Posted in Art, Designer, Technology on 10 July 2009
Andrew Chase is one person who likes to keep ahead of the times. When Hollywood was busy transforming cars into inter-cellestial robotic beings, the designer thought of engulfing the animal world in the mechanical way of life. Well, her (yes, Chase is a women dearies) Timmy underworld project has made her create a whimsial cheetah as well as a giraffe and elephant. And since we got to see the Cheetah in motion, we thought we might just tell you some more about it.
Standing 24 inches high and 50 inches long, the cheetah is a whimsical beauty. This romotic animal is able to replicate the movement of the joints of an actual cheetah.
Posted in Architecture on 28 March 2009
We have just discovered a Ramp House created by Archivirus Architecture and Design as a response to the client’s request for a “skateable habitat”. The Ramp House is a project and Athanasia Psaraki is the architect. The dominant aim of this project is to reconsider and redefine the living space. Based on the client’s request, the interior of the house is in curve form.
In an existing three storey building, Athanasia Psaraki attempts to bring a blend of old and new styles. As the dominant material was wood in the original house, thus, a wooden pergola and wooden horizontal louvers have been fixed for the new structure, which connect the old and the new. Interestingly, the house is intended to be a ‘ramp house’ and not a ‘house with a ramp’. Psaraki carefully hides the basic house elements such as, the fireplace and the storage units inside the ramp forms.
