In Bali, 25 models reveal what architecture photography hides
Jia CURATED brings together 25 models to make air, water, vegetation and site legible. Shrinking a building can enlarge what we understand about it.
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This climate-design archive cannot escape the empire that shaped it
More than 4,000 documents show how the Department of Tropical Architecture turned sun, wind and resources into design inputs. The archive also exposes the colonial system through which that method travelled.
This lamp lets a single steel sheet decide its form
Cobre Estudio starts with a 2 mm steel sheet, laser cutting and a handful of folds. Structure and visual identity come from the same operations.
Repairing this cassette deck still fits into one bench session
Clean, lubricate, replace belts, adjust azimuth: the work can be fiddly, but the maintenance path remains legible and local.
POLARIS had to abandon its sonar idea to measure ice better
Under the ice, an elegant dual-echo sonar method collided with real signal noise. The ETH team changed measurement method instead of defending the first diagram.
Tablature becomes mechanical gestures on a real guitar
Two printable mechanisms replace the guitarist’s hands: one frets, the other plucks six strings. A digital score ends as acoustic vibration.
A tape-measure bracelet hides an ESP32 sequencer
An ESP32-S3, brass rods, transparent PETG and even a tape-measure wristband: nearly every fabrication choice ends up becoming part of the controls.
This blog makes comments static and keeps only the writing dynamic
Comments live on a small server, but the blog compiles them into its pages. Reading no longer depends on the service that receives replies.
This Thai naval foundry treats daylight as a production constraint
In a 2,300 m² foundry, daylight, ventilation, steel and assembly space are designed around the same constraints as furnaces and machinery.
This game engine only has to fit one game
Elias Farhan is not building an engine to compete with Unity. He is moving Soup Raiders onto a stack designed around this particular game, with all the control and responsibility that brings.