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Gerhard 'Pop' Kaesler, Motorhome, Known as Home from Home, Australia, 1929
The Dupont Camping Auto with Balloon Silk Awnings, USA, 1911
4 Part 4 - iOS - TDD - Random Character App - MVVM ViewModel
In this video, we will learn how we can build our ViewModel component using Test Driven Development approach! Let's dive in into the 4th part, MVVM with TDD!
In this new series, we will be learning how we can use Test Driven Development on a networking based iOS project app, and in this case, we will fetch random character from `rickandmortyapi` and display it to the screen! In this video, we will learn how we can build our ViewModel component using Test Driven Development approach! Let’s dive in into the 4th part, MVVM with…
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New in: Cornelia Escher’s „Zukunft entwerfen: Architektonische Konzepte des GEAM (Groupe d’etudes d’Architecture Mobile) 1958-1963“, published in 2017 by GTA Verlag. In the years following the tenth meeting of the CIAM in 1956 a network of architects/engineers, a study group so to say, developed around Yona Friedman, Frei Otto, Eckhard Schulze-Fielitz, Jerzy Zoltan and Werner Ruhnau: the Groupe d’Études d’Architecture Mobile (GEAM). Disappointed with the dogmatic modernism of the CIAM they discussed an architecture of mobility and participation that responded to the global society’s increased mobility and individualism. Although they never designed together there are connecting principles that Cornelia Escher analyzes, e.g. architecture as social form, nature as structural image and model or, in connection with art and artists, the design of performative spaces. The book opens a fascinating panorama of a different approach to architecture and a group that designed compelling images of it. The only downside is that these images are reproduced on a very small scale and thus do not receive the amount of attention they obviously deserve. Nonetheless, Escher’s study is a groundbreaking publication that contains numerous strands worthy of further research.
Piccole lumache
La Rice University di Houston (Texas) sta costruendo ambienti mobili per accogliere le lezioni e i laboratori dei prossimi mesi. Si tratta di strutture temporanee simili a tende da campo o tendoni da circo, che offrono un luogo riparato ma pur sempre all’aperto. L’intento è quello di ridurre il rischio di contagio in ambienti chiusi e permettere alle lezioni di continuare in presenza.
Seguendo un approccio simile il Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund, il fondo per la tutela dei gorilla di montagna che porta il nome della donna che a questi primati ha dedicato tutta la sua vita, sta realizzando il suo nuovo campus (Ellen DeGeneres Campus). La struttura sorgerà vicino al Virunga National Park, un’area protetta tra Congo e Rwanda dove i gorilla possono muoversi in libertà, per questo nel rispetto del luogo verranno utilizzati solo materiali locali e gli ambienti si adatteranno in modo flessibile alle esigenze di ricerca, formazione, di sostegno alla comunità che il Fossey Fund porta avanti ogni giorno. Sul sito gorillafund.org si può adottare un gorilla a distanza.
Tra gli esempi possibili questi sono solo due che riflettono un modo diverso di fare architettura: mobile, temporanea, sostenibile. Strutture che si adattano al luogo che le ospita invece di farlo proprio. Non si parla molto di architetture mobili e il loro rango all’interno della materia è subalterno, oscurate dai progetti delle cosiddette “archistar”. Tuttavia da tempo queste strutture offrono risposte in linea con le esigenze dei luoghi e delle persone che li abitano, e oggi sembrano una soluzione ai problemi ambientali, sanitari, sociali che siamo vivendo.
L’esistenza di questi spazi è effimera e delicata al tempo stesso: nascono e si sviluppano in silenzio, accogliendo quello che accade per poi eventualmente scomparire. Sono ambienti “leggeri” che possono essere spostati da un luogo all’altro con facilità - a volte basta un camion o un container - e questa non è cosa da poco quando dobbiamo calcolare le risorse impiegate e lo spreco che ne deriva. Le architetture mobili ci accompagnano dai tempi delle prime Esposizioni universali: la Torre Eiffel, l’Atomium di Bruxelles, i padiglioni di vetro e acciaio… Strutture modulari, componibili, come puzzle di grandi dimensioni, che accolgono le nostre speranze e poi le lasciano andare.
Alcuni artisti nel tempo ne hanno fatto delle vere e proprie opere d’arte, come l’olandese Atelier Van Lieshout. Composizioni visionarie per un mondo più leggero che per ora resta solo nei nostri pensieri. Eppure sono architetture mobili anche le tende dei campi profughi, le case di chi è in fuga dalle guerre. Non dimentichiamolo.
Le applicazioni di questa forma d’arte (o architettura?) sono pressoché infinite e la letteratura sul tema è vasta; in fondo sono un modo democratico per riappropriarsi dello spazio.
Lo stesso Le Corbusier, padre del Modernismo, alla fine della sua vita si ritirò in Costa Azzurra progettando per lui e sua moglie una capanna ai bordi del mare: il Cabanon. Al suo interno lo spazio rifletteva la sua idea di ordine ed essenzialità, ma questa volta in piccola scala e riavvicinandosi al vero essenziale che è la natura stessa. Come a dire non c’è bisogno di appropriarsi dello spazio, ma di restituirlo al mondo e con lui anche noi stessi. Questa idea è ancora valida e forse lo è sempre stata.
Pellegrini senza meta potremmo trovare rifugio in luoghi delicati da montare e rimontare ogni giorno, portandoli con noi come piccole lumache.
Drag and Drop Housing: 12 Fast-Deploying Prefab Designs with Modern Style
Drag and Drop Housing: 12 Fast-Deploying Prefab Designs with Modern Style
You could receive delivery of your brand new home on the back of a truck, watch as they plop it down on the building site, press a button and watch it self-deploy within minutes. That kind of instantaneous residential building process is now a reality thanks to a recent proliferation of pop-up prefab housing, built off-site and then assembled in a tiny fraction of the time it takes to build a…
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From zero to VIPER
Every time when we start development for new application we start with a single decision which architecture to use. VIPER is one of the modern approaches for mobile development. VIPER was partially modified by several world class tech companies to generate new approaches. In this talk I’ve presented main principles of VIPER and how to use it.
Every day we all become increasingly aware of the need to improve our habits and the collective awareness about our environment, although nonetheless our cities—gigantic and vast—are often far from reflecting this change of paradigm. It is urgent that, as citizens we contribute, along with different players like designers, public institutions, brands… and to start to collectively rethink new collective visions for our cities, which can regenerate the urban landscape in a way cohesive with people and their environment.
Montaña en la Luna © Javier de Paz García, Luis Alda
Architects: ENORME Studio Location: Plaza de Santa Maria Soledad Torres Acosta, 28004 Madrid, Spain Project Year: 2018 Photographs: Javier de Paz García, Luis Alda Manufacturers Leroy Merlín Collaborators: Construcción CARRSA / energía solar e interactividad CREÁTICA Gardening and landscape: Greener and the Other Side Client: MINI España / MINI Hub
For this reason, MINI and Enorme Studio, a young design firm specialising in the public space and participative dynamics is making an original proposal, with an installation situated in the mythical Plaza Santa María Soledad Torres Acosta in Madrid. This installation, in addition to being a meeting point for design and the city, will concern itself with the use of renewable energies. It will have USB charging points and reading points lit by solar energy, as well as the possibility to charge devices with the kinetic energy generated by movement. This new habitable and efficient equipment will try to work on the most pressing challenges of daily life.
Montaña en la Luna © Javier de Paz García, Luis Alda
For over a year MINI has been in the Malasaña neighbourhood with its space open to creativity, the MINI Hub, which is now opening up to the outside with this installation. The inside will be invaded by meetings between designers who are rethinking new ways of making a city: city furniture workshops entitled Bench a Day, which will develop new ideas for urban benches; talks on interactive urban stages; new public space laboratories; and talks-debates on how cities of the future will be. All these activities will handle urban design and the city as their main topic to work on in a collaborative, trans-disciplinary and intergenerational way.
Montaña en la Luna © Javier de Paz García, Luis Alda
Montaña en la Luna represents an opportunity to experiment based on the idea of a designer office and portable architecture, on the street and close to users, with which any and all new proposals for cities of the future must be co-designed. This new endeavour by MINI is framed within its objective of improving urban life, contributing to a rational use of resources and maximising the motto ‘Creative Use of Space’ inherent to the brand’s DNA.
Montaña en la Luna © Javier de Paz García, Luis Alda
Montaña en la Luna © Javier de Paz García, Luis Alda
Montaña en la Luna © Javier de Paz García, Luis Alda
Montaña en la Luna © Javier de Paz García, Luis Alda
Montaña en la Luna © Javier de Paz García, Luis Alda
Montaña en la Luna © Javier de Paz García, Luis Alda
Montaña en la Luna © Javier de Paz García, Luis Alda
Montaña en la Luna © Javier de Paz García, Luis Alda
Montaña en la Luna © Javier de Paz García, Luis Alda
Montaña en la Luna - ENORME Studio – Spain #Architecture #ArchitecturePhotography #Spain #SolarEnergy Every day we all become increasingly aware of the need to improve our habits and the collective awareness about our environment, although nonetheless our cities—gigantic and vast—are often far from reflecting this change of paradigm.