“The Dixon Land Imprinter is a very simple machine consisting of only two moving parts - the imprinting roller and the seedbox agitator.” imprinting
“The roller drops seeds onto the soil surface and imbeds them in the imprint surfaces. The imprinter forms interconnected water shedding and absorbing v-pockets, which function as rain fed micro-irrigation system.” via infranetlab, “strategies against desertification”
”[..] buildings that could very well be machines. [..] His work is experimental architecture in its most powerful, and politically provocative, sense.” bldgblog
In 1998 Woods founded riea, the Research Institute for Experimental Architecture - “a non-profit institution with the purpose of advancing experimentation and research in the field of architecture, in response to changing political, economic, technological and cultural conditions in the contemporary world.”
blog with a growing list of publications and texts, amazon booklist, bldgblog interview, lebbeuswoods.net.
theo jansen’s creations look like a mix of machine, skeleton and creatures from the past, maybe future. his modular systems, he calles forms of life, are handmade and start moving as soon as they are exposed to a fresh breeze of wind. Jansen has been creating and improving the self-sustainability of his creatures since 1990.
“Not pollen or seeds but plastic yellow tubes are used as the basic material of this new nature. I make skeletons that are able to walk on the wind, so they don’t have to eat.
Over time, these skeletons have become increasingly better at surviving the elements such as storms and water and eventually I want to put these animals out in herds on the beaches, so they will live their own lives.”
dont miss the idea, leg system, and the storing of wind behind the strandbeests.
via stranbeest
Olafur Eliassons BMW
olafur eliasson’s contribution to bmw’s art cars.
The Hybrid Insect Micro Electro Mechanical Systems project aims to create literal shutterbugs camera-toting insects whose nerves have grown into their internal silicon chip so that wranglers can control their activities. darpa.
A mobile room in the size of 5 m x 2.6 m x 2,5m defines the space where an acting person is being tracked and recorded. The acquired tracking data and its references to the recorded video are saved in a database. by bernd hopfengaertner
The purpose of machine “…” is to reproduce itself (just in smaller scale). Replication or reproduction of the machine “…” is prohibited. Offenders will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. by hort.
