Architects: ANNABAU
Location: Brandenburg, Germany
Architect In Charge: Hauss Crussow
Area: 200 sqm
Year: 2012
Photographs: Hanns Joosten

Timber Construction: Schuchardt Zimmerei & Holzrahmenbau GmbH
Wooden Elevations: City Climber, Thomas Meinert
Roof & Cladding & Fibreboard: Manriko Pusst
Concrete & Precast Elements & Plumbing And Heating Services: Baugesellschaft Caesekow
Windows & Doors: Fenster Braun & Co. KG
Electrics: PM Haustechnik
Kitchen: Minerva, Petra Goman
Timber Piling: Sans Souci Parkett GmbH

From the architect. The brief was to build a spacious timber constructed private residence in the eastern Uckermark in rural Brandenburg. Small farm buildings dot the wide-open landscape in what is primarily agricultural land. For this project, we took up this theme of the lone homestead in an open landscape. The property evolves around a paved central courtyard as external extension to the living areas inside the house. Principal building and the annex are aligned longitudinally to the yard. The main residence is built around a large, central, open plan area, which serves as live-cook-work-lobby space. Zones are loosely defined by the solid implant of a sanitary block containing bathroom and guest WC. Four separate rooms link onto this central space on the southwesterly and northeasterly fronts.

The concept of the room-in-a-room obviates the use of service corridors. The timber construction consists of laminated wooden trusses with a 9m span. It rests on an only 12cm-strong base plate. Thermal insulation for walls and roof is achieved with a 30cm infill layer of compressed cellulose flakes blown into cavities. The solid central core of the house consists of reinforced precast concrete filigree slabs, with their concrete infills executed in situ. Longitudinal walls and roofing are fibreboard; gable walls are clad in unplaned larch-wood planks.

Thermal efficiency operates on the premise of the thermal storage capacity of the solid concrete core of the house and the attached solid fuel masonry stove with an ingenious system of internal fireclay-lined heat-exchange channels exuding heat to warm the house.

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kouichi okamoto of kyouei design has created 'magnetic field record', a hanging device suspended from a ceiling whose spinning motion artfully records the pull of gravity and magnetism. signature to okamoto's style, dripping liquid is the medium by which the artwork takes its shape. the mobile, iron apparatus contains a magnet at its core and an intravenous drip-like container that holds black chinese ink. as the liquid in the container recedes, its weight changes and shifts the balance of the entire mechanism. because the equilibrium of the spinning device is altered, the lines and splatters generated by the ink drops change in intensity, value, and density. the resulting impression is an organically shaped graphic that is left on a sheet of japanese paper.

magnetic field record

the lines and splatters generated by the dripping ink change in intensity and density

a hanging device suspended from a ceiling records the pull of gravity

the mobile, iron apparatus contains a magnet at its core

dripping liquid is the medium by which the artwork takes its shape

as the liquid in the container recedes it changes the balance of the entire mechanism

 black chinese ink is poured into a container and attached to an iron mobile unit

viennese artist alex kiessling and strukt design studio will embark on a cross-border project that merges art and technology by using industrial robots to simultaneously create large-scale drawings in three european cities. taking place at an event hosted by the vienna tourist board on september 26th, 2013, 'long distance art' will feed real-time tracking via satellite to the two remote robotic devices, one stationed in berlin, at breitscheidplatz, and the other in london, at trafalgar square, and will mirror kiessling’s movements in real time. the project calls on the use of a prototyping program called vvvv, which facilitates the handling of large media environments with physical interfaces, real-time motion graphics, and audio and video that can interact with many users at the same time. once completed, kiessling will take all three independent artworks from the various cities and join them together in a triptych. to see a version of the robot in action, watch the video below:

alex kiessling draws an image that will be fed into a computer and sent to robots in three cities in europe

testing the robotic drawing device .

the skin collection by dutch designer pepe heykoop is a reaction to the 25-30 percent waste produced by the furniture industry. being presented at an exhibition two years in the making: heykoop has rebuilt a house in its entirety into a small castle to host an installation during inside design amsterdam. using secondhand or found objects on the street, the series of pieces being showcased are modified and then covered in pieces of leather leftovers. 'the discarded leather from factories are usually a result of things such the organic shape of the animal, its scratches, damages, scars and faded tones after dying,' says heykoop. 'this project is fed by the nature of the scrap pieces - sewn together into random patterns - informed by cell structures and growth in nature.' the project ultimately re-appropriates un-used leather remnants and objects and gives them both new life by creating hand made slip-covers that merges various off-cuts and colors together.

the series of pieces being showcased are modified and then covered in pieces of leather leftovers

the collection is a reaction to the 25-30 percent waste produced by the furniture industry

'the discarded leather from factories are usually a result of things such its scratches, damages, scars...'

the project re-appropriates un-used leather remnants and objects and gives them both new life

in a response to the often severe natural disasters in vietnam, local architects have designed this flood resistant 'blooming bamboo home'. each modular structure is 3.3m x 6.6m and is assembled by bolting, binding, hanging, placing the different elements. the building is strong enough to withstand a 1.5m high flood and currently, the architects are experimenting with the model to see if it can survive a 3m high flood. the interior of the building works as a multi functional space - house, educational, medical and community center

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