Category: Materials

  • Richard Rogers: Wimbledon house

    Richard Rogers: Wimbledon house

    Richard Rogers interview: Wimbledon house | Architecture | Dezeen

    In this exclusive video interview, British architect Richard Rogers reflects on the influence of the seminal house he designed for his parents at 22 Parkside in Wimbledon, London. Designed in the late 1960s by Rogers and his then wife Su, the Wimbledon house – also known as the Rogers House – was intended to demonstrate a new pre-fabricated construction system, which would enable homes to be built quickly and affordably. “This wasn’t going to be a one-off like our previous buildings,” Rogers says in the movie, which Dezeen filmed in London. “This was going to be a standardised system to solve the whole of the British housing problem. It didn’t! But it did certainly lead to most of the work which I still do some 50 years later and more.” Originally designed for Rogers’ parents, the building was adapted and extended by Rogers’ son Ab, who moved into the house with his family in 1998. The house received Grade-II heritage listing in 2013, and two years later Rogers donated the home to the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

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    Entrevista a Richard Rogers: Casa Wimbledon | Arquitectura | Dezeen

    En esta exclusiva entrevista en vídeo, el arquitecto británico Richard Rogers reflexiona sobre la influencia de la casa seminal que diseñó para sus padres en 22 Parkside en Wimbledon, Londres. Diseñada a finales de la década de 1960 por Rogers y su entonces esposa Su, la casa de Wimbledon, también conocida como Rogers House, tenía la intención de demostrar un nuevo sistema de construcción prefabricado, que permitiría que las casas se construyeran de forma rápida y asequible. “Esto no iba a ser una única como nuestros edificios anteriores”, dice Rogers en la película, que Dezeen filmó en Londres. “Este iba a ser un sistema estandarizado para resolver todo el problema de la vivienda británica. ¡No lo hizo! Pero ciertamente me llevó a la mayor parte del trabajo que todavía hago unos 50 años después y más”. Originalmente diseñado para los padres de Rogers, el edificio fue adaptado y ampliado por el hijo de Rogers, Ab, quien se mudó a la casa con su familia en 1998. La casa recibió la lista de patrimonio de grado II en 2013, y dos años después Rogers donó la casa a la Escuela de Graduados de Diseño de Harvard.

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  • Sanctuary of Simplicity

    Sanctuary of Simplicity

    Architect George Suyama wonders if his early years in a Japanese American internment camp led to his love for simplicity. “My theory is that we had nothing there so I became obsessed with little things. I was at a camp in Idaho called Minidoka and it was a tarpaper barracks. They were long shed buildings, I don’t know how many families lived in them, you had one window and a stove area and there were curtains that separated one family from another. Maybe because there was nothing there that I wanted to make everything as simple as I could.“ For five years, he and his wife lived in a tiny 500-square-foot fishing shack in West Seattle. When they bought the narrow lot next door, they wanted to recapture that simplicity. Determined not to remove a single tree, Suyama designed a home 18-feet-wide. To reduce the visual noise of the home the walls, roof, ceiling, floor are all one color (matching the surrounding trees). The only exception is a white box that runs nearly the length of the home which houses the service elements- kitchen, bathroom, stairs and bedroom- and a loft.

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    Original story: https://faircompanies.com/videos/seat…

  • Cold Comfort

    Cold Comfort

    How An Igloo Keeps You Warm

    Published on Jan 9, 2017

    Building a perfect igloo takes cool science!

    And more Info below…

    If you ever find yourself stranded in the snowy Arctic (or bored in Minecraft), you’re gonna need to know how to build an igloo. But how can building a house made of ice keep you warm? The science behind building an igloo is the same reason that otters and reindeer don’t freeze to death.
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    There really ARE 50 Eskimo words for snow: http://wapo.st/2iwThf3

    PBS Idea Channel – An Infinite Number of Words for Snow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CX6i2… – Why there’s no such thing as cold: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Akd7M… – How early humans settled the Arctic: https://uaf.edu/files/olli/Denbigh-Sl… – How to build a scientifically perfect igloo: http://www.popsci.com/how-to-build-an…

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  • Future of Fashion

    Future of Fashion

     

    i-D journeyed back to 2013 to look at conversations then, about changes in technology, and the effects these will have on the future of fashion.

    Director Ben Fries
    Producer Garen Barsegian
    Production Company GAREN.
    Cinematographer Jesse Cain
    Editor Ben Fries, Will Znidaric & Michael Bell
    Production Sound Harris Karlin
    Assitant Editor Michael Bell
    Camera Assistant Michael Ashley
    Sound Mixer Patrick Christensen
    Color Grade Jonathan McPheeters
    Music Chris Keating

    Executive Producer Eddy Moretti
    Executive Producer Shane Smith
    Executive Producer Suroosh Alvi
    Executive Producer Andrew Creighton
    Executive Producer Tom Punch
    Head of Video Danielle Bennison-Brown
    Commissioner Jack Robinson

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    Burberry, Iris van Herpen, Jeremy Scott, Materialise, Nasty Gal, threeASFOUR

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