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Der Mercedes-Benz 600, intern als W 100 bezeichnet, war in den 1960er und 1970er Jahren das Staats- und Repräsentationsfahrzeug von Daimler-Benz. Die Ursprünge des 600ers liegen in der Mitte der 1950er Jahre. Fritz Nallinger, führender Entwickler bei Daimler-Benz, betrieb die Entwicklung eines Wagens auf dem Stand des technisch Machbaren. So erhielt der Wagen unter anderem Luftfederung, Automatikgetriebe, Servolenkung und -bremsen.
1960 war die Formfindung abgeschlossen. Mit zwölf unterschiedlichen Prototypen wurden Probefahrten unternommen, wonach die exakten Spezifikationen des Wagens festgelegt wurden. Es gab:
viertürige Limousinen, knapp zwei Meter breit und 5,54 Meter lang,
vier- oder sechstürige Limousinen (Pullman-Limousinen), 6,24 m lang, und
vier- oder sechstürige Landaulets, ebenfalls 6,24 m lang. 8-Zylinder-Motor mit 250 PS. > Wikipedia
The United Kingdom pavilion: Seed Cathedral
60,000 fiber optic cables stick out of British pavilion which was designed by Thomas Heatherwick. The pavilion has been nicknamed locally as ‘Pu Gong Ying’, Chinese for ‘The Dandelion’ due to its unusual appearance. During the day, the rods direct light to the interior while at night the whole thing will glow like a kitsch artifact from the 1980s. Inside, thousands of seeds from the Millennium Seed Project will be on display, causing the whole thing to have been dubbed the “Seed Cathedral,” though some say it looks like a scared hedgehog. After the World Expo Shanghai, most of the materials of the UK Pavilion will be reused or recycled and the seeds will be planted around China.
Lead Designer: Heatherwick Studio
Project team: Thomas Heatherwick, Katerina Dionysopoulou, Robert Wilson, Peter Ayres, Stuart Wood, Ingrid Hu, Jaroslav Hulin, Chiara Ferrari and Ramona Becker
Key Construction Materials: steel and timber composite structure, 60,000 fiber optic filaments, aluminum sleeves
Optic fibers: 60,588
Optic fibers length: 7.5 meters
Seeds in Seed Cathedral: 217,300
Source of Seeds: China’s Kunming Institute of Botany, a partner in Kew Royal Botanic Gardens’ Millennium Seed Bank Project.
Award: 2010 International Awards by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA)
España en Shanghai
This photo has been featured in Archidose: archidose.blogspot.com/2010/10/todays-archidose-446.html
K.S., Ausstellungsplakat,1981, Handdruck, Unter den Linden 6, Berlin Mitte, Kleine- Humboldt-Galerie, (Sammlung Kunst-Bibliothek, Kulturforum Berlin).
Computational domes. The design is generated with shape grammars and the construction is adapted with a catenary-simulation. Scripted in Processing.
Computational domes. The design is generated with shape grammars and the construction is adapted with a catenary-simulation. Scripted in Processing.
Der Mercedes-Benz 600, intern als W 100 bezeichnet, war in den 1960er und 1970er Jahren das Staats- und Repräsentationsfahrzeug von Daimler-Benz. Die Ursprünge des 600ers liegen in der Mitte der 1950er Jahre. Fritz Nallinger, führender Entwickler bei Daimler-Benz, betrieb die Entwicklung eines Wagens auf dem Stand des technisch Machbaren. So erhielt der Wagen unter anderem Luftfederung, Automatikgetriebe, Servolenkung und -bremsen.
1960 war die Formfindung abgeschlossen.
Mit zwölf unterschiedlichen Prototypen wurden Probefahrten unternommen, wonach die exakten Spezifikationen des Wagens festgelegt wurden.
Es gab:
viertürige Limousinen, knapp zwei Meter breit und 5,54 Meter lang,
vier- oder sechstürige Limousinen (Pullman-Limousinen), 6,24 m lang, und
vier- oder sechstürige Landaulets, ebenfalls 6,24 m lang. > Wikipedia
GLOW
Forum of light and art and architecture
nov 7th - nov 16th Eindhoven 2008
Project Ali Heshmati (LEAD Inc.) and Lars Meeß-Olsohn
The Laboratory of Environments, Architecture and Design LEAD is a unique company and international network that serves as an inter-disciplinary platform for research, conceptualization and realization of thoughtful and skillful design, innovation and innovative use of materials and technologies and remarkable prototyping.
The interest of Dr. Lars Meeß-Olsohn, leichtbaukunst, Office for Textile Architecture and Light is based on two things: on one hand the fascination for lightweight-structures, formfinding and fabric-installations and on the other hand light-installations and -objects.
They are invited to develop a light-based installation for the Lichtplein (translates as square of light), a public space surrounded by cultural institutions like Centrum Kunstlicht in de Kunst, MU, Design Academy Eindhoven and the Public Library. To underline the experience of movement and light at the Lichtplein Andreas Pasieka from Moers arranged a two-layer based sound-composition.
The United Kingdom pavilion: Seed Cathedral
60,000 fiber optic cables stick out of British pavilion which was designed by Thomas Heatherwick. The pavilion has been nicknamed locally as ‘Pu Gong Ying’, Chinese for ‘The Dandelion’ due to its unusual appearance. During the day, the rods direct light to the interior while at night the whole thing will glow like a kitsch artifact from the 1980s. Inside, thousands of seeds from the Millennium Seed Project will be on display, causing the whole thing to have been dubbed the “Seed Cathedral,” though some say it looks like a scared hedgehog. After the World Expo Shanghai, most of the materials of the UK Pavilion will be reused or recycled and the seeds will be planted around China.
Lead Designer: Heatherwick Studio
Project team: Thomas Heatherwick, Katerina Dionysopoulou, Robert Wilson, Peter Ayres, Stuart Wood, Ingrid Hu, Jaroslav Hulin, Chiara Ferrari and Ramona Becker
Key Construction Materials: steel and timber composite structure, 60,000 fiber optic filaments, aluminum sleeves
Optic fibers: 60,588
Optic fibers length: 7.5 meters
Seeds in Seed Cathedral: 217,300
Source of Seeds: China’s Kunming Institute of Botany, a partner in Kew Royal Botanic Gardens’ Millennium Seed Bank Project.
Award: 2010 International Awards by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA)
Hyperbolic Coral project by Kerrin Jefferis and Patrick Stein, Generative Design 2010. See it in action here.
Computational domes. The design is generated with shape grammars and the construction is adapted with a catenary-simulation. Scripted in Processing.
Computational domes. The design is generated with shape grammars and the construction is adapted with a catenary-simulation. Scripted in Processing.
Soon more on www.benjamin-dillenburger.com
The United Kingdom pavilion: Seed Cathedral
60,000 fiber optic cables stick out of British pavilion which was designed by Thomas Heatherwick. The pavilion has been nicknamed locally as ‘Pu Gong Ying’, Chinese for ‘The Dandelion’ due to its unusual appearance. During the day, the rods direct light to the interior while at night the whole thing will glow like a kitsch artifact from the 1980s. Inside, thousands of seeds from the Millennium Seed Project will be on display, causing the whole thing to have been dubbed the “Seed Cathedral,” though some say it looks like a scared hedgehog. After the World Expo Shanghai, most of the materials of the UK Pavilion will be reused or recycled and the seeds will be planted around China.
Lead Designer: Heatherwick Studio
Project team: Thomas Heatherwick, Katerina Dionysopoulou, Robert Wilson, Peter Ayres, Stuart Wood, Ingrid Hu, Jaroslav Hulin, Chiara Ferrari and Ramona Becker
Key Construction Materials: steel and timber composite structure, 60,000 fiber optic filaments, aluminum sleeves
Optic fibers: 60,588
Optic fibers length: 7.5 meters
Seeds in Seed Cathedral: 217,300
Source of Seeds: China’s Kunming Institute of Botany, a partner in Kew Royal Botanic Gardens’ Millennium Seed Bank Project.
Award: 2010 International Awards by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA)