Sep 30
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Sep 30
Bye, Bye Big Needles
Posted in: diabetes, diabetic, insulinKrystalin is an award winning medical design that introduces a new concept of next-gen disposable insulin delivery that aims to ease and simplify the process for diabetic patients. It’s easy to administer and track doses, but the biggest improvement by far is the elimination of the large needle component altogether. Hit the jump to see how it works!
Krystalin uses an array of crystal insulin which are grown into micro needles of size 450–550 microns over thin films. These non-invasive insulin patches (size 1cm x 1cm, equivalent to 10 units of insulin) are pain free and comparable to the mosquitoes needle sizes and can be used by both type1 and type2 diabetes. Once this patch is applied on to the skin, the crystal shaped insulin crystal gets dissolved and affects the patient immediately at subcutaneous level. The needles of the patch after being dissolved become blunt and can be disposed as it is no longer a bio waste.
Designer: Tawfik Manham, Arjun Raj Kumar and Sushant Darake
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Sep 30
A New Approach to Post-Disaster Recovery
Posted in: UncategorizedThe Prattsville Art Center will be the new cultural hub for the town of Prattsville, New York, and surrounding area, bringing together selected artists with residents of the historic Catskills town which was severely damaged by Hurricane Irene in 2011. The project focuses on the restoration of a 2,000 sq-ft historic building damaged by the flood in addition to an entirely new structure for housing artist residencies and workshops.
Apart from its cultural mission, another goal of the center is to empower Prattsville to develop and implement recovery plans for future weather disasters. Designed as a flood-resistant structure, another important role the building can play is serving as a public emergency shelter, aiding evacuations or simply as assembly spot for large groups of people, owing to its open plan.
The new building will be a freestanding, three-story structure built in a revealing steel frame that accentuates its lightness and holds together all the other architectural elements made of wood and glass panels. A striking design feature will be its elevation from the ground on pilotis, or stilts, creating a ground-floor loggia in order to maximize the space of a very limited plot of land and meet the local building code and floodplain management regulations requiring new construction to be elevated from the ground.
Slated to house interlocking art studios and a residency for visiting artists, the Center is designed to be a modern, live-work environment filled with natural light and an open, column-free interior for maximum flexibility where art and architecture complement each other. The studios are divided by floor-to-ceiling folding or sliding partitions, opening up the space in order to host exhibitions and events, which can serve community assemblies and meetings as well.
The façades are articulated by sliding wooden panels of a solar shading louver system which reveal — when opened — the glass skin of the building underneath. They also function to make the building as translucent or opaque to its surroundings, depending on the desired level of privacy. The shudders totally close and secure the building, protecting it from various weather conditions. It’s like a showcase glass box filled with light while contained by a wooden skin that it alternately sheds or redresses itself according to the inhabitants’ needs.
A large solarium on the rooftop level extends and maximizes the ground space for recreational outdoor activities. A major design feature of the roof will be its retractable window system, consisting of panels constructed to open and close by sliding within the roof. The operable roof pitch, sheltering the rooftop deck, is just one continuous line shaping the structure from the second floor up.
The creation of a courtyard between the old and new buildings is part of the plan for the center, acting as a piazza-inspired gathering point for recreational and cultural activities for the whole community. The piazza will include the striking, multifunctional architectural feature of a rotating steel frame connected to the new building within a triangular shaped light structure that can be used as a support for a film screen, as well art installations or banners. Staged performance events, such as dance or theater works, can utilize the frame as sort of sculptural, abstract proscenium.
The paving of the square adjacent the building is divided into five, inclined triangular sections designed to integrate raised bed planters for vegetable and herb gardens. It can be occasionally covered with a lid surface to accommodate audience members during events or just for weather protection. It will also channel and collect rainwater in an underground water tank — water which can serve the whole center and irrigate the garden.
The disaster-recovery nature of this initiative makes the project timely and relevant from both a design perspective as well as an environmental one, in a time when American institutions are still assessing how to identify a type of architecture that might respond to and prevent future disasters related to climate change.
his initiative also raises another issue on how to reinvigorate an area affected by disaster on a socio-economic level. The art center is aimed at bringing energy and community to an economically depressed rural area, addressing various socioeconomic issues by offering programs designed to demonstrate the role art and architecture can play in the town’s revitalization.
Designer: Andrea Salvini
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Sep 30
Compact balconies puncture the solid white facade of this social housing block in Mallorca by Spanish architects RipollTizon (+ slideshow).
RipollTizon designed the building for low income families in Palma de Mallorca’s Pere Garau neighbourhood. It contains 18 apartments, ranging between 35 and 68 square metres, and includes a mixture of one, two and three bedroom apartments.
The corner block forms a six-storey tower, but drops down to three storeys on one side to meet the height of surrounding buildings.
“The result is a solid column with excavated voids where the openings are presented as scenes stacked upon each other,” said architect Pablo Garcia.
The building is divided into two different halves – separating apartments for rent from those for sale. Each side have its own entrance, with separate elevators and staircases with perforated brickwork screens.
The apartments have simple interiors, with white walls and tiled floors, plus each one has its own private balcony.
“The excavated terraces are the intermediate elements that relate interior and exterior while offering a private scenery that is built-in the facade of each dwelling,” added Garcia.
The building replaces a former block of courtyard houses. It sits on a base of grey blockwork and gently projects out towards the street.
Other residential projects by RipollTizon include another social housing project with identical doors and windows and an extension to a traditional family house in Mallorca. See more RipollTizon projects »
Other social housing projects on Dezeen include an apartment with balconies shapes like greenhouses, tower blocks referencing the 1960s and an apartment block clad in green plastic panels.
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Photography is by José Hevia.
Here’s a project description from the architects:
Social Housing in Palma
The project is located in ‘Pere Garau’ neighbourhood. The area was formerly characterised by blocks of single family houses with inner courtyards that followed a typical grid plan. Once the district became central in the city, amendments to the urban planning increased the building volumes significantly and changed the typology to collective housing.
The project takes part of this transformation by redefining a corner plot, resulting from the addition of two former houses, into a new public housing building. The building is conceived according to the new volume specified by the urban planning and playing within its established rules: building depth and cantilevers to the street (of which half of its total permitted area can be enclosed by walls).
The proposal takes advantage of this situation to generate the mechanisms needed to link the housing with their immediate surroundings through controlled openings ‘excavated’ in the building mass. The result is a solid volume with ‘excavated’ voids, where the openings are presented as scenes stacked upon each other.
A small universe of stories organised under no apparent order, and whose arrangement emerges from the dialogue that the building establishes with its urban context. The different rooms of the houses are arranged along a central stripe containing the service areas. The excavated terraces are the intermediate elements that relate interior and exterior while offering a private scenery that is built-in the facade of each dwelling.
Client: Institut Balear de l’Habitatge – IBAVI (Balearic Public Housing Institute)
Location: Capità Vila St. – Can Curt St. Palma de Mallorca
Architects: Pep Ripoll – Juan Miguel Tizón
Project area:2.816,55 metres squared
Budget: 1.156.320,90 EUR
Start of design: 2008
Year of completion: 2012
Collaborators: Pablo García (architect) and Luis Sánchez (architect)
Quantity surveyor: Toni Arqué
Structural engineer: Jorge Martin
Building services: David Mulet
Contractors: Contratas y Obras S.A.
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Sep 30
Beijing Design Week 2013: Studio LL Launches with Du Pin & Drum Stools at Caochangdi
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Once again, the Caochangdi Artist’s Village is hosting several BJDW ongoings, and the Red Bricks cluster of studio/gallery spaces is home to several installations, events and initiatives in conjunction with the weeklong festival. Naihan Li, best known for her CRATES series from 2011, led us on an informal tour of her neighborhood—indeed, the ever-charismatic architect/designer-turned-curator/producer has duly assumed the role of village ambassador since she established her studio there several years ago. For Beijing Design Week, she offered her sizable live/work space for a handful of local and international exhibitors. In addition to work by Dutch photographers, a German fashion designer and techno-fabric designer Elaine Ng (more on her later) on the first floor, Li’s home is also the venue for furniture and photos by the newly-formed Studio LL. Co-founder Fai Lau explained that the “Du Pin”—literally “unique products,” but also a homonym for “drugs”—are an extension of his work as a vintage furniture purveyor and interior designer. The simple concept allows for unpretentious execution of reclaimed and repurposed pieces.
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Sep 30
Scarf with hidden pockets
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Sep 30
Breast shampoo dispenser
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