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(…) Between Art, Architecture and Science-Fiction, the art of Florian Claar is noteworthy for the approach of geometrical patterns and continuous surfaces, but moreover for the production’s quality of the pieces. We can notice in each of his works the precision and the highly detailed finition that bring those scultpures to reality from the nano scale to thehuman scale. On his website you can see, for some project, a well documented part on the building process.” (…)

(from Boite à outils)

Je voullais en parler pour aboreder les differentes techniques de construction autour de l’acier, mais parler aussi langage geometrique.

Dans  differents travaux,  comme “60 Elements” En 1996  sa construction geometrique est une base de Dodécaèdre un des 5  solides de platon:

Un polyèdre convexe est un solide de Platon si et seulement si

1. Toutes ses faces sont des polygones réguliers convexes congrus,
2. Aucune de ses faces ne se coupe, excepté sur les arêtes
3. Le même nombre de faces se rencontrent à chacun de ses sommets.

Il est donc  interessant de construire a partir de ce type de Polyedre puisque il existe une certaine repetitivité des differentes faces donc de pouvoir travailler par moule et de rentabiliser la construction.

De plus une esthétique d’éléments finis sortie droit d’une pensée stricte et rationnelle en ressort.

The Skylon was a futuristic-looking, slender, vertical, cigar-shaped steel tensegrity structure located by the Thames in London, that apparently floated above the ground, built in 1951 for the Festival of Britain.
A popular joke of the period was that, like the British economy of 1951, “It had no visible means of support”.

The Skylon was the “Vertical Feature” that was an abiding symbol of the Festival of Britain. It was designed by Hidalgo Moya, Philip Powelland Felix Samuely, and fabricated by Painter Brothers of Hereford, England, on London’s South Bank between Westminster Bridge andHungerford Bridge. The Skylon consisted of a steel latticework frame, pointed at both ends and supported on cables slung between three steel beams. The partially constructed Skylon was rigged vertically, then grew taller in situ.[2] The architects’ design was made structurally feasible by the engineer Felix Samuely who, at the time, was a lecturer at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in Bedford Square, Bloomsbury. The base was nearly 15 metres (50 feet) from the ground, with the top nearly 90 metres (300 feet) high. The frame was clad in aluminium louvres lit from within at night. Both the name and form of the Skylon perhaps referred back to the Trylon feature of the 1939 World’s Fair. Mrs A G S Fidler, wife of the chief architect of the Crawley Development Corporation, suggested the name and said she derived it from skyhook and nylon.

A few days before the King and Queen visited the exhibition in May 1951, Skylon was climbed at midnight by student Philip Gurdon from Birkbeck College who attached a University of London Air Squadron scarf near the top. A workman was sent up a few days later to collect it.
Questions were asked in Parliament regarding the danger to visitors from lightning-strikes to the Skylon, and the papers reported that it was duly roped off at one point, in anticipation of a forecast thunderstorm.

Plasticité:

Le concept de plasticité désigne, en philosophie, la faculté qu’a une forme de prendre forme, et de donner forme à son tour.

En biologie de l’évolution, un caractère est dit plastique s’il varie en fonction de l’environnement où l’individu se trouve ou au cours de l’ontogénie de cet individu. La plasticité peut s’observer, le développement, l’anatomie, la morphologie, le comportement, etc. On peut ainsi dire que plus un phénotype est plastique, moins il est déterminé (et contraint) génétiquement.

La déformation plastique est la déformation irréversible d’une pièce ; elle se produit par un réarrangement de la position relative des atomes, ou plus généralement des éléments constitutifs du matériau.

La plasticité neuronale décrit la capacité d’un neurone à changer le type de réponse qu’il rend à une même stimulation. Les changements peuvent concerner les propriétés intrinsèques du neurone ou les propriétés des synapses.

Oblong:

Un trou oblong (slotted hole), ou lumière, est un trou plus long que large terminé par deux demi-cylindres. il permet de regler avec un certaine tolerance deux elements.

Tolérance:

Dans son sens le plus général, la tolérance, du latin tolerare (supporter), désigne la capacité à accepter ce que l’on désapprouve, c’est à dire ce que l’on devrait normalement refuser.En construction ou en dessin par exemple, on dit qu’on peut tolérer une certaine marge d’erreur.

Au sens moral, la tolérance est la vertu qui porte à accepter ce que l’on n’accepterait pas spontanément, par exemple lorsque cela va à l’encontre de ses propres convictions.

Elasticité

La déformation élastique est une déformation réversible : le milieu retourne à son état initial lorsque l’on supprime les sollicitations.
La déformation élastique est un domaine important de la mécanique des milieux continus (MMC) et de la thermodynamique (compression des gaz).

Une diffusion élastique (ou collision élastique) est une interaction, entre deux corps ou plus, au cours de laquelle l’énergie cinétique totale est conservée, mais suite à laquelle les directions de propagation sont modifiées. Ce changement de direction, dû aux forces d’interaction, est ce qui constitue la diffusion. Ce type de diffusion est qualifié d’élastique par opposition aux collisions inélastiques au cours desquelles l’énergie cinétique n’est pas conservée.

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Je suis tombé sur la librairie parisienne qui detient une trés grosse collection de livres collectors autour de l’architecture d’avant-garde des année 70-90 sur paris. Didier Lecointre & Dominique Drouet, libraires installés à Paris depuis 25 ans, proposent des livres, des revues et des documents rares ou épuisés concernant l’art,l’architecture et les mouvements d’avant-garde du XX ème siècle. www.lecointredrouet.com

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from: A Daily Dose of Architecture

This sculptural form is achieved using a system of aluminium profiles used in the production of high quality, ship hulls. The facade is fabricated using curved 140mm wide aluminium profiles that are connected together on-site, using a tongue-and-groove system ensuring water-tightness and construction efficiency. The metallic silver finish is a high performance durable paint typically used on super yachts. The use of self cleaning glass and an ingenious detail of hidden gutters within the eyelids ensures the facade remains low maintenance.


The ground floor is fronted by a bespoke laminated glass in which is sandwiched a stainless steel mesh and semi opaque interlayer over a dichromatic film. This is lit from behind, using fibre optics to generate a coloured moiré pattern providing dynamic visual interest and a feeling of depth to what would otherwise be a blank wall.

from archdaily.com

Architect: Amanda Levete Architects
Location: London, England
Project Director: Ho-Yin Ng
Project team: Gidon Fuehrer, Chris Geneste, Soren Aagaard, Alan Dempsey – Project Architect, John O’Mara, Michael Mitchell
Client: Clarendon Properties
Main Contractor: Powells Group
Façade: Frener & Reifer
Interiors: Windsor Workshop Ltd.
Constructed Area: 14,220 sqm
Project year: 2007-2009
Photographs: Gidon Fuehrer

Situated at the foot of the entrance to Trinity Bellwoods Park, a fluorescent dome serves as a beacon and threshold between Park and City. It is universal in form and origin. Utilizing fluorescent tubes and Tesla Coils, its modes of construction and illumination pay tribute to the ambitions of Buckminster Fuller and Nikola Tesla: To provide universally accessible models of architecture and energy distribution.

F30T8 Fluorescent Tubes, Aluminum Nodes, Tesla Coils
24′-0″ DIA x 18′-6″
2007

Michal Maciej Bartosik was born in Walbrzych, Poland. He studied Architecture at the University of Toronto School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, and at the Politechnika Krakowska in Krakow. He works
mutually between his interests in Urbanism, Architecture,Art and Design.

While the London Bridge may be awesome and the Golden Gate even more so, here’s one that beats them both to a pulp in coolness. The Flying Bridge in Leeuwarden, Netherlands, Holland is more like a transformer than an actual working bridge. This awesome futuristic bridge is attached to an arm that extends over a small river. Whenever a boat has to pass under the arm simply raises the entire section up and over to the side. When the boat passes by it just lowers down and pretends to be bridge again. All it has to do is wait for the All Spark to arrive and the rest of the Transformers before we know the truth.

Blue Demon
Plexiglas, gradient mirrored window tint, Blue Demon flavour Full Throttle Energy Drink, water, 2010.

Focus
Plexiglas, gradient mirrored window tint, Focus flavour Vitaminwater, water, 2010.

Multi-V
Plexiglas, gradient mirrored window tint, Multi-V flavour Vitaminwater, 2010.

More works of Louie Schumacher at http://worse.tumblr.com/

Mesh Chair

Metal and epoxy pain

Chris Kabel is a Dutch designer and a graduate of the Eindhoven Design Academy. He likes to accumulate, to repair, especially old watches – to understand the internal mechanisms that lie at the heart of things. It is no doubt that his passion for objects, his wish to analyse them in order to understand them that explains the originality of his approach. With the meticulousness of a surgeon, Chris Kabel dissects the daily objects that surround us, vases, tables, lamps… Each element, function, shape and material is examined and compared in order to explore new meanings. Humour and the poetry of discrepancy are the tools used by Chris Kabel to revisit in-depth the archetypes, and hence to offer us new angles
of perception, objects and furniture.

Images Refrences: Chris Kabel website