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Coleraine Duplex / NatureHumaine

April 16, 2014April 16, 2014 Foamboards

Architects: NatureHumaine
Location: Coleraine St, Montreal, Canada
Area: 3,135 sqft
Year: 2013
Photographs: Adrien Williams

From the architect. This project was completed for a developer/home builder at the intersection between Coleraine Street and a laneway in Montreal’s Point St-Charles neighborhood.

The basic program for this project required 2 row-homes on an 8.7m wide lot. After accounting for setbacks and other constraints, traditional planning approaches would have resulted in 2 long narrow houses, which severely lacked natural light. Our solution was to intertwine both units in a zigzag fashion, maximizing on natural light, and creating dynamic angular spaces. The two units intersect at the top floor to create an intimate space for a master bedroom, an office, and a terrace in each unit. This design was reinforced by the site’s footprint, which has a 75-degree angle at the intersection between the street and the laneway and further inspired the creation of angular forms and oblique perspective lines within the interior.

The building is composed of a brick base, which relates to the neighborhoods vernacular, and is topped with a contemporary angular volume clad in steel that cantilevers over the base. The minimalist interiors each have a double height space with a suspended wood platform. The stair, wrapped in a black expanded-steel handrail, ascends to the master bedroom where a reading nook bathes in natural sunlight.

Coleraine Duplex / NatureHumaine originally appeared on ArchDaily, the most visited architecture website on 16 Apr 2014.

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Metal embossed craving machine from AMAN MACHINERY

April 16, 2014April 16, 2014 Foamboards

Specifications: 1.Model:AM3040CH80 2.Working size:300*400*80mm 3.Spindle power: 800W 4.water cooling spindle 5.Spindle speed:0-24000rpm/min 6.ballscrew trans…

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House in Mayu

April 16, 2014April 16, 2014 Foamboards

The client requested a design for their home that would melt into the surrounding paddy landscape and also provide a safe, stable living environment for generations to come. The architect responded with a plan that incorporates multiple courtyards, ensuring the privacy necessary for an open lifestyle, even if homes are built on surrounding lots in the future. If two generations with different schedules eventually share the home, the courtyards will also provide a comfortable degree of distance between the living spaces occupied by various members of the household. Photographer: Kaori Ichikawa

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HOSSEN® 5pcs Genuine Mini SG90 Micro 9g Servo For 450 RC Helicopter Airplane Car Boat

April 14, 2014April 14, 2014 Foamboards

Specification:

Fit for ALL kind of R/C Toys

Coreless motor

3 pole wure

All nylon gear

Dual ball bearing

Connector wire length 150mm

Each servo comes with 3 different servo horns and fittings

Package includes:

5x SG90 9g 450 se 7ch torque mini mirco Servo 450

Product Features

Operating speed: 0.12second/ 60degree ( 4.8V no load)
Stall Torque (4.8V): 17.5oz /in (1kg/cm)
Operating voltage: 3.0V~7.2V
Temperature range: -30 to +60
Dead band width: 7usec

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Stanford Start.Home: Architecture

April 14, 2014April 14, 2014 Foamboards

An enterprising team of Stanford students has designed a low-cost, solar-powered home that could lead the home-building industry to a more sustainable future…

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How to Read Houses: A Crash Course in Domestic Architecture

April 14, 2014April 14, 2014 Foamboards

Small enough to fit in a pocket yet serious enough to provide real answers, this charmingly illustrated book is the ultimate field guide to domestic architecture. This sixth entry in the hugely popular How to Read series is a one-stop guide to understanding house styles. The book explains the aesthetics of house forms ranging from elaborately decorated Arts & Crafts architecture to the purity of modernist homes. How to Read Houses is the perfect companion for anyone interested in the buildings we live in and who desires a detailed field guide to the houses around us. How to Read Houses first equips the reader with the visual vocabulary to recognize house types, materials, and parts, then it demonstrates these features in a range of architectural styles. Illustrated throughout with detailed line drawings and full-color photographs, this handy guide will illuminate the reader’s experience when visiting new cities, touring landmark houses such as Jefferson’s Monticello or Edith Wharton’s The Mount, and lay the foundations for a revealing architectural exploration of local neighborhoods.

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Nike’s Aerostatic Dome is World’s First Structure Supported Entirely by a Helium-Filled Canopy

April 13, 2014April 13, 2014 Foamboards

To celebrate the launch of the KOBE 9 Elite Low HTM at this year’s Milan Design Week, Nike teamed up with Arthur Huang, founder of upcycling company MINIWIZ, to create a stunning aerostatic dome supported by nothing more than a helium-filled canopy. Located at Palazzo Clerici in Milan, it’s the first architectural structure which uses zero compressive elements. What’s more, the entire pavilion can be deflated and relocated to another location inside five pieces of check-in luggage.

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Rebuild By Design> BIG’s “BIG U” for Lower Manhattan

April 13, 2014April 13, 2014 Foamboards

In early April, the ten finalists in the Rebuild By Design competition unveiled their proposals to protect the Tri-state region from the next Sandy. And in the near future, a jury will select a winner—or winners—to receive federal funding to pursue their plans. But before that final announcement is made, AN is taking a closer look at each of the final ten proposals. Here’s […]

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Digital Fabrication in Architecture

April 13, 2014April 13, 2014 Foamboards

With the increasing sophistication of CAD and other design software, there is now a wide array of means for both designing and fabricating architecture and its components. The proliferation of advanced modeling software and hardware has enabled architects and students to conceive and create designs that would be very difficult to do using more traditional methods. This book focuses on the inspiring possibilities for architecture that can be achieved with all the different technologies and techniques available for making complete designs or their components.

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The Top Architect-Designed Products of Milan Design Week 2014

April 12, 2014April 12, 2014 Foamboards

This week marked the 53rd edition of the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan. Hundreds of exhibitors showcased an endless display of the latest international design products and home-furnishings. Among them included a variety of designed items envisioned by some of our favorite architects. Continue after the break to preview some of the most talked about architect-designed products featured this week at the Milan Design Week 2014.

Benedetta Tagliabue for Passoni Nature: Sofa ‘BOTAN’

A comfortable wood and fabric seat whose components join like the petals of a flower, producing endlessly harmonious, balanced combinations, inspired by nature.

David Adjaye for Knoll: The Washington Skeleton and Skin

David Adjaye’s cantilevered chairs establish a play between propping and balancing, so that they are simultaneously functional and sculptural. Washington Skeleton is reduced to a fine geometric lattice while its inverted counterpoint, Skin, offers a colorful envelope to the same form.

Zaha Hadid for Citco: Tela Shelving

According to design aficionado Lisa Roberts, Zaha Hadid’s new shelving collection with Citco “blurs the boundaries of art and design.”

UNStudio for Artifort: Gemini

Gemini comprises two asymmetrically-designed seat elements and a small matching table to offer plenty of scope for variation.

Daniel Libeskind for Poliform: Web

Just like the Internet allows users to browse and use a collection of contents which are connected to each other by links, WEB – with its alternating blocks and voids – presents a brand new bookcase concept with a strong visual impact and devised for the most disparate uses.

Nendo for Emeco: The SU Collection

Su, a traditional Japanese concept meaning minimal, served as the primary inspiration for this new collection of stools and tables made from reclaimed materials.

MVRDV for Sixinch: Vertical Village

The Vertical Village: a self-organized and initiated manner of city building inspired by richness of informality found in East Asian settlements prior to being overcome by economically-driven block towers.

Charles & Ray Eames (1958) for Vitra: Aluminium Chair EA 101, EA 103, EA 104

Vitra has now launched models EA 101, 103 and 104 that belonged to the original 1958 product family and was first marketed as the Aluminium Dining Chairs, expanding the selection of chairs in the Aluminium Group with models that are smaller, lighter and brighter.

Nendo: print-chair

A chair whose surface mixes two different patterns, created by printing woodgrain patterns onto wood with an already distinctive grain.

Daniel Libeskind for Lasvit: ICE

A bold, geometric chandelier that achieves a ‘one-of-a-kind’ luminosity through the delicate and fluid quality of hand-blown glass.

Compare this year’s participation with the top architect-designed products of the Milan Design Week 2013.

The Top Architect-Designed Products of Milan Design Week 2014 originally appeared on ArchDaily, the most visited architecture website on 11 Apr 2014.

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