Faculty + Chanel + MVRDV

If there would be a competition for research that’s pretty aesthetically pleasing, this project would definitely be short-listed. Literarily joining forces with Chanel and MVRDV, the faculty’s Glass & Transparency research group crafted the first ever glass bricks that can bear their own weight whilst looking impeccable.

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Used for the facade of Chanel’s  “Crystal House” on Amsterdam’s luxurious shopping street P.C. Hoofdstraat, the bricks almost identically mimic the 19th century wall it’s replacing. And even though they might look pretty fragile, quite the opposite is true as Rob Nijsse, professor of Structural Design, states that attacking it with a sledge hammer (or a stiletto) wouldn’t even leave a dent.Chanelbricks2Read a full article on the research here , visit Amsterdam for a real-life look at the store (P.C. Hoofdstraat 66, Amsterdam) or check out DEZEEN’s nicely illustrated article on the building here.

ChanelbricksAnd don’t forget to watch this beautiful movie by Warenar Real Estate:

Ever since you left the city you, you, you, you… BK City’s Alumni Event

On 8 April the graduates from 2008 till 2012 came together in the Berlagezaal to catch up and place their name plaques in the faculty’s alumni wall.

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Titel song is naturally Drake’s Hotline Bling:
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Competition: NPR call for graduation projects/thesis (€ 3.000,-)

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Name competition: NRP Masterprijs
For whom: recent graduates and graduating students
Send in: graduation projects on transformation
Prize: 1st € 3.000,-, 2nd € 2.000,- 3rd € 1.000,-

Click here for more.

WORK, WORK, WORK, WORK, WORK IS NOT JUST A RIHANNA SONG

Good luck with the deadlines.

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Robots over architecture?

The sceptics might say the end of human civilisation is near and robots are ready to take over in no time. Whether true or false, robots do seem to be influencing life pretty drastically.

Next week Henriette Bier and Sina Mostafavi (both Hyperbody) will visit Paris to speak at ENSA’s Digital Knowledge conference, focussing on how and if robots are reconfiguring architecture.

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ASFP helps the world know you’re out there

On 22 April ASFP is organising an event for everyone who has magnificent ideas, but is having trouble communicating them to the world.

They’re inviting journalist and filmmaker Tobias van der Valk who’ll be bringing us up to date on how media work, the dangers and advantages of going viral and shed some light into how to get your ideas out there.

You’ll be able to find more information on this event on AMS Institute’s site.

 

DOTF-Publication on the shelves of biggest Latin-American Book Fair

We made a nice publication in 2013 to accompany Mazzanti’s Designers of the Future lecture at the faculty. News reached us today that it will be featured by the Dutch Embassy on Latin-America’s biggest book fair FILBO in Bogota, Columbia.

More on Designers of the Future.
More on the book fair.

More on the Dutch Embassy’s involvement. 

Pictures of the publication (sold out in NL, but if you’d really really really like a copy, send us a message):

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this is happening

The amount of interesting, fun and special things happening in BK City is mind-boggling. This blog is the platform to share all the big and small things happening in and around the faculty.

We’d be glad to feature your event, project, new models, pictures and news. Just send an e-mail to e.f.parry@tudelft.nl and we’ll get back to you.