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Jean Prouvé 1901-1984
Maison Tropicale 1951
First a metal worker, then a self taught architect, Prouvé sought to implement methods and technology of the manufacturing industry in architecture without sacrificing beauty. He built a factory and produced prefab aluminum shelters and prototype houses for extreme environments.
His reworking of his 1948 Maison Tropicale is a masterpiece of prefabricated design that was conceived as a kit of standardized parts that could be transported by air to the French colonies and assembled on site. The lightweight frame of its vented roof, which has the airiness of airplane wings, sums up the aspirations of a generation of architects.
The ‘flat pack’ house which was originally erected in Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo, in 1951. In 2000 the house was found in Brazzaville, in a dilapidated state and riddled with bullet holes. The house was dismantled, returned to France and restored.
Jean Prouvé designed and manufactured three prototype Maisons Tropicales for West Africa between 1949 and 1951. The Brazzaville house is made from folded sheet steel and aluminium. For ease of transport all the parts were flat, lightweight and could be neatly packed into a cargo plane.
The Maisons Tropicales were designed to address the shortage of housing and civic buildings in France’s African colonies. Prouvé aimed to design for the demands of the climate and included a veranda with an adjustable aluminium sun-screen. The inner walls are made of fixed and sliding metal panels with blue glass portholes to protect against UV rays.
Although designed for mass production, the prototype proved no less expensive than locally built buildings and with their industrial aesthetic did not appeal to the conservative expatriate French bureaucrats. So the house exists as a unique expression of a radical architectural vision.
Sources:
- Wikipedia
- Dezeen
- NY Times
- Appartment Therapy
- NY Times (slideshow)
- You’re upstate.
- Flickr user iqbalaalam
- angelfloresjr.multiply.com
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I seriously think this is NOT the way to go Apple.
The New MacBook Pro: Unfixable, Unhackable, Untenable (via wired/gadgetlab)
USER INPUT: BOOOOOOO. This is a very pushy expensive laptop. I hate their push to the cloud and not being able to fix your own computer is extremely unappealing to me. $2200.00. Only suckers will buy this.
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We don’t want to support Facebook anymore (and we’re at the same time quite addicted), so we’ll move. But we need a nice and save place to go, and preferably take all the good stuff with us to.
like this page and join the event. And don’t forget to invite the friends you want to take with you, of course.
In the meantime through this page we’ll keep you updated on the best places to go and how to pack and move properly.
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Check it out:
For Eekje, the brand new daugther of our friends Toon and Jannetje, we made a mobile ( the one that you put above the baby’s bed ;) .
The design consists of laser-cut acrylic shapes; partly letters spelling EEKJE and partly designed shapes that are combinations of downloaded vectorgraphics of objects and animals.
The lasercutting was really straightforward. We just used the settings we found on the exaple wall-piece and it was fine.
The only innovation we did was solving the problem of the stains that are left on the acrylic (especially on the white one the cutting leaves behind nasty brown stains caused by the heat and the smoke). We tried all kinds of cleaners and chemicals we found in the lab, but in the end I thought that BRASSO (grandma’s silver polish) could work. So I went and get it at Albert Heijn. Ik worked really well! So if you have problems with stains: there’s a bottle of Brasso now in the far-right cabinet in the fablab.
link: http://fablab.waag.org/project/eekje-mobile
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A design classic:
De Parkeerschijf
And check out this wealth of choice !
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https://joindiaspora.com ???? I’m not sure anymore !!!
http://lockerproject.org might be a better idea !!! I’ll keep u updated !
But the goal is clear : I am counting down on Facebook. The idea: be gone in:
#forwhatitsworth :
Diaspora joins Y Combinator, may launch after summer
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Artbomb at Waag Society, Nieuwmarkt, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Picture by me.
ARTBOMB – A GROWING INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY IN AN ACTION TO SAVE THE ARTS
Express the value of art! Show your support for culture!
On Friday the 24th June at noon local time, people and organisation join this initiative in shrouding art locations across the world in coloured smoke. This visual act will be a sign of resistance against the growing disdain for the arts within societies and governments worldwide, and a sign of support for colleagues who face major cutbacks. Now is the time to act to show your appreciation and the necessity of the arts!
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Junior Veloso’s liquid resin 3D printer uses a DLP projector beneath a bath of resin to cure an object into its appropriate shape.
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