Sunday, August 31, 2008

Interactive architecture blog

This blog contains some interesting information: http://www.interactivearchitecture.org/. Joyce: You should take a look at the piezoelectric, energy-generating dance floor.

Friday, August 29, 2008

joy's belated findings

http://www.s-m-i-t.com/#grow_target

This is the grow project that got inspired by rusttling leaves to get energy via piezo. looks kinda literal.

http://www.technologyreview.com/Energy/20379/

what do humpback whales has to do with wind turbines? this is so cute whale inspired wind blades. its scientific okay but its cute.

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/wind-dam/wind-dam-design-for-russian-lake-is-spooky-awesome-323062.php

wind dam. an ETFE stretched over a valley to channel all the wind toward the turbines set at the base of "sail" looks funky!

Thursday, August 28, 2008

one of world's largest media installation

heiko's finding

fiber wave

heiko's finding

Register for Shigeru Ban's talk

The link to register for the shigeru ban's talk is here: http://spring.ura.gov.sg/cudd/talks/Sep08/eInvitation.cfm

Time:4.00pm - 6.00pm 9 Sep 2008, Tuesday

Venue: URA Centre, Function Hall, Level 5
45 Maxwell Road, Singapore 069118

hey guys, let's go to URA

we can have our studio dinner in that area, can we?
it is a talk given by "shigru Ban" so co seng who need to beat him upside down and inside out better go la
http://spring.ura.gov.sg/cudd/talks/Sep08/eInvitation.cfm

the robot!!

RealFlow — Computational Fluid Dynamics

RealFlow is made by NextLimit Software, a trial version can be downloaded from http://www.realflow.com/.