Author: Jayakrishnan Ranjit

The complexity of 3D printing is progressively weaving ground-breaking layers every day. Future Tree envisioned by Gramazio Kohler Research, ETH Zurich incorporating cutting edge technology exposes a canopy structure streaming over the courtyard of the Basler & Hofmann building in Switzerland. A series of timber frames arranged in varying hexagonal combinations seem to sprout and develop like a tree flourishing its structure. The courtyard is brought to life by this intrinsic sculpture soaring as a geometric casing. The design team conceptualized to sync trailblazing strategic techniques infused in new materials and robotic additive manufacturing, all strikingly elevating this architectural project.…

Framework design has an inkling curiosity attached to its visual identity. The Qianhai Floating City envisioned by the People’s Architecture Office triggers an emotional network to a barren site infused with an open spatial framework, locking and strapping in striated sections. In the current strange times of heightened uncertainty, the project propelled as a vision screening the ardent adaptability of urban space. The design ensemble a stream of flexible framework draped with rented scaffolding. It is built as a structural arrangement that can be amassed, transformed, and stripped with ease, rinsing any surplus materials or fixtures. During the 2020 Qianhai…

Imagine waking up and taking a stroll across a 3d printed community. How about we bring a change starting from the ones that need the most. Innovative designer Yves Béhar, the founder of Fuseproject design studio, charts a rejuvenating course revealing visuals to build 3D-printed dwellings for an impoverished farming community in Latin America.

An array of cubic forms, circular striations, angled triads, fluted chisel and monochromatic shades decor the 20th Serpentine Pavilion, designed by Johannesburg-based practice Counterspace. The pavilion has opened to visitors after a year of postponement due to the global pandemic. The founder and principal architect Sumayya Vally and her vibrant team have manifested a novel expression to the Serpentine pavilion format, hailing inspiration from the past to striking views and framing the context through its slices across the Kensington Gardens. Vally, a TIME100 Next List honoree, is the youngest architect to be commissioned for this internationally renowned architecture program. This…

An exponential curve streaks down the dwelling along its silhouette carving an aesthetically pleasing parametric roof. The Bezier Curve House designed and executed by the Canadian architecture studio BORTOLOTTO explores an extraordinary feat with an aggrandized roofline. Custom-home builder Farhad Kazmian, owner of abond homes came forward with the initiative to replace his family home in Toronto’s Lawrence Park neighbourhood. The vision was altogether to visualize an appealing family home that would also serve as a showpiece for his business. As the house would be an antithesis of the ‘boxy fishbowl.’ Architect Tania Bortolotto steps in with wild imagination and…

Object 12-1 represent a garment from the future, envisioned by the Croatian designer Matija ?op, inspired by the architecture of the gothic era with intertwining features.

NEST HiLo is a project by ETH Zurich & Block Research Group to investigate the feasibility of spraying a textile reinforced thin concrete.

Streamlining your horizon, actively arresting your gazes through framed openings in a staccato, presents a cultural centre in Hong Kong. Growing Up Pavilion designed by New Office Works invokes an authentic aura on the process of growing trees and growing the culture with a strong foundation. Represented on good soil, ushering collective memories of the city, the Growing Up Pavilion captures everyday elements fundamental to Hong Kong. Embedding and cultivating them within the fabric of soon-to-be major arts and cultural centre. The design is a voracious sloped roof supported by a series of thin timber columns that, like the seedlings…

How cool is a chair that you can piece in like solving a puzzle! The Dutch designer Joris Laarman creates symbiotic 3D printed chairs ‘mimicking human bones’ in his studio. His philosophies intermix classic design and science that outgrows to weave a much efficient and evolved mechanism in aesthetic brilliance. His exhibition gallery, Bits and Crafts, much like his Bone Chair, the new works presented have a quasi-craftsmanship aesthetic to it, as if tangling an affair between a carpenter and a computer scientist. The main attraction of the show, the Maker Chair revels as Laarman’s most ambitious one. Designed to…

A colossal and outstandingly towering structure envisioned to revel in its opulent aura inspired by the Victorian era. The new Olympia Theatre designed in collaboration with Haworth Tompkins, Heatherwick Studio and Spparc Studio has revealed their magnificent visions of the spruce London theatre in a stylish opera fashion. Inviting all the elements of the 21st century, stacking 1500 seats into the auditorium in west London, the theatre sparkles in a vivacious setting scored by the designers. The Olympia Theatre is tagged as the £1.3bn redevelopments of the Olympia Exhibition Centre designed by Heatherwick Studio and Spparc. Operated by Trafalgar Entertainment…