unsection:

Untapped Cities

Street sections were much more of a concern 93 years ago. Transportation technology was changing and so, we thought, should our streets.

(via humanscalecities)

http://mit150.mit.edu/multimedia/view-road-1958-kevin-lynch

natureoflight:

Bio-light…light fixture that runs on bacteria.

simulacra

juniorvandepoel:

Fluxus Sample

St lucas Antwerp 2013

ryanpanos:

Precise Images of Buildings That 3D Scanning Enables by Scott Page Design

3D scanning—though it’s been around since the 1960s—has been in the news of late, with Harvard using the technology to recreate ancient statues and MakerBot announcing a desktop scanner last month. But cheaper, faster, and more accessible 3D scanners aren’t just revolutionizing how we print terrifying models of our own faces. They’re also changing how we understand the city.

A fascinating story about urban-scale 3D scanning published on the Atlantic Cities this week explores how a Bay Area architect named Scott Page is using a 3D scanner to generate super-accurate models of historic and dilapidated buildings.

Page’s system takes a series of photographs and patches them together based on how light bounces off each surface. Rather than taking weeks to survey an old building, architects can now generate precise dimensions in just a few hours. Because the scanner uses color photographs, the models are also incredibly beautiful, expressive documents—Page compares them to the first photographs ever made. “There is a magical quality to point cloud imagery, similar to the earliest photos that froze time onto small metallic plates,” he writes on his website.

good riddance… or make up your fucking mind

you are never healed… you just learn to live with the pain…

remember who was important… put in a box and forget the others..

Socialscapes by Enoch Liew

My dorky face appeared on ArchitectureAU because my project didn’t suck. I used social media data to analyse King William Street, Adelaide, and subsequently proposed a way to develop five urban elements that contribute to a vibrant city.

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