Spaces of Speculation

I love some of the stuff on Pinterest, anything is possible when it comes to architecture!

Guy Dessauges, modular apartments, 1960.

Source: Uploaded by user via David on Pinterest

UP up and away!

This is so cool! …

“National Geographic created a real-life version of the house from Pixar’s Up. National Geographic Channel and a team of scientists, engineers, and two world-class balloon pilots successfully launched a 16′ X 16′ house 18′ tall with 300 8′ colored weather balloons from a private airfield east of Los Angeles, and set a new world record for the largest balloon cluster flight ever attempted. The entire experimental aircraft was more than 10 stories high, reached an altitude of over 10,000 feet, and flew for approximately one hour.”

Photos from National Geographic

Snowflakes!

I’ve always knew that no two snowflakes are the same..it was something I heard about when I was a child. At this very point in time I am reading Pamphlet Architecture 27:Tooling by Aranda Lasch – and I was so excited after reading just the first page I decided it was worth a post. Never realised how beautiful these little things are! The amazing variety and design of shapes that appear as a result of crystallization is pretty awesome..God really does exist. But what also impressed me was the project undertaken by a farmer from Vermont, Wilson Bentley, who spent a life time documenting and photographing snowflakes. He collected over 5000 of them. Here is a picture I found at a cool blog: http://drawnassociation.net

Okay but the really impressive thing is..and I’ll know more after reading, how these snowflakes all adhere to the rule of six. They are all different but every one is six-sided and symmetrical. This can be related to architecture (anything seems to be able to relate to architecture..)

“If architecture is an extended process of formation, then before ideas coalesce into a definitive form there must exist some undifferentiated state free of any organization. The moment any sort of development is imposed onto this formless matter it begins to enter the realm of substance, organization, and material…Like Bentley’s snowflakes, the source of wonder behind one crystal is not the storm it came from but rather the elusive internal logic that remains resolute and unmoving through all crystals.”