Ideas for 'information points' around the site.
This one has books inside. Will sketch out some ideas to make some of our own :)
Monday, 28 October 2013
Thursday, 24 October 2013
Outdoor furniture Inspiration : 001
During my visit to NYC, I visited MAD (museum of art & design) which was really inspiring. On the top floor they had an educational area. Where I sat on an Enzo Mari (Italian designer).
Beautiful diy design. Although made with pre-cut pine, easily replicated using pallet wood. He produced an instructional pamphlet, called autoprogettazione. This is a link to revisited version by the AA.
http://www.aaschool.ac.uk/Downloads/Autoprogettazione_Revisited_instructions_web.pdf
Here is a link to video about Enzo - http://vimeo.com/39684024
Also during my trip I visit the Hudson River nature park. Lots of fantastic stuff! Most notably these chair/roof arrangements. In our case it could be a green roof? Be good to draw this out. A good solution to the wet weather ahead?
http://www.aaschool.ac.uk/Downloads/Autoprogettazione_Revisited_instructions_web.pdf
Here is a link to video about Enzo - http://vimeo.com/39684024
Also during my trip I visit the Hudson River nature park. Lots of fantastic stuff! Most notably these chair/roof arrangements. In our case it could be a green roof? Be good to draw this out. A good solution to the wet weather ahead?
Colour and Folding
Ecology of Colour, Dartford, Kent
with Artlands; Structure Workshop; and Nous Vous
(completed autumn 2012)
Prior to its installation, Nous Vous ran a series of workshops with a team of local residents and artists to paint all of the 144 panels, which form the external cladding.
with Artlands; Structure Workshop; and Nous Vous
(completed autumn 2012)
Prior to its installation, Nous Vous ran a series of workshops with a team of local residents and artists to paint all of the 144 panels, which form the external cladding.
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Monday, 14 October 2013
Wednesday, 9 October 2013
Outdoor Kitchen Inspiration 003: Passive Cooling Fridges
OLTU - Passive cooling fridge
OLTU is like an organism that takes advantage of the heat produced from the back of a fridge, which in today’s fridges is wasted energy, and uses it to help to cool the “totem” of vegetables via cooling by evaporation. The heat rises and affects the double wall of the clay containers, which, with the help of the water contained between their walls, is able to lower the temperature thanks to the heat extracted from their interior, recreating the ideal atmosphere for the needs of each group of vegetables. This is also a sustainable product because, as part of its functioning does not depend on energy, costs are minimal and, most importantly, each item is kept fresher. Personally, I think that this is an industrial product with a strong educational component for the user: each person can now know about the needs of vegetables and preserve them in a more responsible and natural way.
OLTU is like an organism that takes advantage of the heat produced from the back of a fridge, which in today’s fridges is wasted energy, and uses it to help to cool the “totem” of vegetables via cooling by evaporation. The heat rises and affects the double wall of the clay containers, which, with the help of the water contained between their walls, is able to lower the temperature thanks to the heat extracted from their interior, recreating the ideal atmosphere for the needs of each group of vegetables. This is also a sustainable product because, as part of its functioning does not depend on energy, costs are minimal and, most importantly, each item is kept fresher. Personally, I think that this is an industrial product with a strong educational component for the user: each person can now know about the needs of vegetables and preserve them in a more responsible and natural way.
Outdoor Kitchen Inspiration 002: Kitchen Design
Nouveau Neolithic is a range of tools for post-apocalyptic gourmands to
allow us to cope with food and energy scarcity while preserving pleasure
and dignity in our daily lives. Drawing inspiration from communal
cooking practices during the Depression and World Wars, they use
collective labour to produce refined gourmet cuisine from simple staples
and foraged foods with minimum energy consumption. The object of the
project is to try and find strategies for using objects to promote
positive social responses to a scenario where climate change and energy
supply depletion has brought an end to cheap food imports.
nouveau-neolithic
flow is a living kitchen where nature and technology are
integrated in a symbiotic relationship, processes flow into one another
in a natural cycle, efficiently utilizing energy, waste, water and other
natural resources. it provides a space not only for preparing food but
an environment that gives a better understanding of how natural
processes work. a kitchen where food is grown, stored, cooked and
composted to grow more food.
the flow products can be used independently but are far more effective when they work in concert as part of a larger system. the individual objects are relatively uncomplicated, acting as simple vehicles for the more com- plex natural processes to do the work. this kitchen is developed as a flexible system where resources are reused by several elements creating a dynamic flow between the products.
an all wood version of our peg furniture.
peg is a family of furniture with diverse parentage. the shaker peg rail, the korean wall hung table and the lowly shop broom. a flexible furniture system made up of simple components, which can be assembled in a variety of ways to accommodate a multitude of scenarios. it can be just as easily disassembled, using no tools or fasteners. all components can be hung from a peg rail on the wall creating pleasing abstract compositions.
Studio Mama: Mobile Kitchen
When the weather is up for it, I love to cook outside. So for this summer's TEN project I have been making an outdoor kitchen, so I can expand my chopping and peeling outside with also the cooking. The outdoor kitchen comprises a gas cooking hob, a bucket sink, a chopping board and storage for crockery, utensils and a few food ingredients. Water is connected from the garden hose and waist water is collected in a watering can placed beneath the sink, so grey water can be reused.
nouveau-neolithic
the flow products can be used independently but are far more effective when they work in concert as part of a larger system. the individual objects are relatively uncomplicated, acting as simple vehicles for the more com- plex natural processes to do the work. this kitchen is developed as a flexible system where resources are reused by several elements creating a dynamic flow between the products.
peg is a family of furniture with diverse parentage. the shaker peg rail, the korean wall hung table and the lowly shop broom. a flexible furniture system made up of simple components, which can be assembled in a variety of ways to accommodate a multitude of scenarios. it can be just as easily disassembled, using no tools or fasteners. all components can be hung from a peg rail on the wall creating pleasing abstract compositions.
The project mobile hospitality (Mobile Gastfreundschaft) pays attention
to an important aspect of our design work – the responsibility and the
self-initiative in public space. The city plays as a space a difficult
role. On the one hand it does not belong to anyone, on the other hand it
belongs to all, but it is merely used by us actively, as it was in
former times. It has decreased to the background of our everyday
activities. Responsibility for the outdoor space, for most of the
residents stops at their garden fence. The project mobile hospitality
starts just here.
Studio Mama: Mobile Kitchen
When the weather is up for it, I love to cook outside. So for this summer's TEN project I have been making an outdoor kitchen, so I can expand my chopping and peeling outside with also the cooking. The outdoor kitchen comprises a gas cooking hob, a bucket sink, a chopping board and storage for crockery, utensils and a few food ingredients. Water is connected from the garden hose and waist water is collected in a watering can placed beneath the sink, so grey water can be reused.
Outdoor Kitchen inspiration 001: Rocket Stoves.
http://cargocollective.com/designedbyliz/thab
Rocket stoves burn hot and clean, using very little wood or other combustibles. Vancouver industrial designer Liz To has designed a new version for Tibet, where they use dung as fuel. Liz notes that 1.6 million people die from indoor pollution from traditional "Three Stones" type fires every year. Meanwhile, in the west, 3.5 billion wire hangers end up in U.S. landfill every year.
http://youtu.be/Xev_dWT2DD0
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