Posted by Bogdan on January 13, 2010 | 1 Comment
This egg shaped mobile home was design by the Belgian architectural firm dmvA, and the project is called ‘blob VB3’. The house integrates a bathroom, a kitchen, lightning, a bed and a few storage places.
It’s unique shape makes the egg very easy to transport and can be used as an office, guestroom, garden house, summer lounge, ‘high-end’ tent 
. If you lift the nose, it can function as a porch.
Technical details of blob VB3:
blob VB3
design: dmvA
principal: rini van beek/ xfactoragencies
team: david driesen, tom verschueren, thomas denturck
location: anywhere/ mobile
general contractor: AD&S thomas denturck
constructional engineer: AD&S
built area: 20 m2
completion 2009
Posted by Bogdan on November 22, 2009 | No Comments
If you’re in Europe, you probably don’t a have personal locker in your school where you can keep your books, dictionaries, notebooks, food, and were “important” people can stick love letters. The situation changes if you study in US: everybody knows them, especially from the movies: school lockers used as jail for geek kids, gym lockers used as hiding place for peeking on the girls while changing after an exhausting match, or locker doors used as weapons against the running students.
Lockers can be of two main types: standard and vented. Both standard and vented lockers can be constructed as single tier, double tier, triple tier and box style. The materials used are usually steel, plastic or wood. Wooden lockers are usually sold as executive because they look a lot more classy and can be used in richer institutions. If you want it to go with the wall painting, don’t worry, there are a lot of colors to choose from when buying a locker.
Stadium lockers and gym ones can also come with benches, a useful set in the run for victory. The benches are also made from Aluminum, plastic or wood.
A lot of accessories can contribute to the perfect, ultimate space saving locker: top, bases, side panels, door, shelves, locks, keys, identification plates, modular add-ons and many more.
So, if you decide to get yourself some lockers, there are many options you can choose from. Just make sure you have enough space to put them… wait a second, that’s what a locker is suppose to do… clear space.
Posted by Bogdan on October 26, 2009 | No Comments
The Bricks & Mortar series of chairs and sofas was created by the British Artist Richard Woods and the designer Sebastian Wrong for Established and Sons. The whole idea that stands behind this amazing piece of furniture is the irony of combining the extreme comfort of the chair in comparison to the hardness of the print.
The size and layout of the bricks set the scale of the seat and sofa, and forced the mortar lines to correspond the geometry of the object.
Posted by elutzik on October 7, 2009 | No Comments
We all love color, right? Then we all love this building design. It can be found in Santiago, Chile and responsible for it is the designer Santiago Raby Pinto. This building was built in the ‘70 and rehabilitated for a new purpose: The General Offices of Caja de Compensación Los Heroes, a private, independent and non profit institution whose role is to administrate social security funds for economic help for retired persons and workmen through small and soft loans.
The architects used nature as the main architectural concept, while the ludic and light expression was the way to conjugate and symbolize the relationship of leisure – nature.
The building’s strategy is to efficiently collect energy with a sustainable façade. This double façade skin is an UV ray filter and a good component to isolate the interior space comfort.
The inner transformation strategy creates a circular core, transforming old geometry and giving a fluent, continuous and functional circulation, which links all floor spaces.
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