House in Palihue is a residential project completed by Bernardo Rosello in 2016. The home is located in Bahía Blanca, Argentina. Photos by: Ramiro Sosa
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Theresa May addressed the Conservative backbench 1922 committee last night and she used the session to explain her plans to bring back grammar schools. According to today’s Telegraph splash, she told her MPs that she wanted a new generation of “inclusive” grammar schools.
According to sources at the meeting, she answered critics by saying: “We have already got selection haven’t we – it’s called ‘selection by house price’” ….
She will publish a green paper and give a major speech after telling MPs last night that she wants a new generation of grammar schools to be “inclusive and not exclusive”.
Related: Grammar schools give parents more choice, says Michael Fallon
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Mischer’Traxler creates light mobile that dims when unbalanced for London Design Biennale
London Design Biennale 2016: Viennese design duo Mischer’Traxler has created a mobile-like light installation for the Austrian contribution to London’s first design biennale (+ slideshow). (more…)
Urban Cabin / DUS Architects
© Ossip van Duivenbode
- Architects: DUS Architects
- Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Area: 8.0 sqm
- Project Year: 2016
- Photographs: Ossip van Duivenbode, Sophia van den Hoek, DUS Architects
- Pocket Park: Delva Landscape & Boomkwekerij Ebben
© Ossip van Duivenbode
DUS architects built an entirely 3D printed mini-retreat, to escape the speed of everyday city life.
© Sophia van den Hoek
The 3D printed Urban Cabin transforms a former industrial area in Amsterdam from a vast empty space into an urban retreat, complete with pocket park and outdoor bathtub. The building is a research into compact and sustainable dwelling solutions in urban environments. It is entirely 3D printed with bio-plastic and can be fully recycled and reprinted in the following years.
© Sophia van den Hoek
3D printed design
The design plays with the relations between indoor and outdoor spaces creating luxury within a minimum footprint. Entirely 3D printed with black colored bio-based material, it showcases different types of façade ornament, form-optimization techniques and smart solutions for insulation and material consumption. The floor and stepped porch are combined with a concrete finish creating a beautiful pattern that extends into a path in the pocket park. In the green around the cabin you can enjoy the sculptural printed bathtub, and watch the sunset surrounded by waving poplar trees.
© Ossip van Duivenbode
Sustainable solutions for the future
The 8 m2, 25 m3 house fits the ‘tiny house’ trend in which small dwelling designs solve large housing issues. The design comprises a mini-porch and indoor space in which a sofa can be doubled up as a twin bed. 3D printing techniques can be used particularly well for small temporary dwellings or in disaster areas. After use, the bio print material can be shredded entirely and re-printed into new designs.
© Sophia van den Hoek
© Sophia van den Hoek
The Urban Cabin is part of the 3D Print Living Lab by DUS architects. It is another step in using the in-house developed 3D print technology to build sustainable, customizable and on-demand housing solutions for the fast growing cities around the globe.
© Sophia van den Hoek
HAO Design Creates a Home with a Deep Sense of Connectedness in Taiwan
Blank is a residential project designed by HAO Design in 2015. It is located in Pingtung County, Taiwan. Blank by HAO Design: “HAO Design strives to achieve an optimal balance between space and lighting, which is why we chose to employ design methods that address the various limitations of the building. First, the partition walls of the mezzanine were removed, so that the 1.5-story floor height became the visual divide..
Villa CD / OOA | Office O architects
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- Architects: OOA | Office O architects
- Location: Oostduinkerke, Belgium
- Head Designer: Magalie Munters
- Project Architect: Hugo Crombez
- Area: 305.0 sqm
- Project Year: 2015
- Photographs: Tim Van de Velde
© Tim Van de Velde
The house is situated in a residential allotment with “bungalow” houses from the early sixties, surrounded by dunes, not far from the Belgian seaside. To bring the house into accordance with the surrounding houses and the enviroment and to answer to the building regulations, the design of the house was inspired by the bungalow typology. At first glance it looks like a single storey house.
© Tim Van de Velde
Next to the strict building regulations the residents had very specific demands; they wanted to live on the same level as the street, but they did not want passersby to be able to look inside. On the other hand they also wanted the possibility of inviting people, giving them all comfort, without loosing their own privacy.
© Tim Van de Velde
Plan
© Tim Van de Velde
The concept of the residence starts from a horizontal concrete plateau that cantilevers against a concrete conical wall. Underground, on the other side of the wall, two hidden rooms with patios provide a counterweight to the horizontal plateau. This conceptual approach answers the specific and seemingly contradictory demands. The bungalow is situated on the new concrete plateau hidden behind the concrete wall. It is carried by the platform, and can thus extend beyond that of the neighbors. It has a completely open view over the allotment behind the house and seems to release itself from the latter.
© Tim Van de Velde
The original site slopes down a full level compared to the rear of the garden.The platform, a table/land, allows the surrounding terrain to remain naturally rough (another building restriction). The main living areas seem to float over the landscape. On the other side, they are embedded in the gardenscape and connected to the street level.
© Tim Van de Velde
The plateau covers a carport situated on the lower basement level. The ramp with concrete staircase next to the slope leads to the entrance of 2 studios and the carport. For reasons of privacy, the studios with bathroom and kitchen are situated in front of the conical wall. A cutout in the horizontal surface has been made for these rooms that each have a courtyard providing air and light. This way, both studios can have big windows while preserving a sense of privacy and intimacy.
Plan
The positioning of the bungalow on the plateau creates large terraces for the residence (in the back as well as in the front) which can be used as an evening streetside terrace. The terrace is shielded by the conical wall, which is provided with a composition of cutouts devised to provide the residence with ample light, optimal view and elegant passage. This wall ensures the privacy of the residents while guaranteeing well-choosen views towards the street and the dunes.
© Tim Van de Velde
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How to Reframe Your Reality and Become a Ruthless Optimist
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Tired of Negative Events, One After Another?
Your neighbor’s dog barked at you. And he knows you!
Your boss sent you a nasty email.
Your special someone isn’t into you lately.
You’re not finding any joy anywhere, in anything.
Inside You/Outside You
Yes, the dog is dumb, your boss is a jerk, and your sweetie could be more loving.
But the things outside you aren’t necessarily the problem.
Perceived Powerlessness
Nope, the problem is, you think that the events and their effects are both outside you, yet your fault. This mindset? Self-fulfilling negative prophecy and no perceived power to change things.
What can you do?
For starters: Think you’re powerless when these things happen? You’re wrong.
1-Consider this equation:
Perception (internal)+Event (External)=Your Experience (Situation)
Notice how big perception is.
2-Let’s drop back a step.
What’s in place BEFORE any event? Your core mindset. It’s there to help you or hinder you as you experience your day, helping you to avoid getting stuck, or so discouraged that you turn back, or don’t walk out of your mental house at all.
• Did your parents accept you as you were, or did you have to contort yourself to win their love and acceptance? Were they full of criticism? Then you probably developed that inner critic to keep off the outer critics. The inner critic never leaves. Send him or her off with a letter of recommendation to someone who needs one (though I doubt you’ll find any such person!!)
• Or maybe some recent bad experiences, a bad breakup or divorce, a firing, or other situations pulled down your self-esteem so you have an inner critic.
So, you INTERPRET adverse events as YOUR FAULT. You don’t take your own side, but with the inner critic that remains from critical parents or tough past events, so you make and will continue to make your life one long uphill battle.
The Good News: This is an Opportunity.
Believe me, from hard experience, I know what a challenge this is; in fact, it’s the biggest. But, if you change your inner situation now, others will envy you as they see you’ve transformed your life!
Get Help.
Get some positive reinforcement from a trusted friend helps, or better yet, a therapist, especially if your childhood is the main problem. Why? Because your inner critic is “disqualifying” anything good you’re saying about yourself.
The Therapist or that good friend stands in for the part of yourself that you’re born with who is ready to love and care for you. The self-compassionate inner voice is always there; it’s a still small voice, but it’s amazing how well you can hear it when if you start listening.
Help Yourself
Talk TO yourself, and treat yourself as if you were your spouse or your best friend. When you hear the critic’s expected interpretation of things, talk back calmly, don’t shout. When the ego starts to shout because you now pay attention to your calm, core voice, you isolate and disregard negativity.
Talk back, sometimes use a diary to write out the critic’s comments and your compassionate voice’s answers. Expose those inner criticisms out in the light of day, and soon they lose their potency. Keep them inside, without review or response, and they stay potent, and you feel powerless.
Everyone makes mistakes…how else do we learn? The best scientists, artists, and entrepreneurs make countless mistakes that produce single, stupendous achievements otherwise impossible.
I just “reframed” failure, I repositioned it as an inevitable prelude to success, rather than an insoluble, life defeating problem.
Be ready every minute of every day with a fearless mental, emotional, and spiritual position with which to weather and transform experiences for current and future benefit rather than as the perceived inescapable, ever continuing spiral of events that make you hopeless and continually self-critical.
You have a choice and an obligation to transform the stories of your life into positive ones so that your life’s narrative is triumphant and joyful always.
What Will You Choose?
Will you be kind to yourself, being the defense attorney in every situation, taking your case without hesitation, with love, acceptance, and optimism?
If you do, you’ll not only win in the court of your psyche, you’ll be successful in every trial, escape your own jails, and soar to what should be your goal each and every day…and what’s that?
HAPPINESS. It’s inside you right now; just take it with you no matter what!
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