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резервная копия
4 March 2010 | Architecture, Science | No Comments
лазерное сканирование окружающего нас мира развивается стремительнейшим образом:
The basic principle behind the laser technology is simple: A box, with a laser inside, sits on a tripod; as the box slowly rotates 360 degrees, the laser, moving up and down, bounces its beam off whatever is solid in front of it. In so doing, it registers some 50,000 points in space every second. Traditional surveyors might produce a couple of hundred measurements a day, prone to subjectivity and human error. Lasers collect millions of measurements per hour. A scanner can even identify certain materials, determining whether something is, say, made of glass or stone.
Aerial lasers and a hand-held version operate the same way. Combined, they can bring to life as 3-D images entire cities or a mountainside.
удивительнейшей точности, кстати:
So precise are these digital models that they can be used not only to facilitate much needed restoration work of deteriorating monuments but also to recreate them if they are completely destroyed by natural or man-made disasters. In other words, if the Bamiyan Buddhas had been laser scanned before they were obliterated by the Taliban, they could now be reconstructed with unbelievable accuracy.
и сканируют все подряд:
There are also those abandoned sewers, stormwater tunnels and subway tunnels. Day and night, laser scanners that have gone mobile will be deployed into these voids, and bit by pinprick bit, these labyrinths that once confounded, concealed and even consumed trespassers with their disorienting mazes will resolve into total comprehensibility. Every detail will be known to you.
Simultaneously, disembodied limbs out in some vast tract of land will get to work replicating these filigreed abysses. Once completed, it will look like a city eroded down to its subsurface infrastructure. It’ll be the playground for urban explorers who might be looking for more muted thrills and for architects who could no longer wait for the mythical Golden Age of WPA 2.0 to play out their desires.
ни дать, ни взять “Зодиак” Стивенсона, перемноженный на “Канализацию, газ & электричество” Раффа.
окаменелости
7 February 2010 | Architecture, Lifeform | No Comments
заброшенные замки, между прочим. и там же, среди последнего:
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Plan B
Inflatable boats, y’all. Pumping some air in some plastic. Load our gear and set sail. Peddling like there’s no tomorrow. There’s a thin line between exploring and transatlantic sailing.I informed a fellow explorer of my boat plan, and we wanted to set off and explore this castle together. But he beat me to it. But he wanted to beat me. On an early morning he pulled out a rubber boat, started pumping, and took off. Unfortunately the boat plan didn’t succeed. The island to embark on is completely overgrown by impenetrable bushes with sharp thorns, spines and prickles. After working one hour trying to make an entry through that jungle – bloody hands, ripped up shirts and a leaking boat inclusive – the plan was cancelled.
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via.
к звездам
10 December 2009 | Architecture | No Comments
Москва невоплощенная, Готэм несозданный: архитектура 30-х была удивительна своими всплесками — на фоне остальной декоративности.
очень красивые.
тоже мост
21 November 2009 | Architecture, Literature | 1 Comment
определенно, я выискиваю параллели там, где их нет:
Its steel bones, its stranded tendons, were lost within an accretion of dreams: tattoo parlors, gaming arcades, dimly lit stalls stacked with decaying magazines, sellers of fireworks, of cut bait, betting shops, sushi bars, unlicensed pawnbrokers, herbalists, barbers, bars. Dreams of commerce, their locations generally corresponding with the decks that had once carried vehicular traffic; while above them, rising to the very peaks of the cable towers, lifted the intricately suspended barrio, with its unnumbered population and its zones of more private fantasy.
но удержаться тоже не могу:
Called Rotterdam Market Hall, the building will comprise 228 apartments forming a tunnel over the market hall, glazed at each end.
The market hall itself will house 100 market stalls, shops and restaurants.
уже писал о них, кстати
ячейка общества
8 November 2009 | Accessories, Architecture, Design, Literature | 1 Comment
как всегда, давайте сверимся с roadmap:
If the place had another name, Case didn’t know it; it was always referred to as Cheap Hotel. You reached it through an alley off Baiitsu, where an elevator waited at the foot of a transparent shaft. The elevator, like Cheap Hotel, was an afterthought, lashed to the building with bamboo and epoxy. Case climbed into the plastic cage and used his key, an unmarked length of rigid magnetic tape.
Case had rented a coffin here, on a weekly basis, since he’d arrived in Chiba, but he’d never slept in Cheap Hotel. He slept in cheaper places.
т.е., вот они, очередные прототипы.
а здесь (за компанию) можно почитать о CPUs:
Cayce Pollard Units. That’s what Damien calls the clothing she wears. CPUs are either black, white, or gray, and ideally seem to have come into this world without human intervention.
гости в спальне
5 November 2009 | Architecture, Literature, Personal | No Comments
кровать же настолько просторна, что умещаются там не только двое спящих, но еще и оба тома “Квинканкса” вместе со всеми отдельными сопутствующими картами и заметками, — а так же карандаш, фломастер и даже линейка в качестве разделительной полосы (звучит, определенно, как еще одна книга).
впрочем, линейка, уж конечно, используется не только по назначению.
начальник транспортного цеха
2 November 2009 | Architecture | No Comments
еще для тех, кого интересуют мосты:
Tony Alfrey has put together a fascinating page with some history, analysis, and possible explanations for what ultimately went wrong with the recent emergency repair of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. The bridge has been closed for days and is not scheduled to open for days to come, hugely inconveniencing more than 250,000 people a day. His analysis touches on possibly poor welding, a possibly flawed temporary fix, and the absence of a long-term fix or adequate follow-up by Caltrans, the agency responsible for the bridge.
прямыми линиями
31 October 2009 | Architecture | No Comments
замечательные архитектурные фантазии Якова Георгиевича Чернихова.
via.
скворечник
30 October 2009 | Architecture | No Comments
история бывшего стадиона футбольного клуба Arsenal, конечно, известна всем:
Highbury Square an exclusive and truly unique development of high specification apartments constructed within the grounds of Highbury Stadium, the former home of Arsenal Football Club. These stunning one, two and three bedroom apartments together with a number of exclusive penthouses are all now ready for occupation.
однако, бывает и еще интереснее:
Once constituting the largest gasworks in all of Europe, a series of stunning cylindrical brick structures from the 1800s have found an uncanny new use in modern times as a completely domed-interior town-within-a-city on a spectacular scale.
прекрасные, мне кажется.
впрочем, можно жить и на деревьях.
соединять эпохи
29 October 2009 | Architecture, Literature | 2 Comments
предсказания сбываются одно за другим — и снова:
San Francisco’s Bay Bridge is getting a makeover that will leave a large portion of the old bridge unused, but still standing strong. Now two architects are proposing that the city build a neighborhood on it.
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In a detailed proposal for what they call The Bay Line, the architects suggest the bridge could be a series of public parks with neighborhoods hanging beneath the bridge.
via (прекрасные, к слову говоря).