Furniture constructed with plastic made from recycled, pirated CDs. Translucent, yet insulated, skylights made from featherweight gel. These are some examples of how the world around us is changing with the influx of the new made with the old. The best part of it all is that half the time we re not even aware of it.
Technological advancement and productivity has reached high levels of both quality and quantity. Aerogel, memory foam, and whatnot were developed by NASA and the military in the 1960s and are just hitting the market now. The materials industry is a moving target. That it's trendy to look at new materials now means that there is a lot of creativity, and the creative spirit is fueling advances in material science.
The remarkable installation “Curious Implantation” by Nicole Knauer exibited in October 2005 in the KunstRaum Goethestrasse in Linz, Austria is an example of how to reinvent. In her latest installation “Curious Implantation” she has designed an artistic landscape made of synthetic cable ties that she has combined in a quite personal way to create manually a 50 qm sculpture.
The material used in the installation can be regarded as a metaphor for the sphere between reality and absurdity. Her aim was to use synthetic waste products in a different way than its original intend.
Technological advancement and productivity has reached high levels of both quality and quantity. Aerogel, memory foam, and whatnot were developed by NASA and the military in the 1960s and are just hitting the market now. The materials industry is a moving target. That it's trendy to look at new materials now means that there is a lot of creativity, and the creative spirit is fueling advances in material science.
The remarkable installation “Curious Implantation” by Nicole Knauer exibited in October 2005 in the KunstRaum Goethestrasse in Linz, Austria is an example of how to reinvent. In her latest installation “Curious Implantation” she has designed an artistic landscape made of synthetic cable ties that she has combined in a quite personal way to create manually a 50 qm sculpture.
The material used in the installation can be regarded as a metaphor for the sphere between reality and absurdity. Her aim was to use synthetic waste products in a different way than its original intend.
Architectural Domain has its share of turbulence. Some very eco friendly and smart materials have also entered the profession. While definitions as to smartness abound, the most generalized one is that smart materials are transformative. The transformation may be within the material itself, as in one of its properties or its physical state, or the material could be the vehicle to transform other things, such as energy forms or the surrounding environment.
The most exemplary eco friendly material which is fast catching up is the miracle polymer or Ethylene tetra flouro ethylene.
(http://www2.dupont.com/Products/en_RU/Tefzel_ETFE_fluoropolymer_resin_en.html)This wonder polymer, a transparent plastic related to Teflon, is replacing glass and plastic in some of the most innovative buildings being designed and constructed today. Its selling points? Compared to glass, it’s 1% the weight, transmits more light, is a better insulator, and costs 24% to 70% less to install. It’s also resilient (able to bear 400 times its own weight, with an estimated 50-year life-span), self-cleaning (dirt slides off its nonstick surface), and recyclable.
Earthpark, 2010
Earthpark : The Earthpark project in Pella, Iowa, is an American-style Eden Project from the original Eden designers, Grimshaw Architects. ETFE will be used for the roof of this massive indoor rainforest biodome, which will house three Amazonian climates on 70 acres. ETFE’s natural insulating properties considerably enhance the project’s green factor, too.
Eden Project, 2001
Eden project : These enormous geodesic-domed greenhouses, part of an environmental complex in Cornwall, England, were originally supposed to be made of glass. But ETFE gave designers Grimshaw Architects a flexible, lightweight, and durable alternative. The result? An environment capable of housing plant species from around the world in tropical rainforest- and Mediterranean-style climates. At 323,000 square feet Eden was, at the time, the world’s largest ETFE project and remains a defining image of ETFE architecture.
http://science.howstuffworks.com/eden3.htm
Eden project : These enormous geodesic-domed greenhouses, part of an environmental complex in Cornwall, England, were originally supposed to be made of glass. But ETFE gave designers Grimshaw Architects a flexible, lightweight, and durable alternative. The result? An environment capable of housing plant species from around the world in tropical rainforest- and Mediterranean-style climates. At 323,000 square feet Eden was, at the time, the world’s largest ETFE project and remains a defining image of ETFE architecture.
http://science.howstuffworks.com/eden3.htm
Nanotechnology may Speed up internet.
As we move into the future materialism is going to effect the way we perceive architecture and the world. Scientists want to make programmable material the next big evolution. How would it feel to change a material by giving it parameters as per your liking. Nanotechnology although not new to the world also has its fair chance of making it big. The high speed internet transmission are one of the most promising projects which could benefit from nanotechnology (http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/08/0819_040819_nanointernet.html ). Researchers have devised a new material which is a polmer of carbon. It could create optical switches to replace electronic network switches leading to an internet completely based on light.
All in all it’s a never ending process of evolution and change, but how we manage it without hampering our already degraded environment should be our primary concern.
As we move into the future materialism is going to effect the way we perceive architecture and the world. Scientists want to make programmable material the next big evolution. How would it feel to change a material by giving it parameters as per your liking. Nanotechnology although not new to the world also has its fair chance of making it big. The high speed internet transmission are one of the most promising projects which could benefit from nanotechnology (http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/08/0819_040819_nanointernet.html ). Researchers have devised a new material which is a polmer of carbon. It could create optical switches to replace electronic network switches leading to an internet completely based on light.
All in all it’s a never ending process of evolution and change, but how we manage it without hampering our already degraded environment should be our primary concern.
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