Studio Plastic

A blog of a Part 2 Architecture student studying part time at Birmingham City University. The 1st year is focusing on Digbeth in Birmingham and has a brief to provide production space. This blog has some ideas and concepts that are of interest and are...

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Bilston Commons - Parametric Approach to Site Planning - YouTube

My thesis, looking at an approach to site planning at Bilston, Wolverhampton.

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Plugin Tower

For Vanke’s inaugural design event that explores a pressing architectural theme each year, People's Architecture Office was invited by the real estate develo...

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The Future Of Neighborhoods: Five Projects That Show How We'll Live

Residential life could soon be changing.

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Cedric Price’s proposal for the Gilman Corporation was a series of relocatable structures on a permanent grid of foundation pads on a site in Florida. Cedric

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ARU, architecture research unit is an architectural design laboratory for built research based at the Department of Architecture and Spatial Design, London Metropolitan University, directed by Professor Florian Beigel. ARU is an architectural project studio working on designs for public and private clients internationally. ARU projects range in scale from the design of interiors, buildings, to regeneration of city quarters and post-industrial landscapes.

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ARU, architecture research unit is an architectural design laboratory for built research based at the Department of Architecture and Spatial Design, London Metropolitan University, directed by Professor Florian Beigel. ARU is an architectural project studio working on designs for public and private clients internationally. ARU projects range in scale from the design of interiors, buildings, to regeneration of city quarters and post-industrial landscapes.

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Bricklaying robots create bulging masonry facade at Shanghai arts centre

Chinese studio Archi-Union Architects programmed robots to construct the undulating brick facade of this art gallery in Shanghai's West Bund district.

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Working on my 2nd year MArch project I have input the required room areas, set a series of attractors and created links between many of the rooms and circulation spaces. Its interesting to play with the attractors strengths and see how it manipulates and shifts the overall form. I will use the nodes which are central to each sphere as base points for more suitable shapes that would form a much more practical room!

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Some ideas for the maker side of my project

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The Architecture of Childhood: HIBINOSEKKEI + Youji No Shiro’s Exquisite Kindergartens

“Kindergartens and nurseries are for kids, not for adults.”

OK, Schooling for little ones but the concepts might be applicable to other educational spaces

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(via Rossend Montané School)

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(via Architizer Interviews: Tatiana Bilbao on a New Paradigm for Affordable Housing in Mexico)

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Design-Friendly Strategies for Computational Form-Finding of Curved-Folded Geometries: A Case Study from SimAUD on Vimeo.

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Zollverein School of Management and Design / SANAA

Architects: Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa / SANAA Client: Zollverein School Location: Essen, Germany Construction start: March 2005 Completed: July...