Linx Shipping Container Shelter

Richard Barnwall, The Dublin based designer has created a concept for a temporary container shelter.  This two story structure incorporates the basic human needs, while making good use of a small transportable space.

http://www.inhabitat.com/2007/12/07/prefab-friday-linx-shipping-container-shelter/

What if everyone one had a touch "Screen".

I challenge the question of social interaction, regards to the future?

Designer: Seungchan Lee

SAMUEL WILKINSON

FIXED SOCIAL SEATING ELEMENTS THAT APPEAR TO BE STICHED TO THE GROUND. SAMUEL WILKINSON- PROVIDES A WOVEN NATURALISTIC ARRANGEMENT ALONG WITH A FORM OF SHELTER FORM THE ELEMENTS.

2007 LAUSANNE SWITZERLAND

Check out the Samual Wilkinsons link, He has a couple of great renderings on his flash website, along with other great projects.

A COLLECTION IN ARIZONA

Eliphante is a sculptural home in Cornville, Ariz., created over 28 years by artist Michael Kahn and his wife, Leda Livant, out of found materials. The elephant-like entrance to one of the structures gave the building and the compound their name.

A piano is built into a wall of driftwood.



THERE CAN BE SUCH BEAUTY WITHIN THE COLLECTION AND ARRANGEMENT OF MATERIALS BY HAND.


http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/01/30/garden/0131-ELIPHANTE_index.html

transmutable installations

I was thinking over tea the other day that as art students it would be interesting to attempt a series of spacial installations that reflect either a single expression or many as they relate to a social practice intervention.

Shipping Container Architecture

This particular project is called Future Shack, by Sean Godsell.

Here's an interesting resource for shipping container architecture...

http://firmitas.org/

Modular Buildings

Here's what wikipedia says about Modular Buildings...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modular_home

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prefabricated_buildings