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Paper: 7.5 cm
Modules: 4
Model: Tomoko Fuse
Book: Unit Origami Essence p. 39
Plan is to make a series of zebra platonic solids all from Fuse's Unit Origami Essence.
That cube is unique since it consist of four modules, hence there are two types of faces: four small and two large triangles. I'd call that almost face modules, because basically the modules are faces but two faces do not need their own modules. They are generated by the excess of the existing modules.
Glue was used to stabilize the last (generated) face.
Edit: Photo replaced by a better one.
"Cube houses (Dutch: Kubuswoningen) are a set of innovative houses built in Rotterdam and Helmond in the Netherlands, designed by architect Piet Blom and based on the concept of "living as an urban roof": high density housing with sufficient space on the ground level. Blom tilted the cube of a conventional house 45 degrees, and rested it upon a hexagon-shaped pylon. His design represents a village within a city, where each house represents a tree, and all the houses together, a forest.
The houses in Rotterdam were designed in 1977 in a plan of 55, of which 39 were built.
The houses in Rotterdam are located on Overblaak Street, right above the Blaak Subway Station. There are 38 small cubes and two so called 'super-cubes', all attached to each other.
As residents are disturbed so often by curious passers-by, one owner decided to open a "show cube", which is furnished as a normal house, and is making a living out of offering tours to visitors.
The walls and windows are angled at 54.7 degrees. The total area of the apartment is around 100 square meters, but around a quarter of the space is unusable because of the walls that are under the angled ceilings.
In 2006, a museum of chess pieces was opened under the houses.
In 2009, the larger cubes were converted by Personal Architecture into a hostel run by Dutch hostel chain Stayokay."
Source: wikipedia.org
"Cube houses (Dutch: Kubuswoningen) are a set of innovative houses built in Rotterdam and Helmond in the Netherlands, designed by architect Piet Blom and based on the concept of "living as an urban roof": high density housing with sufficient space on the ground level. Blom tilted the cube of a conventional house 45 degrees, and rested it upon a hexagon-shaped pylon. His design represents a village within a city, where each house represents a tree, and all the houses together, a forest.
The houses in Rotterdam were designed in 1977 in a plan of 55, of which 39 were built.
The houses in Rotterdam are located on Overblaak Street, right above the Blaak Subway Station. There are 38 small cubes and two so called 'super-cubes', all attached to each other.
As residents are disturbed so often by curious passers-by, one owner decided to open a "show cube", which is furnished as a normal house, and is making a living out of offering tours to visitors.
The walls and windows are angled at 54.7 degrees. The total area of the apartment is around 100 square meters, but around a quarter of the space is unusable because of the walls that are under the angled ceilings.
In 2006, a museum of chess pieces was opened under the houses.
In 2009, the larger cubes were converted by Personal Architecture into a hostel run by Dutch hostel chain Stayokay."
Source: wikipedia.org
cola cubes and pineapple chunks bought solely as photographic subjects. Not for eating. Definitely, not for eating. :)
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*Symposium:
19.07.2011
André Rangel - Portugal | Portugal
Metacriação e composição algorítmica: Reflexões sobre a distância entre o criador e o público | Meta-creation and algorithmic composition - Reflections on the distance from the creator to the audience
Ali Miharbi - Turquia | Turkey
Top-down X Bottom-up: Obras recentes | Top-down vs. Bottom-up: Recent Works
Eric Siu - Honk Kong e Japão | Hong Kong and Japan
Corpo dirigido pela mídia: Massagem de karaokê | Media Driven Body: Karaoke Massage
Ben Jack - Nova Zelândia | New Zealand
Cérebros, computadores e emergência: Mágica mental em um mundo digital | Brains, computers and emergence: Mental magic in a digital world
Kazushi Mukaiyama - Japão | Japan
IJIROS
Mesa Redonda | Round Table
Daniel Gonzalez Xavier (coordenação e mediação | coordination and mediation) Brasil | Brazil; Fernando Velázquez - Montevidéu-Uruguai; Milton Sogabe - Brasil | Brazil; Miguel de Castro Perez - Brasil | Brazil; Ricardo Palmieri - Brasil | Brazil; Vanessa Fort - Brasil | Brazil
Processos mistos de criação e gestão de práticas artísticas, tecnológicas e culturais: Uma aproximação aos Encontros AVLAB e outros modelos de gestão compartilhada e em constante trânsito físico/online | Mixed processes of creation and management of artistic, technological and cultural practices: An approach to the AVLAB Meetings and other shared and in constant physical/online transit management models
20.07.2011
Andreas muk Haider - Áustria | Austria
Skia
Hye Yeon Nam - Coréia e Estados Unidos | Korea and United States
Por favor, sorria | Please Smile
Julian Jaramillo Arango - Brasil | Brazil
O Cubo Feliz | The Happy Cube
Matt Roberts - Estados Unidos | United States
Quem está no controle? Criando arte com dados em tempo real e interação do usuário | Who is in control? Creating art using real-time data and user interaction
Ricardo Iglesias García - Espanha | Spain
Arte, robôs e câmeras de vigilância | Art, robots and surveillance cameras
Mesa Redonda | Round Table
Ana Carla Fonseca (Garimpo de Soluções) Brasil | Brazil; Expedito Araújo (Vivo EnCena) Brasil | Brazil; Laura Corrêa (ItsNoon) Brasil | Brazil; Piatã Stoklos Kignel (Banco Santander) Brasil | Brazil
Economia Criativa | Creative Economy
21.07.2011
Sergio Roclaw Basbaum - Brasil | Brazil
Percepção e experiência em ambientes digitais: tecnoestese e infocognição | Perception and experience in digital environments: tecnoaesthesis and infocognition
Eduardo Patrício - Brasil | Brazil
Desenvolvimento de Instrumentos Musicais Digitais como atividade composicional | Development of musical instruments as a compositional activity
Giuliano Obici - Brasil | Brazil
Lanhouse e seus devires | LAN houses and their devires
Claudia Paulina González Godoy - Chile | Chile
Arte, Hardware Aberto e Cultura DIY | Art, Open Hardware and DIY Culture
Douglas Easterly - Nova Zelândia e Estados Unidos | New Zealand and United States
Escapando ao solipsismo: Inteligência Artificial, design de jogos | Escaping Solipsism: Artificial Intelligence, Game Design
Victoria Messi - Argentina | Argentina
Anti Utopia: Arte Eletrônica na América Latina | Anti Utopia: Electronic Art in Latin America
Gabriela Previdello - Brasil | Brazil
Fluxo da informação na contemporaneidade: a memória reordenada nas estruturas do FILE Arquivo | Contemporary information flow: the reordered memory on FILE Archive structures
Mesa Redonda | Round Table
Eliane Weizmann (coordenação e mediação | coordination and mediation) Brasil | Brazil; Alessandro Ludovico (neural) Itália | Italy; Alexandre Matias (Editor do caderno de cultura digital do jornal O Estado de S. Paulo) Brasil | Brazil; Régine Debatty (we make money not art) Bélgica | Belgium; Victoria Messi (El Pez Eléctrico) Argentina | Argentina
Jornalismo Cultural | Cultural Journalism
22.07.2011
Fernando Macedo - Brasil | Brazil
"Música para fala e trinta minutos", por PirarucuDuo | "Music for speech and 30 minutes" by Pirarucu Duo
Eduardo Omine - Brasil | Brazil
Fragmentos em ar curvo | Fragments in curved air
Christian Oyarzún Roa - Chile | Chile
G: Representações e reformulações do global de uma perspectiva meridional | G: representations and reformulations of the global from a South view
Karla Schuch Brunet - Brasil | Brazil
Geografias do Mar # Ilhas | Geographies of the Sea # Islands
Rachel Zuanon Dias / Geraldo Lima - Brasil | Brazil
Desenhando biointerfaces usáveis para jogar: o BioBodyGame e o NeuroBodyGame | Geographies of the Sea # Islands
Mesa Redonda | Round Table
Franklin Lee (AA) (coordenação e mediação | coordination and mediation); Anne Save de Beaurecueil (SUBdV) >; Robert Smith Stuart (Kokkugia); Sandro Tubertini (BDSP); Thiago Mundim (AA)
Coreografando Arquitetura Computacional | Choreographing Computational Architecture
A Rubik's cube with a continuous longline pattern on the outside. A real challenge for jaded cube solvers, impossible to solve for normal humans, I'm afraid.
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The Cube, but not as a cube! taken from the canal bridge, another simple shot.. I liked the way the clouds were reflecting in the windows. Strange it Looks a bit like an HDR shot but its not..
Just waiting to be popped onto the rigatoni...
Speck is defined as follows:
Speck is a distinctively juniper-flavored ham originally from Tyrol, a historical region that since 1918 partially lies in Austria and partially in Italy. Speck's origins at the intersection of two culinary worlds is reflected in its synthesis of salt-curing and smoking.
The first historical mention of Speck was in the early 13th century when some of the current production techniques were already in use. Südtiroler Speck (Italian: Speck Alto Adige) is now a protected geographic designation with PGI status.[1]
CuringLike prosciutto and other hams, speck is made from the hind leg of the pig, but, unlike other prosciutti, speck is boned before curing.
A leg of pork is deboned and divided into large sections called "baffe", and then cured in salt and various spice combination which may include garlic, bay leaves, juniper berries, nutmeg, and other spices, and then rested for a period of several weeks. After this the smoking process begins.
Speck is cold-smoked slowly and intermittently for two or three hours a day for a period of roughly a week using woods such as beech at temperatures that never exceed 20°C (68°F).
The speck is then matured for five months.
[edit] UsesSpeck is ubiquitous in the local cuisine of the province of Bolzano-Bozen, and is also found in the Austrian, Czech, Dutch, Croatian, German, Italian and Slovak cuisines.
Tissue-thin slices of speck can also be served with horseradish, pickles and dark rye bread studded with raisins and nuts, a more Austrian-influenced presentation.
Typically appearing in pastas, in risotto, on pizzas, and alongside hearty whole-grain breads, speck can also be seen in the company of shellfish, sometimes wrapped around scallops or rolled about breadsticks and served with lobster salad. Speck can be cut into thick strips and added to pasta sauces or any dish beginning with a soffritto of olive oil and chopped vegetables. In dishes like risotto, the extremely strong flavour of speck can usually be cut with light flavours such as parsley, lemon, mint, etc. In salads, speck pairs well with apples, sprouts, mushrooms, and hearts of celery.
Speck can easily replace bacon or as a smoky alternative to Pancetta. The differences between speck and bacon include different time lengths of smoking, the technique of curing it, and the fact that speck cures for a longer period of time than bacon does.
[edit] Jewish Deli SpeckIn some Jewish delis in the United States, speck is a beef product. It is made from the top layer of fat cut from a pickled brisket (corned beef), dusted in paprika, double smoked and then grilled.[4] It is then sliced and either served on its own, traditionally on rye bread with mustard or combined with another sliced meat in a sandwich.
In parts of the English-speaking culinary world, the term "speck" refers to Italian speck, a type of prosciutto, rather than German speck, which is identical to the Italian "lardo". The term "speck" became part of popular parlance only in the eighteenth century and replaced the older term "bachen", a cognate of "bacon".
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This papercraft is a Compound of Four Cubes, created by Korthalsaltes. There is another version on the site available.
You can download this papercraft template here: Compound of Four Cubes Ver.2 Free Papercraft Download
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Paper: 5 cm
Modules: 3 left- and 3 right handed
Model: Tomoko Fuse
Book: Unit Origami Essence p. 40-41
As the last one (zebra cube) consist of "almost face modules", these are "almost vertex modules". Two corners do not need a own module, but are generated by the others.
Edit: Photo replaced by a better one.
"Cube houses (Dutch: Kubuswoningen) are a set of innovative houses built in Rotterdam and Helmond in the Netherlands, designed by architect Piet Blom and based on the concept of "living as an urban roof": high density housing with sufficient space on the ground level. Blom tilted the cube of a conventional house 45 degrees, and rested it upon a hexagon-shaped pylon. His design represents a village within a city, where each house represents a tree, and all the houses together, a forest.
The houses in Rotterdam were designed in 1977 in a plan of 55, of which 39 were built.
The houses in Rotterdam are located on Overblaak Street, right above the Blaak Subway Station. There are 38 small cubes and two so called 'super-cubes', all attached to each other.
As residents are disturbed so often by curious passers-by, one owner decided to open a "show cube", which is furnished as a normal house, and is making a living out of offering tours to visitors.
The walls and windows are angled at 54.7 degrees. The total area of the apartment is around 100 square meters, but around a quarter of the space is unusable because of the walls that are under the angled ceilings.
In 2006, a museum of chess pieces was opened under the houses.
In 2009, the larger cubes were converted by Personal Architecture into a hostel run by Dutch hostel chain Stayokay."
Source: wikipedia.org
Cube Housing
Location: Rotterdam, Holland
Floor area/size: 20000 m2
Architect: Piet Blom
Zapraszam do współpracy!
The Cube Houses, or "Kubuswoningen" in Dutch, are one of Rotterdam's most iconic and unique architectural marvels. Designed by Dutch architect Piet Blom in the late 1970s, these innovative houses were conceived as part of an urban development project aimed at creating a "village within a city." Each house is literally a cube tilted at a 45-degree angle, resting on a hexagonal pylon, which gives the illusion that they are balancing on one corner. This striking and unconventional design immediately captures attention and has become a symbol of Rotterdam's progressive and bold approach to urban planning.
Blom's vision was to represent a forest, with each individual cube symbolizing an abstract tree, and the entire complex forming a cohesive "urban forest." The structures are built on a pedestrian bridge above a busy street near the Blaak metro station and the historic Oude Haven, cleverly optimizing public space. The complex consists of 38 small cubes and two larger "super-cubes," all interconnected to form a visually stunning and playful residential area. Their bright yellow color further enhances their distinctive presence against the city's skyline.
Stepping inside a Cube House offers a truly unique living experience. Due to the 45-degree tilt, all the walls and windows are slanted, creating unconventional and dynamic interior spaces. While this might seem challenging, the design cleverly maximizes the usable area within the geometric constraints. Typically, a Cube House has three floors: the ground floor serves as the entrance and storage area within the hexagonal pylon, the first floor houses the living room and an open kitchen, and the second floor contains two bedrooms and a bathroom. The top floor, often a small loft, can be used as a study, guest room, or even a rooftop garden, offering panoramic views of the surroundings.
While most Cube Houses are private residences, one "Show Cube" (Kijk-Kubus) has been opened to the public as a museum, allowing visitors to experience firsthand what it's like to live in such a distinctive home. This offers a fascinating insight into the creative solutions employed for furniture placement and maximizing space in an angled environment. Additionally, one of the larger cubes has been converted into a Stayokay Hostel, providing the unique opportunity for visitors to actually spend a night in these architectural wonders, further cementing their status as a must-see attraction in Rotterdam.
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