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ImagineHouse by A.Masow Design Studio

A concrete house designed to balance over the edge of a hillside in Kazakhstan is the latest addition to our series of stories featuring photo-realistic renderings (+ slideshow).

ImagineHouse by A. Masow Design Studio

Named ImagineHouse, the one-room residence is designed by A.Masow Design Studio for a woodland area located 15 kilometres outside of Almaty, Kazakhstan’s largest city.

“The customer required a home that will be isolated from the noise, dirty air and bustle of the city,” explained architect Almasov Aibek.

ImagineHouse by A. Masow Design Studio

Clear glass walls will surround the building, sandwiched between a pair of thick concrete slabs for the floor and roof. Wooden louvres positioned over the glass will offer shading and some privacy.

ImagineHouse by A. Masow Design Studio

Solar panels will be fitted to the roof to provide electricity, while rainwater will be collected and stored beneath the house so that it can be purified and recycled.

ImagineHouse by A. Masow Design Studio

Almasov Aibek modelled the building in 3ds Max during the design process, then used Adobe Photoshop to create the life-like presentation images. “I mentally lived in this project for several days,” he told Dezeen.

Other projects we’ve published featuring hyper-realistic renderings include designs for a timber-clad home in England and an office block in Paris.

ImagineHouse by A. Masow Design Studio

Professional visualiser Henry Goss recently told Dezeen that “the addition of real world imperfections” is making it difficult to tell the difference between renderings and photographs, while architect Magnus Ström claims that investing in quality CGI is “more effective than advertising”.

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Wanted: Art and Photo Intern Who Gets Lucky

As those charming French robots have been reminding us lately, “We’ve come too far to give up who we are / So let’s raise the bar and our cups to the stars”—and our professional sights to the most shopping-obsessed corner of Planet Conde Nast. That would be Lucky, where newly installed editor-in-chief and “nail art” aficionado Eva Chen is all about a $250 holographic leather baseball cap for fall.

Whether you’re up all night to get some or just for good fun, the hunt is on for an art and photo intern who gets Lucky. The magazine about shopping is in the market for “a junior or senior at a U.S. college or university majoring in graphic design, photography, or studio art, with an interest in multimedia, fashion, current editorial and historical photography, and with strong communication and interpersonal skills.”

Learn more about this art and photo intern, Lucky job or view all of the current Mediabistro design, art, and photo jobs.

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Dancing Ghosts

Dancing ghosts est un projet du photographe Micaël Reynaud qui a pris des clichés du groupe pendant tout une journée en utilisant un temps d’exposition long et a ensuite créé un film à partir de ces photographies. Le résultat est impressionnant tant les personnages semblent irréels et à la fois sortis d’un autre temps.

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Numb music video by Henning Lederer for Max Cooper

Dezeen Music Project: our featured music video this week is an animation for techno producer Max Cooper’s track Numb, which depicts the pressures of modern life in the style of an infographic. 

Numb music video by Henning Lederer for Max Cooper

Juxtaposing glitchy drums and bass lines with a freestyle jazz vocal by Kathrin deBoer of Belleruche, Numb is the lead track on Max Cooper’s Conditions Two EP, released earlier this year.

“I wanted to make something quite deep and intense, to create an almost numbing experience by overloading [the listener] with the details on the drums and big, noisy drops,” Cooper told Dezeen. “I was trying to numb by intensity, musically.”

Numb music video by Henning Lederer for Max Cooper

Cooper approached German animator Henning Lederer to produce the video for the release after seeing Lederer’s MA project, an animated representation of a machine called Machinatorium.

For the Numb video, Lederer added the running figure of a man to the centre of the machine, surrounded by whirring cogs and pistons.

Numb music video by Henning Lederer for Max Cooper

“I thought that infographic style would work really well if we applied the concept to a man numbed by the capitalist machine,” Cooper explained.

“Whenever I write a piece of music I’m always trying to communicate some sort of idea and the addition of the visual aspect is a way of strengthening the communication of that idea.”

Numb music video by Henning Lederer for Max Cooper

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Story Tower by RTU International Architecture Summer School

This timber structure clad in recycled food packaging houses a temporary library and book exchange and was designed and built by architecture students in Cēsis, Latvia (+ slideshow).

Story Tower by RTU International Architecture Summer School

Summer school students and tutors from Riga Technical University (RTU) modelled the Story Tower on a giant wooden lamp, creating a sheltered destination for people to duck inside and find something to read.

Story Tower by RTU International Architecture Summer School

Shelves are integrated within the tapered walls and are filled with books on the lowest levels, placing them at easy-reaching height for visitors.

Story Tower by RTU International Architecture Summer School

Students spent two weeks designing the miniature library and built it over three and a half days using reclaimed materials.

Story Tower by RTU International Architecture Summer School

The frame and floor were made from locally-sourced soft timber, while recycled Tetra Pak juice cartons were folded, cut and mounted to create the waterproof roof shingles.

Story Tower by RTU International Architecture Summer School

Students attached a total of 2250 shingles to pre-fabricated panels, then carried them to the site along with the wooden frames.

Story Tower by RTU International Architecture Summer School

Now complete, the book exchange is stocked with unwanted books from a local library that is currently undergoing a refurbishment.

Story Tower by RTU International Architecture Summer School

“We sought to use the locally established concept of a free book exchange to create a dialogue between diverse groups and individuals of the town,” said the design team. “[It is] a place where books can be deposited before making a journey, exchanged after finishing a journey or simply borrowed while waiting for a bus.”

Story Tower by RTU International Architecture Summer School

The structure is semi-permanent and will stay in the town square until the main library re-opens in 18 months time.

Story Tower by RTU International Architecture Summer School

“The tower’s location is the precise point where local shifts taking place within the town are most visible,” the team added, referring to its position between the train station, bus terminus and library.

Story Tower by RTU International Architecture Summer School

Another student project on Dezeen that you access from underneath is a cinema in Portugal that you stick your head inside.

Story Tower by RTU International Architecture Summer School

Other temporary buildings built by students include a giant wooden cocoon in a park in Kent, a wedge-shaped wooden pavilion with water and stepping stones and a pod-shaped woodland retreat.

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The Story Tower

The Story Tower is the built result of the Building Works Unit run by Theodore Molloy, Niklavs Paegle and Thomas Randall-Page during two weeks in August at the RTU International Architecture Summer school, Cēsis, Latvia 2013.

Designed and built with 9 students, the Story Tower sits in the small city of Cēsis in a busy square between the train and bus station and the civic library and is built intirely from locally sourced and recycled materials – Timber and Tetra-Pak.

Story Tower by RTU International Architecture Summer School

We sought to use the locally established concept of a free book exchange to create a dialogue be- tween diverse groups and individuals of the town. A place where books could be deposited before making a journey, exchanged after finishing a journey or simply borrowed whilst waiting for a bus. The tower’s location is the precise point where local shifts taking place within the town are most visi- ble. It is the front door step of Cēsis where the rhythm of the town is most exposed.

The form of the building was conceived as an urban scale lamp, providing light and a place to read 24 hours a day. During winter when day light is short the tower will act as an illuminated external reading room. The building is semi perminent and is designed to stand until the library re-opens in its refurbished premises in 18 months time.

The 2 week workshop guides students through an accelerated production process, compressing local research, brief development, conceptualising, designing, detailing, fabrication, construction, and use in to only two weeks. The workshop allows students to understand the implications of actions early in the design process by feeling their effects first hand.

Story Tower by RTU International Architecture Summer School
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The Story Tower itself was designed at the beginning of the second week and constructed in three and a half days. It is comprised of three simple elements: a floor to welcome people in, a book shelf structure, and upon this a roof/lampshade to shelter the user.

The floor and structure are from locally sourced soft wood and the cladding is made form Tetra Pak shingles, a material more commonly used for milk cartons. Our workshop was donated a 100kg roll of tetra pack that was damaged and therefore unusable for cartons however we saw huge potential in the material as it is designed to be water proof and is easy to fold, cut and fix.

The team spent a day making 1:1 scale silver origami mock-ups exploring how we could best use the material reflecting light, creating openings, and most importantly shedding water. All 2250 shingles were individually hand made buy the students and fixed to prefabricated panels before they were carried to the site along with the prefabricated frame elements. This streamlined process allowed the team to construct a building with just two days spent on site.

The team also built a relationship with the local library and its staff who are currently undergoing an overhaul of their premises and stock and are in the process of refurbishing the existing library. Through conversation the director agreed to stock the book exchange from their unwanted books and to maintain the structure for the future as a public library out-post. The concept of a book ex- change also links into a local problem whereby many people, particularly of the older generation, have collections of books that they no longer want.

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In a post-internet age books find themselves between intrinsic worth and monetary irrelevance, many are both as valuable as ever but with out resale value. The Story tower was designed to celebrate the individual reader and the notion of sharing and exchange.

Viewed from a distance the population of Cēsis, like many regional towns across Europe, can be seen to be shrinking. When viewed close-up however, this local shift has a more human dimension. What emerges is a small but important flow of newcomers to the town bringing new ideas, stories and ventures. The Tower, at the interchange of these diverse groups stands as a monument for the stories brought by new arrivers and the long survivors of Cēsis.

Tutors: Theodore Molloy, Niklavs Paegle, Thomas Randall-Page
Students: Artūrs Tols (LV), Christof Nichterlein (DE), Dumitru Eremciuc (MD), Natascha Häutle (DE), Rūta Austriņa (LV), Signe Pelne (LV), Tanja Diesterhof (DE), Ulkar Orujova (AZ), Zoe Katsamani (GR).

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