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GEOtube Faulders Studio
Vertical Salt Deposit Growth System: proposal for the city of Dubai
“Born from unique environmental conditions, GEOtube is a new kind of urban sculptural tower. Gravity-sprayed with adjacent Persion Gulf waters, its building skin is entirely grown rather than constructed; is in continual formation rather than fully completed; and is created locally rather than imported. The world’s highest salinity for oceanic water is found in the Persian Gulf (and the Red Sea) - local salt water is supplied to GEOtube via a new 4.62 km buried pipeline and misted onto the tower’s exposed mesh. As the water evaporates and salt deposits aggregate over time, the tower’s appearance transforms from a transparent skin to a highly visible white solid plane. The result is a specialized habitat for wildlife that thrives is this environment, and an accessible surface for the harvesting of crystal salt.”
Blossom Gate by Prechteck
vienna, AUSTRIA
The “blossom-gate” by the Vienna-based designhouse prechteck defines a landmark to the entrance of the largest Chinese myrtle garden in the City of Xiangyiang. Prechteck tries to reinvent the gate as an architectural typology underlining the connecting characteristics of a former dividing element. Formalistic Inspirations lay in the chinese tradition of Caligraphy, the context and its topographie and flower-blossoms as a theme for the garden.
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Skylines Alexis Marcou
Crocheted wire sculptures by Ruth Asawa.
“I was interested in it because of the economy of a line, making something in space, enclosing it without blocking it out. It’s still transparent. I realized that if I was going to make these forms, which interlock and interweave, it can only be done with a line because a line can go anywhere.”—Ruth Asawa
Stairs Atmos Studio
J.D Doria | on Tumblr (b.1961, Israel) - Umwelt Manifest (2012)
Combining painting and technology provides J.D Doria with the possibility to develop the idea of painting as multitude. Painting, in its historic nature and form, converges into one image; yet incorportaing technology, allows an expansion and examination of the medium’s borders beyond the exclusivity of the one image. J.D Doria is an Israel based artist, and her recent work reflects a growing interest in the “Future”, and in a radical “reading” of Aesthetic.
Kim Asendorf
“Basically I try to find my inspiration in any kind of abstraction. I look for behaviors, systems or characteristics. That’s probably the reason why I like data visualization, too. I love statistics and I love to play with them, re-organize them and then be surprised by the results. But of course i get also inspired by other artists, mainly graphics, Anton Stankowski, Piet Mondrian, Kazimir Malevich, Theo van Doesburg, Ilya Bolotowsky or Josef Albers to count just a few. I am completely into geometric abstraction.”
Green Pedestrian Crossing created by Jody Xiong
The China Environmental Protection Foundation developed an outdoor campaign, displayed on the street, to creatively promote this message. They decided to leverage a busy pedestrian crossing; a place where both pedestrians and drivers meet.
The campaign involved laying a canvas 12.6 metres long by 7 metres wide on the ground, thus covering the pedestrian crossing with a large leafless tree. On either side of the road, beneath the traffic lights, were placed sponge cushions soaked in green, environmentally friendly, washable paint. As pedestrians walked towards the crossing, they stepped on the green sponge, thus leaving green foot imprints on the canvas of the tree. Each ‘green’ footprint on the canvas looked like leaves growing on a bare tree, which made people feel that by walking they could create a greener environment.
The ‘Green Pedestrian Crossing’ was carried out across 7 thoroughfares in Shanghai. The campaign was then extended to 132 roads across 15 cities in China, with a participation exceeding 3,920,000 people.
(via justinkimm)
