Ultimate DIY RV: High-Tech Caravan Made for a 4-Year-Old
Named after its creator's progeny, the Kirivan may be the most impressive mobile home ever made, using cutting-edge technologies to blend the best elements of a luxury motorhome, zombie ...
Author: Urbanist
WebUrbanist was founded in 2007 by Kurt Kohlstedt, who currently writes and edits articles and episodes at 99% Invisible and can be found on Twitter @KurtKohlstedtGlow-in-the-Dark Highways: Free Lighting Hits the Streets
Proposed just two years ago, this alternative solar-powered passive streetlight system is now already a reality, deployed along motorways across the Netherlands. As one reporter put it after ...
Indestructable Cabin: Steel-Clad Apocalypse Home on Stilts
Steel shutters and sliding doors turn this award-winning lofted cabin into an ultra-secure shelter on demand, while stilts raise it up and help protect it from periodic floods. At the ...
Shattered Sunsets: Broken Mirror Photos of Evening Skies
Spanning multiple feet in each direction, these giant-sized photo prints transform the light and color of ordinary sunset scenes, reflecting them through a chaotic lens ...
Cracked-Earth Desert Canopy Shelters Underground Oasis
Splitting at the seams like sections of sun-baked desert, this expansive park opens to the sky between a network of gaps and provides shade for people and plant life below. A sunken oasis ...
3D-Printable Connectors Make DIY Furniture Assembly Easy
Leveraging the best features of available 3D printers and the materials they can print, this kit-of-parts approach opens up an amazing array of possibilities for do-it-yourself furniture ...
Invisible Barn: Mirrored Surfaces Create Camouflaged Folly
Like a mirage on the horizon, the structure seems to shimmer into and out of existence, playing tricks on the eye with a combination of see-through portals and reflective ...
Shape-Shifting Furniture: Interactive 3D Surfaces from MIT
The Tangible Media Group from MIT has developed an approach to responsive design in physical space that is both conceptual and plausible, futuristic yet already a reality. Displaying ...
Digital Street Eraser: Rubbing Out Reality, Photoshop-Style
Analog stickering is taking on a new dimension in the hands of these street artists, a pair of creatives selectively defacing signs, billboards, mailboxes, graffiti and ...
Rad Rides: Nuclear Power Plant Turned into Amusement Park
The iconic central cooling tower has been turned into a swing ride and climbing wall, but the re-purposed complex as a whole features over a dozen attractions including rides, restaurants, bars ...
