Here’s a great project that came out of the Adapative Architecture and Computation programme at the Bartlett School of Architecture. ‘Adaptive Fa[ca]de’ by Marilena Skavara explores the functional possibilities and performative characteristics of cellular automata (CA). In addition to the unique emergent behaviour of CA, a neural network enables a further computational layer to evolve CA behaviour to the context of its surrounding environment. (source .interactive architecture) Read more…

A futuristic reuse concept for Melbourne’s ill-fated Southern Star Observation Wheel sees it transformed into a transport hub for flying trams. (source australian design) Read more…

A flexible fabric embedded with cement that can be moulded into shape and used as rapidly deployable shelter in disaster relief situations. (source australian design) Read more…

Norway is considered to have the best conditions in the world for utilizing offshore wind power. The coastline of stavanger, norway is the longest and windiest in europe and is largely unsaturated with turbines. the oil industry has given the country expertise in offshore foundations as well as investment capital to pursue this. (source designboom) Read more...

Shanghai will showcase the city's "tolerance, energetic and innovation" in a shikumen-style building in China's joint-provincial pavilion at the World Expo 2010, the Expo organizer revealed today. (source Shanghai expo) Read more…

Martin Angelov shared his funky concept for a new urban way of transportation dubbed “Kolelinia” with us . Kolelinia proposes that we ride our bicycles on a steel wire as a new type of bicycle lane. The idea was awarded first for the international “Line of Site” competition. (source archdaily) Read more…

It sounds like the plot of the movie Jurassic Park (minus the dinosaurs), but JDS Architects’ have created an incredible plan for a zoo located on the South Korean island of Dochodo. The island could, according to the architecture firm, be a “case study to define a tourist region based on sustainable development only, where natures and structures function in equilibrium, symbiotically feeding one another.” (source inhabitat) Read more…

The Novartis building by Gehry Partners is part of the Masterplan for Novartis, designed by Vittorio Magnano Lampugnani, that will transform the St. Johann site, its headquarters in Basel, from an industrial complex to a campus of innovation, knowledge and encounter. (source arcspace) Read more

Dune Anti-Desertification Architecture investigates adaptive (as opposed to mitigatory) strategies leading to the creation of a climate-conscious architecture that responds to the extreme environments of tomorrow’s globally-warmed world. (source earthArchitecture) Read more…