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Travel Size Paper City Paris! | Made by Joel

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(via X-Rayed Buildings In Budapest — The Pop-Up City)

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responsivesarchitectures: Title: Sentient City Category:  #sensornetworks #smartcities Author: Libelium Year: 2011 Url: http://www.libelium.com/smart_cities/ Description: Smart Cities platform from Libelium allows system integrators to monitor noise, pollution, structural health and waste management

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lo que estamos intentando hacer algunos en #Masterdiwo, he hablado más de ello en mi blog @rubodewig: (via Usefulness | Bonkers World)

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» orsieg - notas: competencias de titulación VS destrezas de formación

@sergihc (http://orsieg.wordpress.com/) propone una redefinición de arquitecto muy interesante y en pocas palabras.

orsieg:

Creo que ni nosotros nos lo acabamos de creer, ni gran parte de la sociedad lo entiende aún así. Al etiquetarte con una Titulación se te atribuyen unas competencias, que en el caso de ser Arquitecto son:
-para la administración: “experto en seguridad de espacios habitables”;
-y en general:…

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How to Turn a Pallet into a Garden

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The Pallet House project was conceived in 1999 as a transitional shelter for the refugees of Kosovo. It has since evolved and made into a number of different prototypes. Pallets are readily available in most countries and are particularly accessible in coastal regions with ports. They are used for shipping, are inexpensive and recyclable and can be pre-assembled by hand at a rate of 500/ day/ worker. Their size, strength and weight are specifically designed for transport and therefore are a great construction module. They provide flexibility in terms of configuration, allowing each family to build according to their own needs over time. This process encourages participation of the community that lives in the homes, fostering employment and economic growth. A 250 square foot shelter requires 100 pallets nailed together and lifted into place by 4-5 people using hand tools over a week. Initially, tarps draped over the basic structure prevent water penetration until indigenous materials like rubble, mud, earth, wood, shingles or cladding can be gathered to fill the wall cavities and cover the roof. The Pallet House can apply traditional wattle and daub to a structure of standard wood pallets. It can be bolted to sill plates on foundation walls of local stone or concrete and the roof may be finished with clay tiles or palm thatch. The wattle (flexible twigs) can be woven between the pallet boards and daub, a mixture of clay, lime, sand and straw, and applied to the walls by hand. In hot climates open pallets extend above the finished walls to allow for ventilation and wall cavities are left void, except where indoor plumbing and electrical service are available which can be incorporated into the cavity of the pallet structure. Where inclement weather persists the pallets may be pre-assembled with styrofoam insulation, vapor barrier, plywood or corrugated sheathing prior to shipping. The Pallet House adapts to almost every climate on earth and a basic structure can be built for under $500 USD. The shipping cost of pallets is negligible when used to carry food, water, medicine, clothing and other types of aid. (via The Buckminster Fuller Challenge | Catalyzing the vanguard of a design science revolution)

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 Qué es SOPA y por qué es un peligro para ti

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floresenelatico: Come With Me by Ellie Davies

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Via BerlinFarmblab, un proyecto de investigación-construcción, he descubierto a Ooze, aunque quizá ya conociera algún proyecto suyo antes, porque me resultan extrañamente familiares. Su trabajo es va desde Proyectos-fotomontaje para ciudades enteras a instalaciones y montajes para exposiciones, con lo que se podría llamra proyectos de “construcción basta”. Estos son los que más me gustan. Apunto dos: Ooze 2011 - Art installation for Evento 2011 - Bordeaux “The drinking water station and the public toilet are part of a water-supply infrastructure that people can interact with. Rainwater collected from the roof is used for the open-air toilet and the drinking water station, where the water is purified by helophyte plant filters; the drinking water station thus offers water of drinkable quality. The toilet is not enclosed by walls, but rather it is surrounded by plants that provide sufficient visual protection from the urban surroundings. The water can also be used for the garden. In this way, as people take part in the human water cycle (eating, drinking, peeing) by using the drinking water station and the toilet, they become more aware of the issue of water as the 21st century’s most precious natural resource. ” y 2010 - Art installation for Emscherkunst2010 Tendré que afinar esa definición de “construcción basta” pero me quedo pensando en el concepto. Porque creo que podría agrupar a más gente que trabaja con conceptos parecidos. (via OOZE - ARCHITECTS/ URBANISTS)

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Really interesting people I dindn’t knew about: Marjetica Potrc and Ooze. And really nice reflection about community gardens as art with meaning to the people… berlinfarmlab: Υesterday I had a meeting with Marjetica Potrc. I invited her together with Ooze Architects, under the coordination of Matthias Rick from Raumlabor, to have a discussion with topic “Art in Use”. The discussion will take place in Bar Babette in Berlin on 23rd of January and it is organized by the Graduate School of the Udk. She told me that community gardens as a form of art have replaced the public sculptures of the past. People need art and need art that they understand. For instance, an abstract public sculpture has gradually lost meaning and became only decoration.Moreover the authorship becomes collaborative and this is linked to another important fact of today which is working together; we have reached complex issues that deamnd sharing of knowledge. “The world is being reorganized by the people themselves”, she said. We talked about the trend of urban farming and that Rem Koolhas turns his back on cities. She shared some nice links with me which I am happy to share with you: ‘Homage to Catalonya II’ - solidary economicsGilles Clement:The Third Landscape Two excerpts of Ekümenopolis (Imre Azem, 2011), a documentary about the explosive expansion of Istanbul:http://vimeo.com/28430328http://vimeo.com/16373087 For more you have to come to the talk.