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ÉCAL graduate Sebastian Maluska has created a simple rooftop tent that can be fitted to the roof of any car.

Maluska, who studied product design at Ecole cantonale d’art de Lausanne (ÉCAL) in Renens, Switzerland, created his tent for adventurous young people who want to travel on a budget, or go to remote areas.

“I spend a lot of time outside doing sport like skiing and surfing,” said Maluska. “It is always nice to be the first on the mountain or the first in the water. Therefore I have to sleep right at the spot.”

The rooftop tent design was inspired by the materials used in sail boats. It is created from two light-weight aluminium frames covered with waterproof sailing fabric.

When it is open the Nest tent provides sleeping space for two people.

A ladder is stored in a fabric pocket under the sleeping surface of the tent and can be pulled out and hooked on either side of the structure. The tent itself can be accessed through zip-openings on both sides.

When closed, the tent forms an aerodynamics shape and can be used as a rooftop storage space.

“Of course there are already existing tents to put on cars,” said Maluska.

“But they are constructed in very ornate ways, which makes them heavy, very expensive and – because of their bulky construction – very fuel consuming.”

Maluska worked to produce a new tent that used as little material as possible, making it much more simple and affordable.

For inspiration he looked to the sailing world. During the Volvo Ocean Race, he saw images of sailors sleeping inside a boat with surfaces made up almost entirely of fabric. He decided to base his design on the technology used by these boats.

The fabric itself acts as a structural element, while its combination with rope makes it a comfortable surface to sleep on.

Maluska tested his 1:1 prototype on a two night trip into the mountains. His trip tested the comfort of the sleeping surface and the aerodynamics of the tent on the roof, as well as the opening mechanism and the proportions of then structure. He confirmed it all to be satisfying.

“The sleeping surface was really comfortable and because the tent is detached from the floor, there was no moisture in it. I slept with the side windows open so I could see the stars.”

German designer Nils Holger Moormann recently transformed a Volkswagen T6 bus into a mobile home, while a Colorado startup has released a modern take on a classic American RV.

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For the better part of the decade, we’ve seen social networks help bind the world closer together. People who otherwise wouldn’t know or talk to each other are doing so, and while emotions may be mixed about platforms giving people a place to connect, convene, and converse, they’ve done more for collective humanity online, rather than for personal relationships offline. Social networks have taken our daily lives and put them on the public forum, but there are a few aspects of relationships that need to stay private, away from the eye of the world, away from the need for social validation… and Talsam is here to foster that.

Think of Talsam as being a tech enhancement for your emotional connection with your loved one. The wearable and app connect two wearers together, allowing them to stay in touch on a platform that’s designed to fortify one-on-one relationships, rather than be a ‘social platform’. Combining a wearable and an app, the Talsam ecosystem lets two people be in touch through the power of technology, focusing on the bond and the emotion behind it. The wearable looks like a piece of jewelry or a charm, sitting on your wrist or around your neck. It connects to your phone, allowing you to stay in touch with your relative, partner, or friend who’s wearing the Talsam too. Bound together with the Talsam app, the wearable acts as a notification machine, lighting up beautifully through its Swarovski crystals everytime the other person sends you a message or a notification. The app facilitates chatting and sending messages/images through an encrypted system, ensuring that the conversation stays between the two people. Images stay encrypted too, and tapping a button on the Talsam wearable unlocks the media, acting as an offline key of sorts.

Designed not to build relationships (like Facebook, Instagram, Tinder, etc.) but to enhance the ones that matter, the Talsam even comes with an emergency SOS feature that lets you ping your loved one with a distress message and geolocation. It enables private conversations and even video-chats through the app, allowing the wearable to bind the experience together and act as a real-world charm for a relationship that may be online. Perfect for long-distance relationships, or regular relationships looking to use technology to keep in touch, the Talsam is exactly what IoT needs. Not connecting gadgets together, not collating your data online for corporations, or pushing your private life into the public domain for social validation. Talsam uses tech to keep intimate relations intimate, and special moments special.

Designers: Chipp’d & Leadoff Studio

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Talsam is a stylish charm that lights up when its wearer receives a message and lets its wearer send SOS alerts with their location.

A truly personal gift for a loved one. It’s smart jewelry you can use to let them know you’re thinking about them, exchange private messages, and get notified if they need help.

Talsam offers two people an intimate way to communicate. When you give​ one to​ someone, you transform the way you stay in touch with them.

The person wearing the charm can:

– Get light and vibration alerts when they receive a message
– Send an SOS alert with their location by holding down a button for 5 seconds
– Unlock private messages by pressing a button

The person that gifted the charm can: ​

– Send private messages to its wearer ​
– Receive an SOS alert with its wearer’s location

The New York City based design team spent months carefully constructing every aspect of the charm to ensure that it offers wearability and style.

They handpicked semi-precious stones as the main accent of the charm and adorned them with Swarovski crystals to add elegance to the overall look.

Talsam is for anyone looking for a better way to stay connected with someone they love, whether it’s a friend, family member, or romantic partner.

FEATURES

Send Messages That Light Up a Loved One’s Life

Express your love in a video, photo, voice note or text message, or choose from a collection of animated emojis. Send any type of message using the app and the charm lights up like a shooting star.

Receive an SOS Alert That Includes The Wearer’s Location

A loved one can send you an SOS alert by holding down a button on the side of the charm for 5 seconds. The charm vibrates to confirm that the alert was sent. You instantly receive an email and SMS containing their location, along with an automated phone call.

Send Private Messages That Are Unlocked By The Charm

You can mark any message you send the person wearing the charm as a private message. The wearer then has to press a button on the charm to authenticate their identity before the message is displayed in the app.

THE MOBILE APP

They approached the app as if it was a standalone product and designed it to offer an intimate experience even without the charm. The end result is a full-featured messaging app built to support your most precious relationships.

Capture, Share, Cherish, And Relive Special Moments

Tag a message you receive according to how it makes you feel, choosing from five emotions: amused, happy, loved, optimistic, and thankful.

Replay old messages based on how they made you feel in the past. So, if you’re ever feeling blue, just tap on a random happy moment and turn that frown upside down.

THE CHARM

They explored an array of semi-precious and man-made stone options before picking the final six, each of which has its own unique set of properties.

Amazonite is a soothing stone that is thought to have a calming effect and an array of healing qualities. Some say that it boosts loving communication and even has the potential to empower you to discover your truth.

Black Sardonyx is a stone of protection and strength. It is said that the Ancient Greeks and Romans believed Sardonyx rewarded its wearer with true love and faithfulness. Wearing this stone is thought to attract friends and fortune.

Gray Agate is known as a grounding stone that harmonizes the mind, body, and soul. It has been used for healing as far back as Babylon and it was considered so powerful in Medieval times that tying it to the horns of oxen was thought to yield a plentiful harvest.

Lapis Lazuli has been sought after for its protective qualities for centuries. The sarcophagus of King Tutankhamen was lined with this stone and it is said that Michelangelo grounded it up into powder and used it to paint the Sistine Chapel. Lapis is thought to shield its wearer from harm and bestow them with wisdom, truth, and understanding.

They added six Swarovski crystals to the stone face laid out like the Lyra Constellation, a group of stars associated with music and love. Stainless was chosen for its durability and hypoallergenic properties, and applied gold-plating with a protective PVD coating.

There’s even a USB connector hidden inside Talsam that can be plugged into a power source, your computer, or even your smartphone.

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

OPTIONS

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“Buildings are one of the largest consumers of global resources and all energy produced,” writes a group of researchers and designers at MIT Architecture, “and are primary contributors to greenhouse gases and solid wastes. At moment when the built environment is faced with dramatic shifts, the need for energy-intelligent building prototypes is more significant than ever.” The group in question comprises an MIT design workshop called Mass Timber Design, which is combining an old form factor with new(ish) materials technology in hopes of reducing waste.

Mass Timber Design has focused on the longhouse, an architectural form factor that everyone from Native Americans to Vikings to church architects have all traditionally erected. “The longhouse is a building type common to historic settlements across the world and through history, finding use in the Americas, Asia, and Europe. Longhouses served many functions for these historic communities, but were almost always civic or multi-family in scale. They were often places of community gathering, civil government, communal work, and an overall space for knowledge exchange.”

MTD’s reimagined longhouse design uses timber LVL (laminated veneer lumber) for the interior supporting arches, as they can span a large distance without requiring a massive amount of material. Though thin-walled, the triangular profile of the arches is sturdy enough for the task. The “sawtooth” roof design is meant to be tuned and oriented according to the site, maximizing clerestory value and solar panel placement. All components are meant to be prefabricated and modular.

Here’s the walkthrough:

The workshop envisions the Longhouse as being used for “a range of event scenarios from co-working, exercise classes, social mixers, exhibitions, dinner gatherings and lectures.”

Düsseldorf-based Ingenhoven Architects and Australian practice Architectus have won a competition to design a 79-storey skyscraper for Sydney, set to become the city’s tallest residential building.

The architects won the invited competition to design the tower at 505-523 George Street, in downtown Sydney, from a shortlist that included SOM, Wilkinson Eyre, Foster + Partners, FJMT and Bates Smart. It is being built for developers Mirvac and the Coombes Property Group.

With a height of 270 meters, the tower will stand taller than any of the city’s current buildings, surpassed only by the 309-metre high Sydney Tower observation point.

However it will be beaten to the title of Sydney’s tallest building by Crown Sydney, a casino resort designed by Wilkinson Eyre, which is under construction and set to be 271 metres tall when it completes in 2021.

“The winning entry is a 79-storey signature tower, which, as the highest residential building in Sydney, will be a profoundly visible landmark standing for an economical, environmental and socially sustainable, future-oriented development,” said Ingenhoven Architects in a statement.

The slender tower will contain 480 apartments, behind a single-skin facade with external sun-shading devices between each storey. On the north facade, these devices will incorporate photovoltaic panels.

Greenery will feature in many areas of the skyscraper. For example, the 35th and 64th floors will boast communal areas with open balconies, complete with trees that will be visible on the building’s facade.

The tower will also be topped by a roof garden, while a three-storey building adjoining the skyscraper – containing a supermarket, shops, a childcare centre and cinema – will also have a large green roof.

At the front of the building, a small plaza will be protected by a glazed windscreen.

“[We are] designing a tower which will be highly integrated in the existing surroundings and offer a great public domain,” said Christoph Ingenhoven, founder of Ingenhoven Architects.

“This urban approach is based on the philosophy of a well-connected public and conceives of the tower as being a ‘friendly neighbour’.”

Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners recently completed three new skyscrapers in Sydney, at the nearby Barangaroo development. Grimshaw is also planning a new high-rise in the city, to create office space to appeal to the “millennial worker”.

Visualisations are by Doug and Wolf.

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Narcissus Garden est la dernière installation de Yayoi Kusama, basée à Rockaway, dans le Queens, un endroit vacancier où les citadins en quête de repos de la vie de la métropole se réfugient en été. Jusqu’au 3 septembre, ils auront donc l’occasion de visiter cette oeuvre dans l’ancien hangar à trains de Fort Tilden. Il s’agit d’un regroupement répétitif de 1500 sphères en acier produisant des effets de miroir. En se promenant, les spectateurs peuvent admirer leur image scintillante à répétition mais aussi le hangar délabré, détruit par un ouragan. Une métaphore subtile qui évoque le mythe de Narcisse et les dangers de la vanité.