Fincube, perfección alemana

Posted by aic on 30 mar, 2010 in Arquitectura | 0 comments

german firm studio aisslinger have created ‘fincube’ a concept for a new modular, sustainable and transportable low energy house. developed together with a south tyrolian team the ‘fincube’ was created 1200m above sea level near bozen in northern italy.

made entirely of local wood, the building provides 47 sqm of living space with a minimal CO2 footprint. it is a materialized vision of a small housing unit with a long lifecycle. it can easily be dismantled and rebuilt on a new site, and even more important for nature
hideaways: it requires minimum soil sealing – just 2 meters.

Fracture Tables by Tyco Tat

Posted by aic on 24 mar, 2010 in Diseño, Muebles | 0 comments

One table is fractured into three, then connected again by a series of colourful resin links. The jigsaw puzzle nature of Tyco Tat’s Fracture adds the element of play that makes this modular piece of furniture memorable. Tyco is a Toronto-based industrial designer who “sees the world as a creative playground of endless possibilities” and translates this vision into practical products through work at his studio, Tychotic Design.

EcoRock: Sustainable drywall

Posted by aic on 24 mar, 2010 in Materiales | 0 comments

Drywall is the number three producer of greenhouse gasses among building materials, trailing just behind cement and steel. Its production generates 200 million tons of carbon dioxide gas, a host of gypsum mines, and immense amounts of energy are required to fire the 500 degree kilns in which it is produced. But a ‘game-changer’ is on the horizon: EcoRock. This innovative material requires no gypsum, no ovens to produce, is made from 85 percent industrial by-products and is fully recyclable!

Inside out – outside in by Rocker-lange architects

Posted by aic on 24 mar, 2010 in Arquitectura, Destacados | 0 comments

Boston- and Hong Kong-based Rocker-Lange Architects have designed a villa called Inside Out – Outside In for the Ordos 100 project in Inner Mongolia, China. The house is one of 100 private residences, all designed by different architects selected by architects Herzog & de Meuron for the Ordos 100 project, which is master planned by artist Ai Wei Wei.By creating an architecture which is interwoven with its surroundings, we allow the climate to work with the inhabitants, rather than against them.”

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Waiting room

Posted by aic on 24 mar, 2010 in Arquitectura, Diseño | 0 comments

Jeffrey Inaba of Inaba Projects has a new pavilion on display now in Rome, sponsored by Enel, Italy’s largest utilities provider. Because of that sponsorship, Inaba “wanted to use numerous forms of alternative energy applications,” but decided, in the end, to apply “just one that was highly productive and cost effective.” The pavilion is thus solar-powered – Inaba describes it as an “Alice in Wonderland mushroom meets solar-ray chomping Pac-Man.”