Trust Me, I'm a "Designer"

This is the weblog of London-based architect ONDREJ CHUDY serving as a repository for random morsels of ocular delight, news, views, obsessions & expressions, for your inspiration & delectation. Info and collaborations: [email protected]

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Architect Evgeny Didorenko has released his conceptual proposal, Thames River Museum, which aims to improve connectivity on the North Bank of the Thames River and create an exciting museum space in London.

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Original digital art ‘The remains of a memory’ by Adam Martinakis / animation by George Redhawk

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The Best Architecture And Design Podcasts To Listen To Right Now

Whether you’re just starting school or you’ve been practicing for years, we found eight podcasts guaranteed to leave you feeling inspired.

Once you’ve decided you want to listen to a radio show streamed from your smart phone, it can take some time to choose the best one. Since we have our favorites on design and architecture bookmarked, we thought we would help simplify your search.

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All the Best by TMD studio & Trust Me, I'm a "Designer" Happy Holiday to you & yours!

MERRY CHRISTMAS ! VESELÉ VÁNOCE ! JOYEUX NOEL ! FELIZ NAVIDAD ! BUON NATALE ! FROHE WEIHNACHTEN ! FELIZ NADAL ! NEDELEG LAOUEN !

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Free Online Architecture Courses From World-Class Universitites

Thinking of continuing your studies but don't want to start a master's or a doctorate just yet? Around the world, short-term courses taken remotely are increasingly popular alternatives, and platforms such as edX, created by Harvard and MIT Universities make it even easier to dive deeper into the most diverse topics. 

Of course, for long-term and undergraduate courses, the face-to-face experience cannot be replaced by online classes. However, being able to follow lessons and participate in discussions with people from around the world online is definitely an important advantage offered by the internet.

We have compiled a few courses in areas ranging from video game design to bio-cellular engineering, and from the history of Japanese architecture to courses in architectural imagination. 

See our list below:

Technological, Social, and Sustainable Systems

Explore how social, technological, and sustainable systems are interacting to create the modern world, and how you can use that knowledge to create a better one in this credit-eligible course.

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The Architectural Imagination

Learn fundamental principles of architecture — as an academic subject or a professional career — from a study of history’s important buildings.

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The Science and Practice of Sustainable Development

Learn the science and policies that drive sustainable development and how leaders can work to achieve UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.

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Four Facets of Contemporary Japanese Architecture: Technology

Learn the history, ideas and concepts behind contemporary Japanese architecture through one facet of Japanese architecture, technology.

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Principles of Designing for Humans

Learn about human behavior and capabilities and how they impact user experience design.

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Evaluating Designs with Users

Learn how to design, run, and analyze usability tests to help improve user experience.

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Video Game Design and Balance

Learn about the video game design process and experiment with effective methods for balancing a game's mechanics.

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Data Analysis: Visualization and Dashboard Design

Learn how to turn raw data into visual insights using Excel to help support business decisions.

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Biological Engineering: Cellular Design Principles

Explore established and emerging cellular design principles and learn how cells function as the basis for cellular engineering.

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Design in Healthcare: Using Patient Journey Mapping

Learn about the Patient Journey Mapping method for innovative product and service design in healthcare.

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Design Museum is now OPEN!

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Exhibition | Design Museum

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Wooden walls move along runners to reveal the inner glass shell of this gabled garden shed in Eindhoven, designed and built by Caspar Schols as a hobby space for his mother.

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MVRDV's CHANEL store facade made with glass bricks

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A Thoroughly Modern Ark by Robert Konieczny KWK Promes in Poland

Polish practice KWK promes has designed ‘Konieczny’s ark’, a countryside retreat that takes the form of a traditional rural barn. Positioned at the highest point of the site, the concrete home offers expansive views across the valley below.

From the architect:

The highest value of the plot is a wonderful view stretching out. The idea was for the house to become its framework that crops it. The most appropriate building turned out to be a fully open on mountain landscape one-storey building, which gives the same view to all of the interiors.

Because of the plot being located in an absolute wilderness a problem of security came out. The solution turned out to be "twisting" the building so as only its one corner touches the ground and the rest is hang over the edge of the hill. With this solution, part of the ground floor where the bedrooms were located was pulled up to the level of the first floor. Because of the fact that there are wide glass openings in the building, my wife asked me to effectivly close the entrance side of the house. A 10 meter wall and a drawbridge, which combines the function of stairs and a window shutter, appeared.

Location of the house on a steep slope, was followed by high risk of landslip, more and more frequent in polish mountains. As to limit the movement of the subsoil the house was treated as a bridge, under which rain water flows naturally.

Realities of mountain landscape as well as the local law constrained a gable roof. House took the form of a typical barn standing on three thin walls.

To give rigidity to the building the walls were tensed by the planes of the ''inverted" roof, slightly lifted over gound. Their incline increased the feeling of security. And so, we basically created a house with two roofs that protect it from water, it began to resamble an arc floating over the fields. After some time I realized, that in order not to disturb this impression, the best garden design would be lack of it, the best fence would be a temporary herding fence, the best approach - few rocks. In the same time the building was supposed to be cheap and easy to construct. That is why I deciced on insulating it from the inside, the concrete structure became an finnished elevation. This is how I got rid of complicated details and finish, they were replaced by poured concrete from a local producer. Sprayed closed-cell-structure foam turned out to be the optimal insulation. It is also a vapour barrier.

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Openstudio at Designblok, Prague Design and Fashion Week 2016 LIVE with Dechem studio

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Zaha Hadid Architects has revealed its winning design for the Urban Heritage Administration Centre, a preservation centre for a UNESCO-protected oasis in Diriyah, Saudi Arabia.

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Concrete dovecote transformed into children's playhouse

A small concrete structure once used as a house for doves has been transformed by Portuguese studio AZO Sequeira Arquitectos Associados into a garden playroom.

The former dovecote had sat derelict in the back garden of the clients' Braga home, so they asked the AZO Sequeira team to make it into a space that they could use.

This is an emotional design!

“Our client asked us to reform an old dovecote in the backyard of his home. We decided to propose a play house for the children and a balneary to serve the pool on the ground floor. The whole family loved the idea.”

“We wanted a play room inspired by magic, fantasy and also by the childhood dreams and memories...

We decided to transform the old dovecote in a minimal concrete «tree house» that represent these memories and fantasies of pure and peaceful way.”

“We look for a way that seemed the main volume is levitating as a tree house but simultaneously it had to be balanced and pure. The idea was that the interior was absent of superfluous elements and were gradually decorated by the works and toys of these children as a reflection of consumer society we are experiencing.”

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Absolutely outrageous. I loved it!

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Graphic Designer Vs Client

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These Videos Will Help You Pass Your ARE Structural Exam

For architects seeking NCARB licensure, few things are more daunting than the dreaded structural exam. But now, thanks to a series of videos from structural engineer Dilip Khatri, even those of us who spent more time doodling than paying attention in college engineering classes can acquire the skills needed to pass the structural section of the ARE.

Khatri, principal of Khatri International Structural and Civil Engineers, has a PHD in Structural Engineering from the University of Southern California and over 30 years experience in the profession, including over 20 years of teaching structural engineering. In the videos, he covers everything you’ll need to know for the exam, from test-taking strategy to shear and moment diagramming to complex problem solving, illustrating with the help of a sharpie pen.

Check out the videos below, and find links to supplementary notes here:

Check out more videos here: AIA Structural Exam Modules

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