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Carlos Quevedo Rojas

Intervention Heritage

Thursday, 29 February 2024

Matrera Castle

This medieval tower had partially collapsed in 2013, losing part of its imposing volume and putting at risk the architectural stability of the rest of the tower. With compatibility and authenticity criteria, the intervention looks at structurally consolidating the elements, to differentiate the additions from the original structure, avoiding mimetic reconstructions, and recovering the volume and tonality that the tower originally had as a landscape icon. The essence of the project is not intended to be, therefore, an image of the future, but rather a reflection of its own past, its own origin.

Ben Koros

Affordable wind turbine

Wednesday, 28 February 2024

Wireframe

The wireframe program aims to bring affordable electricity to village households in developing countries by training locals how to build, service and spread the extremely cost effective WF II. turbine, made mainly out of recycled components - and teaching chosen residents how to create the most efficient turbines and reliable electrical grid and infrastructure from regionally given materials, with accessible technologies and tools.

Forge Media + Design

Immersive Learning Experience

Tuesday, 27 February 2024

Holodomor Mobile Classroom

To educate students about the Ukrainian Genocide, Forge helped to transform a bus into a traveling classroom, employing 32 iPads, a MacPro server, two custom-built iPad apps, and an interactive presentation that plays on a giant 24-ft display. The immersive digital classroom experience creates opportunities for students to investigate, discover, discuss and reflect. Seamlessly stitching together a series of diverse technologies and content, the result was a cohesive platform with which the Holodomor National Awareness Tour could impart a powerful lesson to students across North America.

Albert Burzon

Virtual heritage

Monday, 26 February 2024

Ullastret 250BC

The Iberian settlement of the Ullastret (Baix Empordà) is considered to be the largest Iberian town from that period in Catalonia. The 3D Ullastret project is characterised by the scientific rigor of its archaeological aspect and by the optimal realism of its visual presentation. Now thanks to the new technologies and the virtual reality and the immersive room of the museum, the audience can walk through the streets and inside the houses. This installation transports the user to 250 BC in a totally immersive and interactive way.

Future Factory

Drinking Water ATM

Sunday, 25 February 2024

H2.O

H2.O is a Water ATM, a format designed to bring technologies used in large water treatment plants, to schools and small communities living with unsafe drinking water. The design is centered around giving this intimidating technology a human face. Product ergonomics have been thought from user as well as assembly and service points of view. Locking mechanisms for critical components make it tamper and vandal proof. H2.O is engineered for a knocked-down and weld-free assembly, giving it modularity, scalability and on-location assembly convenience.

Nikolaos Karintzaidis

Water Purification Facility

Saturday, 24 February 2024

Waterfall Towers

The building transcends location as it reformulates an artificial site that becomes part of a unified natural environment. The limit between the city and nature is defined and intensified by the presence of the dam. Every form relates another, reflecting the symbiotic ordering systems of nature. More particularly in the specific concept, the fusion of landscape and architecture happens with the use of the flow of water as a functional and subsequently an organizational element.

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Matrera Castle

Wireframe

Holodomor Mobile Classroom

Ullastret 250BC

H2.O

Waterfall Towers

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