Couch Cushion Architecture.

Image, copyright Jennifer Larson

Image, copyright Jennifer Larson

Exploring the fundamentals of architecture - from "Couch Cushion Architecture a Critical Analysis", by BUILDblog.

The Facadeprinters.

The Facadeprinter is a simple, software controlled robot. It consits of a two axis turn table and an airpressure printhead. The printer shoots the artwork from a distanced position dot by dot onto the chosen area. An inkjet-printer in architectonical dimensions.



The Facadeprinter is a large scale communication tool. Print- esthetic and method are distinguishly different from conventional print- and advertising tecniques. Artworks are applied onto the walls directly, like the drawings of a "magic pen". At present the maximum print dictance is 12 meters, the maximum print height is arround 8 meters. The shooting frequencey is up to 5 dots per second. (source: facadeprinter)

facadeprinter.org - three stones from Facadeprinter on Vimeo.

Find a wall and book the printing team @ booking (at) facadeprinter.org.

Creepy Software.

When software makes you vomit wonder. Things that cause eating disorders.

Greenwashing. The Forum Esplanade Barcelona.

The Forum Esplanade Barcelona (google maps link) and especially the photovoltaic power plant - developed on brownfield seafront land in 2004 as part of Fòrum Barcelona 2004 - is the poster child of green planning initiatives. The plant (by Martínez Lapeña - Torres Arquitectos) is said to be the largest urban solar structure in Europe, with a surface of 10.500 m².

the photovoltaic power plant surrounded by grey asphalt

The area, however, is now a city of architectural ghosts, an abandoned site only in use for anual events like concerts and festivals. The Forum is less a park than a huge parking-space like concrete-desert - the antipode of green urban design: asphalt surfacse replace brownfield land.

Ironically, the site is the favored background of car campaigns: it makes car look green - without green.

Auditorium Park at the Forum of International Cultures, Barcelona, 2004
Design: Foreign Office Architects, Who want to sit on these benches?

Postcard from the BMW shop at the BMW Welt München

Building is Beautiful.

Package design beauties by War Design for Construction Technologies Australia. Construction industry products like adhesives, grouts and more. [via lovelypackage]