Future Architecture Will Be Built From Energy Says Researcher Sean Lally

Nov 3, 2014

Istanbul Design Biennial 2014: buildings of the future won’t have walls and will instead consist of climate-controlled areas of landscape according to Sean Lally, one of the contributing designers at the Istanbul Design Biennial 2014 .

Chicago-based Sean Lally leads a team of architects, landscape architects, engineers and researchers, known as Weathers, who are investigating how different forms of energy can be harnessed to create a type of sustainable architecture.

New Energy Landscapes, the project Lally is presenting at the biennial, proposes a future scenario where energy and heating don’t fill a building envelope, but instead become the envelope.

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“The greatest challenge facing architecture and our broader society today is the need for advancements in harnessing energy,” said Lally, who has spent eight years researching the technologies.

“Rather than continue to focus on maximising efficiency for [energy’s] conservation and consumption, we must provide an architecture with lifestyles for the future that give us new worlds to strive for and realise,” he said.

Lally’s research encompasses energy and material technologies, including electromagnetic, thermodynamic, acoustic and chemical power.

The images shown were created from photographs of physical models that the team has built. They show images of mysterious floating energy sources, hovering above defined floor surfaces.

The designer says this new form of architecture without walls will fundamentally change the ways humans interact with each other and their environments.

“Without this fundamental rethinking between architecture and energy, both will remain to be seen as distinct; architecture as a building of walls and energy as a fuel for filling it,” he said.

“Instead, architecture is at a unique and adventurous stage for questioning and reinforming our definitions of architecture, and the environments and lifestyles they foster.”

Lally has compiled his findings into a book entitled The Air from Other Planets.

He presents New Energy Landscapes at the second Istanbul Design Biennial, which is curated by Zoë Ryan under the theme The Future Is Not What It Used to Be, opened to the public on Saturday and runs until 14 December.

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Physically Bring Your Architecture Projects To Life: Arckit By Damien Murtagh

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Nov 3, 2014

Irish Architect Damien Murtagh took the idea of creativity in architecture to another level when designing Arckit, an ingenious kit that enables everyone to physically bring their ideas to life. Three years in the making, Arckit is a revolutionary freeform Scaled Architectural Model Making Kit based on a real modular housing system that Damien devised. It is a groundbreaking miniaturized version that Architects, Interior Designers, students of architecture and interiors, set designers, model makers and even individuals with their own grand designs can now use to materialize their thoughts in real model format. Have a look at the video below for a better understanding of the project:

The playful and sophisticated “Lego” upgrade requires no measuring, gluing, cutting or sticking. Moreover, Arkit’s patented panel by panel system adheres very much to today’s form of construction. “As designers, when making models, we have always glued materials together that could only ever be used once. Arckit is a zero glue product that can be assembled, dismantled, altered and extended continuously. In addition to the parts, each kit will come with printable adhesive paper and within our website we will have a materials library where you can go to print off lots of images of materials like bricks, stones, wallpaper patterns etc. Therefore the structure’s visual appearance can change both internally and externally”. Arckit will be available to buy at hobby stores and from the Arckit website from mid November with price points ranging between £60 and £180. [Photos and information provided via e-mail by Arckit ]

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Nantes House Extension Contrasts Blackened Wood Facades With Pale Window Frames

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Nov 3, 2014

Pale wooden window frames contrast with the black-stained cedar facades of this extension to a detached house in Nantes by French studio Bertin Bichet Architectes .

The client asked Bertin Bichet Architectes to create a 30-square-metre addition to the French property that would improve the connection between the interior and the garden at the rear.

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Taking their cues from the clients’ fondness for Scandinavian buildings, architects Marjolaine Bichet and Anne Laure Bertin designed a simple structure combining wooden walls with large windows, to make the most of the weak northern light.

“My clients wants a new living space more attuned to their garden,” Bichet told Dezeen.

The project is titled Acajou, after a type of wood that gives its name to a warm reddish brown colour, similar to the exposed cedar window frames.

The architects employed a timber-frame construction method. They chose to clad the extension with cedar boards to help it merge with its garden environs, but stained the walls black to create contrast with the adjacent greenery.

The layout of the original property is typical of the “maison nantaise” houses that are found throughout the city, with a garage facing onto the street and living areas above. Bedrooms are accommodated on the upper level beneath the pitched roof.

The architects introduced a passageway that bisects the house, connecting the extension at the rear to the front door at the top of a set of stairs that ascend from the street.

“The design was about creating different spaces with different levels,” explained Bichet.

Windows scattered across the end wall of the extension fill the new living areas with natural light and offer views out to the garden.

“The openings are frames, looking at remarkable elements of the garden – a stone wall, a fruit tree,” said Bichet.

A narrow window above the glazed door opens onto the garden, creating a full-height opening that enables a view straight through from the entrance.

The central corridor passes an existing study, bathroom, master bedroom and kitchen, and is connected to a new dining room at the same level.

As the corridor emerges into the extension, it culminates in a staircase that descends to a double-height living area with a large picture window on one wall and an elevated window connected to the master bedroom next door.

Skylights above the living room and dining space add to the bright interior and allow residents to look up at the sky.

Chestnut parquet was used throughout the interior to continue the natural detailing.

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Must Followed Tips Interior Planning To Beautify Your Surroundings

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Nov 3, 2014

Interior planning design is a relatively frightening concept or design for many people because of the style and the possibilities. Use the tips that discussed below to design your home to look great. With these usefule tips, you will have a better idea on how you must start to work on your interior design to beautify your surroundings.

You should consider the important function of a room in your house before you start to decorate it. For example, when you decorate your child’s room, apply vibrant colours that match the characteristics of the children who will use the room. Using particular items that have multi purposes could assist you maximize your small space room. Too much furniture and accessories often causes your rooms to look smaller. A better interior planning option is to place only a few appropriate pieces of furniture and accessories with clean lines. This idea will free up your surroundings and beautify your room.

A kitchen look redesign is can be conducted by replacing some old cabinet doors away. You can add some accent pieces in the glass cabinets to show its visual appeal. As discussed earlier, interior planning is not easy job. However, when there is adequate information available, you should not fear to make this design projects. Use the tips above so you can succeeded to beautify your surroundings.

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Daniel Becker Design Studio Creates Furniture From Transportation Pallets

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Nov 3, 2014

Berlin-based Daniel Becker has designed this wooden cabinet for new German startup Kimidori, which makes products exclusively from used industrial pallets .

Daniel Becker’s 45 Series collection includes a stool and a cabinet, both made from the flat wooden structures used to support goods moved with a forklift truck.

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Aiming to move away from the up-cycled aesthetic, he decided not to use the pallets whole and instead work with wooden boards taken from the disassembled transport structures to achieve more conventional forms.

“This is a fairly different approach to what is available on the market so far,” said Daniel Becker. “We wanted to offer an alternative for people who are open to the concept of recycling but do not want the distinctive, rough look such products often have.”

The pallets are taken apart, planed and sanded. The resulting planks are then glued together to make boards, which are arranged into geometric patterns and cut to shape.

“This is all traditional carpentry, so the idea is to use simple, inexpensive technology and craftsmanship and a simple material to create interesting, sustainable pieces with a unique character that are affordable for everybody,” Becker told Dezeen.

Despite Becker’s approach, the boards do show signs of wear due to the way pallets are handled during their first incarnation. Marks are often deeply ingrained into the wood and are therefore still visible after grinding.

“We decided to emphasise and present these signs of use and the characteristic grain of the pine wood by arranging the boards in geometric patterns of 45 and 90 degrees to each other,” said the designer.

“The inspiration for these patterns originated in the observation of how wooden houses, doors and panelling have been decorated in northern and eastern Europe for centuries. These elements are exposed to the elements outdoors and become more vivid over time, which seemed to us a warm and positive example of the ageing process of timber.”

Daniel Becker’s previous projects include a collection of wall lamps based on the patterns of crystalline structures and a set of ceramic tiles that enable stoves to give off more heat.

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