Check out the Metal Shutter Houses designed by Shigeru Ban in NYC, an 11-story box with a retractable skin of perforated metal shutters. Ban took his cue from the roll-down gates that used to be prevalent in the area. But here, they have the quality of privacy screens — diaphanous metal scrims that can be individually raised and lowered. If the southern façade offers a protective barrier from curious passers-by, the northern exterior wall provides complete exposure with bifold doors – typically used in airplane hangars — that open completely to the outdoors. (via fastcodesign)

 

Check out the Metal Shutter Houses designed by Shigeru Ban in NYC, an 11-story box with a retractable skin of perforated metal shutters.

Ban took his cue from the roll-down gates that used to be prevalent in the area. But here, they have the quality of privacy screens — diaphanous metal scrims that can be individually raised and lowered. If the southern façade offers a protective barrier from curious passers-by, the northern exterior wall provides complete exposure with bifold doors – typically used in airplane hangars — that open completely to the outdoors.

(via fastcodesign)

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Weinstein A|U designed the new 12,000 sqf building for Gregg’s Cycles to be a pure neutral container that highlights the bicycle. It was conceived as an elevated steel box that is supported structurally and programmatically by a CMU perimeter zone. The small site and its limited access challenged the ability to have street level retail and parking, which led to the solution of lifting the primary retail spaces above the street level, thereby creating covered vehicle parking below the store. Additionally, the building features an integrated bicycle display and facade system — the bikewall — that allows the bicycles themselves to define the image and character of the building from the interior and exterior. The steel box is cantilevered out toward the street, pushing the bikewall toward Bellevue Way to further emphasize the articulation of the steel box and CMU, while also establishing the primacy of the bicycle in the facility. (via archdaily)

Weinstein A|U designed the new 12,000 sqf building for Gregg’s Cycles to be a pure neutral container that highlights the bicycle. It was conceived as an elevated steel box that is supported structurally and programmatically by a CMU perimeter zone.

The small site and its limited access challenged the ability to have street level retail and parking, which led to the solution of lifting the primary retail spaces above the street level, thereby creating covered vehicle parking below the store.

Additionally, the building features an integrated bicycle display and facade system — the bikewall — that allows the bicycles themselves to define the image and character of the building from the interior and exterior. The steel box is cantilevered out toward the street, pushing the bikewall toward Bellevue Way to further emphasize the articulation of the steel box and CMU, while also establishing the primacy of the bicycle in the facility.

(via archdaily)

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Marc Fornes is the founder and principal of THEVERYMANY a design studio and collaborative research forum engaging the field of architecture via what he qualifies as “Explicit and Encoded protocols.” His construct Aperiodic Symmetries was completed at the University of Calgary in January 2009. It’s overall size is 6.3 x 2.5 x3 and compiled of 1640 parts, 757 unique star connections, 883 panels, and 30 sheets of Polyethylene. It took a team of eight people 72 hours to put together this amazing piece.  (via notcot)

Marc Fornes is the founder and principal of THEVERYMANY a design studio and collaborative research forum engaging the field of architecture via what he qualifies as “Explicit and Encoded protocols.” His construct Aperiodic Symmetries was completed at the University of Calgary in January 2009. It’s overall size is 6.3 x 2.5 x3 and compiled of 1640 parts, 757 unique star connections, 883 panels, and 30 sheets of Polyethylene. It took a team of eight people 72 hours to put together this amazing piece. 

(via notcot)

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The city district Amsterdam Osdorp recently merged with Slotervaart and Geuzenveld-Slotermeer and was given the name Amsterdam Nieuw-West. This change also meant the end of 20 years of restructuring urbanized areas. To celebrate everything achieved, Martijn Hogenkamp and company created an intriguing video, ‘The Metamorphosis of Osdorp,’ that gives an overview of the architectural highlights they found the most characteristic.

Says Hogenkamp, “Restructuring urbanized areas isn’t all about aesthetics. That is why we chose to put emphasis on the architects and especially it’s inhabitants and the surrounding of the buildings. To achieve this, we decided to combine live action video with 2D- and 3D-animation. Herewith we were able to complement reality with our interpretation of the most important factors of restructuring urbanized areas.”

(via @vimeo)

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Austin-based architecture student Daniel Morrison created this modular paneling system created using die-cut pieces of scrap cardboard. The project was recently installed as part of the Art City Austin festival. The design makes use of small star shaped pieces of cardboard that are slotted together and folded to provide structure. these individual pieces can be assembled into any size collection. The resulting  patchwork creates a graphical pattern that comes about randomly from the pr-existing patterns on the boxes. By digitizing each pattern, the assemblages can even be strategically assembled to create images or messages.   (via @designboom)

Austin-based architecture student Daniel Morrison created this modular paneling system created using die-cut pieces of scrap cardboard. The project was recently installed as part of the Art City Austin festival. The design makes use of small star shaped pieces of cardboard that are slotted together and folded to provide structure. these individual pieces can be assembled into any size collection. The resulting  patchwork creates a graphical pattern that comes about randomly from the pr-existing patterns on the boxes. By digitizing each pattern, the assemblages can even be strategically assembled to create images or messages.  

(via @designboom)

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In a triumph of art, science and architecture, Argentine artist Tomás Saraceno’s site-specific exhibit “14 Billion” scales a Black Widow’s web up to magnificent proportions. Currently on display at Stockholm’s Bonniers Konsthall, 14 Billion is an extension of the work he showed at the 2009 Venice Biennale called “Galaxy Forming along Filaments, like Droplets along the Strands of a Spider’s Web.”  (via @coolhunting)

In a triumph of art, science and architecture, Argentine artist Tomás Saraceno’s site-specific exhibit “14 Billion” scales a Black Widow’s web up to magnificent proportions. Currently on display at Stockholm’s Bonniers Konsthall, 14 Billion is an extension of the work he showed at the 2009 Venice Biennale called “Galaxy Forming along Filaments, like Droplets along the Strands of a Spider’s Web.”

 (via @coolhunting)

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