Redraw from the book Le Corbusier Complete Works 1938-1946.
]]>A idea competition in Japan to turn the notion of rain from “Gloomy” to “Sweet”.
『雨×sweet』by 千趣会 x JDN. Here are the winners and their projects.
「rainy.tone」by 木村 友昭
「Ｒｉｐｐｌｅ」by 渡辺 徹
「Transformation」 by 谷村 彰則
「Eating」 by kojima（小林 由布子／大島 千波）
「雨の日は消防士さん、ほか」 by ブレイ 典子
「Bosh」 by 鈴木 健二
「Umbrellanimals」by 堤 裕紀／河野 修
「てるてる傘」 by SLYME（吉田 龍司／酒井 雄大）
「Just like a RAINBOW」 by 根本 香緒莉
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When on vacation from his job as a designer for BMW in Munich, Stephan Augustin enjoys traveling around Africa. On one such trip seven years ago, he was struck by how many people were in desperate need of water. He noted the huge amounts of energy consumed by desalination and purification plants in Third World countries and learned that an estimated 2.5 billion people on the planet lack consistent supplies of clean drinking water.
In the years since, Augustin has been perfecting the Watercone, his invention for purifying water by the oldest method known: distillation. A cone of clear plastic set on a black tray base, the Watercone is entirely solar powered. Sunlight evaporates the water, leaving impurities behind, and the moisture that condenses on the inner surface of the cone runs down its curved edges. Flip it over and the Watercone becomes a funnel with a screw lid. If the cap gets misplaced, no worry: The lid is compatible with any standard plastic soda-bottle cap.
Augustin calculates that at the latitude of Casablanca, one Watercone can provide about a liter of water a day. Several could be laid out as a miniature water farm, one for a household, hundreds for a village system. Eight Watercones stack into a standard box and two boxes fit on a Euro shipping pallet.
Blaine Brownell—TRANSMATERIALhttp://transstudio.com
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Sketch redrew from the book Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa / SANNA Works 1995-2003
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6 years after the famous Habitat 67 completed, Moshe Safdie at the age of 35 went for a visit to China with Arthur Erickson.
Moshe Safdie : 4th from the right of the front row.
Arthur Erickson: 5th from the left of the front row.
Image re-taken from the lecture by Moshe Safdie in Vancouver on Nov 21, 2009.
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