Facades by Iann Troalen
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Facades by Iann Troalen
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Digital scans of analogue architectural photography form tiny pieces of a large resulting puzzle. The original pictures are being analysed and categorised according to their vanishing-points and shapes. Based on this analysis, slices are being extracted from the source image. These slices retain the information of their position corresponding to their original vanishing-point and thus form a large pool of pieces, ready to be applied to new perspectives and shapes.
Learn about the process here
Places by Alex Fradkin via iGNANT
Elevator Rope Breakthrough Means Mile-High Buildings Possible - Core77
The problem with steel cables (or “ropes” as they are known in the trade) is that they are heavy. Any given bit of rope has to pull up not only the car and the flexible travelling cables that take electricity and communications to it, but also all the rope beneath it. The job is made easier by counterweights. But even so in a lift 500 metres tall (the maximum effective height at the moment) steel ropes account for up to three-quarters of the moving mass of the machine. Shifting this mass takes energy, so taller lifts are more expensive to run. And adding to the mass, by making the ropes longer, would soon come uncomfortably close to the point where the steel would snap under the load. Kone says it is able to reduce the weight of lift ropes by around 90% with its carbon-fibre replacement, dubbed UltraRope.
Drawings by Mark A Reynolds via BDiF
Sardinia Radio Telescope - photos by Bruce Sterling
Local Architecture by Olga Hamatgalieva
Block++ by Spiral delight
Amazing weekend
Towards A New Practice: Provocations on the future of professional architecture by Ryan Panos
Thesis Statement
The profession of architecture is in jeopardy; rethinking how architects engage in the processes of realizing building is essential to the future of practice. If architects are to remain a part of architecture, then they need to take on more accountability and risk. Seizing responsibility enables architects to regain control of processes which shape our environments.
Towards a new Practice is an architectural graphic novel critiquing The Canadian Handbook of Practice and its relation to responsibility. These documents and others like it represent a managerial hierarchical system of practice, protecting young designers from the potential pitfalls of practice. But by doing so, it has made itself a shield that we hide behind.
This is Chapter 2 of 4
I love how incorrect the lens flare looks on the finished building. Definitely a statement on over rendered images of contemporary society.