Horace Hou: Looking Out Week 12

This is the Curo Garden by Raumlabor in Brussels, Belgium. This seemingly randomly organised bunch of sticks allowed a group of people to work together to create a project. This project is interesting in that it allows an ex-industrious area of Brussels to redevelop and aims to reinterpret leftover spaces.

William Aldrich: Looking Out Week 12

Lucid Stead: Phillip K. Smith III (Joshua Tree, California)

A modified, existing 70 year-old homesteader shack, The mirrors were introduced to create a sense of transparency within the desert. At night, the mirrors become windows which show the original wooden frame of the structure.

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Looking Out Week 12 Madhura Kharche

Woodskin is a very dynamic design created as a submission made to open source design competition, Autoprogettazione 2.0. The designers were looking for a solution that would fulfill their need to create complex shapes, maybe even flexible walls or claddings. The idea was to have a skin that would adapt to any structure. This would allow designers to focus on the design of the structure because the cladding would perfectly fit it. The material is currently being used in different parts of the world as an innovative option for flexible walls or cladding.

Yasmeen Almuhanna: Looking Out Week 12

LMN ARCHITECTS’ COLLABORATIVE SOUND CLOUD

"For a 700-seat concert hall at the new School of Music at the University of Iowa, Seattle-based LMN Architects wanted to design a high-performing ceiling canopy that would unify the many features of traditional theatrical and acoustic systems. The result is a 150-foot-long by 70-foot-wide surface composed of 946 suspended, intricately laced panels that incorporate complex, interdependent, and at times conflicting systems—including lighting, theatrics, speakers, sprinklers, and acoustical functionality—in a unified architectural gesture."

      

LMN built the mockup from aluminum composite paneling, a relatively inexpensive metal system composed of two layers of aluminum with a composite core. The material is highly flexible and it can be bent by hand after scoring on the CNC mill. This process could potentially eliminate on-site fabrication requirements. Fabrication data generated by this production model will be applied to all 946 of the unique panels in the final project.

Documents will go to bid this summer, and the building is expected to open in 2016.

Each piece is numbered to indicate placement within the system. (courtesy LMN Architects)

The panels are secured to rows of steel ribs. (courtesy LMN Architects)

The mockup is 1/3-scale of the original 150- by 70-foot system. (courtesy LMN Architects)