Dream Excursion Module de Joachim Falser

For her diploma project design at the University of Bozen-Bolzano, Joachim False imagined the "Dream Expansion Module. Entre meuble et micro-architecture, le module habitable DEM se compose de trois parties, utilisables accolées ou séparément. Between furniture and microarchitecture, the habitable module DEM consists of three parts, used side by side or separately. Le DEM est depuis peu édité par le fabricant italien Danese Milano. The DEM has recently been published by the Italian manufacturer Danese Milano.

http://muuuz.com/2010/11/24/dream-excursion-module-par-joachim-falser/en

Nestor’s Nest par Frédéric Ruyant

"Nestor's Nest" is a minimalist birdhouse with bird created by designer Frédéric Ruyant for ENO Edition. Composé de plaques de liège assemblées par emboîtement, sans colle ni vis, « Nestor's Nest » est à la fois isolant et imperméable. Composed of cork boards assembled by interlocking without glue or screws, "Nestor's Nest" is both insulated and waterproof. Percé de trous ronds, il se fixe tout simplement en Pierced with round holes, he settled simply se glissant sur une branche. slipping on a branch.

Dimensions ( L xlxh): 20 x 20 x 20 cm Dimensions (LxWxH): 20 x 20 x 20 cm

http://muuuz.com/2010/12/03/nestors-nest-par-frederic-ruyant/en

CristalBubble

"like an ataraxics catalyst"

CristalBubble´s shape was voluntarily designed with the goal to offer a dreamy space without disturbing the nature and the environment.

http://www.bubbletree.fr/bbtree/racine/default.asp?id=1076

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Canopy by UVA

Inspired by the experience of walking through the dappled light of a forest, Canopy is a 90-metre long light sculpture spanning the front facade of the building, using mass production and precise fabrication to evoke and reflect nature. Thousands of identical modules, their form abstracted from the geometry of leaves, are organised in a non-repeating growth pattern.

During the day, apertures in the modules filter natural light to the street below. After dusk, particles of artificial light are born, navigate through the grid and die, their survival determined by regions of energy sweeping across the structure. The result simultaneously recalls the activity of cells within a leaf, leaves in a forest canopy, or a city seen from the air.

http://www.uva.co.uk/archives/134

Fresnals / solar navigator

http://www.solarnavigator.net/history/fresnel_lens.htm

Augustin-Jean Fresnel
(1788-1827)

Augustin-Jean Fresnel was a nineteenth century French physicist, most often remembered for the invention of unique compound lenses designed to produce parallel beams of light, which are still used widely in lighthouses. Born in Broglie, France on May 10, 1788, Fresnel was the son of an architect and received a strict, religious upbringing. His parents were Jansenists, a sect of Roman Catholics that believed only a small, predestined group would receive salvation and that the multitudes could not change their fate through their actions on Earth.(!)
from http://science.howstuffworks.com/framed.htm?parent=question244.htm&url=http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/optics/timeline/people/fresnel.html

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