Domains and Precedents
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LILYPAD, A FLOATING ECOPOLIS FOR CLIMATE REFUGEES by Vincent Callebaut Architects
Facing the worldwide ecological crisis, this floating Ecopolis has the double objective not only to widen sustainably in offshore the territories of the most developed countries such as the Monaco principality but above all to grant the housing of future climatic refugees of he next submerged ultra-marine territories such as the Polynesian atolls. New biotechnological prototype of ecologic resilience dedicated to the nomadism and the urban ecology in the sea, Lilypad travels on the water line of the oceans, from the equator to the poles following the marine streams warm ascending of the Gulf Stream or cold descending of the Labrador.
More on the project here http://vincent.callebaut.org/planche-lilypad_pl04.html
Visual precedents for the motion graphics piece
The video/motion graohics part of the installation will consist of the several sections:
- 1. user scanario presentation
- 2. advertising of the product
- 3. interview #1(#2) science fiction design discussion
- 4. instructional/technical part inc. design sketches and plans
- 5. interview #3, design methodology berification
- 6. the "bigger scope"/ sustainability, urban planing, new transportation and communication ideas
- 7. interview #4
- 8. advertising and tag
The Volkswagen 2028 campaign is a one of the precedents for a fictional product presentation and has a mixed structure of the interviews, visuals and advertising combined in one narrative. Check it out here
one of the designs for Volksvagen 2028
Visual precedents for design of the 3D model
Here are some examples of the complexity that the 3D model will have upon complition
Amazing details from Kazuhiko Nakamura
A walking machine by Ted Terranova
"Gladiator" from Pascal Blanche
Visual precedents for design of the unit
Visual aesthetics of mushrooms inspired a part of the flying unit design, the breathing skin of which will have a pattern similar to the one you can find on the cap of a mushroom. Here are some examples of the mushroom patterns.
Visions of the future cities
Different visions of the future (1925-2005)
Plan Voisin for Paris, 1925, Le Corbusier The vision of the zoned modernist city built with standardized industrial construction. Economically 'efficient', yet shown to be an urban disaster around the world.
Broadacre City, 1934-58, Frank Lloyd Wright: The deurbanised city based upon electricity, automobiles, and 'organic' architecture.
Science Fiction Airships
Vacuum Dirigibles
Lighter-than-air flying machine built around the use of nanotech constructed materials. Vacuum dirigibles use the ability of nanotechnology
to create lightweight fabric-like materials that are strong enough to hold their shape and contain a low-pressure or even vacuum-equivalent
region against the pressure of an external atmosphere. Using this technology it is possible to create a lighter- than-air lifting body without
the necessity of gases such as hydrogen or helium, or a heating element.
The structure containing the vacuum must be strong in compression, as the surface is subjected to the ambient atmospheric pressure.
Suitable structures include most regular solids, and geodesic spheres of various kinds; however the closer the structure is to a spherical shape,
the more likely it is to buckle. The strongest vacuum balloon is in fact a tetrahedron. Other shapes benefit from lightweight internal bracing,
either arranged radially or using a regular framework, often tetrahedral or cubical in arrangement. Nano-assembled, effectively flawless
diamondoid material is very strong in compression so can be used for very lightweight, strong internal bracing. One very strong allotrope of
carbon is ACN, aggregated carbon nanorod material, which can be stronger in compression than any other conventional material if
manufactured correctly. More...
Cloud Cities
Concept ships by Daniel Simon
More of Simon's future cars: Daniel Simon: Space Design
and more sketches: Daniel Simon: Concept Sketches
Neri Oxman:Beast
Another visual and concept precedent: Beast (chaise lounge) will be on display at the International Biennial of Seville.
Link: MATERIALECOLOGY: Neri Oxman
Art of Eric Lutes
Concept art of Eric Lutes is a precedent and an example for the design layout,
for more of his work check http://ericlutes.blogspot.com/
Concept Ships Blog
An online experimental aircraft art magazine contains a lot of visual precedents for this project
http://conceptships.blogspot.com
Theo Jansen: Imitation of the Nature Processes in design
"Not pollen or seeds but plastic yellow tubes are used as the basic material of this new nature. I make skeletons that are able to walk on the wind, so they don’t have to eat.
Over time, these skeletons have become increasingly better at surviving the elements such as storms and water and eventually I want to put these animals out in herds on the beaches, so they will live their own lives." Theo Jansen
more about Rhinoceros and other projects at Jansen's site