Lovegrove Designs Ethereal Capsule Bed in the Alps

Tags: alpine capsule, Architecture, capsule bed, Moritz Craffonara, Ross Lovegrove

Ross Lovegrove’s innovatively bizarre yet beautiful design range from Swarovski studded UFO shaped aircrafts to simplistic pens and DNA-strand staircases. The latest project undertaken by Lovegrove is to design a living space for a client with a lavish amount of money and a private mountain in the Alps.

Lovegrove’s design, the alpine capsule, is based on the client, Moritz Craffonara’s desire to sleep under the stars in the mountain landscape. Interestingly, that is all Craffonara desires: a bed to sleep in within all this beauty, and who can help materialise this eccentric request better than Lovegrove? With two-way mirrors enslaving the bed so that all nature’s beauty is reflected back on itself, Craffonara would wake up every morning with a splendid view of the Alps.

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Big Brother House by Julien De Smedt: Zero Privacy

Tags: Architecture, big brother, big brother house, glass house, julien de smedt, television

Reality is based upon fiction and anyone who thinks otherwise has not stuck their heads into the world of fiction much. The best of this world, architecture, technology, etc, has been inspired from fictitious musings. But this doesn’t mean that picking up an idea from fiction is always a good idea; don’t ever tell your girlfriend you want to put her under a machine and ‘pimp ‘er up’!

Julien De Smedt Architects take their inspiration from the television reality show, Big Brother, and have designed a house where none of the occupants would have any privacy and would have to live under the complete scrutiny of the other occupants and the outsiders. The house would definitely look good but it is a matter of debate if anyone would want to live in a house where each room is a block of glass. The blocks are constructed with an inner open courtyard. Aesthetically, the design looks great and is also practical in terms of ventilation and lighting.

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Australia Abundant at Venice Architecture Biennale 2008

Tags: Architecture, Australia Abundant, Buildings, Eagle Talon House, New Holland Folly, Peter Stuchbury Architecture, Studio505, Venice Architecture Biennale

An exhibition is not just a platform to showcase your talents but is also a forum for interaction with others who share your views. They also give you the opportunity to reach out to a great number of people and educate them about something dear to your heart. The Venice Architecture Biennale 2008 saw a great number of entries from different countries, one of the most striking of which was Australia.

Australia’s Abundant exhibition intends to clear a certain misconception from the minds of the people about the blandness of Australia. Starting from the brightly decorated trees at the entrance to the exhibits, the lighting within and the exhibits themselves will leave visitors with no doubt about the cheery colourfulness of this island continent. Australia Abundant was curated by architects Durbach, Lewin, Thompson and Warner and designer Frost, and shows a beautiful melange of the past and the present popular designs. The exhibition saw participation from over 200 architectural firms, each one showing a distinctively imaginative design following the theme of ‘architecture beyond building’.

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Symbiotic Villa by Zaha Hadid: Vision of the Future

Tags: Architecture, Next-Gene 20, Symbiotic Villa, zaha hadid

The look of living spaces are getting more and more exotic every day. The imbibing of ancient techniques of art in architecture has taken the looks of our streets beyond anything we ever dreamed of. They herald the arrival of the future when it comes to new visions.

This is not the first time we have written about the wondrous world of designing as Zaha Hadid creates it, most obviously because Hadid is a designer of phenomenal talent. This design of the Symbiotic Villa as part of the Next-Gene 20 project in Taiwan was presented in Venice during an architectural biennale, and left the visitors breathless. The bold lines give form to never-before-seen spaces that leave you with a sense of airy openness that is almost futuristic.

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Jeriko House Prefabs For Customized Homes

Tags: Architecture, Customized Homes, Jeriko Designs, Jeriko House Prefabs, Prefabs

Prefab homes are really catching up these days and people have been busy assembling their own houses from pieces pre-ordered. Though it might sound funny or even non-functional, it seems to work with a number of people. One of the eminent prefab developers is the Louisiana based Jeriko designs and they manufacture a self-branded line of homes, and they call them the Jeriko House Prefabs. These homes are sustainable, and can be easily customized. Though it has been slow to catch up in urban areas, especially due to space constraints, suburbs have witnessed a boom in prefab homes.

The Jeriko Jude house for example is a unique prefab house that has 3 bedrooms, high ceilings, and cool amenities and of course is sustainable and green conscious. This could come as great news to people who don’t like being coerced by builders, architects and others in to designing their homes in a professional way and lose the customized touch that every customer needs. These are the kind of houses that live with you but would never grow up. Jeriko House really seems to be the coolest prefab home building company around, for now.

Via: GearCrave

Be a Hermit on House on Wheels, the XBO Way!

Tags: 70ºN Arkitektur, Architecture, Estate, Mobile XBO

Space crunch was the problem and Skyscrapers was the solution! It must have started as a design that later became a reality. One such path breaking design claims to provide “a room of one’s own” in the current scenario. If the design for XBO Mobile Structure takes over, then the face of real estate industry will change significantly.

The design on offer also controls the amount you spend on your lifestyle, quite literally. The designers have used common sense and designed such a small house that one has to let go off one’s consumerist lifestyle and live on bare minimum like a hermit. To enjoy a clutter free experience, one will have limit one’s desires to escape being an “economical prisoner”, as 70ºN Arkitektur puts it.

The XBO Mobile Structure is actually mobile and can be taken anywhere you and your partner choose to traverse. It consists of two movable parts and has a total of 36 square meters of space, enough to fit in two souls.

Via ArchDaily

Choy Residence: For the Choicest of People

Tags: Architecture, Choy residence, Estate, Noe Valley, San Francisco, Terry & Terry Architecture

If you want to live in the lap of nature 24*7, then the cramped place you are living in is to be discardede right away. Did you just say that you own a nice ol’ penthouse and not a cramped place? I would still make it plain and clear- you should pack your bags and bag the opportunity offered by Terry & Terry Architecture. If am sounding too pompous, I can’t help it. It’s been ages since I found my kind of place- a place that has the bountiful nature creeping through the doors and windows and every gap.

Located in Noe Valley near San Francisco you can find the board announcing Choy Residence which is a simple yet comfortable approach to the thing we all call home. Looking at the pics alone, I feel truly at home in this 1960’s remodelled home. This home is redesigned in such a way so as to allow maximum sunlight to come inside.

But at the same time, double-wall system takes care of the fact that the home does not get more heated than is required. The wood house uses wood that is rot-free, mold-free and insect-free. If you are a supporter of contributing to ecology in your own small way, then you may delight in the news that the roof has rain water harvesting facility and the installation of solar cells is in process. All that is left for me to do now is to try and visit the residence on 13 September, 2008 and see if it stands the gaze of a critical eye.

Via Inhabitat