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Biome Terrarium by Samuel Wilkinson

Product designer Samuel Wilkinson has created a miniature garden that works like a living Tamagotchi. Samuel Wilkinson previously collaborated with Hulger on the design of the award-winning Plumen 001 light bulb, which will be on sale at the Dezeen Temporium this Christmas. 

The design was developed for an exhibition titled ‘Slow Tech – Designs for Digital Downtime’ at trend agency Protein’s exhibition space last month. The exhibition was curated by Henrietta Thompson (editor-at-large at Wallpaper*)

Looks like terrariums are the new planters. They become more and more popular with the designers and greatly vary in styles and shapes. This one is a hi-tech terrarium by designer Samuel Wilkinson. It works as an enclosed glazed planter for flowers and plants and it is controlled via iPad or smartphone. An application on a smartphone or iPad remotely controls the water, climate and nutrients reaching the flowers inside the flora terrarium.

Referring to his ‘Biome’ Terrarium as “live tamagochi” Samuel Wilkinson offers to control the temperature, water and nutrients levels via the special application for smartphones and iPad prompting a new use for these technologies. Biome is a response to the speed of life in the digital age and encourages smartphone users to take time out to care for their plants. 

Low energy lighting is integrated into the capsule to replicate sunlight, while sensors provide real time information on the climatic conditions inside the dome.The terrarium also feature built-in lighting to imitate sunlight. Full spectrum LED lights replicate daylight inside the dome, which can be planted with different arrangements.

The ‘Biome’ Terrarium is great for growing most demanding plants and flowers as it provides all the necessary conditions for them. The application regulates the factors like temperature and light only in the terrarium and not entire room of apartment. It’s also handy as it’s not always possible to keep the temperature in the room at one level.

The idea promotes ‘digital downtime’ by finding an alternative use for smartphones and encouraging their owners to consider a slower life. The control and nurturing of a real mini eco-system takes patience and care, contrasting with the immediacy of messaging or tweeting that is so characteristic of the smartphone generation.

The smart garden is automatically linked back to your iPad or smartphone device when connected and displays a readout of the conditions. As the gardener, you can alter the light, water, climate, and nutrients.

http://www.interiorholic.com/news/hi-tech-biome-terrarium-by-samuel-wilkinson/
http://www.dezeen.com/2011/11/09/biome-by-samuel-wilkinson/
http://inhabitat.com/biome-is-a-smart-living-flora-terrarium-you-nurture-with-your-ipad/biome-terrarium-samuel-wilkinson-8/

The predator by Greg Lynn at MKK, museum fur moderne kunst, Frankfurt

Saya beruntung dapat menyaksikan langsung, pameran instalasi arsitektur / seni karya Greg Lynn di Museum fur moderne kunst di Frankfurt, German. Instalasi ini ternyata cukup panjang dan bertexture … seperti latex semi transparan,

 beberapa bagian terbuka seperti robekan beberapa bagian lagi dipenuhi dengan cat warna-warni … mengundang berbagai imaginasi interpretasi pribadi bagi masing-masing orang yang datang ke tempat ini … kita bisa membayangkan seperti ular yang berputar-putar .. atau seperti potongan kerongkongan dari dinosaurus… atau bahkan kita bayangkan juga seperti lukisan abstrak dengan medium yang tidak datar tetapi memiliki texture …kasar dan seterusnya...

Greg Lynn salah satu arsitek yang getol dalam pengolahan digital computer dengan CAD (Computer Aided Design) Lynn berusaha mengexplorasi kemampuan software ini untuk memproduksi rancangan yang irregular dia menyebutnya sebagai biomorphic architectural form

Toge wedding dress by Emmanuelle Moureaux

 

French-born japan-based designer architect emmanuelle moureaux has developed 'toge' (which means 'thorn' in japanese).A modular product that can be interlocked to each other, allowing one to freely create a variety of textural spaces.  

 

“Toge” could be used as an architectural module for creating spaces, walls or partitions, or for creating free-standing sculptural pieces.“Toge” looks soft and light as dandelion flowers but is hard as a sea urchin or chesnut.

Its use as an architectural module can be applied in the formation of walls or partitions, or for creating free-standing sculptural pieces. To demonstrate its structural potential and adaptability, moureaux created a wedding dress composed of 500 of the colorful thorn-like bulbs at designtide tokyo 2011.

'Toge' comes in 14 color varieties as well as white. The main materials it is composed of is piano wire and epoxy resin.each individual module weighs 2 grams and measures 147 mm in diameter.

The bristles of the modular products were slotted together to create the dress, but can also be used to construct freestanding sculptures and partitions in an assortment of rainbow colours.Emmanuelle Moureaux is based in Tokyo and exhibited another modular product at the design festival there last year

“Sharp-pointed thorns. It is a manifestation of its aggressiveness that it will not let others come near, and a manifestation of its own weakness. Aggressiveness and Weakness. When wrapped around in the two conflicting senses, I feel like reaching out and touch the pain in spite of myself.”

Material: piano wire / epoxy resin
Weight: 2g / toge
Size: 147mm
Colors: 14 colors + white

http://www.dezeen.com/2011/11/08/toge-by-emmanuelle-moureaux/

http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/8/view/17483/emmanuelle-moureaux-toge-architectural-module.html