Apartment in Katayama
This apartment building designed by Mitsutomo Matsunami is built on a 110.55m² piece of land and has a total floor of 341.38m². There are 10 apartments in the building, measuring between 23.2m² and 35.7m², which is tiny compared to European ones.
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via today and tomorrow
“Suck/Blow” by INABA/C-LAB at STOREFRONT FOR ART AND ARCHITECTURE
An installation at Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York, for one night only, March 9, 2010, part of “Landscapes of Quarantine,” an exhibition curated by Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley of Future Plural.
“Suck/Blow” was constructed using Tyvek, tape, light steel frames, and pressurized air.
All photographs by Emiliano Granado
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Rubikon Rebel Pinhole Camera by Hubero Kororo
In our high tech world where cameras have become part of our mobile phones, some of us tend to use the more traditional methods. Methods which we might have found difficult in the past, but cherish nowadays! I guess that we prefer the romantic anticipation of not knowing what the image which you have just shot looks like; or the process of making yourself aware of the surrounding to capture better images. With digital cameras we have slacked and prefer to take the easy way of capturing images and if we don’t like them we go back and we delete them.
In our high-tech fast beat world, it’s a paradox to realize that experimentation with classical photography has become even more expensive than it used to be! With the introduction of Rubikon, Jaroslav Juřica ( Hubero Kororo) wanted to mediate the principles in a funny and easy to use way. Juřica wanted to offer mass photographers an alternative way of not only taking gigabytes of images, but also images with a unique atmosphere and a creative approach!
Rubikon is a paper cut-out, which becomes a functioning camera (camera obscura) after gluing the pieces together. In 1979 the ABC magazine published a jigsaw called Dirkon, which paraphrased the single-lens reflex cameras, which used to be very popular at that time. The cut-out Rubikon was first published in 2005 in the eighth issue of ABC magazine, 25 years after introducing Dirkon. Since 2005, it has also been published in foreign media dealing with photography. Rubikon is also used as a teaching aid at some schools of photography and elementary schools.
The second version of Rubikon, The “Pinhole Rebel” camera is even more user friendly and easy to build. So hurry up, and DOWNLOAD YOURS HERE – FREE OF CHARGE! Assemble the PDF cut-out camera and hurry up to capture your own unique atmospheric and romantic images through this creative approach! Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying that it’s bad to use digital cameras, but try to use the manual ones as well; you’ll realize how much you missed without it all these years!
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Shoal Bay House by Parsonson Architects
Parsonson Architects designed this rural home in Shoal Bay on the rugged east coast of the North Island of New Zealand.
Shoal Bay is a remote settlement on the rugged east coast of southern Hawkes Bay. The building is designed to be part of the rural setting, raised off the ground and sitting beside the original woolshed, which has served the bay since the early 1900’s. The house is rugged yet welcoming and offers unpretentious shelter, it is the type of place where you kick off your shoes and don’t need to worry about walking sand through the house.
The house is formed of two slightly off-set pavilions, one housing the bedrooms and the other the main living space. Decks are located at each end of the living pavilion allowing the sun to be followed throughout the day. Sliding screens at the north-west end provide adjustable shelter for the different wind conditions, offer privacy from neighbouring campers and act as walls for outside sleeping.
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Triangle House by Ryoichi “Kodi” Kojima
WHAT: Single family residence
WHERE: Kawasaki City, Kanagawa Prefecture
WHEN: 2006
HOW: Three-story wood frame (2nd, 3rd fl.) and reinforced concrete (1st fl.) construction
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Sandwich House by Ryoichi “Kodi” Kojima
WHAT: Single family residence
WHERE: Ota-ku, Tokyo
WHEN: December 2008
HOW: Three-story reinforced concrete construction
SITE AREA: 700 square feet
CONSTRUCTION AREA: 420 square feet
TOTAL FLOOR AREA: 969 square feet
CONSTRUCTION COST: approx. US $430,000.00
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360º Kiosks by studio SKLIM
The 360° kiosks provide a minimum footprint and maximum flexibility. Each unit consists of four cantilevered units for seating, display, storage and lighting, which can be individually adapted by the actual vendors. They allow for a multitude of strategies to facilitate their commercial needs. Products are stored in drawers with shelving units that can be pulled out to maximise display surface just like a Swiss army penknife,. The constant transformations create a dynamic visual performance within the urban landscape.
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DIY 3-Axis CNC by Nick Santillan
from the designer:
Always wanting to experiment with CNC technology and knowing that having parts made from them can get expensive fast, I thought owning a CNC would allow me to really experiment that would be otherwise impossible to do with outsource CNC jobs. I soon discovered some plans on how to build your own CNC. After extensive research I bought a DIY plan and started building my CNC only to discover 90% of the way that the plan and design was not up to my expectations. The experience did give me enough knowledge on how CNC works which I found invaluable. From there I scrapped the first build, researched some more, bought better suited parts (bearings, slides, etc) and built this CNC using my own design and improvements.
This CNC is designed to be quickly assembled and disassembled into three main parts for ease of transportation and reduced storage. I used a moving gantry with an open table design to have the option for the CNC to directly mill or engrave the surface below. For example, if I wanted to carve a tabletop or a wall I can bolt the CNC directly to the surface and engrave it directly. This would have been otherwise impossible to do with other CNC machines. It also has a removable tool holder to allow customized mounts for almost any tool needed. Currently only a plunge router is used, but the design allows a laser cutter or anything else to be quickly attached to it for future upgrades. Some of my projects fabrication has been assisted using this CNC.
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via Nick Santillan
Jo Rin Hun / Seoul / Korea by IROJE KHM Architects
…………from the designers (sorry about the bad translation):
Reclamation of the site & Confrontation of modern and tradition
The site is located in the outer Bukchon nearby the designated cultural properties of Seoul city like rampart of Seoul. Hyehwamun, Kim Sang Hyeop’s House. Many Korean-style houses are existed till now, but remained houses are removed at that with the housing development prevalence of multi-family house last year. So it is one of the villages that are in progress of modernization and Jo Rin Hun is same case that is pressed with the high-storied neighborhood. It was a distressed situation to unavoidably remove the existing Korean traditional house as a position of culture destroyer.
Inheritance of spatial tradition & Perpendicular residence/city as a ‘village’
The character of history and place of the Korean-style house inherited spatially by composing the ‘garden’ of existing house for ‘garden’ of Jo Rin Hun. This garden functions as a spatial element that satisfies the right of sphere and ownership with the recognition that each of the household living in this house is the owner of each separate house. Many detached house composed vertically with outside-stair as a passage and the small outside space will be a ‘city windpipe’ that connects that city and architecture strongly.
Multi-function of translucent skin & Mass being un-architecturally
By incoming the neighbored landscape with the expended metal translucent board, the light, wind, sound through the small vertical courtyard surrounded by each houses are effective and forming introverted calm spatial environment. It is intended to function hiding neighborhood, filtering surrounding landscape, control of the light by me lid of the outer cover adjoins neighborhood with translucent skin.
Indistinct landscape of the village, clearly visible shape of the Korean-style house, the whole views of Seoul with Namsan tower and the festive night views were the landscape program of Jo Rin Hun. The city and architecture are endowed with strong mutual response and finally this mass become to carry the un-architectural property of matter of transparency introversion, translucence extroversion. It is intended to feel Jo Rin Hun, which is vertical and huge mass comparatively, as ‘un-architectural’ property of matter to harmonize with the horizontal stable landscape formed by the remaining Korean-style houses and to form a new city context that corresponds to the change. It lost by the shaded portion of road, right to enjoy sunshine, cultural property protection. By indoor planting to the remaining mass, It could be recognized as an ecological mass, as well as, the whole could recognized as if translucent/opaque un-architectural object are covered with expended metal and intended to grant a formable sensitivity that harmonized with the image of Korean style house to the structure of skin.
Introduction of nomadic program and nature & Reduction of construction expenses
I aimed at nature-friendship by introducing the nature positively and aimed lies latent a small and abundant spatial story by residence together with the large and small houses.
By openly establish the secret private life programs, that is, concealable action apparatus like shower, bathtub, close-stool, washstand, he/she could liberate from restraint of secrecy by him/herself and could present action of life. With the preparation to feel the instinctive pleasure in the nature that is an instinctive environment, all the action of him/herself become a sight and concerned object. So it was an interesting work to plan the ‘place’ where exist a history and story to aware of the vestige of life always.
Such program is small, but could be said it is large, because there are a lot of contributions that sensed as large space and form a various/dramatic space, reduction of construction expenses.
The construction expense is a mountain to go over. It was effective for cost administration to minimize the expenses with the effort by using cheap materials like concrete floor, wall finishing, dryvit excluded finishing materials, prefabricate sandwich panel and simplification of process.
Light-house of life
I expect Jo Rin Hun, un-architectural architecture, to be a ‘light house of city’ that always lightens the neighborhood and to be a place where record and preserve the historic character of the site.
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