Jan 20, 2016 06:26 PM
Australian farmer fights erosion with a patchwork of geometric designs
http://inhabitat.com/australian-farmer-f...c-designs/
EXCERPT: Is it art or is it smart conservation? Sometimes, the answer is both. One farmer in South Australia is fighting back against soil erosion using a patchwork of geometric designs plowed right into his fields. Brian Fischer, who farms 60 km (37 miles) north of Adelaide, came up with a creative and visually stunning way to protect his precious topsoil in the aftermath of recent brush fires. The result is a network of carefully planned swirls that create ridges in the topsoil, and Fischer says it’s working like a charm....
Full of Hot Air: Clever Urban Monuments Conceal Exhaust Shafts
http://weburbanist.com/2016/01/19/full-o...st-shafts/
EXCERPT: Fenced off or set back from streets and sidewalks and often raised on platforms as well, civic monuments are oddly ideal candidates for concealing a peculiar secondary function: the ventilation of subterranean spaces, from sewage systems to subway tunnels....
Wood-Skin: Flexible New Structural Material for Walls, Programmable Furniture and Beyond
http://dornob.com/wood-skin/
EXCERPT: [...] It’s a new, malleable composite material that can give architectural surfaces texture with a cool 3D effect. Wood-Skin is tissue-like, as flexible as fabrics but as rigid as wood, made of nylon mesh and triangular-shaped tiles. The faceted, computer-generated triangulation pattern allows it to be highly customizable. The wood skin bends where it creases....
http://inhabitat.com/australian-farmer-f...c-designs/
EXCERPT: Is it art or is it smart conservation? Sometimes, the answer is both. One farmer in South Australia is fighting back against soil erosion using a patchwork of geometric designs plowed right into his fields. Brian Fischer, who farms 60 km (37 miles) north of Adelaide, came up with a creative and visually stunning way to protect his precious topsoil in the aftermath of recent brush fires. The result is a network of carefully planned swirls that create ridges in the topsoil, and Fischer says it’s working like a charm....
Full of Hot Air: Clever Urban Monuments Conceal Exhaust Shafts
http://weburbanist.com/2016/01/19/full-o...st-shafts/
EXCERPT: Fenced off or set back from streets and sidewalks and often raised on platforms as well, civic monuments are oddly ideal candidates for concealing a peculiar secondary function: the ventilation of subterranean spaces, from sewage systems to subway tunnels....
Wood-Skin: Flexible New Structural Material for Walls, Programmable Furniture and Beyond
http://dornob.com/wood-skin/
EXCERPT: [...] It’s a new, malleable composite material that can give architectural surfaces texture with a cool 3D effect. Wood-Skin is tissue-like, as flexible as fabrics but as rigid as wood, made of nylon mesh and triangular-shaped tiles. The faceted, computer-generated triangulation pattern allows it to be highly customizable. The wood skin bends where it creases....