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The Translucent House - A prototype by Alfons Soldevila. Photograph parades show the building process from design to finish, and other buildings using translucence. A detailed description and theoretical background. Curvilinear Surfaces - Aleksandra Kasuba explains how to install curved fabric structures (under tension) in environmental and architectural projects. Examples of her installations. Biography, bibliography. Architects Design in Cyberspace - Illustrated article by Alfredo Andia and Claudia Busch on the designs by New York based architectural firm Asymptote on a virtual New York Stock Exchange. The Steel Research House - An experiment in modern house design using light steel framing at the University of Nottingham, UK. Context, project outline and progress. Feedback form for comments. Zomes Concept - Creating homes from a harmonious family of geometric forms. Includes definitions, symbolism, images, and construction. Diaphan Architectural - Sabine von Fischer explores space in material and thought, in the form of drawings and texts – from concept and criticism to construction. Projects focus on sensorial and invisible boundaries such as "sonic barriers", and on completely collapsed objects in the "event horizon" series. Decodeine - Margot Kasojevik presents dynamics, simulation and animation design processes in architecture. Includes animations. Dynamic Architecture - David Fisher presents his design for a rotating tower in Dubai. Between its independently rotating floors are wind turbines, generate electric energy for itself as well as for other buildings. Includes description, video and press articles. Parasitic Architecture - A manifesto on the subject of parasitic architecture; defined as an adaptable, transient and exploitative form of architecture that forces relationships with host buildings. Michael Hansmeyer - Computational Architecture - Features profile and experiments in computational and algorithmic architecture.
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