Archive for the 'Construction and Tech' Category

A Tiny Apartment Transforms Into 24 Rooms

Nice concept but moving walls and partitions is not a practical solution to small living spaces. I prefer it to be compact than flexible. Just me.

Rachel Armstrong: Architecture that repairs itself?

Here is an interesting video, Venice, Italy is sinking. To save it, Rachel Armstrong says we need to outgrow architecture made of inert materials and, well, make architecture that grows itself. All building today have something in common, they are made with Victorian technology, this involves industrial, manufacturing, blueprint, all involve team of worker. This [...]

Bendable Concrete

Image Source: National Geographic First they have bendable concrete, then these engineers introduced light transmitting concrete to the world, now we have a self-healing concrete that is bendable. A team led by Victor Li of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor has developed a new type of concrete that bends under pressure and the [...]

See Through and Light Transmitting Translucent Concrete

Image Source: Dornob Image Source: Dornob My tutor told me about the existence of transparent concrete, it is not really a new technology, kind of old but amazing. Transparent construction-grade concrete, imagine the possibilities! Who invented this? According to Wikipedia, it was developed in 2001 by Hungarian architect Áron Losonczi working with scientists at the [...]

Floral Patterns on Concrete

Image Source: Transparent House Here is a simple way to dress up the stark industrial bare concrete floors; I believe their floral patterns can be applied to interiors of a retail and fashion outlet. Although it is not architecturally creative, but I kind of like it. More 3D rendering at Transparent House, yes, the image [...]

Contour Crafting, 3D Construction Printing Printer by University of Southern California

Image Source: Contour Crafting Your phones, shoes, clothes, cars, planes and almost everything man made are made automatically with machines, except for your house and it doesn’t make sense, or does it? Behrokh Khoshnevis at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, who will soon unleash his $1.5m (£940,000) robot, according to him, the [...]

Future Drafting Technique

Evodia, a french company presents its first TabletPC software, a pen-based sketching program for electrical sketches.Imagine the TabletPC’s touchscreen size is as big as an A1, this could possibly be the future of drafting.Found via RobiNZ CAD Blog