Escher + Inception: Tour a Digital World that Defies Physics
This video thrives on convention - specifically: breaking with it. In the same vein as M.C. Escher, The Matrix or, more recently, Inception (or even the building flips and slides in ...
Tag: space
Sibling Spaces: Modular Rooms Made for Brother & Sister
For getting things done: a static, serious and refined work space is shared by the siblings. For everything else: there is a playful flexibility to be found in movable modules, hanging hammocks, ...
LEGO House: Experience Center Made of Interlocking Blocks
Fans wanting to fully experience the world of LEGO are sure to marvel at this newly-revealed hometown headquarters - the whole complex is being build up like a giant stack of interlocked ...
Borrowed from Libraries: Mobile Shelving for Modular Rooms
When libraries want to save space, they employ a rolling stack system that allows access to only one or a few aisles at one time. When not in use, the walkways between disappear as the bookcases ...
Edge Cases: 8 Space-Saving Design Ideas for Inside Corners
Most home furnishings are made for flat surfaces, not for those uncomfortable edge conditions we call either 'inside' or 'outside' corners. The following designs do more than just address such ...
Future Architecture: 7 Surreal Award-Winning Skyscrapers
The first skyscrapers were impossible drawings at the times they were imagined, yet today glass towers that scale to the skies are everyday structures. On land, by sea, in the air (or in one ...
Homeless Hotel: Radical Urban Retreat has No Rooms, Ever
You may have seen some strange and unique accommodations on AirBNB, but few hosts can boast something as unusual as Faktum Hotels, an unreal room-free resort in Sweden. Their offerings are ...
Lunar Soil Structures: 3D-Printing Dwellings on the Moon
One of the biggest challenges of settlements in space is the cost of transporting materials and technologies for construction, a problem addressed beautifully via 3D printing technology in this ...
Expand on Demand: Secret Deck Spaces for Small Dwellings
When it comes to tall apartment and condo buildings, the idea of adding more space is almost always out of the question - but what if you could push a balcony outward on demand, rather than ...
Trap Streets & Rooms: Cartographic Errors Catch Copycats
Phantom settlements and trap streets are faked or falsified, intentionally introduced (or materially altered) by map makers to catch those who would copy them. And the practice is not limited to ...
