Tag: Architecture

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DIGITAL BAKERY WORKSHOP

Location: Novosibirsk, Russia 22/01/2011 – 5/02/2011

Tutors: Digital Bakery (Maxim Malein (RU), Peter Vasiljev(RU))

Team: 10 students

The idea of workshop was to acquaint with the methods of computational architecture and parametric aspects of design process. Two week workshop contained one week of intensive grasshopper courses and one week to make a project and build the butterfly. The idea of a butterfly came up as association out of the shape of public building where it supposed to be hanged up: ‘‘the butterfly in the chrysalis’’.

The final design is a metaphorical butterfly. 

Object contains two parts: body and wings. Body is made of ribbed extended inner structure, which is covered by the shell that has openings based on attractor points.  The pattern of the wings was created using a Voronoi diagram to divide a surface into the cells. 

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Did you know that you can make houses out of plastic bottles? By filling them with sand, and molding them together with mud or cement, the walls created are actually bullet proof, fire proof, and will maintain an comfortable indoor temperature of 64 degrees in the summer time.

And it’s not like there is any shortage on used plastic bottles out there. Here are some statistics from treehugger.com:

“The United States uses 129.6 Million plastic bottles per day which is 47.3 Billion plastic bottles per year. About 80% of those plastic bottles end up in a landfill!”

To build a two bedroom, 1200 square foot home, it takes about 14,000 bottles.

The United States throws away enough plastic bottles to build 9257 of these 2 bedroom houses per day! That’s just over 3.35 million homes, the same number of homeless people in America.

Many people in third world countries have taken up building homes out of plastic bottles, from Africa to Asia. Perhaps the trend will catch on in America and all of those bottles will stop ending up in the landfills. Wouldn’t they be better off housing the homeless? Kinda like all those empty houses scattered all over the country?

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