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    Pleated Inflation is an amphitheater composed of 990 porous structural pleats.

    Pleated Inflation is the name of a permanent informal amphitheater in Argeles, France designed by architect Marc Fornes of THEVERYMANY. The lightweight, selfsupporting structure is composed of 990 3mm aluminum shingles, each overlapping its neighbor to form tangential continuity and ...
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    3D-Printed Off-Grid House Comes With A Truck

    International architecture firm SOM came up with a 3D-printed off-grid house that’s transportable to any place thanks to its unique combination with a truck. The truck and the house that come together are separable, but share one wireless energy system. Meet AMIE ...
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    If the Science of Calories Could be Visualized This is What it Might Look Like

    Photographer Catherine Losing and set designer Katie Fotis were commissioned by Peta Bell for Mosaic, The Wellcome Trust’s online science publication, to illustrate an article on the problems surrounding calorie counting. The two artists took inspiration from the water and copper elements in ...
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    Benjamin Hubert: Holistic designs to inspire change

    Thinking beyond financial return or designing an object for the sake of it, award-winning design entrepreneur Benjamin Hubert’s newly established experiential design studio, Layer focuses on designing products that improve the life of the consumer. This year, Hubert will take ...
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    Is Healthy the New Green?

    We should be focusing on people, not buildings; that the real role of a building is to keep us healthy, happy, safe and comfortable. Energy is just an input, a variable; the fact that a comfortable building will use a ...
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    Carter Zufelt uses an ingenious new process to create art out of recycled plastic trash

    Did you know that a plastic bag can take up to 1,000 years to break down? This designer has developed a process that turns those old plastic garbage bags into stable beautiful works of art. Carter Zufelt, an industrial designer ...
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    Creating Authenticity Through Context

    In modern society’s expanse, forests have gradually turned into concrete jungles. As a result, designers are beginning to push back to ensure that offices and city planners can create experiences that are in harmony with their local surroundings, and make a ...
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    This Designer Turned A Year’s Worth Of Emotions Into Colorful Spectrums

    Even after years of therapy and mindfulness, many of us have difficulties mastering the full spectrum of our emotions. Portuguese designer Giestas decided to turn it into a data visualization problem, He recorded his emotions every hour for 300 days, ...
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    Sou Fujimoto challenges perceptions of what could be considered architecture

    Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto uses potato chips and staples to comment on the notion of “found architecture”. The 21st century brings with it further advancements in technology and even greater access to information, which has begun to blur the prescribed ...