Le travail de Luca Tombolini consiste à photographier des paysages lors de longs voyages en solitaire dans des zones désertiques éloignées. C’est un moyen pour lui de revenir à un état d’esprit plus essentiel, qui lui permet de renouer des liens avec la nature. Attiré depuis des années par la pureté et la simplicité, on retrouve cette sensibilité dans ses photographies, épuré, graphique, avec des couleurs unies. Vous pouvez retrouver le travail de Luca sur son site et sur Instagram.
When I first saw this thing, I was blown away. Moasure is a new type of motion-sensor-based measuring device that makes tape measures look completely primitive and outdated. Imagine needing to measure a span larger than six feet; you need to keep the tape from sagging or kinking in order to get an accurate measurement. But with this motion-based Moasure device, you simply need to register it at one point, then walk over to the end point and register it there. It can also calculate angles.
Check out how it works:
The bit about being able to measure through walls is what really got me. I was doing a freelance project with an interior designer where we had to measure an entire subdivided floor of an office building to create CAD drawings. Measuring the large, open spans was relatively easy with the laser we were using, but measuring the series of enclosed offices on the perimeter, and getting them to reconcile with the overall floorplan, was a pain in the neck as we had to calculate the wall thicknesses, complicated by inconveniently-placed soffets and columns. If we were using Moasure this would have been infinitely easier.
Is there a catch? Of course there is, though I had to dig through the FAQ to find it. The accuracy of the device is listed as “typically better than 0.5%.” To make the math simple:
For Everyone in the World Who Uses a Rational Measuring System:
– For every meter, you’re looking at plus/minus 5mm.
– 10 meters means 5cm of potential error.
For the United States:
– For every six feet, you’re looking at plus/minus about 3/8″.
– 60 feet means 3.6 inches of potential error.
In other words, the device may be good enough for an interior designer measuring a wall on which to hang artwork, or creating rough floorplans of a client’s apartment, to drop furniture into a CAD drawing. It might be useful to a furniture designer/builder trying to get the rough dimensions of boards in a pile of reclaimed lumber.
But it certainly would not be useful in actual fabrication, nor in measuring spaces into which components will be installed. We contacted Curt Meissner of Brooklyn-based MPD Design Build, which designs, builds and installs cabinetry, to ask if he could live with 3/8″ wiggle room over six feet. Here’s his response:
“Never. I’m used to my Hilti laser measure being off by 1/16″ over 15 feet or so. That’s about the limit for me, especially for hard-to-reach areas or for quick diagonal checks to verify square walls, et cetera.”
The technology within the Moasure is clever, and the UX looks great. But in its current iteration, it seems better-suited to DIY’ers and casual users rather than designers who require precision.
Moasure is currently holding a crowdfunding campaign, and I do hope they make it. At press time they were at $17,374 towards a $28,328 goal, with 24 days left to pledge. If you’d like to support them, click here.
Working with Arc’teryx brand Veilance for three years, Taka Kasuga is the Design Director in charge of both maintaining and evolving their apparel. While countless brands are working in the realm of tech-meets-style now, Veilance has been in the game……
Renders show an external steel structure supporting the building and allowing it to cantilever over the Toronto Harbour Commission Building, a six storey building erected on the site in 1917.
“Our design brings together many key elements of our work, including structural steelwork, transparency, and connectivity to the urban fabric around it, to form an office in harmony with its surroundings,” said Graham Stirk, senior partner at Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners.
“We are excited to have this opportunity to design a landmark building for Toronto’s skyline,” continued Stirk.
At 60 stories high, Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners’ commercial skyscraper will be among the tallest buildings in the city. The 72-storey First Canadian Place is both the tallest building in Toronto and Canada.
The British architecture firm was announced as the design competition winners for The HUB, also known as 30 Harbour Bay, in 2017. Built for Oxford Properties the skyscraper will contain 1.4 million square feet of column-free office space.
The HUB acronym is a reference to the towers’ proximity to the Harbour, Union Station, and Bay Street.
In an exclusive interview with Dezeen, founder Richard Rogers discussed his pre-fabricated housing project that was meant to solve the UK’s problem with housing.
Nagami will make its official debut at this year’s Milan design week with four 3D-printed chairs. The collection’s name, Brave New World, is based on the 1930s dystopian novel of the same title by Aldous Huxley.
Bow designed by Zaha Hadid Architects is one of four chairs in the collection
It includes two chairs, Bow and Rise, designed by Zaha Hadid Architects, a stool by British designer Ross Lovegrove called Robotica TM, and the Peeler chair by London architect and designer Daniel Widrig.
“We design products that until now were just waiting for the right technology to come to life: not only objects that you can hold, but also that you can feel and experience as part of your environment,” said Nagami founders Manuel Jimenez García, Miki Jimenez García and Ignacio Viguera Ochoa.
Zaha Hadid Architects’ Bow chair is printed with polylactic acid plastic
For its Bow and Rise chairs, Zaha Hadid Architects explored the natural growth processes that occurs in marine biology, specifically underwater ecosystems and coral formations.
The two chairs are built from polylactic acid plastic – a biodegradable, non-toxic material made from renewable resources like corn-starch, making it both lightweight and sturdy.
Featuring a curved seat supported by a large, singular base, both pieces were 3D-printed with a pellet-extruder, which uses raw plastic particles rather than filaments.
The Rise chair explores the growth processes that occurs in marine biology
While the Bow chair boasts a spectrum of blacks and purples, the Rise chair is formed of a blue base that morphs upwards to white, finished with gold detailing at the top of the seat.
These colour gradients and the unusual patterns they form are intended to redefine the traditional spatial relationship between furniture and its setting, according to the brand.
Rise is one of four 3D-printed chairs in Spanish brand Nagami first collection
Ross Lovegrove combined botany and robotics for his Robotica TM stool, which draws parallels between the “natural programming” found in nature and the artificial manufacturing that occurs in the field of robotics.
The stool was built using a continuous rotational process that causes each layer to fuse together while being stacked on top of each other.
Ross Lovegrove has created a 3D-printed stool for Nagami’s collection
This “rhythmic and inverted” form would be difficult to produce by conventional means, Lovegrove told Dezeen.
With a seat made from heat-proof silicone inserts, the stool can be easily adapted to serve as a table for eating, said the designer. It can also function as a plinth for a TV, or simply as a stand-alone decorative feature in the home.
Lovegrove’s Robotica TM stool is made has heat-proof silicone inserts, meaning it can easily be adapted to be used as a table
It took just a few hours for an industrial robot to 3D-print Widrig’s Peeler chair, which is composed of three pieces of seven millimetre-thick shells of PLA plastic.
Described by the designer as “skin-like”, these three undulating surfaces were assembled to look as if they are “peeling off of an invisible joint body.”
Widrig wanted his product to consume as little machine time and as little material waste as possible, and to “overcome the limits of additive manufacturing.”
Daniel Widrig’s 3D-printed chair is composed of three pieces of PLA plastic
“The chair has been designed to satisfy both the ergonomic constraints of the human body, as well as the ergonomics of the robotic arm that prints it,” said Widrig.
Brave New World takes place during Milan design week from 17 to 22 April 2018. The chairs will be exhibited at Nagami’s pop-up showroom, in the city’s Brera Design District.
Also set to take place at the festival is the annual Norwegian Presence exhibition, which will present a range of new products, sculptural craftwork and iconic designs exploring “the making of modern Norway.”
The recent release of renderings for Bermuda-based Airis Aerospace’s AirisOne vehicle brings us one step closer to zero-emissions personal aircraft of the future. This all-electric, quad-winged aircraft will carry you and 4 friends in complete comfort on short trips between and within close cities… all without a pilot!
Equipped with advanced avionics systems capable of autonomous navigation (hopefully more reliable and safe than Uber’s), dual co-axial lift fans for vertical take-off/landing and a series of eight articulating thrusters, it’s capable of traveling 175 mph up to 200 miles with simple destination inputs from passengers. To show just how serious they are about getting this thing off the ground, Airis co-founder and CEO John Narraway points out that design touches like hidden rotors have been purposefully hidden to calm the nerves of anxious riders. Designed with safety and accessibility in mind, it would also be one of the world’s only wheelchair accessible aircraft.
Le duo de designers Chad et Courtney Ludeman a rénové une résidence moderniste dans le New-Jersey, la transformant en cabane chaleureuse et confortable pour les longues nuits d’hiver. Un atout ressort parmi tous les autres, la façade entièrement vitrée qui permet une véritable immersion dans cette forêt. Les photos ont été prise par Heidi’s Bridge.
Available in three colorways, Sunnylife’s beach pillow makes reading (or snoozing) outdoors comfier. The cover is a heavy 100% combed cotton, while the insert is inflatable and waterproof. Measuring 16 by nine inches, it has a soft velour feel and……
The Allies and Morrison-designed National Archive in Doha, Qatar, is informed by the layout and materiality of the Middle Eastern country’s vernacular architecture.
The archive facility was built as part of the Msheireb Downtown Doha masterplan, which was developed by Allies and Morrison in collaboration with Arup and Aecom.
The National Archive building is designed both as a high-performance storehouse for the Qatar’s archive, and as a welcoming public building on a prominent site at the northeast corner of the Msheireb development.
The building comprises a fragmented collection of volumes, including a central block that rises to create a visible landmark reminiscent of the country’s archetypal coastal watchtowers.
This central tower accommodates the archive stack, and is flanked by a public wing to the north containing the main entrance and reading rooms. Another wing to the south houses offices and conservation facilities.
The volumes wrap around a group of courtyard houses that have been converted into museums. The configuration of the spaces results in a network of alleyways and small squares typical of Qatar’s historic urban fabric.
“The design of the National Archive evolved through our research into the architectural and cultural history of Qatar and a lively dialogue with the team at Msheireb Properties and Qatar Foundation,” Simon Gathercole, a partner at Allies and Morrison, told Dezeen.
“Its architectural language, developed as an intrinsic part of the wider masterplan – looking to the future but also rooted in the past – is a response to a quest for an urban identity which contrasts with the climatically generic glass towers that commonly characterise Gulf cities,” he continued.
“Its interlocking street level spaces are a microcosm of the new district – organically planned, rich in material texture, diverse in scale, shaded and walkable.”
The archive building is entirely clad in stone panels separated by horizontal courses that break up the otherwise homogenous facades, and help to differentiate the various forms.
The facades are interrupted by recessed windows and cavernous openings carved into the stone surfaces at an angle to moderate light and views inside the building.
Allies and Morrison also designed the open-air Eid Prayer Ground to the south of the archive building, which is used by large numbers of congregants during national Eid celebrations.
The Eid Prayer Ground was developed as a sculptural enclosure for the city’s first sustainable cooling plant, which is situated beneath the public square.
Access stairs and vents for the subterranean spaces are incorporated into a wall lining the outdoor space, along with amenities including water fountains and facilities for ablutions.
The London-based studio designed 30 of the nearly 100 buildings that will form the 35-hectare mixed-use area in the historic heart of Doha. The first phase is nearing completion, with all four phases scheduled to be complete by 2022.
The masterplan aims to reinterpret the city’s traditional building typologies in a contemporary way and create shaded, pedestrian-friendly spaces that allow inhabitants to enjoy being outside.
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