3.11.09
"Marine sponge with a skeleton composed of small calcareous needles"
"sponge
Porous multicell organism, mostly marine (currently about 5,000 species); it anchors itself to a support and filters water to take in food particles. "thanks to visual.merriam-webster.com
"Sponges 99.9999% Bacteria Free!"
"if you really want to clean out those sponges, you might want to take them for a spin in the dishwasher or microwave between uses."
thanks to yumsugar.com
sponge form
snorkeling shots from richard-seaman.com
"Cloud Sponges (Aphrocallistes vastus), are deep-water animals that form large, billowing growths up to ten feet in diameter and nearly seven feet high. They belong to a group of primitive organisms that use silica to form glass-like spicules to form the support structure of the sponge." thanks to boydski.com
"beaten and scraped to rid the skeletons of the dead tissue"
"Sponge, a simple, aquatic animal that looks like a plant. The term is also used for the skeleton of certain types of these animals; the skeleton soaks up fluid easily."
"Sponges do not have heads, arms, or internal organs."
"They have the remarkable ability to restore lost parts, and a new sponge can grow from a small cutting removed from another sponge."
"The surface contains numerous small entrance pores, called ostia, and larger exit holes, called oscula. The canals provide shelter for thousands of small aquatic animals that live there, either permanently or temporarily.The canals are lined with whiplike cells called choanocytes, the movements of which create currents that cause water to flow through the canals. In passing through the sponge, the water gives up oxygen and food and carries away waste products."
thanks to howstuffworks
25.10.09
24.10.09
Abisko Washbasin
thanks http://freshome.com/2009/04/18/a-washbasin-like-youve-never-saw-before-abisko-washbasin/
http://www.washbasinfactory.com/en/products/
What If New York City. . . Design Competition for Post-Disaster Provisional Housing.
| Name: | Michael R Tom, Winner |
| Team Members: | Adam Alter, M.Arch |
| City: | Brooklyn, NY United States |
"winning entries from the “What If NYC?” competition are recent Pratt Architecture grads. The team of Adam Alter and Micheal Tom are come from the Grad dept, class of ‘06, and Otto Ruano got his B. Arch last year David Mans is undergrad class of ‘08 (they won with team-mate Robert Wranzen)."
quote thanks tarp.wordpress.com
images thanks to whatifnyc.net/details.aspx?r=139&s=2&tab=1
"What if Architecture went away from the all-mighty narcissistic thing it sometimes can be to a simpler setting of rules"
"Could we just give them a soft self regenerating skin? Could they just absorb certain forces, maybe give in in some ways? Maybe their growth could be very slow. Maybe they would start out now with the materials we know and then the higher floors would be added one after the next, year by year and so the materials would become er and better and more efficient... or just different. What if Architecture went away from the all-mighty narcissistic thing it sometimes can be to a simpler setting of rules. Let's make a soft building, maybe one that grows and is alive...
maybe this would be a nice start...
I know they look like pancakes. Imagine each floor could be very different..."
"Envisioning cities of the future: Vegetal City"
"What if our cities grew? What if our habitat was alive and evolving along with us? Here is an amazing body of work by visionary architect Luc Schuiten called Vegetal City. I love The Evolution of a City animation."
thanks to landscapearchitectureresource.com/
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