6+ day, 37+ min ago   (484+ words) For BIG, the project presented an opportunity to work simultaneously across multiple scales. In conversation with designboom, Hanna Johansson, Associate in Charge at BIG, reflects on the studio’s approach to the project and its ambitions for housing in Athens. ‘At…...

6+ day, 14+ hour ago   (354+ words) Set on a hill within the rural landscape of Kobe, Japan, Tsukumo Kiln by Dept. + OAAA is a ceramic studio surrounded by fields and mountains. Conceived as a working space for ceramic production, the 80.32-sqm building responds to its open…...

6+ day, 18+ hour ago   (107+ words) Kanna, designed by Laure Friès, is a triangular cabin situated in France | image by David Foessel treehouse-inspired ‘kid cabin’ in Thailand by Imaginary Objects | image by Jinnbor sauna shelter by DAICHI in Japan | image courtesy of DAICHI a small-scale fireplace…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (249+ words) all images ©SAGA Space Architects The structural elements were printed on site using a COBOD BOD3 printer. The concrete incorporates FUTURECEM, a lower-carbon cement developed by Aalborg Portland, as part of the project’s approach to reducing the material impact of construction....

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (321+ words) Mardavij Pigeon Tower walls | image by Գարվիք, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Cooking, heating and silk production were therefore closely connected. The arrangement made the farmhouse a home and a place of production. The household relied on sericulture for income,…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (749+ words) This is why solid waste remains one of the more difficult problems in long-duration spaceflight. Food packaging, hygiene materials, textiles and other discarded items are made from different materials and are often contaminated. Simply putting them through a conventional recycling…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (281+ words) Paris-based design studio Supaform’s Maxim Shcherbakov discusses Transit Encounters and conversation pits | all images courtesy of Supaform the conversation pit’s particular style waxes and wanes in popularity every few years ‘I don’t think there is any radical difference between these…...

3+ week, 14+ hour ago   (107+ words) all images courtesy of STUDIO SHOO reflective surfaces shift with the sitter’s movement three legs introduce a subtle sense of instability a closer look at the chair’s stainless steel structure the mirrored backrest catches fragmented reflections of the sitter a…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (125+ words) all images courtesy of Opposite Office the one-square-meter workspace sits among the trees the compact office accommodates two to three architects the temporary structure occupies the Bauhaus campus in Weimar a closer look at the compact treehouse office the treehouse…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (267+ words) A 3D printed instrument by Co:Creation Lab uses a replaceable party balloon as its sound box, turning the physics of resonance into something users can adjust and feel. Called the Balloon Banjo, the small playable object combines seven printed components…...