Tuesday, November 25, 2014

The silk factory abandoned in Givet, France.

Ann Marshall - Arte

Recojo una muestra de las obras de "Ann Marshall", si te gustan y quieres ver más pásate por su web.














spiral sphere





spiral sphere


Bee Home : Modern Beehive for Urban Beekeeping

Living in urban areas shouldn’t keep you away from your hobby of beekeeping. One of conceptual products that someday come in handy is Bee Home. It’s a modern beehive that allows individual with limited space to keep bees, even when they only know basic knowledge of beekeeping. It’s an innovative concept that enables you to not only keep one colony of bees easier but also to produce honey for yourself. You can observe and experience the life of bees while they are inside the hive as well as make contribution to the preservation of bees.


Do you know that bees are responsible for pollination over 80% of wild plants? Unfortunately, we are suffering from the declining of these amazing colonies, the situation is getting worse, it would dramatically effect our nature. Most food that we eat is the result of bee’s pollination service.


Designer : Raphael Klaffenböck


Bee Home : Modern Beehive for Urban Homes by Raphael Klaffenböck


Bee Home : Modern Beehive for Urban Homes by Raphael Klaffenböck



Bee Home provides enough space for one colony of bees. The honey chamber can be used to keep the surplus honey which later can be harvested for your family and friends. You can replace the honey your harvest previously inside the integrated feed container. This is a nice home for your bees, the outer shell is made out of natural fiber reinforced plastic (NFK-PLA) that protects them from bad weather conditions. The space between outer shell and inner cylinder provides great insulation to absorb different in temperature to keep beehive from overheat or cool down too much. However, just in case the hive is overheat, the temperature sensor inside would trigger automatic ventilation system where the top of the hive lifts up and allows fresh air to circulate through open bottom and open top.


The unique viewing window allow you to catch a glimpse of what’s going on inside, in order not to disturb the bees with any light, the inner cylinder is covered with a red color filter, since bees are not able to see red light. All electrical parts are powered by solar panel which is located on top of the hive.


Bee Home : Modern Beehive for Urban Homes by Raphael Klaffenböck


Bee Home : Modern Beehive for Urban Homes by Raphael Klaffenböck


Bee Home : Modern Beehive for Urban Homes by Raphael Klaffenböck


Bee Home : Modern Beehive for Urban Homes by Raphael Klaffenböck


Bee Home : Modern Beehive for Urban Beekeeping is originally posted on Tuvie - Modern Industrial Design


Dino Tomic's Art Looks So Real (26 pics)

Dino Tomic, also known under the pseudonym Atomiccircus creates amazing portraits that look like real photographs. His attention to detail is stunning.


















































































Castleboro House

Ocean Spiral Underwater City Features a Giant Sphere That Holds up To 5000 People

Ocean Spiral Underwater City is a future vision of Shimizu Corporation, it looks like futuristic city that you can only see in sci-fi movies. This ambitious project features a giant sphere that holds up to 5000 people and draws its energy for seabed thousands meters below. According to theguardian, this company has a great reputation of dreaming up extravagant projects, the goal here is to capitalize on infinite possibilities of the deep sea as the rise of sea levels can threaten the survival of island inhabitants.


Each structure is divided into 3 sections: a sphere, pods, and spiral. The floating sphere features a diameter of 500 meters, located beneath the surface of the sea. This sphere houses residential zones, business, and hotels. This pod will be connected to 15km long spiral path that winds its way down to the dept of the ocean like 3km to 4km below the surface. The innovative technology would harvest energy resources from the seabed.


Designer : Shimizu Corporation


Ocean Spiral Underwater City by Shimizu Corporation


Ocean Spiral Underwater City by Shimizu Corporation



Shimizu Corporation has estimated that this project might take only 5 years to build with an estimated budget of 16 billion Euro. Perhaps, not to distant from now, let’s say 15 years, the technology needed to build this futuristic structure and sustain life below will be ready. Ocean Spiral would be an eco-friendly underwater city where energy can be harvested from the ocean floor. Micro organisms can transform carbon dioxide into methane while power generators located across the spiral use differences in seawater temperature to generate additional energy through process known as ocean thermal energy conversion. Desalinated water can be done using hydraulic pressure which then pumped into residential pod.


Ocean Spiral Underwater City by Shimizu Corporation


Ocean Spiral Underwater City by Shimizu Corporation


Ocean Spiral Underwater City by Shimizu Corporation


Ocean Spiral Underwater City by Shimizu Corporation


Ocean Spiral Underwater City by Shimizu Corporation


Ocean Spiral Underwater City by Shimizu Corporation


Ocean Spiral Underwater City by Shimizu Corporation


Ocean Spiral Underwater City Features a Giant Sphere That Holds up To 5000 People is originally posted on Tuvie - Modern Industrial Design