Physical Dreamscape

A collection of things, places and spaces that challenge traditional conceptions or encourage thoughts and thoughtfulness in design. Feel free to browse the tags below to get your creative fix! Run by a Canadian student of Landscape Architecture. You can find her personal blog here.

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artist retreat ~ gluck+ | photos © parl warchol

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Experiments in Motion

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MY DVA

Studio CHYBIK+KRISTOF has given a old car showroom new life for MY DVA group, which focuses on the production of office, school, and metal furniture. The facade is lined with over 900 black plastic seats creating an eye-catching and highly textural motif. Upon viewing the building, you instantly know that’s it’s got to do with interior design—essentially making the structure a giant advertisement.

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Coconut de Ludo (@thisisludo) in Paris, France

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Noah Oasis - Vertical habitats from disused oil rigs

Oil rigs can be ugly things, and as they rust and decay they only become a worse blight on the ocean landscape. In an effort to change this, a group of Chinese designers - Ma Yidong, Zhu Zhonghui, Qin Zhengyu & Jiang Zhe - have produced a concept they call Noah Oasis; a vertical garden habitat that transforms rigs into something amazing. 

While the habitats would be shelters from the devastating effects of oil spills and other blights, they would also function as centres for research. At the top of the tower there would be large scale structures to allow for forest growth and places for birds to nest, with residential spaces and research wings in the middle sections, while beneath the water line large absorption lines (for drawing in spilt oil) would allow for the formation of reefs. 

They see their habitat functioning in three stages: 

“1. Short term strategy: absorption of spilled oil when an oil spill incident happens, the floaters at the end of each pipe will immediately absorb the spilled oil covering the surface of the sea as an instant response. 2. Medium term strategy: habitat for marine life and migrating birds the collected oil will be transported through the root-like pipes underwater to the central processor attached to the original rig, where the crude oil will be converted into catalyst for coral reef and produce plastic as building material. The catalyst will be transported back to the pipe to booster the growth of coral reef on its surface and the plastic will become the building material of the plastic-twig structure with the help of 3D printing and the injector. In this way, the project will become a habitat for vertical bio-habitat and help revive the biodiversity. 3. Long term strategy: shelter from future disasters ultimately, when the sea level rises to a disastrous degree, the twig like structure would continue to remain above the sea level. Then the oil rig will become the noah oasis”

Whether the project is able to get off the ground or not remains to be seen, but this would certainly be a fantastic use of an otherwise decaying chunk of human waste. Can’t wait to see how it develops!

See more at: designboom

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Alternatives Landscapes Benoit Paillé

From the artist:

I was interested in the introduction of a man-made object in an outdoor setting, a luminous square, a human element that forms a relationship with nature and helps it to be reborn. From this I feel a kind of poetry blossoms, linked to the presence of this regular shape, like a recurrent canvas that symbolically references creation, the blank page, the empty space that needs to be inhabited.

Images and text via Benoit Paillé

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Delicious Foods Made Entirely Out of LEGO Bricks

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Artist Installs Tiny Wooden Houses Over NYC Steam Vents to Replace the Usual Industrial Orange Tubes

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L.A.T.B.D.  | Geoff Manaugh + Smout Allen USC Libraries (University of Southern California) Oct 15 2015 - Jan 31 2016 Installation by Stonehouse Photographic.

- The project’s ultimate goal is to reveal some of the key forces that helped to shape Los Angeles, from its coastal ecologies to the rise (and future fate) of the city’s freeway system, from the region’s outsized role in the history of global astronomy to L.A.’s complex array of alternative religions. L.A.T.B.D. will allow exhibition visitors to look years, decades, even centuries into the future and generate their own unique visions of a Los Angeles yet to be determined.

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C.F. Møller Architects - Campus Hall in Odense [Denmark]

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“I have to be seen to be believed…”

The Telegraph

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BRIXO’s building blocks enable you to bring light and motion to your designs. Get more information here

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Tax forms don’t always have to be a nightmare.

Studio 360 asked for your most creative use of the tax form, and you delivered paper machete, hanging installations, short films, and more. Check out the rest of the amazing entries - Kai Ryssdal is judging a winner on tax day!

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Designers Want To Put Rikers Island on the Map The guerrilla #SeeRikers campaign aims to correct a New York subway map oversight—and highlight the corrections crisis.

Know where your prisons are. 

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Japanese-American Setsuko Winchester explores the history of internment camps in her art. She has created 120 hand-made ceramic tea bowls, all glazed in varying shades of yellow — one for every thousand Japanese-Americans held during World War II. 

Setsuko recently sat down with John Hockenberry to share her story.