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Orestad College focuses on student interaction, social spaces and opportunities to learn from each other
Orestad College is the first secondary school built in Denmark after the introduction of the secondary school reform with its added emphasis on strengthening and improving students’ academic proficiency, giving students an active responsibility for their own learning, creating a better springboard for them to move on to university and higher education programmes, and increasing the focus on science subjects.
The building was designed based on 3XN’s belief that architecture can shape behavioural patterns. Its open, flexible spaces permit a high degree of interaction that generates a better ambience for working and learning, encouraging students to take active responsibility for their own learning process and their collective working environment. The design brief was worded to avoid reference to the traditional spatial layout. For this reason the competition phase was focused on the interpretation of space and the intentions behind the reform. Orestad College is the result of a research based design process – a journey towards a physical structure to support the visions of knowledge sharing, interdisciplinary co operation and competencies. The overall vision was to combine large, open spaces with a high degree of familiarity and belonging on a smaller scale. It is a functional working environment – yet there are plenty of nooks and crannies for relaxation and contemplation.
The building consists of four boomerang shaped decks which overlap in incremental rotation. The four study zones are accommodated on each their level with a spatial layout that caters for varying learning environment needs. The central staircase is the heart of the college’s social and work / study life; the primary 'highway' up and down through the building and also the place to linger – for seeing and being seen. The open spaces are supplemented by sections of innovative 'space division furniture', making it possible to create flexible, temporary spaces and learning environments for any size of group.
Home design computing technology for interior, To illustrate this shift in thinking, imagine that our goal is to create an environment that uses pervasive computing technology to save energy by automatically controlling the heater¬vent-air conditioning system. We assume that the environment’s embedded sensors can infer context such as where people are, what they are doing, and what the inside environmental con¬ditions are. We also assume that the home con¬tains computer-controlled HVAC appliances, windows, and blinds.
The automated home
One way to reduce resource consumption is to design a home environment that controls environmental conditions. The home’s occu¬pant informs the system via some type of user interface that he or she wishes to stay comfort¬able while saving as much energy or money as possible. The home then uses a set of opti¬mization algorithms to simultaneously maxi¬mize savings and comfort by automatically con-trolling con¬trolling the HVAC systems, windows, and blinds. For instance, on a day when the tem¬perature is predicted to shift from warm to cool, the home might determine that the optimal cooling strategy is to shut down the AC and automatically open a set of blinds and windows so as to create an efficient cross breeze.
This scenario is relatively simple compared with other smart-home visions. In practice, when making these control decisions. Because the system is so complex, the user will be left feeling frustrated—helpless to understand the behavior. Why does it keep opening the win¬dows when, clearly, the user wants and needs them closed?
The home that uses subtle reminders
Consider an alternative scenario. In this home of the future, the windows include a tiny
Technology should require human effort in ways that keep life as mentally and physically challenging as possible as people age.
however, it would be an immense challenge to achieve this simple scenario in an actual home setting. The sophistication of commonsense reasoning and context awareness that is required is daunting, given the current state of our understanding of these fields. There are many situations in which the automatic system might succeed in optimizing temperature com¬fort yet fail in “doing the right thing”: some¬thing noisy is occurring outside, someone is smoking outside the window, someone in the home is allergic to pollen and the pollen count is high, it is raining outside, it is too quiet for a person reading when the hum of the air condi¬tioner is off, someone did not want the blinds open because it throws glare on a computer screen, and so on. No matter how hard the sys¬tem designer tries to program contingency plans for all possible contexts, invariably the system will sometimes frustrate the home occupant and perform in unexpected and undesirable ways. A learning algorithm would also have difficulty because a training set will not con¬tain examples of appropriate decisions for all possible contextual situations.
There is a fundamental problem here: the more complexity the algorithms consider when making decisions, the less transparent those decisions will be to the homeowner.5 The system will actually become less predictable as it acquires more expertise, and the system’s suc¬cess some or most of the time will raise user expectations about what the system is capable of doing. Inevitably, the system will violate the user’s high expectations given the unexplain¬able “intelligence” the system sometimes shows light that is either embedded in the window frame (for example, a light-emitting diode) or projected on the window using display tech-nology (for example, an IBM Everywhere Dis¬play6). The home’s embedded sensors and opti¬mization algorithms compute a strategy for cooling the home by opening a particular set of windows, but they do not proactively imple¬ment the strategy.
An interdisciplinary team is developing technologies and design strategies that use context-aware sensing to empower people by presenting information at precisely the right time and place. The team is designing a living laboratory to study technology that motivates behavior change in context.
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People spend more time in their homes than in any other space. The home ideally provides a safe, comfortable environment in which to relax, communicate, learn, and be enter-tained. Increasingly, it is where people con¬nect with friends and family, conduct business, manage resources, learn about the world, and maintain health and autonomy as they age. People invest extraordinary amounts of time, money, and emotional energy to mold their homes into living spaces that meet their needs. Unfortunately, homes today are ill-suited to exploiting the pervasive computing applications being developed in laboratories. Most homes do not easily accommodate.
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If we are to believe most movies, television, and pop-ular press articles that mention home life in the future, we will have complete control over our spaces at the touch of a button. In fact, our homes will be so fully automated and “smart” that we will rarely have to think about every¬day tasks at all. We will spend nearly all our time in the home engaged in leisure activities because digital and robotic agents will have taken over the mundane chores of day-to-day life.
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Researchers and technologists are more cautious in pre¬dicting the future of the home. A survey of ongoing work shows, however, that there is a bias toward creating auto¬matic (smart) home environments that eliminate the need to think about tasks such as controlling heating and light.
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| Contemporary and stylish wooden bathroom design – by flora |
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| Contemporary and stylish wooden bathroom design – by flora |
Designers Charles and Paul Pardini Lapucci bring your a bathroom design ideas to fruition wooden bathroom, exploring the contrast of natural wood and soft acrylic tearing its way diagonally across this bathroom. A variety of sinks – including stand, undermount sinks and countertops – toilet, bath and bidet, and wall treatments for the contemporary decor.
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| Contemporary and stylish wooden bathroom design – by flora |
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| Contemporary and stylish wooden bathroom design – by flora |
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| Contemporary and stylish wooden bathroom design – by flora |
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| Contemporary and stylish wooden bathroom design – by flora |
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| Contemporary and stylish wooden bathroom design – by flora |
Designers Charles and Paul Pardini Lapucci bring your a bathroom design ideas to fruition wooden bathroom, exploring the contrast of natural wood and soft acrylic tearing its way diagonally across this bathroom. A variety of sinks – including stand, undermount sinks and countertops – toilet, bath and bidet, and wall treatments for the contemporary decor.
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| Contemporary and stylish wooden bathroom design – by flora |
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| Contemporary and stylish wooden bathroom design – by flora |
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| Contemporary and stylish wooden bathroom design – by flora |
Building Houses
The new headquarters for the jewelry company «Uniopt Pachleitner Group», located in Graz (Austria), is constructed under the project of Austrian architectural studio «GS Architects». In unusual building project of the Black Panther will be reflected style and philosophy of production of this known manufacturer.
«Black Panther» gets into «Uniopt Pachleitner Group»
The dynamical and ambitious aesthetics of structure with acute angles, sides and reflecting surfaces reminds a sculptural composition. The building is constructed with use of ultra-modern materials and hi-tech technologies, namely: acoustic windows systems, smart ventilation system, unusual exterior facade, and also effective maintenance of premises with a natural sunlight.
Headquarters interiors continue the sculptural styles set by an exterior. At the same time, this silent and beautiful place urged to become a source of inspiration for new creative ideas.
The effective design of spacious premises executed mainly in black-and-white color scale, is diluted by an abundance of the transparent and protected glasses with fragments of unique art sketches.
Ambitious building materials, color and building geometry cause the hints corresponding to its effective jewelry name.
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Blues Point Hotel constructed under the project of Australian architectural studio «Carter Williamson Architects», gives possibility of fine rest on a stylish open terrace which not only creates cosy "jazz atmosphere" for the visitors, but also delicately cares about comfort of passers-by and inhabitants of the next houses.
Jazz Interior for Music Fans
On a terrace territory the pub and rest zone with convenient seats and the little tables located on perimetre of a high wall. This twisting architectural element provides good sound insulation and comfortable interior space.
Loud music, laughter, conversations — all sounds will remains in an institution, besides it, the clients, in turn, are protected from sounds of street life.
Visually, the modern twist of a wall partially correlates with Art Deco style in which the hotel is made. However this elegant interior with wooden structure is a fully resounded with a musical orientation of an hotel, having filled with rebellious and freedom-loving spirit.
Building Houses
The modern Italian furniture has deep historical roots and represents a surprising combination of centuries-old traditions and modern technologies. If you want, that your house was considered aristocratical and modern — purchase of the Italian furniture will be the most successful decision.
Contemporary Furniture from the Italian Designers
Modern upholstered furniture — the real alloy of high technologies and traditions of furniture masters. The main distinctive feature of modern furniture is use of the newest materials, the upholsteries, interesting design decisions. The basic advantages of this upholstered furniture — ability to transformation and to change of the styles format.
Beauty and durability synthesis — the main advantage of modern Italian furniture. The modern furniture also the underlined simplicity and absence of superfluous details. The contemporary furniture is characterised by accurate lines and the bright shades. The Italian style is world-wide has a deserved glory. Thus the furniture created by the Italian designers, undoubtedly, is exclusive, qualitative and will satisfy the most exacting taste.
The Italian furniture factories are world leaders of manufacture of high-quality beautiful modern furniture for the house. Feature of modern sofas of the Italian factories is their originality and original design.
The modern furniture it's not only modern products or subjects of hi-tech styles. Old-school forms and Eternal Romantic designs of classical living room furniture can look modern also. Many think that such furniture is extremely expensive, however this opinion is erroneous. The modern living room furniture of classical style is quite accessible to the usual buyer.
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Industrial designer Moran Ein Dor is the aficionado of effects of a tensioning therefore has been created this remarkable piece of furniture “Stretch no.3″.Futuristic Style of Chairs
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Utilitarian Refuge
The architectural project by Lindsay Brown Studio on Santa Cruz Island has been inspired by passion of the client to swimming that was reflected on quite utilitarian design elements. The design should be especially steady and resist to the big loadings as the unusual house is constantly subject to gale-force winds.
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New Hotel Missoni
New Hotel Missoni became an element of the general architectural style. Authors have offered philosophy of achievement of unity through variety, having united various images of facades.
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