Forget Blueprints, Now You Can Print the Building
Posted: January 23, 2013 Filed under: Architecture, JustArch | Tags: Architecture, Design, Love, Repost, News, Innovation, Success, ILMA, CNN Leave a comment »Architect to build home using 3-D printer
| By Doug Gross, CNN |
- “Landscape House” will be built from blocks made with a 3-D printer, says its creator, Dutch Architect Janjaap Ruijssenaars.
(CNN) – A Dutch architect is thinking a little bigger about 3-D printing than the tiny-to-midsize trinkets we’ve seen so far.
He wants to print a house. And a pretty offbeat and innovative one at that.
“Landscape House” is the brainchild of architect Janjaap Ruijssenaars. He describes it as ”one surface folded in an endless Mobius band,” or sort of a giant figure 8. According to its creator, walking through its continuous looping design will seamlessly merge indoors and outdoors in an effort to model nature itself.
The house would cost between $5 million and $6 million, according to the BBC, and there’s already been interest expressed by museums, private individuals and others, according to Ruijssenaars. He told the network that someone in Brazil plans to buy one to display native art he’s found in a nearby national park.
All that would be innovative enough on its own. But to take it a step further, the architect plans to build “Landscape House” using the emerging technology of 3-D printing.
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Commercially available models like the MakerBot aren’t exactly up to the task. This requires a printer of enormous size. And Ruijssenaars found one in the D-Shape.
Described as a “mega-scale free form printer” by its makers, the massive aluminum structure uses sand, which it forms back into a material that’s like marble.
For “Landscape House,” it will be used to print out blocks that are about 20 feet by 30 feet. Those, along with some fiberglass and concrete reinforcements, will be used to create the building.
“3D printing is amazing,” Ruijssenaars told the BBC. “For me as an architect it’s been a nice way to construct this specific design — it has no beginning and no end, and with the 3-D printer we can make it look like that.”
He says his first “Landscape House” is expected to be completed by the end of 2014.
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Stunning Photography by Gordon McBryde
Posted: March 4, 2012 Filed under: Photography, Repost | Tags: Creative, Images, Photo, Repost 2 Comments »From bright, colorful pictures to that other side, darker and moody… photography passes by both extremes in a fraction of a second, and it’s great how the same photographer gets to picture both ends just perfectly. I know this guy for some time now, and it came the time to tell the world about him. Gordon McBryde is an awesome photographer that takes some amazing pictures… he also makes some great manips from his images, that only turn his art into something even better. One thing that I’ve always thought about his work, is that it’s just the thing people love to post on tumblr, and when you take a look at these, you’re gonna probably relate to that. For more of his great pieces, visit his portfolio at DeviantART.
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Archaeology Museum of Álava
Posted: July 7, 2011 Filed under: Architecture, JustArch, Repost | Tags: Archaeology, Architect, Architectural Record, Architecture, Álava, Cool, Design, Espana, Magazine, Mangado, Mangado & Associates, Mangado and Associates, Modern, Museum, Repost, Spain, Vitoria 3 Comments »Written by David Cohn
Francisco “Patxi” Mangado, the 54-year-old Spanish architect, compares his bronze-clad Archaeological Museum of Álava in Vitoria, Spain, to a “coffer guarding a treasure.” He has developed this apparently simple conceit at a number of different levels in the work, so that it acquires a sensual resonance that reaches beyond words to convey his poetic intent.
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The architect uses the contrast between the building’s bronze and glass skin and its setting within Vitoria’s medieval core to further develop his evocation of archaeological layering. A quiet city of 230,000, Vitoria is the capital of the Basque region, with a rich history dating back to the sixth century AD. The museum, a mixed concrete-and-steel-frame structure, is part of an ongoing effort by local authorities to rehabilitate the medieval center, which has been in decline through most of the 20th century. Located on one of its livelier streets lined with bars, old shops, and a few monumental buildings, the museum adjoins the 16th-century Bendaña Palace. In 1994 the palace was renovated to house the Fournier Museum of Playing Cards as the town’s homage to a well-known local industry. The two museums now share a common entry court.
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“The Strange and Wonderful Eyes of @FrankCunhaIII”
Posted: June 19, 2011 Filed under: Architecture, Art, More FC3, Repost | Tags: 2011, Architectist, Art, Photographic, Repost, SOLSTICE, Strange, summer, TCP, The Critical Post, Wonderful 2 Comments »Some of my Photographic Artwork (created from January 1st – June 21st, 2011)
“The Strange & Wonderful Eyes of Frank Cunha III Pictorial #3″ (TCP)CHICAGO
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We’ve been waiting back here for our first and premiere photo artist Architect Frank Cunha III to come up with something new for all of you to enjoy. As I’ve tried to express in previous posts about this unique man, Frank innovates. There’s something to be said about the discipline of a self taught genius. First of all, they don’t know what rules they’re breaking when they do in fact, throw ‘em right out the window. These quite correctly fall in the category of “happy accidents.”
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[Repost] Social Media: Making it Work
Posted: June 18, 2011 Filed under: Architecture, Isms, Social Media | Tags: AIA, AIA Architects, AIA National, AIANJ, Architecture, Cute, Education, Family, JustArch, media, Repost, Social, Social Media 5 Comments »Social Media: Making it Work
By Jane Frederick, AIA, LEED AP
Photo by Frank Cunha III
Everyone has heard about Social Media but some might wonder if it is right for their firm. Traditional marketing methods include attending weekly Rotary or Chamber of Commerce meetings, sponsoring non-profit or trade show events, and entering award competitions for that third party validation. Social Media marketing does not take the place of your traditional marketing methods—you still need to get out of your office and meet people—but Social Media expands your reach. Social media builds communities of people with shared interests, with a focus on networking and conversation. Before you start you need to identify precise, measurable objectives to obtain your goal. Identifying your objectives for social media is critical. If you are just on Facebook and Twitter because everyone else is, you might have some interesting conversations while you waste a lot of time.
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Eleven: Night’s Illusions
Posted: May 21, 2011 Filed under: Art, Isms, More FC3, Poetry | Tags: Art, Artistic, Artwork, Carl Watts, Collaboration, FC3, Images, isms, Layers, Original, Photographic, Poem, Poetry, Repost, Unique 8 Comments »
Night’s Illusions
It seems it is all a dream
A pleasant mishmash of confusion
I was fine when I went to sleep
Now the pictures flash like an illusion
Beauty of body very bold
Images sharp over laid in folds
Sensuous, desirable, a story told
A woman’s beauty never grows old
The gentle brush of scented hair
Color, thoughts flashing about
Warmth and excitement fill the air
How will this dream work out?
Another flash, a clashing sound
The alarm set to kill dreams
Brilliant images falling all around
Back to sleep, should I try?
Try learn the girls name?
Get up and start my day?
I suspect I’ll never be the same
Not after meeting, the girls with no name
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