Ellzbellz blog: December 2011

Sunday, 25 December 2011

240 Regent Street,WorldArchitectureNews, Rolfe Judd Ltd, London

240 Regent Street,WorldArchitectureNews, Rolfe Judd Ltd, London

for my essay refs

Friday, 23 December 2011

stone

http://www.materia.nl/575.0.html?&user_material[material_uid]=2347&cHash=3d21846440

Ripietra tiles look like natural stone, but are completely made of recycled material. The composite material is produced by extrusion and moulding, consisting of 55% polyethylene derived from urban waste and 45% of wood derived from industrial processing waste. The material is sturdy and weather resistant: it does not deform under the sun and does not freeze, for instance. Furthermore, the material is resistant to chemical agents and does not require maintenance. The tiles are anti slip and, if they are sunk into the ground, stand vehicle traffic. The tiles, available in one size and one colour only, are suitable for indoor and outdoor use. Ripietra is 100% recycled and 100% recyclable.

Material

Plastics

Country of origin

Italy

Material code

PLA654

Sensorial
Glossiness		Matt
Translucence		0 %
Structure		Closed
Texture		Coarse
Hardness		Hard
Temperature		Medium
Acoustics		Poor
Odeur		None

Technical
Fire resistance	Unknown
UV Resistance	Good
Weather resistance	Good
Scratch resistance	Good
Weight	Light
Chemical resistance	Good
Renewable	No

wood

Architectural Association Pavillion Exhibition 2009

wood

twentinox - architectural woven fabrics

when i think of chain mail i usually thing of medievel knight suits of armour but this is "metal mesh" as neither the knights or i have ever seen...

Twentinox is a company which manufactures metal fabrics for architecture and interior design. these metal fabrics are used for many things in diverse way, they are used for anything from façades , ceiling, wall panels,furniture,metal curtains, room dividers, elevators,rolling doors, media frames to jewellery.

metal curtains using sierra papa large
Mercedes Benz showroom

the metal fabrics/mesh are long lasting, waterproof, low maintenance and strong.
They come in a variety of finishes and u can specify what u what your metal fabric to be composed of.

one of there metal fabrics : Charlie bravo was used in Ron Arad's chairs

Ron arad creative furniture

the mesh give a hard rough material
a smooth polished finish

type of mesh....
twentinox does not produce just one type of mesh, there r 11 different mesh fabrics based on how they are connected together, metal, spaces, dimensions.... product overview n categories

two examples....

Romeo sierra small

Charlie bravo

all in all I think this a fantastic materiel as its versatile and its can be put to more imaginative uses than a suit of armour :P

werner aisslinger: hemp chair

werner working on the prototype

werner aisslinger: hemp chair: "traditionally, monobloc stackable chairs have been developed with reinforced plastics.

'hemp chair by berlin-based designer/architect werner aisslinger is the first monochair designed with a new technology

in which natural fibers like hemp that are moulded under heat with a special ecological glue resulting in

a sustainable composite material. a complete structure done in a thin layer of material is one of the most

complicated ways to design and engineer a chair. aisslinger's design which features soft curves,

along with a horizontal and vertical ring structure, is a new approach to this complex seating typology.

werner aisslinger is working in partnership with BASF acrodur on the production of the chair

the technology that has been utilized for the 'hemp chair' allows one to use 100 percent natural fibres

in combination with a water-based glue that contains no phenols or formaldehyd. this process enables low cost mass production for 3D objects with a high stability and low specific weight." - werner-aisslinger - hemp-chair

and who doesn't luv hemp ;)

glass chair

Artist		Danny Lane
Title		Stacking chair
Medium		sheet glass
Size		41 x 18 x 18 in. / 104.1 x 45.6 x 45.6 cm.
Year		1988

danny lane

"Like glass itself, Lane’s work is sometimes modernist in its simplicity, and, in a different mood, baroque in its pleasure in ornament." - dannylane.co.uk

I love the way danny plays with form and curves in his sculptures, products and interiors.
he demonstrates how you can get so many different effects and personality out of a single material.

Etruscan Chair (1986)

its said he brought the pionrerred broken glass as stylish in the 80s when that era's design was slick so that conset was very fresh, i think thats what i like about his work its different because he keeps testing the materials he is using and questioning the process n has mastered them.

Lane’s sculptures exploit the strength of glass under compression and combine feats of design and engineering to produce work, breathtaking in its apparent simplicity. -dannylane.co.uk

project: Parting the waves

Location: Canary Wharf, London

designer: Danny Lane

date: 2003

facts
(b.1955)he was taught by Cecil Collins has worked in London since the 1980s. His sculpture and furniture ranges in scale from the domestic, to his massive Borealis, one of the world’s largest glass sculptures (2005, GM Renaissance Center, Detroit, USA)- dannylane.co.uk
A number of his designs are produced by Fiam Italia

Chase & Status feat. Maverick Sabre "Sleepless"

i get ideas from every where... just watched this n thought wat if u had led light in rows on a ceiling and they where lined up with projectors built into a floor so an image ie fire could be projected up from the ground and illuminated from above?! might look interesting, because it would look like u r walking through flames.

AQUASCRIPT ... would luv to deliver an essay like this :p

the power of water n wordz n imagery

imagine how we will receive important information in the future

I was blown away when i saw this just stared for ages trying to work out how it was happening!
this company is a brilliant way of getting people to notice a message...
"Aquascript breaks through traditional boundaries of information transfer...a dynamic information transfer waterfall" - Aquascript

how it works: well as i understand it.. a proprietary computer system and software synchronizes the hundreds of valves which control each drop of water thus each drop creates a clear defined muster.

suitable for indoors or outdoors spaces and for any purpose, it can be synced with music lights, projections, sensors , interface, lasers....whatever ur imagination can come up wid.... I used this in my shed project to display pictures and sounds and smells from around the Amazon in to the shed.

aquascript

Amazing Pop Up Card Tutorial

I saw the amazing paper structures made by Peter Dahmen he is a graphic designer from Germany.

This was one of his tutorials on how to create a paper structure which i followed and integrated into my "box of me"

I love what he is able to do with paper and he has far more elaborate complicated paper
structure but no tutorials for those as they are unique pieces of his art. still luv it doe <3

http://www.peterdahmen.de

awesome clock

so kool! can use this technology 4 so many things!

berlin design fair 2011

These are a couple of designs i found really interesting, some are interesting because of truth to materials others show a new way of using that material.
Others are interesting because its the form of the object, i like curves made by materials that are typically rigid.
product design inspires interior design, they work hand in hand as they can be the focal point of an interior space.
They also help us understand how design is movin forward and pastiching past eras and responding to the demands by modern society ie sustainable eco design to combat global warming.

bamboo seating its truth to construction and materials
designboom.bamboo-bundle-bench

this seat is between art and function seating
its truth to construction
designboom.alejandro-ceron

Thursday, 22 December 2011

like being inside a balloon or a grown up bouncy castle :P

" Offer a creative and competitive way to enclose any space."

these temporary structures can be used for an interior/exterior space, highly functional. U can choose from the lite range which can be as simple as a single inflatable wall, to elaborate towering structures ie the turtle or dome ranges.