Year of construction map, the Netherlands

Cairo slums

Tried to locate people in that picture of the Cairo slums. I'll admit that some observations may be wrong but my subconscious told me these are people.

edit: for some reason the picture won't upload in original size, any suggestions?

Utrecht Centraal Station from the Air

We really need to go to Hamburg

Not just for the Reeperbahn, but also for this:

Cool blog i found

I found a good blog specialy for chicks and gayboys! all check it out :) tasteful living

The first real zombie proof house

The architect said about this project:

“The most essential item for our clients was acquiring the feeling of maximum security.”

Er, mission achieved by the looks of it. This concrete cuboid folds in upon itself to become completely sealed, with concrete slabs covering windows when they’re not in use. There’s also movable walls, a concrete perimeter fence, and just one entrance – via a drawbridge on the second floor.

Quite good looks as well

How does Venice work?

impressive scaffolding

Sometimes / almost always, the scaffolding of a building is more interesting and impressive than the building itself.

Below some pretty examples:

for more see the link in the title name

Nautilus House

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Stockholm Metro Art

The designers in Stockholm have been quite successful in making the metro stations interesting.

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One eccentric man builds a castle

For 40 years, Jim Bishop has been building a castle on a mountainside in central Colorado. "Did it all myself, don't want any help," he says mechanically as he unloads a pile of rocks that he's hoisted to the 70-foot level on one of the castle towers. More...

Some new Renders

Here are some renders from a new model I made up, it's some green Urbanvilla/Skycrapper. For DUBAI!!!!!1!! omg for real!!!1!!

Actually I would like to have the green to be as in these pictures but the rendertime would be estimated at 623 hours for one picture. i need a 623x faster PC on my next birthday.

I also made a rainbowboy.org thingie to get the feeling more of the animated shit. This movie took me 25 hours to render. Its shitty on everything but i don't wana render it again.

Attic Conversion

I know my 3D modeling looks pathetic compared to the work in kamiel's post, however I still want to share this. I quickly made a model and animation on how I hope the attic might look once the work is done. I made it in Bryce 6, which probably isn't the best CAD program for architecture because it only has boolean modeling, however I don't have any experience with other 3D CAD programs.

Computer animation

Maybe a bit boring for the youtube generation, after a minute I expected to see some boobs or at least a fat german kid breaking his neck.

Anyway the animation skillz are nice and the idea of "architecture through the cinematographic lens" is kinda cool so here is the video:

The Third & The Seventh from Alex Roman on Vimeo.

he made it in sketchup, 3dmax, vray, aftereffects and priemere. here is a video to kinda see how he did it:

Exeter Shot -- Making Of from Alex Roman on Vimeo.

Concrete and Steel VS Wood

As an answer to Annoms Question: which material is better for the environment: concrete and steel or wood.

I did some life cycle analysis (LCA) calculations, and this is my starting point:

building life time: 35 years

Materials calculated with their Maintenance cycles (from the gain (start) to the use of the material to the demolition of it (recycled or ends as waste).

I calculated the hidden milieu costs, these costs are the prices you pay to remediate the milieu problems. This way you get one number out of the 14 milieu effects.

I compared a beam that can strain 6 meter with 14 KN/m pressure. ( for 100 pieces).

Steal beam: HEA 280

Milieucosts: €220

To make steel fire proof it need a fireproof painting, otherwise the construction can bend when its get to warm. This painting i didn't calculated because its not always needed.

After steal is used we calculate with a change of 20% recycling.

Wooden beam (with FSC mark)700x280mm

Milieucosts: €107

This wood is from a Forrest with a good forest maintenance.

Every 5 year a painting and fixing.

When a wooden construction gets burned it creates a charred bit from around 20 mm, this char protects against fire so the construction doesn't need fire protection.

The wooden beam has some thermal treatment so it protects against the weather, and it makes it stronger.

After the 35 year we calculate with a 100% waste

Wooden beam (without FSC mark) 700x280mm

Mileucosts: € 250

This wood is from a heist cut.

Concrete beam 400x200mm

Mileucosts: € 160

Concrete beam with steel reinforcement, the concrete is made for 40% out of recycled old concrete.

Concrete construction are well protected against fire.

The bad thing about concrete is that's heavy so the building gets heavier and you need more concrete to hold its own weight.

After the 35 years we calculate with a 10% recycling.

S0 the wood with the FSC mark gets the lowest milieucosts, the most milieu effects come from the diverence in young trees and old trees (CO2 decrease). The transport is also a milieu effect. because we calculate with a mix of origin (countries from around the world). If you decide to get the wood from a forest close to the building location the milieu costs would get lower.

What we don't calculate are the milieu costs to build the factory, tractor etc. This is a discussion on my work how we going to calculate these things as well. Once these are implemented, steel and concrete will have more milieu costs added.

Wooden construction for a fabric hall.

De gemiste kansen van het WK hoofdstadion

The missed changes of the World CUP stadion in Johannesburg South Afrika.

Het nieuwe hoofd stadion van de wereld cup 2010 staat in Johannesburg South Afrika. Hier worden zowel de openingswedstrijd, wedstrijden van het Nederlandse elftal en de finale gespeeld. Het gebouw is gebouwd door de nederlandse BAM in samenwerking met de Afrikaanse aannemers grinaker / LTA en heeft de bijster creative naam: Soccer City.

Doordat tegenwoordig alles onder het kopje duurzaam verkocht moet worden kon de bam natuurlijk niet achter blijven. Zo zijn de stoelen in het stadion UV-resistent en brandwerend!!!1!. Heeft de BAM een klein schooltje en fabriekje bij het stadium opgezet, om de Afrikanen te leren hoe ze beton moeten blubberen. Dit weerhoud de weldoeners van de BAM niet om te blijven herhalen dat je voor het zelfde product 5x meer afrikanen nodig hebt dan dat je in Nederland nodig zou hebben.

Het schooltje en de fabriek hebben ze daar neer gezet onder het mom we moeten die afrikaantjes wat leren, maar ik voel aan mijn klote dat het hier gewoon gaat om de goedkoopste oplossing gaat . De staalskeletconstructie wordt namelijk uit Italy geïmporteerd waar hij 1:1 is proef geassembleerd, zodat de Afrikanen hier niks aan konden verknollen. Ook al de hijskranen en groot materieel komen uit de rest van de wereld en gaan daar waarschijnlijk ook weer naar toe terug. De overige materialen komen uit de rest van de wereld: gevelpanelen (oostenrijk) (dakbedekking (Duitsland/Thailand) stoelen (china). Niks geen typische Afrikaanse producten die worden gebruikt.

Over duurzaamheid gesproken zijn staal en beton een van de meest milieubelastende constructie materialen. Zoals het de BAM beaamd zijn ze hier niet zuinig mee omgesprongen, er is in totaal 90.000 m3 beton geblubberd en 7100 ton staal gebruikt. Ik weet dat de constructieve en brandwerende eigenschappen van deze materialen ideaal zijn voor een stadium, maar als je het stadium als duurzaam verkoopt en hierbij geen aandacht besteed aan het materiaal gebruik dan vind ik dat een beetje laf.

Hier een snelle Levens Cyclus Analyse van het beton en staal dat gebruikt is in het stadium.

Emissies:

Broeikaseffect 2516782,0 kg CO2 eq.

Ozonlaagaantasting 0,3638 kg CFC-11 eq.

Humane toxiciteit 221448,2 kg 1.4-DB eq.

Aquatische toxiciteit (zoet water) 22323,9 kg 1.4-DB eq.

Terrestische toxiciteit 3927,0 kg 1.4-DB eq.

Fotochemische oxidantvorming 705,2 kg C2H4 eq.

Verzuring 10421,6 kg SO2 eq.

Eutrofiering 1197,5 kg PO4 eq.

Liefkozend wordt het door de Afrikanen: de melting pot of African culters genoemd. Persoonlijk vind ik het meer lijken op een pot met diarree, maar over smaak valt niet te twisten. Waar ik wel trots op ben is dat de FIFA in de trucjes en leuke verkoop praatjes van onze enige echte BAM trapt, zo hoeven we het WK niet eens te winnen om een trotse Nederlander te mogen zijn.

Winscape Virtual Windows

A hobbyist made these amazing virtual windows which track the users position for added realism, you can see how he did it here. The tracker still needs a bit of work to miniaturize and of course it can only work for on person. Maybe he can upgrade it once glasless 3D TVs are made.

Shanghai prepares for Expo 2010

wiki Universal Exposition or Expo (short for "exposition"), also known as the World Fair and World's Fair, is the name given to various large public exhibitions held in different parts of the world.The first Expo was held in The Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, London, in 1851 under the title “Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations”. The main attractions at World's Fairs are the national pavilions, created by participating countries. At Expo 2000 Hanover, where countries created their own architecture, the average pavilion investment was around €13 million. Here are some pictures of the work in progress for the Expo 2010 in Shanghai. Above is the Dutch Pavilion. More pictures... Pictures are from The Big Picture, a really great news photography blog by the Boston Globe.

Afstudeer Ontwerp

Voor mijn afstuderen heb ik een filmpje gemaakt van mijn ontwerp voor een duurzaam en kosten efficiënt kantoor gebouw. Dacht misschien is het wel eens leuk om het up te loaden en om mijn E-Penis te bootsen.

Sleepbox, an One-Person Hotel

This project is by the arch-group Russian architects. It's a sleepbox that can be placed on airports, stations, shopping centers etc. The box can be rented for 15 min to a couple of hours so you can take a fast nap. Too bad it's in the concept phase, i wonder how they solve the problem of sound isolation. For more info: Link

They also could call it the wankbox.