Espace mobile
This is a prefabricate mobile home that is located on the countryside of Austrian. It is designed by Design Spotters. It is made out of wood and steel. The structure is designed for energy conservation and heat retention. The Espace Mobile home is 4 meters wide and it ranges from 7 to 15 meters long.
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Gehling House
The Gehling House was designed by INDEX Architects BDA. It is located in Lüdinghausen, Germany. They invisioned a structure that is temporary that is make up of prefabricated kit of parts that can be dismantled and re-assemble elsewhere. The prefabricated parts are made up of lamellae. Lamellae is a type of material that energy is obtained than is released. Energy management can be controlled by sliding a set of shadow-casting , view-defining lamellae along track that run horizontal in the house. The house is elevated because of the dangers of flooding. Also buy having the house elevated it gives the residents a better view of the tree that are located in the courtyard. The courtyard acts as a stage for selected scenes as the seasons change.
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Wikipedia Encyclopedia- Lamellae
Books:
Peter Cook and Neil Spiller, The Power of Contemporary Architecture, [John Wiley & Sons, (7 May 1999)]
Clusters in the Air
Arata Isozaki a metabolist architect deigned Clusters in the Air in 1960-62 for Tokyo. He uses the same joint core system as he did for the City in the Air. The concept of the clusters was to develop a new way to structure housing around Tokyo. The Cluster are suppose to represent leaves from trees which are the housing units and the core represents the trunk of the tree.
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preface by Richard Koshalek; essay by David B. Stewart and Hajime Yatsuka, Arata Isozaki: Architecture 1960-1990, [Rizzoli International Publication, Inc., 1191
Shinjuku Project (City in the Air)
The Shinjuku Project located in Shinjuku, Tokyo was undertaken in 1960 by Arata Isozaki an metabolist architect. The Shinjuku Project is better known as the City in the Air because it’s joint core system. This project was design as a counterproposal for was dominate the skyline in Tokyo today. Their purpose for the design was to divide the district into rectangular sections and erect sheer vertical structures on them (joint core system). What the clients saw the proposal as was that Tokyo need a new metropolitan look that only could be accomplished by putting the city in the air.
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preface by Richard Koshalek: essays by David B. Stewart, Arata Isozaki Architecture 1960-1990, [Rizzoli International Publication, Inc, 1991]
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Business Incubators
Business incubators have been in the USA since 1960s and in the 1980s they started to bloom in the UK and Europe. Business Incubators are organizations that help companies that are just starting out to have a chance to group so they have a better chance to survive. There is both public and private incubators. Public incubators are for high-tech industries like science based business such as universities and research institutes. Private incubators are for profit firms that take a reasonable fee for there services. This type of incubator is for new firms that are just starting out in the business world.
Resources and service elements:
- provision of physical space
- management coaching
- help in preparing an effective business plan
- administrative services
- technical support
- business networking
- advice on intellectual property
- help in finding sources of financing
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Wikipedia Encyclopedia- Business incubators
Nestle
Nestle’s is a business incubator for all super markets, convenient stores, vending machine companies, some retail stores like Target, Walmart, Meijers, Walgreens, Cvs, and many more. The products that Nestles provides for these companies is:
Candy
Willy Wonka
Jenny Craig
Powerbars
Stoffers
Water
- Poland Springs
- Ice Mountain
- Nestle Water
Dog Food
- Purina
- Pro Plan
Ice Cream
- Edy’s
- Breyers
- Carnation
Coffee
- Taster Choice
Contact Solution
- Elcon
Baby Food
- Gerber
Baby Formula
- Good Start
Myspace
Myspace is an open source site that was created by Thomas Anderson and Christopher DeWolfe and it was launched in February of 1999. The site allow people to create their own profile space that lets them post blogs and bulletins, they can join group, find new and old friends, search for music, comedy, movies. It allow musicians to put their music on the web so they can get their name out into to world. For people that join myspace but don’t know how to make code to devolope their space there are site that help people to do that like Pimp my Profile, Thomas’ Myspace Editor, and Myspace Generator.
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Kisho Kurokawa’s Helix City (Floating City)
Helix city plan was designed by Kisho Kurokawa in 1961 during the early years of the metabolism movement. The city is more commonly known as the floating city because it is placed on the ocean. Kurokawa’s vision for the city was to have an organic city plan, having the land and water building structures to be connected only by bridges. The form of the spiral structures resembles DNA. The apartments in the structure are hung within the spiral to fill the spaces.
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Kisho Kurokawa
Books:
Kisho Kurokawa, Kisho Kurokawa From the Machine Age to the Age of Life, [Book Art Ltd.1998]
