Wow that is really great! Until she passed away last year, my grandmother was in a wheelchair. Imagine how much easier things would have been if we had one of those in the house or they had them in the handicapped bathrooms in public places. Awesome! Hope to see that in the future. How innovative.
Also like the rock version of Pachelbel's Canaon. :)
Stasis
Very inspiring. Engineering can be so wonderful when it's focused properly.
ReenTeenTeen
The designers, Changduk Kim and Youngki Hong of Korea won Internation Design Ecellence Award 2007 for those two cocepts.
DJ Eco
I'm trying to design an interchangeable system for the function of my room. For example, moveable walls held by tracks, but not only that, but also custom-designed lighting fixtures that also travel via tiny transparent tracks that I can move anywhere in the room. Also, my book shelf will be movable and can be moved via track to diff. parts of the room, even the cieling, if I need one part of my room for a certain big project, for example... My designs are pretty cool, I'm trying to make it happen before June. The light-fixture is especially sickkkk, I hope to sell the designs somewhere :-P
ReenTeenTeen
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Originally posted by DJ Eco
I'm trying to design an interchangeable system for the function of my room. For example, moveable walls held by tracks, but not only that, but also custom-designed lighting fixtures that also travel via tiny transparent tracks that I can move anywhere in the room. Also, my book shelf will be movable and can be moved via track to diff. parts of the room, even the cieling, if I need one part of my room for a certain big project, for example... My designs are pretty cool, I'm trying to make it happen before June. The light-fixture is especially sickkkk, I hope to sell the designs somewhere :-P
Sell? Start of with trying to get it published.
DJ Eco
Just went to a lecture by Scott Specht and Louise Harpman (http://www.spechtharpman.com), which was really cool...
The blue siding was made by a company they used which makes ice-cube containers. Those are just large-scale ice-cube containers with lighting beneath it. The hanging lighting was made by oil filters they bought at Pep Boys.
Another lighting wall, this time, made by the backs of water jugs.
They took a barn protected as a local landmark, and made this as the interior.
DJ Eco
And this is my, still under construction, project... This is what I'm doing when I'm not producing trance or going out haha... It's pretty cool, and the final is to be put together for next Thursday, wish me luck guys.....
kingchinc
^^ what is that?
DJ Eco
Well, it's based on a really abstract idea behind what the assignment was all about. Basically, the project was to design an abstract concept called a "crossing station"... The best example would be anything from a border immigration area, to something that connects ferry travellers to trains, or train travelers to busses, etc... That's the best way to describe it but unfortunately, that's not EXACTLY what the project was.... It was way way way more abstract and we were supposed to think in very random terms what this "crossing station" was supposed to be crossing to and from. That abstract idea of to and from was then to be applied to all the physical and design aspects of the structure.
For example, in one student's project, you enter as a child, and leave the other side as an adult. Thus, he made a 4-foot high cieiling upon entrance and it sloped up as you kept walking, until you reach the exit, where the cieling is 10-feet high. Another student made hers like a maze where doctors enter one way and mental patients the other. There were a bunch of spaces where entering mental patients could hide and frighten the doctor, etc... It was really some far-out that went into thinking this project up haha...
Mine was about hot and cold. Basically, one side of the building's surroundings are hot, and the other cold. Someone enters one side sweating and then leaves the other to find freezing temperatures. Mine was more of a study about the façade of the buildings, where light comes in at certain points. Light = heat, so where it's hot, there is a lack of light coming in. As the person nears the exit out to the cold, there's more and more light being admitted through. So yeah, that's what the project is about haha... Mine has two stories and two main paths to follow, that of travellers going from cold to hot, and the other from hot to cold. Those paths were also supposed to be accounted for when thinking this out. People coming in from the cold enter through a really narrow corridor that allows more body density to = more heat, and vice versa for those entering from the heat.
