A Drop of Water

‘A Drop of Water’ is a rain barrel that makes saving water really easy by providing a watering can that is automatically filled when it rains. This way, the user doesn’t have to fill the can with our precious tap water, but uses ‘free’ rainwater instead to water the garden.
With the small tap at the bottom of the barrel the watering can can be refilled after using it.

Extract from Bas Van der Veer

Kunsthaus Graz

The Kunsthaus Graz located in Graz, Austria is an exhibition hall designed for  multidisciplinary modern and contemporary art.


Kunsthaus Graz acts as an interface between past and future since the aesthetic dialogue between the new biomorphic structure on the bank of the Mur and the old clock tower on Graz’s famous Schloßberg (Castle Hill) is the trade-mark of a city aiming to create a productive tension between tradition and avant-garde.

Extract from Kunsthaus Graz

Savannah House

The Savannah House is a Giraffe-house and visitor centre for for Rotterdam Zoo. The enclosure, modeled on African coral, has been designed to take advantage of passive solar heating and natural ventilation and lighting.

The accommodation for the giraffe is designed as a “shelter”. The design provides a comfortable place for the animals. It also gives them more living space, for the giraffes are free and can go in and out as they please.
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Extract from dezeen

Eglu Rabbit Houses

The eglu for rabbits is a modern, easy to clean and safe home for your pet bunnies. Developed with leading animal behaviourists, the unique design enables your rabbits to express their natural instincts, making rabbit ownership more rewarding and enjoyable. They are great for chickens too.

Extract from Omlet

TU Delft School of Architecture

Sid Wichienkuer proposal for the TU Delft School of Architecture used sections and topographies as a driving  force. The building is
oriented around a central quad at its base, surrounded by the school’s library and a series of design laboratories.

As the building roses, each floor is centered around a gathering or communal space at its core, with other rooms radiating outwards. an expandable auditorium is centered on this level. 

The building’s facade is kept porous with a series of horizontal pieces spaced apart.  These levels can be used as outdoorseating and stairs, allowing students to climb the building.

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The Wave

The Wave is inspired by the hills, sea and sky of the surrounding area. The architectural challenges in the project has been to create a sculpture combined with functional and thoughtful residential into the smallest detail.

Wave is created with two faces, so that is great both from water and from the city where citizens are guaranteed a sea view and a beautiful sculpture. The same idea is drawn into the apartments through the big glass window, respectively, the undulating city landscape and the sea.

Extract from Travel with Frank Gehry

Random pic of the week

Neat! Easy access, clean, not afraid to run out of sockets… just be careful when cleaning the wall or leaning… 

Extract from Ironic Sans

Vertical Park

Vertical Park is a modular skyscraper made up of a series of stacking units. The solar-powered structure contains sky-gardens in addition to spaces for living and working, and recycles all of its own water.

Each module of the Vertical Park can be configured to provide space for public and private use, water and solar collection, and urban farming.

This allows for flexibility in design, size, and location – including the potential for relocation throughout the city or the world.

Extract from Inhabitat

BioWall

The BioWall is a hand woven three-dimensional structure that can hold living plants. BioWall can become an indoor, living hedge that divides space.

The woven and modular architectural structure can also provide a lightweight solution for growing food plants in small spaces without soil. The urban ecosystem consists of geotextile structures and solar cells designed to feed and monitor a network of plants by misting the roots with nutrient rich solution.

Extract from Loop.pH

Capital Gate

Capital Gate, the most leaning building in the world. Capital Gate will house Abu Dhabi’s first Hyatt hotel, a presidential-style luxury, 5-star hotel and will provide 200 hotel rooms.
The central core of the building slants in the opposite direction to the lean of the structure, and it straightening as it grows. It sits on top of a 7-foot-deep concrete base with a dense mesh of reinforced steel. The steel exoskeleton known as the diagrid sits above an extensive distribution of 490 piles that have been drilled 100 feet underground to accommodate the gravitational, wind and seismic pressures caused by the lean of the building.

Extract from archdaily