Cinemod Studio have created a reactive football stadium in Peru that is “able to communicate the ebb and flow of excitement and disappointment to the surrounding city, thus becoming a watched spectacle in itself”.
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An Overpass for Colorado Wildlife
Really cool concept and beautiful designs, makes me wonder if animals would actually use it. Would plants and scent be enough to influence animals to cross at these safer places?
Posted 1 year ago
The past future was sometimes even more exciting than the present future. Case in point.
Posted 2 years ago
Auer + Weber Architekten - ESO Hotel and Observatory, Cerro Paranal, 2003. Located in the heart of the Atacama desert in Chile, the building faces severe winds, scalding daytime sunlight, and dramatic temperature shifts. The red concrete facade and it’s position embedded in the landscape helps protect from the elements and also prevents internal light pollution from escaping, a facet of the project brief that demanded that the total light output of the project could not exceed that of a 100 watt light bulb. And yes, it was in a Bond movie.
Posted 2 years ago
That ‘Three Little Pigs’ Story? ALL LIES
Turns out houses made of straw are surprisingly stable. From Janeen Interlandi’s really great piece explaining why Haiti’s buildings collapsed, and how they should be rebuilt:
A stronger Haitian capital will have to include more earthquake-resistant housing. And while such engineering is expensive, there are some cost-effective options that experts say could be a good fit for Haiti. Straw-bale houses, which are already being built in Pakistan, have proved to be just as resistant as other earthquake-proof designs, at only half the cost. In one recent study, the houses—made of clay, soil, straw, and gravel, and built by unskilled laborers—withstood forces comparable to the 6.7-magnitude earthquake in Northridge, Calif., in 1994.
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