spent a bit of time cleaning my sites up a bit—
portfolio site: sevenknotwind.com (top) and my primary tumblr page: blog.sevenknotwind.com (aka this page/bottom)
Still need to add and organize all of the new 2012 work to my portfolio site though…
I love this aesthetic
So, I posted these plates earlier (via my iphone) they were un credited and I was too lazy to look while on my phone, but I can’t stand not having the credit. Chalk it up to my inner educator or simply one of my many OCDs.
at any rate, after further examination I discovered that these plates are more that just minimally beautiful eating surfaces—
designed by NADEEM HAIDARY, The surface area of each of these plates is scaled in proportion to the amount of food consumed by the people who live in the region depicted on the plate.
These plates are info graphics of sorts, that are meant to pair with a set of utensils.
The data visualized in the plate and fork is caloric consumption per capita in various countries and regions. The information allows one to compare your culture’s eating habits to the rest of the world’s.
Before a meal, when a person takes out their dinnerware, they become aware of the discrepencies in food consumption around the world and can make an informed decision on how much they feel is appropriate for them to eat.
An alternate to the plates, each prong on this fork represents a different countries caloric intake per capita. Each fork contains the United States (or home country) and three other countries that are ordered alphabetically, providing a relatively varied sample to compare. The forks are water jet cut, sandblasted and then laser-etched with text.
InfObjects
via: shapes in play
a 3D info-visualization
The ingredients of several dishes have been analysed regarding energy content, CO2 equivalent and price:
A high content of energy causes the growth of small roots on the outer surface of the object.
The CO2 equivalent of a dish is visualized by the appearance of `ozone holes´ that indicate how much greenhouse gas has been produced during breeding and processing of a single edible.
a collection of some inspired/inspiring residential work by architect David Jameson.
Aperiodic Symmetries | University of Calgary | January 2009
Design: THEVERYMANY™ / ©Marc Fornes 2009
Overall size (in m): 6.3*2.5*3
Sum of its parts:
- 1640 parts
- 757 unique stars connections
- 883 panels (11 unique types)
- 5 days CNC cutting
- 30 sheets 4*8’ of ½” thick Polyethylene
- 8 people – 72hours assembly time
yes please.
I can move in tomorrow.
cabbagerose:
red hill residence/david luck architecture
via: lecontainer
Hollow Concrete Chambered Cubes Texture
Yusuke Obuchi
Wave Garden (models)
Existing in the area where art and architecture overlap, whether utilitarian or fantastical or both, Wave Garden is rooted in a deep understanding of materials and systems in such a way, that it transcends its idealism and aesthetics. The result is a concept that seems incredibly ambitious and yet plausible, despite its avant garde /radical nature.
Floating off the California coastline, the Wave Garden is a prototype for a dual-function power plant and public park, oscillating with the ocean waves and cycles of energy demand. It is designed to succeed the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant after its 40-year license expires in the year 2026.
As an alternative to nuclear and other conventional energy sources, the Wave Garden is an electric power plant that derives energy from the movement of ocean waves.
Monday through Friday, it generates energy, but at the weekends, the Wave Gardenchanges into a public garden - thus changing from a space of production to one of recreation and consumption. At the weekends, selected areas lift above the surface of the ocean, acting as a ceiling under which boats approach the entrances.
The area dedicated to recreation during the weekends is inversely proportional to the energy consumed during the week. In this way, the public park acts as a visual indicator of energy consumption - the less energy used, the more area allocated to recreation.
the above text found here
image credits: (bottom) Model of Wave Garden at Princeton University, 2002. Photo by David L. Hays. all other images credited to the artist
mcbride charles ryan architects
KLEIN BOTTLE HOUSE
This weekend house is located on heavily ti-treed sand hills adjacent the ocean beach in Rye. Its spiral configuration is a spatial device which responds to the difficult topography, it is also a figure rich in coastal allusions. By passing the spiral back through itself the house has become the mathematical concept of the Klein Bottle.
I’ve seen this house before (and was blown away) but ran into it again today researching the klein bottle and thought I’d share—
These guys make some stunning buildings.
Character is a project based in Finland that converts dismantled signs into individual art objects which can be purchased online here. These photos by Johan Warden make the project all the more striking. (via Character | Colossal)
