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Jigsaw Home Design Idea

archinspire — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:17:48 +0000

Recycling a single story suburban house located on a busy corner site, Jigsaw introverts itself in a continuous spatial flow around an open air courtyard carved from the home’s remains. Another residence made by David Jameson Architect.

Fundamental to the conception of the house is the notion of reflectivity, rendering unclear the boundaries between inside and outside. Light and space are modulated by meshing ribbons of wall and glass that form a tessellation of solid and void. The conditioning of these internal and external walls is identical. Planes of stucco exterior walls transform into plaster interior walls while passing through glass. Clerestory glazing and window constructs are carefully sited to afford privacy to the occupants while framing and extending views through the site.

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Jigsaw Home Design Idea

Renovation Design of Missouri Hall, Columbia College by SOA

archinspire — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 12:56:48 +0000

In 2005, Missouri Hall, the historic Columbia College 1920’s dormitory, housed its admissions department and some of the student services on its main floor, but the rest of the building had fallen into such a state of disrepair that it was rendered uninhabitable.

The renovators incorporated high quality wood replacement windows, retained the original structure and lines of the historic building, and creatively re-used original materials.

The student services are now housed in one location, with the Admissions Department on the main level adjacent to the historic lobby, parlor, and grand staircase. SOA’s design concept opened the grand stairway to a new east street side entry, flooding the public spaces with natural light, and renovated the west side courtyard with French doors opening to the main lobby, strengthening the building’s link to the Student Commons along with a new elevator and egress stair. The removal of a portion of the third floor to create a soaring two-story “one stop shop” for student services, and the refinishing of salvaged hardwood floors into contemporary ceiling panels reinforced the ties between the historic and modern uses of the building.

Renovation Design of Missouri Hall, Columbia College by SOA

Sports Lover Bedroom Design for Your Teens

archinspire — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 05:42:36 +0000

So, wanna make bedroom interior design for your kids? Why not make bedroom with interior design that has sports atmosphere?

Because, children between 9 until 12 years ages usually like things of sports. They often have their sport stars idol; collect the posters, stickers, cards, and merchandise of sports that they love.

To get sporty interior design, you can patch poster and or arrange your children merchandise collections. Or, better idea is make mural that imaging sports.

Thing that have to consider, don’t make mural that make bedroom seems crowded. Because of that, don’t use dark colors for another wall that not image painted. Use dark colors only just for accent.

Sports Lover Bedroom Design for Your Teens

Tips to Arrange Guest Room So Add More Fortune and Lucky

archinspire — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 05:40:52 +0000

For good Feng Shui quality in guest room, add several stuffs below:

Painting that has hoping fortune and luck meaning, like nine koi paint, running horse, mountain with rice field or wheat/corn field that ready to harvest, casuarinas tree, or white egret.
Statue or porcelain with wealthy symbol, such as:

- Porcelain that has Hu Lu shaped or Eight Number that can keep fortune inside it

- Crystal stones which believed can drive out bad atmosphere

- Plants decoration that have orange fruit as good symbol

- Aquarium (if placed at right place).

Ornament placement to increase fortune quality should be at corner that diagonally opposite with enterer door.

Tips to Arrange Guest Room So Add More Fortune and Lucky

Water Cube Architectural-The 2008 Olympics National Swimming Center

archinspire — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:47:56 +0000

This is the main venue for swimming events at the 2008 Olympics. Built by a team from the Australian architecture firm PTW, Arup, and China State Construction and Engineering (CSCEC) explored evolutionary biology, arcane 19th-century geometry, and the latest computer-modeling technology, racing against a competition deadline for the design of this swimming pools.

The team had already learned that Herzog & de Meuron’s bird’s-nest scheme was selected for the National Stadium next door. “We wanted to do something different from Herzog & de Meuron’s design,” recalls Tristram Carfrae, the leader of the Arup delegation. “Their’s was red and round, so our’s would be blue and boxy.” Since swimming pools need to be heated most of the year, the team figured that a greenhouse-a building that captures and holds solar energy-would be the most efficient structure for the job. That led to the notion of a continuous skin for the roof and walls, one that would be transparent or translucent. Glass wouldn’t be right, because its acoustics would create a din inside the building. So the team selected ethylene tetrafluoroethylene (ETFE), a transparent form of the plastic Teflon. In addition to being acoustically transparent, the material is lightweight and remarkably sturdy even at thicknesses as little as 0.008 inches (0.2 millimeters).

Looking at forms and patterns found in nature, the group started designing the skin. They quickly focused on soap bubbles and what happens to their geometry when they congregate. At first, the designers tried clustering cylinders to create a flat roof and walls, but weren’t happy with the gaps between the cylinders and the awkward shift from vertical cylinders (to support the roof) to horizontal ones (to support the walls). In their search for the most efficient way to divide space into cells of equal size with the least surface area between them, the designers explored solutions proposed in the 19th century by Belgian physicist Joseph Plateau and British mathematician William Thomson Kelvin, and by the Irish physicist Denis Weaire and his assistant Robert Phelan in the late 20th century. Eventually, the team adapted Weaire and Phelan’s ideas, developing a building skin made of cells with either 14 or 12 sides. “We wanted the bubble pattern to seem random, not repetitious,” explains Chris Bosse, who was one of the project architects for PTW and now runs his own firm in Sydney called the Laboratory for Visionary Architecture (LAVA). Using the Weaire-Phelan geometry, the group created a skin made of 4,000 ETFE bubbles, some as large as 30 feet across, with seven different sizes for the roof and 15 for the walls.

A space frame assembled on-site from 22,000 steel tubes welded to 12,000 nodes holds the cells in place and provides a column-free structure with spans of 396 feet in either direction. The three-dimensional frame is nondirectional-meaning it has no up or down, left or right-making it perfect for a high-seismic zone such as Beijing. The chemically treated water in the pools and the air pollution outside the building, though, are both corrosive. So the design team placed the steel frame inside a cavity made of two layers of ETFE pillows. For the roof, the cavity is 25 feet deep, and for the walls it is 12 feet.

Called the Water Cube (even though it’s a box 584 feet square and 102 feet high, not a cube), the rectangular design won over the competition jury. Completed early this year, the building seems to float on water, thanks to a reflecting pool surrounding it and a gentle cascade of water washing down its base and into the pool. Inside, the bubble theme continues with circles incised on the floor of the main lobby and a Bubble Lounge on the second floor where-you guessed it-champagne is served at bars made of smooth Corian dotted with circles.

Water Cube Architectural-The 2008 Olympics National Swimming Center