Hey again yall
Here is something to look at. The link I provide here is the main website for an architecture firm Located in New York. The reason I post it on the blog is because I feel what they do as architects somewhat relates to what we talk about in Visual Advocacy.
All their projects utilized prefabricated materials in new and innovative ways that no one else has ever thought of doing in this conext. I think it is an inventive way to reuse old industrial materials to a design advantage.
Check them out. Their work in awesome in my opinion.
http://www.lot-ek.com
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http://www.re4a.com/modern-modular/
here is some more pre-fab design/architecture.
Dwell magazine is a huge advocate of pre-fab, take a looksee.
Personally, I would kill to live in one of those homes.
I've been thinking about the Lot/Ek prefab tpoic recently. I know this might not interest very many bloggers, but it tnterests me and hopefully someone else. I think there are some intersting things happening with prefabricated design, in that sometimes the designs are need-specific, or site-specific, like Resolution's work, but also LotEk's approach of "Dumpster-Diving" (they use other products and apply them to the arena of dwellings).
So this has lead me to ask which PreFab is more authentic, more sustainable, efficient, etc? Which is more true to design or it's culture?
LotEk's work is probably more efficient as far as munufacturing goes, presuming that they use products (dumptruck, cargo containers, etc) that have been used for one purpse and reconditioned for their uses. If they use brand-new products, it changes their intent in my mind.
Resolution 4 Architecture and others that focus on "custom-prefab" or at least partially custom use materials and processes in a different way. They design the object (a home) and engineer it, then hey build the pieces in factories. They put the walls together with sheetrock and studs, hardwood flooring comes not in singles slats but in assembleges (sp?) and roofing comes in large sections. The pieces are then shipped to the site for construction, and while that would use alot of gasoline and pollute in its own way, the ease of having pre-built parts on site saves alot of time and energy in the actual construcuion process.
It's also intersting to me how PreFab is becoming a new trend of discussion (again) but it should be defined that they are talking about architecture. Prefabricateed industrial design is redundant, since it the prefabrication process and the fabrication process are inherent in industrial design.
is there a way we can pre-fabricate graphic design ot interactive design??
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