5.30.2011
5.26.2011
Exhibition at Form/Design Center in Malmö @ the Vernissage
Thank you everyone for a wonderful evening.
Free beer and pretzels always gets the mood right.
We actually had some great guests to the vernissage: sir Peter Cook, Erick Carcamo and Abelardo Gonzalez showed up along with a couple of hundred other beloved.
Free beer and pretzels always gets the mood right.
We actually had some great guests to the vernissage: sir Peter Cook, Erick Carcamo and Abelardo Gonzalez showed up along with a couple of hundred other beloved.
5.25.2011
Exhibition at Form/Design Center in Malmö
Tomorrow, the 26th of May, my old gang is having an exhibition of our bachelors projects, from 2010, in Form/Design Center in Malmö. The vernissage is at 18 p.m.
Me and Marcus Westberg have done the hanging and mounting.
Me and Marcus Westberg have done the hanging and mounting.
5.17.2011
Conceptual Plan of Photobioreactor
As you might remember I'm working on an air-purification system set in a central park, called Altonaparken in Malmö.
The air-purification system I'm using is called a Photobioreactor system. Explained in a easy way, it is a system of water bound algae that eats carbon dioxide and multiplies in mass. Since the algae consists of 40% oil it's harvested from the water and made into bio-diesel and protein. A bonus is that It also creates pure oxygen. In other words: It cleans the air with a lot of valuable "biproducts".
I have been looking for different type of characteristics in the context and found three main types: The meeting between park and water, the enclosed area in-between trees and the open square.
I have tried to do a rational distribution of the system over the three territories, tying them all to the main core, at the square. The tubes connecting all the parts are creating a complex infrastructure, cutting the park into multiple segments.
This drawing is a mix of a diagram, an infrastructural organization and a conceptual site-plan, showing a first outtake for distribution of the program.
Conceptually the form and architectural parts are all products of the function. Since the program has a high level of technicality, I have an ambition to do the drawings in a quite mechanical manner.
The air-purification system I'm using is called a Photobioreactor system. Explained in a easy way, it is a system of water bound algae that eats carbon dioxide and multiplies in mass. Since the algae consists of 40% oil it's harvested from the water and made into bio-diesel and protein. A bonus is that It also creates pure oxygen. In other words: It cleans the air with a lot of valuable "biproducts".
I have been looking for different type of characteristics in the context and found three main types: The meeting between park and water, the enclosed area in-between trees and the open square.
I have tried to do a rational distribution of the system over the three territories, tying them all to the main core, at the square. The tubes connecting all the parts are creating a complex infrastructure, cutting the park into multiple segments.
This drawing is a mix of a diagram, an infrastructural organization and a conceptual site-plan, showing a first outtake for distribution of the program.
Conceptually the form and architectural parts are all products of the function. Since the program has a high level of technicality, I have an ambition to do the drawings in a quite mechanical manner.
5.11.2011
Questioning the line between art and engineering
I know I'm publishing this 4 years after everyone else, but great things have to brought up again. These are some beautiful works of Theo Jansen. What he refers to as Kinetic Sculptures.
5.08.2011
New drawings
These drawings are diagrammatic section drawings, handling the relation between form and function.
I'm still dealing with the Eco-Activism. And here I'm on my way to implement a photobioreactor in a new type of body.
I'm researching how the function can manipulate the form and how these "walls" in the next step can create "rooms".
I'm still dealing with the Eco-Activism. And here I'm on my way to implement a photobioreactor in a new type of body.
I'm researching how the function can manipulate the form and how these "walls" in the next step can create "rooms".
Diagrammatic representation
... without dealing with program or context.
The drawing is a representation of four (just to pick a number) independent units, carrying out a flow both within and in-between the system. They are all born from the same unit and are represented as static transformations, showing a topological diversity. The units are shown as "open" and the system in its whole does the same, representing a invite to the public.
The drawing is a representation of four (just to pick a number) independent units, carrying out a flow both within and in-between the system. They are all born from the same unit and are represented as static transformations, showing a topological diversity. The units are shown as "open" and the system in its whole does the same, representing a invite to the public.
4.28.2011
Murphy and James
What a lovely life it would have been to hang out with these guys
Eddie Murphy feat Rick James - Party All The Time by maxorel
Eddie Murphy feat Rick James - Party All The Time by maxorel
4.22.2011
Eco-Activism vs. Eco-Friendly
The discussions regarding "green architecture" is hot stuff and it has been so for the last few years. So let me join in on the topic! This semester its all about the enviroment for me, but I'm not going to design a Eco-friendly house, that doesn't really interest me at all. I'm more into Eco-activism, the art of "in-your-face-ecology". I want to communicate an active stand for improving the environment, not just designing a non-polluting building.
I think these projects are good examples of eco-activism, whether they are beautiful or not, the buildings (or installations) state themselves as the remedy for the disease the nature carries:
Cloud - An Te Liu
Perth photobioreactor - Emergent
Flower Street Bioreactor - Emergent
Waste Collector Skyscraper
LO2P: Delhi Recycling Center
Water Purification Skyscraper in Jakarta
I think these projects are good examples of eco-activism, whether they are beautiful or not, the buildings (or installations) state themselves as the remedy for the disease the nature carries:
Cloud - An Te Liu
Perth photobioreactor - Emergent
Flower Street Bioreactor - Emergent
Waste Collector Skyscraper
LO2P: Delhi Recycling Center
Water Purification Skyscraper in Jakarta
4.07.2011
Alexander Daxböck
Wonderful, suggestive section and plan drawing of his diploma project Ex Libris
Picture are taken from http://www.florence-expo.com/
Picture are taken from http://www.florence-expo.com/
3.30.2011
Redefining City maps
Paris - Grey | Montpellier - Orange | LeHavre - Purple | Berlin - Red
Pictures are taken from http://umbrellabeast.posterous.com/
Pictures are taken from http://umbrellabeast.posterous.com/
3.29.2011
Malmö's skyline changed yesterday
The Ferris Wheel in Folkets Park, Malmö was deconstructed during last week and now Malmös modest skyline has one less peak.
Cartography Morphology Topology Workshop 4th step | Finished Project
[Text presentation will be provided shortly]
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3.24.2011
Cartography Morphology Topology Workshop 3rd step
The drawings have been sorted out. Some have been thrown away and some have been scaled and rotated to create a composition. This composition is placed on the map but as a new layer. The fact (or should I say paradox) that it is not a part of the map, is very important!
3.23.2011
Cartography Morphology Topology Workshop 2nd step
I'm currently in the middle of a cartoraphy workshop where a cut out of Tokyo is to be examined and reinvented. Not in a classic city planning way. Actually this is pretty damn far from city planning.
We are starting with an close examination of the area in Google Earth, where "interesting" transformations are of great interest. These are in the next step redrawn, by finding the characteristics in each element and/or shape.
