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Astrid Rohde Wang - HABITAT OSLO SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN
The project reflects on the poetry in the architecture of the situation. We involuntarily follow an ascetic on his pilgrimage from a climate research center on the planes of Dehradun to a sacred glacier in the Indian Himalayas. We observe his stay at one of several resting points on his way through the mountain landscape. The resting point is a self-contained dwelling built by and for one person. The resting point proposes a local future built of a collective past, and requires a reassessment of our perception of housing. Serenity meets self-sacrifice at the life pavillion. The building elements write a narrative accompanied by footnotes in visual associations and literary anecdotes, deeply rooted in the memory. The guest house is an active container for a collection of dreams, memories and physical treasures, itself constructed from such elements. A beam found in oslo, a peculiar pair of binoculars found by lake victoria, a floating pier found in the memory and the inherited notion of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon meet among others in the architecture of the situation, further observed by the intuitive viewer. We are certainly in the process of destroying our planet. The pilgrimage is a tribute to the beauty of the small situations that shape our planet and intuitive observer in the land of the setting sun.
Commom is build on the values from public design. Values as overview, structure, rhythm, different social distances and possibilities of communication. Common is also build on users and their perception of public and private. Common is thought as a bench for private homes. A bench for family and friends. A bench for conversations and quick dinners. For gambeling and playing. The bench as the gathering object. Humour and softness gives it personality. The idiom of Common builds directly on public design, the shape is found in a grating in the local area. Made out of homegrown (DK) ash, wood refuse and metal.
Joan Petersen HABITAT
Common - a bench for every one
Suemin Jeon Ring Babilonia HABITAT The slums of Rio de Janeiro have persistently been major problems for the city. Locally known as favelas, 20% of the city population living in poverty has settled in these informal neighborhoods, where they face violence, crime, discrimination, and lack of basic amenities. As the 2016 Olympics approaches, the city has finally started to actively implement programs to pacify and upgrade the favelas. However, one of their actions caused many domestic and international controversies. As part of its Olympics master plan, Rio de Janeiro has begun to undertake a city-wide project to wall off thirteen of its favelas. The government plans to build almost 11km of walls, spending $17.6 million and relocating 550 houses. Many protestors argue that the walls will imprison the poor and cause even larger social divisions. Advocates, however, argue that it is a necessary intervention to protect the forest from sprawl and prevent landslides. The proposed project is a public path around the perimeter of a favela. The promenade connects a series of public spaces, which are currently almost nonexistent in favelas due to the extreme density at the ground level. Creating these opportunities for interactions can bridge existing economic and social gaps and overcome prejudices. By advocating an accessible, permeable and interactive boundary, the project contemplates an inclusive society where differences are embraced and allowed to mix rather than oppressed.
LEE Hon Fung “INTEGRATEd School” When lessons are not in classrooms…… HABITAT
Zheng Zhihan Clement A COMFORTABLE PRESENCE HABITAT
Simple Living The global movement towards sustainability, along with the fragile balance of economies around the world, has led to this new-found awareness of Simple living. This lifestyle trend is characterised by increased discretion in spending and a redefinition of luxury. The submission is a collection of furniture and lighting objects designed around the theme of \’a comfortable presence\’. The theme was derived from observing current social and fashion trends, and from these observations, a program and color palette was developed to conceptualize this collection.
Ander Ugarte CLASSROOM OF THE FUTURE HABITAT
The objective of the study is that the classroom itself responds adequately to the physical needs that exist when working in small groups of 5-6 people and even when receiving lectures or presentations of various projects be made. So it´s necessary that the learning environment becomes a suitable environment, ideal to deal with different methodologies. A place that promotes relations between agents, improving communication and knowledge acquisition. A classroom that affects the sense of belonging by getting the student belongs to the classroom and feel safe emotionally. And finally the classroom of the future will be a classroom COMFORTABLE, the ideal place to work and learn. Aula LEM – Learning elastic modulus
It is a flexible module that consists of a shape memory material to support and a resilient display which has the ability to stretch and compress. The product\’s added value lies in the fact that the product can be transformed into an infinity of forms and getting the maximum adaptability. This is a lightweight, high usability, which can easily become a totem to work, a study desk staff and even a portion of a circular group table.
Hans Alexander Huseklepp Remedy PRODUCT The product concept - Circle of Trust - is a non-intrusive, low trade-off home security system. It aims to provide the target user with a security system that’s affordable and has lower trade-offs than the existing solutions on the market. Circle of Trust is a closed network of alarms, combining stationary alarm triggers with mobile applications. The users notify their closest friends when an emergency situation occurs. The research showed that the main security issue in the domestic situation was not loss of assets, but personal security, and the concept aims to solve this by sharing responsibility with a small network of people the users trust. The alarm trigger is embedded in a tablecloth to be placed on the nightstand. When in passive mode the alarm is non-intrusive, but is always available and in close proximity to the bed - the place where the users felt most vulnerable. When activated it distributes a push notification to the Trustees’ phones, alerting several people at once.
Andreas Fisher & Christian Hansen Gren intelligent blind cane PRODUCT Design a functional product for the health care industry. We wanted to create an intelligent guide to help blind people navigate from A to B and back to A again. Guide dogs, canes and the GPS way-finder is the most commonly used aids for blind people. The Gren Intelligent blind cane combines all these aids into one product. Gren is a blind cane with different features. The features consist of a sensor and a GPS-system. If the ultrasonic sensor detects any obstacles in front of the user, the vibrator in the handle begins to rumble. The vibration increases the closer the user gets to an object. This feature is meant to replace the guide dog. The user programmes the GPS-function by voice command. There is a microphone and a small speaker in the handle; all the user needs to do is push the button and speak out the address. The user is guided by the “thumbpad�. When you need to go in a straight line the pad will be centered, and when you need to go left or right, the pad turns smoothly. This feature is meant to replace the traditional GPS way-finder. The Gren intelligent blind cane still has the important qualities of a traditional blind cane.
Silvia Illia, Paxton Sheldahl Mate/Mate PRODUCT The objective of this project was to explore the challenges of designing and fabricating a series of objects following the principles of parametric design and cad-cam fabrication technologies. Mate / Mate was born as a re-interpretation of how to pack, into one unit, a series of vessels used for the purposes of drinking mate. Our objectives were to create something beautiful, functional and subtle, taking in consideration the specific role of each part within the whole as well as basic ergonomics for the specific uses: one vessel must contain the herb, another must contain the water and another will hold the infusion. In the process of fabricating Mate/Mate we worked with Solidworks as a main platform for geometry creation and modification , we also used the knee mill for flip-milling the pieces and a series of other shop tools for finishing. Our process explored the merging of analog and computational technologies. We worked with a glass artisan for the blow molding of the glass parts, we used computer aided manufacturing to mill the molds that were then used to hand craft the glass. The challenge of maintaining tolerances as well as understanding the behavior of the different materials enriched our comprehension of design as an integrative function of geometry, materiality and tectonics.
SUEN Ka Hei Pierrot PRODUCT
Food is a powerful sensual experience that engages all your senses. It is no wonder one is seduced by the sight, smell, taste, sound and touch of food. Therefore, I started to research “Food Design”. Heston Blumenthal, the chef and owner of The Fat Duck, a three-Michelin-starred restaurant in the UK said “Eating is a multi-modal process involving all the senses,” Design Concept My project aims to investigate different ways of thinking and approaching design and the objects around us. The atmosphere, the people involved the stories behind the ingredients, the taste and texture, sound, smell and colour of food and the way food is prepared and served. My project design condiment set provides the user with the tools to enhance the experience and tasting of food involving the 5 different senses.
Marta L贸pez Orosa Species. PRODUCT The project species. comes from the wish for creating something that is not restricted to work isolatedly, something that could somehow set a complete whole. A series of strong and heavy enough elements, from the point of view of both value and sense, that are able to find their place in our surroundings, to remain there, and maybe to make up for any kind of thing the place is short of. It is the wish to create a product that combines certain aspects of interest such as architecture, known on the top of the scale as urbanism, and on the bottom of the scale as sculpture. A series of elements that work under the same parameters or formal features, and that have the same essence, which rests, with regard to the original planning and design, permanent and constant, and which nonetheless changes and develops materially.
Chua Ying Tong Yvonne Vase PRODUCT You might not always have a vase of roses around the house, but it\’s nice to be reminded that there could always be one. (the image of the vase of flowers was achieved through the shadow cast by an acrylic panel accompanied with lighting fixtures)
Daniel Lindberg Haneda Bridge Hotel, Tokyo: A place for movement PUBLIC SPACES On one side of the river, stands the quiet fishing village of Haneda. Across from it a growing airport is nearing international status. The project will link these two areas with a structure that serves both the local inhabitants and visitors from abroad. It functions as bicycle and pedestrian bridge, but will also include a local metro station and a semi-enclosed park for indoor and outdoor art, cultural events, and recreation. Rising above it is an area encircled by hotel rooms that overlook the village, the airport and the city of Tokyo beyond.
Alexander Muchenberger DIALOGUE FREDERIKSHAVN
PUBLIC SPACES
A short cut to job satisfaction can be achieved through the development of a creative and open culture that gives employees influence over their own work. Making creativity and personal development a pivotal part of completing everyday work tasks increases work pleasure dramatically. Key to achieving this is a definition of the core mission and trust from managers.
Arthur Lim Guan Hoarding Greens PUBLIC SPACES Hoarding Greens is born from the idea of tapping on the potential of the blank white screens in our city while reconciling the human and environmental effects of construction fencing. It is a modular cladding system that allows for low maintenance greening of hoardings. Plants will grow together with the site, creating a beautiful screen and eventually get transplanted back onto the completed development to create a smooth transition throughout the construction cycle.
SZE Ling Lee, Linny Slow Frame - a 26 km Urban Interface PUBLIC SPACES
Slowness creates space. From Hong Kong’s existing 13km tram network, the system branches out to form a secondary network which goes slower and deeper into the city. Along this add-on 13km, tram space (18 sq-m each) become spatial interface to engage with site context, community and culture, to become a moving stage, garden, booth, etcetera. This project is a pilot experiment to explore possibilities of tram as an urban interface or a moving spatial device, more than a transportation, advertising medium or party space. Thus, making the system a new linear landmark of Hong Kong.
Paola Sturla Boston pollinators\\\’ attractor PUBLIC SPACES Urban strategy The project addresses the archipelago as a part of the Boston metropolitan region. In terms of strategy, the project is split into two main layers: connections to the city and the gardens. Microscale zoom: butterflies’ garden based on UV perception as attraction strategy. As approximation, we can argue that butterflies can see in a grade of blue and violet, because blue and violet are the colors which refer to frequencies which are closer to the ultraviolet spectrum. For this reason, the proposal includes a hyper natural community made by blue objects. Hyper nature: the blue sticks forest The hyper natural forest of blue sticks is made by a series of aluminum tubes painted in bright blue. They are originally planted following a geometrical grid in the intertidal area, marking the border of the island. Spatial experience: main path: The main path connects two extremes of the island. While crossing the caterpillar garden the path is on the ground, in strict contact with vegetation, the same habitat condition of caterpillars. Nature: the plants selection: From a botanical perspective the caterpillar garden plant community is selected to bloom during the “caterpillar season” and maximize the habitat characteristics and generate a chromatic pattern.
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Juan Sádaba pebblepug - URBAN CONECTOR PUBLIC SPACES An exclusive urban connector has been desgined for the city of Bilbao.A technological bollard with the simplicity of a pebble. A simple and safe outdoor piece of furniture. Provided with wireless, power supply, lighting, data input and video/audio facilities. Each pebble has a vertical jack calculated to bear overturn efforts of a 6 metre high lamppost.Predesigned devices can be plug in to release smells, sounds, decorative lights, heat, information, wireless connection…
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Julie Olssøn & Anne Kristine Grønlund TIMEkspressen Concept: Flyt TRANSPORT & MOBILITY This is a project for TIMEkspressen in collaboration with Nettbuss AS, one of the larges bus companies in Norway and Scandinavia. The goal is to make the bus more attractive and get travellers that use private cars over to public transportation. The design brief includes the whole journey and all aspects that can effect the travel experience. The project has been a combination of systems oriented approaches and service design methodes, some from the AT-ONE method. The process have been user-centered, and a solid reseach face has helped to map out potential challenge areas. Through the mapping process we gained knowlegde about the bus company, the systems affecting it and how both the users and employees exist in the system. The project ended in a consept containing many elements in different areas. TIMEkspressen concept: flyt ensures a pleasent journey with smooth transitions, combining a flexible bus interior and exteded services with offering personal and updated travel information. All the elements together will give the ultimate user experience, but since the elements are seperate Nettbuss can implement them over time and actually realize many of the suggestions. The consept: flyt for TIMEkspressen defines a new market segment taking elements of the personal car into the bus to attract more customers, and is a step in the right direction concerning environmental issues.
Michael Dalsgård Knap & Christian Troels Hansen Cargo Pal TRANSPORT & MOBILITY Development of an innovative electric scooter for use as a means of transportation similar to the well known \\\’Long John\\\’ bicycle.
Cameron Barradale_Ye Li Sunnyside Hub_Convergent Flow Urbanism TRANSPORT & MOBILITY energy flows - embodied potentials in the form of continuous human and informational movement via transit convergence - accumulation of energy flows via multiple overlapping transit networks conveyance - medium for transmission or capture of energy flows
Sunnyside Yard embodies the site with the greatest potential for capitalizing on global, regional and local energy flows in the greater New York City region. Yet, the site exists as an empty shell, a storage yard unable to take advantage its strengths and strategic importance to the New York City region. The necessary urban intervention takes the form of a centrally located hub with the capacity to convey multiple scales of converging energy flows. Orchestrated within a network of pedestrian and vehicular corridors to span the existing site, the intervention connects the disjoined adjacent urban fabrics of Queens, creating a web of energy flows at multiple scales. A highly dense city centre is created which blurs the distinction between underground and surface. Operating in synchronicity with Manhattan, Sunnyside Yard becomes a new city centre in a polycentric New York City region, utilizing its strong infrastructural advantages to create a niche as the information convergence hub of the network.
CHAN Wai Sang, Vincent Citi. Transmitter TRANSPORT & MOBILITY Project Background There are so many different exciting transportations, all of them have their special applications. However we cannot buy all kinds of transportation to fulfill our different purposes. Some of the car factories they are suffering in economics crisis, as users and producers cannot afford the heavy cost, no matter the car or gas .Therefore , a cheap and flexible personal transportation should be proposed for applying in our daily life in the next generation. Design Concept No matter whom you are, everyone has been suffering in the traffic jam and air pollution every day. Therefore, Citi.transmitter focus on small , eco-friendly and sustainable Citi. transmitter is an intelligent Community Vehicle System. Because of different people needs, they can select their own slave module and combine with the master part. Every modules have special application to fulfill every user needs.
Chng Choon Ern, Felix Austin, Gui Qiongling, Su Duwen Aldwin Coast TRANSPORT & MOBILITY With modern day lifestyles becoming more hectic, our aim was to design a car which encourages one to take a break from the monotonous way of living and to foster a stronger bond with one\’s family. The possibilities of an electric car with a flat platform and autonomous driving system, affords us to deliver our concept. As a student project, this issue was tackled at a conceptual stage.
Jaime Castillo
Concept Design road bicycle TRANSPORT & MOBILITY
The use of materials such as ultra light, ultra resistant carbon fiber whose manufacturing process is essentially manual and depends mainly on the development of a mould allows greater flexibility to carry out innovative designs and shapes without such designs pose as resulted in a significant increase in final weight of the bicycle. Objectives: 1 - 3D Design concept of the bicycle including all the subcomponents. 2 - Making the most important engineering calculations following the European standard EN 14781 for bicycles homologation (mainly static strength and fatigue for frame and front fork) defining the different carbon fiber laminates for the different areas of the frame and fork and keeping the styling lines of the bicycle as main design requirement. 3- Making fatigue study of the crank and pedal design defining appropriate pedal section and materials. 4 - Making of 1 aerodynamic simulation of the whole bike.
Elisa Briones + Ine Marie Vassøy Weird Connections VISUAL COMMUNICATION What about connecting a particular taste to a specific word? Seeing letters and numbers colored? Or every time you hear a sound, you see a particular color? Synesthesia is a neurological condition that makes weird connections between different senses, and forces unusual metaphors to dominate the perception of the world. Weird Connections visualize sound to illustrate the color and sound synesthesia. Based on synesthetic tendencies bright colors are related to high pitch and dark color to low pitch. Go ahead and explore how sound is related to color. Explore the colors of your voice!
Welcome to flipflop futures club A club for all girls aged 13 to 14 years.
Emilie Carlsen, Sabina Pedersen and Rikke Karlsen Flip Flop Future Club VISUAL COMMUNICATION
Over the past 10 years, violence among girls from 15 to 17 years of age has raged ten-fold. This is a huge problem, do girls hit each other? – Yes, they do but not in the same way as boys. We girls are far more devious and vicious when it comes to assault and bullying than boys are. It is still only a small group of girls engaged in violence, but the number of violence grows a little bit every year, and the trend must be stopped. NOW! Join our club and take a position on issues when they occur and intervene if you see something which feels
As a result of urban growth and infrastructural expansion, ecological networks have been fragmented and disconnected. Currently there is a movement to lighten human development through the decommissioning of redundant and aged infrastructure and through the development of faster, lighter and fewer road networks.
Yu Ding, Sara Jacobs, Emily Schlickman Lighter Than Air Lab VISUAL COMMUNICATION
Our project, situated on a decommissioned military base southeast of Boston, aims to lighten human corridors and strengthen ecological corridors through aerial interventions, while simultaneously tracking these changes. To do this, we call upon the historical use of the site-a lighter-than-air facility--using the airship as a tool to understand these relationships. The monitoring of ecological and human connectivity provides a framework for understanding how a region functions. Accepting these as simultaneously functioning systems is necessary to understand future patterns of landscape and urbanization.
The idea of sustainability is increasingly popular in all disciplines of design. Despite its obvious importance, few graphic designers have a clear understanding of what the term “sustainability” really means. Thus we aim to reveal and perpetuate the value of sustainable design at every level through renewing our role and value as graphic designers. CONCEPT: Design Circle is an online community of graphic design. Not only do we provide practical information of sustainability, we also encourage user participation. We consider sustainable design from individual designer, to clients, to end users as well as to the greater community. We empower designers as communicators, motivators and ultimately, as agents of change.
Cheng Ki Ki Design Circle - an online community for sustainable graphic design VISUAL COMMUNICATION
OUR GOAL: Design Circle aims to sow the seed that hopefully grows into evaluation, inquiry and discussion of the developing concept of ethical design. • Create awareness & foster discourse on green graphic design. • Change designers’ thought and behavior to become more sustainable. • Encourage and support sustainable design.
Mervy Quek Everything You Need to Know about the Breaststroke VISUAL COMMUNICATION The project depicts a visualization of the multifaceted activity of the breaststroke. It synthesizes qualitative and quantitative information into a visual narrative that is easy to read and understand. The A1 format shows through comparison, Olympic and World records and how human’s measure up to their aquatic counterparts. The focal point of the composition is an analysis of the components that make up the stroke. Project Goals: Students in the 2nd year Industrial Design cohort at the National University of Singapore were charged with conducting research on a topic they were interested in explaining visually. The goal was to then take this research and develop a clear and effective picture for one’s target audience. The project had to exhibit several information design principles and organizational strategies.
NEGRALA Project is the result of a multidisciplinary collaboration between Almazara del Ebro (a handmade oil Cooperative) and the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of the Basque Country (UPV-EHU). In the last institution, there was a close collaboration among teachers, students and other professionals from the areas of Ceramics, Sculpture, Audiovisuals, Photography, Packaging and Graphic Design. This product has been designed as an institutional promotional gift based on those important values of exclusivity, sensibility and added value. The result consists of a delicate porcelain container protected by its packaging. Thus, the whole product information is communicated by specific logotype and brochure. Moreover, the vessel includes a Braille transcription for facilitating the information on its contents for blind persons: ‘olive juice’. According to the objectives of the project, the vessel contains an exquisite and exceptional oil (provided by Almazara del Ebro), obtained from a non-commercial olive variety called “Negral” from the last secular olive trees at the Ribera de Navarra. The project began at an initial stage of concepts in ceramics. This phase included the study of those aims related to the more appropriate ergonomic and formal issues for the function of the vessel. A second phase dealt with the design of visual identity and packaging for each concept. After choosing the final vessel, we proceed to its production and numeration. This was followed by the product design, graphic design and packaging. These steps were carried out by teachers and students of their respective curricular subjects in the Grade of Fine Arts of the UPV-EHU. The following pictures show the high level that was reached in formal experimentation and conceptual proposals. The quality designs of the container and its protection transmit a clear message of the values of exclusivity and deliciousness of this handmade oil.
Begoña Medel Negrala VISUAL COMMUNICATION