This article blows my mind. This is exactly what Norman Foster and Eladio Dieste are/were doing, using new technology to build more elegant and efficient structures. This bridge was $170,000 less expensive than a precast bridge.
Here’s an amusing quiz site – guess if the images are from marfa or walmart
I have been familiar with the Chapel of Reconciliation for some time but never realized that it uses rammed earth technology. Not only that, but this is the first load bearing rammed earth building in Germany in the last 150 years. Now I like it even more. It was designed by architects Rudolf Reiterman and Peter Sassenrath and executed by Austrian rammed earth expert, Martin Rauch. Rauch is known as a pioneer in the field for his innovations in rammed earth technology and elegant applications.
Peter Rauch House in Schlins Austria
Here are a couple interesting products I’ve recently come across. Unfortunately, I don’t think either are available in the states yet. The first is ThermoPlan, a honeycomb clay building block, with excellent thermal and acoustic properties: ThermoPlan
Secondly, Thermoplian is typically a plastic roofing insulation. It’s used here for the first time as a fascade cladding. L-house
Even jewelery design is becoming part of the Digi-Fab revolution!
The ring I printed, and then used to propose to my girlfriend.
I printed it with black ABS, and then printed a small white cube and set it with some magic glue eagleapex left at Hive.
I drew the 2d shape in gimp, then had a friend render it in 3d using sketchup (I fail at 3D). I made some adjustments using Blender for the final print.
She said yes! Now to get our MakerBot to print with white gold.
Sergey Maximishin is a russian photographer who has been taking pictures for the past couple decades. His work is beautiful in its own right, and the context is bizarre and wonderful.
