too high. The latest floods up north have been so extreme that some areas still remain completely isolated with more storms and extreme weather conditions to continue. While these areas face the brunt of the flooding in this country, and have a long history of these events, the support, ongoing and present from both government and public entities, means that responsive action has been swift with future irrigation planning in place. However, these freak weather incidents will still occur, and several architectural bodies have called for a push in further resilience planning
bob lynn

Green Building Versus Sustainability - Is there a difference? - 0 views

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    We in the construction and design industry are currently going through a greenwash, a saturation of sustainability. In fact, we may be creating it. This public sense of exhaustion and lack of understanding in response to environmentally conscious mentalities and building processes, anything labeled 'green' to be precise, is causing an increased apathy in the entire sector and is impacting the communication of projects and concepts. Yet we are only adding fuel to the fire. We in this industry, and even those who are not, are confusing two key terms; that of Green Building and Sustainability, in turn creating confusion through misrepresented and easily misunderstood jargon. The thing is, it's universal. And ever so easy to accidently do.
bob lynn

Office Building Makes Perth Statement - 0 views

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    Shaking up the Perth Skyline is a construction venture that brings together architecture acumen and functionality. A mix of these two parts can only create statement-making buildings. Developed by Leighton Properties, Stage One of the Kings Square development is set to have a substantial impact on the area both visually and in terms of market value with the project featuring as a major commercial venture in our most recent market analysis. After an unsettled 2011, its seems the construction giants are coming back in full force with a number of what promise to be statement making developments. The Kings Square development will be located on the former Perth Entertainment (PEC) site and will have a mixed-use function.
bob lynn

Building From the Ground Down - Green Building Digs In - 0 views

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    When moving towards a sustainability goal in the architecture and construction industry, eco-technologies are often the first choice that builders and designers make. While these additions are successful in decreasing, or even eliminating, excess carbon emissions expelled during the construction or running stages of a building's life, there are much simpler organic processes that can be used to simply decrease a reliance on brown energy use. Orientation Planning is a prime example of a simple, zero technologically driven sustainable building concept. Through the careful positioning of a building, its reliance upon technologies, green or otherwise, to control the interior climate can be dramatically reduced, or even eliminated entirely.
bob lynn

Designer Airport Home Away From Home - 0 views

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    Helsinki's Vantaa airport is taking the saying 'making yourself at home' to heart with the interior design for their newest travellers' lounge. No matter how hard airport designers try to make these international, heavy trafficked areas romantic and luxurious, there is no doubting the dread that most of us feel on a 6 hour lay over or extended visit. While there can be no denying the luxuriousness of this interiorly designed space, what the designers have cleverly done is steer away from the clinical coolness of traditional airport lounges and thrown a knowing look back towards creature comforts. The aptly named 'Almost @ home' lounge features interior aspects that have been chosen to most correctly reflect a Finnish, or any, home.
Justin S

Jacque Fresco: Futurist - 0 views

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    Mr. Fresco's background includes industrial design and social engineering, as well as being a forerunner in the field of Human Factors. Mr. Fresco has worked as both designer and inventor in a wide range of fields spanning from biomedical innovations to totally integrated social systems. The Venus Project reflects the culmination of Jacque Fresco's life work: the integration of the best of science and technology into a comprehensive plan for a new society based on human and environmental concern. It is a global vision of hope for the future of humankind in our technological age.
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    but it seems sometimes in a 70s old project .. with no references to new architcture, next scripted one.. beautiful in some parts, unrealistic in others.. in fact this is an inspiring one. not a model... but to discuss on, it is a good beginning
Ako Z°om

realXtend - 0 views

  • The number of interesting applications for the near future is great. A truly functional virtual reality platform has to cope with a number of different use cases from city planning to elderly care or teleconferencing software. Virtual reality’s strongest points are interpersonal communications applications and human-technology interfaces; the true value of the extended web is in connecting the real world with the new user interface. Top 5 applications for realXtend (in our own opinion): Virtual meeting tools Reduce travel costs and enhance quality over traditional telephone and video conferences Collaboration and social interaction Imagine your team members sharing applications and thoughts while they are geographically distributed, but virtually co-located. Advanced user interface Complex applications, such as home automation control, are easier to understand and use when they are presented in 3D applications. Collaborative Games realXtend is an ideal platform to make novel multiplayer game titles. It features many aspects that do not exist anywhere else. Collaboration, co-building and dynamic worlds offer rich possibilities for entirely new kinds of games. Visualisation technologies Visualize enormous amounts of data and make it comprehensible for the end user. For example, building information models and architect's drawings can be presented as a 3D world, where users can walk around and visualize how things are going to look.
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    based on the realxtend engine... 3d virtual worlds are to be complete parts of an architecture project: more than just showing moidels, it will implied people and also partners (industrails too) to achive and conceive the next projects in architecture !
Ako Z°om

John Todd Ecological Design, Inc. -- Case Studies - 0 views

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    interesting part of urbanism: ecomachines, as ecosystem controlers for a better sustainable gain . here are good solutions which are happily/aestheticaly/ magicway applied
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    as wastes are to be considered, here of Todde, some eco-solution to treat them...
Ako Z°om

On parle encore de lui, mais je vous jure que c'est de l'actu !!! - 0 views

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  • Alain Juppé, pendant le débat, a pour sa part mis en avant la question des "nouveaux savoirs", rappelant que les élus ne "savaient pas toujours " quels choix faire en matière de développement urbain respectueux de l'environnement. "De l'argent, il y en a, ce n'est pas ça le blocage. Le problème de départ est d'avoir une idée, un projet", a-t-il ajouté.
    • Ako Z°om
       
      on croit rêver... y a de l'argent et pas de projet !!!!! mais c'est fou ça... faudrait voir à faire mieux alors...!!!
Ako Z°om

FABTECH International & AWS Welding Show 2008 - 0 views

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    about next tech for part of buildings... not so but ...
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    to find the good products, and also self made products... new ways of preparing building designs, as parts of the structure too : to be explored
Ako Z°om

CNC Plasma | Plasma Cutting | Cam Plasma - 0 views

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    about cnc milling...
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    how to with small parts ... ? CNC ? or just for design ?
Ako Z°om

Google Cities in 3D Program - 0 views

  • Put your city on the 3D map Engage the public by featuring your city's buildings, landmarks and terrain on Google Earth. If your local government is like many around the world, you've invested in developing a 3D model representing buildings in your city's downtown--perhaps your entire jurisdiction. Or, maybe you haven't yet produced a 3D model, but you've collected the geospatial data necessary for producing a model. With Google's Cities in 3D Program, your local government can share this 3D data with the public by adding a model of your city to Google Earth. More than 350 million Internet users have turned to Google Earth to better understand and navigate their world.
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    here it is , the beginning of the global digitalisation of the real world ... of course...would you think it will be let on the border ? Now it is present, and by collaborative and far more rapid moedlising than ever. Participate with your own models...
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    here it is the very start of the global digitalisation of the real world ... as architects or modelers, let's play in !
Ako Z°om

Lettre de l'Innovation - 0 views

  • Depuis, des technologies de frittage de poudre et de fusion laser ont été développées pour la production de pièces métalliques (DMLS et SLM). Tous ces procédés fonctionnent sur le même principe de fabrication additive, c’est-à-dire une superposition de couches de matières, contrairement aux méthodes de fabrication traditionnelles où la pièce est taillée dans la masse. Validation d’un concept Initialement utilisées dans l’industrie Automobile, l’Aéronautique, l’Aérospatial et l’Armement, ces nouvelles techniques de prototypage s’étendent aujourd’hui dans d’autres domaines comme la Médecine, l’Architecture, le Design et se perfectionnent suivant les besoins nécessaires. Dans le processus de conception, il y a d’abord la validation du modèle numérique puis du modèle physique. La numérisation de l’objet virtuel (CAO) est indispensable à la concrétisation de l’objet réel. Ce dernier permet de faire évoluer la conception par l’ensemble de l’équipe du projet et d’appréhender très vite ses défauts, voir de diminuer les risques de modifications lors de son industrialisation. Réduction du coût et du temps de réalisation Les techniques de prototypage rapide permettent de produire des pièces en une seule opération sans outillage ce qui minimise les risques. Seules quelques étapes de dépoudrage ou de retrait des supports sont nécessaires mais n’influencent pas les coûts et temps de fabrication qui restent faibles. Par ailleurs, le surplus de matière qui n’a pas été transformé est récupéré et réutilisé soit directement après la réalisation de la pièce soit après un recyclage complet. De nouvelles formes Outre l’économie de temps, de matière ou d’argent, les techniques de prototypage rapide offrent de nouvelles possibilités de formes. En effet ce sont les seules techniques qui permettent de produire des formes complexes, imbriquées les unes dans les autres en une seule opération.
  • Ces systèmes de production sont pour l’instant voués à la petite série car au-delà d’une certaine quantité de pièces à produire, il devient plus rentable d’utiliser les moyens de production classiques. Il ne faut pas oublier que la fonction première de ces techniques est  la réalisation de prototypes.
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  • Ses utilisateurs très souvent à l’origine de nouvelles expériences, orienteront probablement les fabricants de machines de prototypage voir de production rapide, vers de nouvelles applications toujours plus innovantes. En attendant, le prototypage rapide sera le sujet de la prochaine exposition thématique de l’Innovathèque visible à l’Institut Technologique FCBA à partir du mois de juin 2008 !  
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    the rapid prototypage (here uin french.. but)
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    Pourrait-il y avoir du prototypage rapide à l'échelle d'un batiment ? ou disons des pièces de 2 à 3m de long ... produites en série à moindre cout...(!)
Ako Z°om

we make money not art: architecture - 0 views

  • DLD panel on Future City (Part 1)
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      old article.. but some recent too...
Ako Z°om

Facebook | Photos de ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN - 0 views

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    yep some photos .. from this group... ineteresting somewhere...for a rapid protfolio
Ako Z°om

World Architecture Community - 0 views

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    in this site, many under the ground jewel to find, and there is the links page, for full features useful for architects practices... grab in ...
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    explore those links to create the same in our countries ... tools are to be shared, ways of acting is to be human
Ako Z°om

SPAN - Vox - 0 views

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      some about flower observation...
Ako Z°om

Trend Insights: Interesting design, interior design, architecture and more - 0 views

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    some new houses or just concepts... here for individuals...
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    for inspiration and some good ideas about compact ones...
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