- Gilbert Keith Chesterton

further soft/hard core relation samples

Kurt Vonnegut, a favorite author of mine, passed away yesterday at the age of 84. His favorite book of mine being Slaughterhouse-Five. This is a excerpt of his last published words from his poem "Requiem." When the last living thing has died on account of us, how poetical it would be if Earth could say, in a voice floating...

in the name of energy conservation, i would like to propose that all businesses requiring the...

Here's a link to a description of the Janet Cardiff piece I mentioned in class today: Submarine tour in Los Angeles (down in Long Beach)

If we are attached to nature as it is now on Earth, how will we deal with the separation once we...

This class talks a lot about what it would feel like to be in zero-gravity. I believe that this...

Concept 1 Naturesphere(the portable biosphere) Input-Output model Important elements: Nature...

1 Being really interested in biology I looked to the fundamental cell for inspiration. In our realm of existence our societal exoskeletons are all fixed. This seems very limiting and causes a lot of waste (ie constructing a building in fashion back in the 1970s and tearing it down to build another building because A: it does not function anymore...

The World by Nakheel Properties // concept by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum A place...

Powers of Ten by Charles and Ray Eames A film which shows the viewer how small and at the...

First Commercial Plant For Biodegradable Plastic The first 100% biodegradable plastic is ready...

The Fall by James Willingham A plant tries to survive in a world which has been consumed by...

Pittsburgh's Hyperactive Technologies "The vision system in Hyperactive Bob essentially...

Flower by Mathew Bevins As nature evolves, its selection of who will carry on to the future...

Who I Am and What I Want By David Shrigley "Ostracized from society. Here, amongst the...

I like the idea of putting people out of their comfort zone - because I feel like many people in...

When it comes to designing in space applying and translating templates already given to us from the...

Plantwall The point is again to adapt ourselves to nature. If we've figured out no-soil, drip irrigation systems for plants to grow and live indoors, what can we learn to alter about our energy and life sustaining abilities? What can we do without and what can we harvest impactless from the System?

Philip Ross

Otto Karvonen Urban Space Occupation Kit An example of public space for private use. The...

phase one possible styles and visual language:

All my proposals are of peaceful environments, places to relax rather than places to be entertained. There is too much stimuli around us now as it is, I think people need to re-connect with nature and learn/appreciate doing nothing. It's a beeautiful thing to be able to sit in nature and observe. If the Space Collective would be a group...

I can't transcribe ideas directly to a computer as well as I would to a physical sheet of paper; but oftentimes when I write by hand the ideas and sentences are all over the place because I pay less attention to mechanics. Regardless, I wrote this blurb earlier (forgive the incoherencies): What "nature" is to me It's vast, isolated,...

My second option would also be intended for a shorter period of time as a recuperating experience. It would primarily be an experience for a single person but it would be in the form of a room. There would be a large window in the room so the person could enjoy sunshine and a view. All other walls would be covered with screens that would show...

45% of all people who experience zero gravity also experience space sickness from being weightless....

If I were to build a space colony or space habitat I would want it to be a place where people can continue to be free. All science fiction and renderings of moon colonies seem so restrictive and claustrophobic. I would want a space colony with a built in atmosphere just like the Earth. People could move freely, and in space every direction would...

One of my favourite artists is Mary Mattingly. Her visions of the future can be seen as...

I wouldn't want much to change - maybe that's depressing or unimaginative or boring but it's the truth. What I admire most about nature is its resilience, no matter how hard we abuse it, it always bounces back, amazingly and surprisingly (although some would argue that at this moment it may be reaching its physical limits). After it's...

From Greg, proof that our services will be needed soon: The proliferation of commercial...

MOCA::Art and the Femenist Revolution + Space? While at the MOCA, exploring the WACK! exhibit, I...

boldly applying the ribbon window as a first attempt to fenestration

.to explore possibilities and advantages of branching systems how to make floors and volumes, construction and circulatory questions how does a system change in different environments (earth, space) .to achieve controllable complexity with variation of a basic scheme fractal branching as starting geometry .difference of relation to...

I want to design a space colony where a community constantly moves, creating an environment in...

what happens with the perception of time when we have no atmosphere in space? do we adopt a new calender? do we let go of our earthly perception of time itself? what is our basis for time in relation to in space when the earth no longer exists? how can people live with no night or day? what happens to our social constructions of our daily...

How do we get there? Why do we want to go? When can we do this? What happens to us up there? Do...

In the Final Fantasy X world there is a popular game called Blitzball that is played in a huge ball...

It's kind of amazing how we can transfer energy to power something. Think of all the people dancing or in spinning class wasting all that energy. Don't you think America would be thinner if they had to ride a bike in order to watch their television?

Images of arcologies. Some from SimCity 2000.

In reading the first chapter of this book, I found correlations between the concepts being...

From the book 'Bio-Architecture' by Javier Senosiain. This book seems to relate architecture and...

planet earth documentary / film algae, man underwater / science skin by ellen lupton / design organic solar cell dyes how much land of solar panels to power the earth nikon universcale, perspective of our world paleo future blog

Interactive Koi Ponds This system has motion sensors that can detect your hands/feet moving...

Constance Adams had worked as an architect in Japan and Berlin when by chance in the 1997 she...

One of the first experiences for Americans to see the world, making the world smaller. Walt...