life-of-an-architecture-student:

submitted by: Denisse Alejandre

designoclock:

Giha Woo designed a pen attachment that can help you draw straight lines. Called the “Constrained Ball”, this attachment can be easily attached on any pen and can help you draw straight lines, horizontally or vertically.

An attempt to design architectural solutions to the flood-prone areas of New Orleans

"New Orleans is the product of ongoing interaction between engineering intentions and the dynamic natural processes of the Mississippi Delta. The delta is a landscape in flux, and our engineering interventions haven’t stopped its fluctuation; instead, the forces of change have been redirected in ways that we didn’t expect"

Jane Wolff, director of landscape architecture at University of Toronto

"In this push and pull of place and idea a site emerges where building takes place. The site emerges because of a building; a region inevitably emerges through building. Instead of buildings being defined by a region, the inverse is true. Region is experienced through the built work. A building does not come to a region to be absorbed by it — to be consumed in regionalism. Rather the reverse is more correct; building makes the region and brings to light what it is. Region becomes this place where things are revealed. Because of the thing and action of a built work the region is where all that is comes together."

Regions of Regionalism

(Source: buildingstudio.net)

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New Orleans 17th Ward Data Synthesis

   Infographic study of the demographics along the 17th street Canal in attempt to reveal the unseen relationship between distance from the surrounding water bodies, Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain, and economic condition of the ward’s three neighborhoods, West End, Hollygrove, and West Carrolton.

Nathalie Miebach: Art Made from Storms

Mega Engineering: Floating New Orleans

New Orleans Canal Pump Stations

(Source: showcase.gspnet.com)

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New Orleans’s Landscape Typology

Canals and City Expansion

(Source: blowkissesnotboys, via blowkissesnotboys)

suckthislemon:

Vision is a rather unique 3D drawing device created by twins Ryan & Trevor Oakes, allowing almost anyone to draw images in perfect perspective using nothing but your eyes and a pen. The device MESSES WITH YOUR BRAIN by using a technique that splits the ocular system, creating two images of the subject, allowing the artist to literally trace one directly onto paper.

You should watch this video to see how exactly this works. Mind-blowing.

"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures."

Henry Ward (via abstractelements)

New Orleans Drainage Pump Stations

Through my recent research, I have been considering my design thesis to be a commentary about the engineering of landscapes, specifically the levee system in place for the Mississippi River. Throughout my readings and research, the system of water drainage and flood control has presented itself as a viable venue for exploration. I especially find their relationships to water most interesting because their is one system that is keeping water out and another that is pushing water out. I have rediscovered the abundance of drainage facilities involved with keeping New Orleans dry. There are three particular drainage pump sites that I find interesting, 17th Street, Orleans Avenue, and London Avenue, that have canals that lead to Lake Pontchartrain. These sites have historic importance also; during Hurricane Katrina, 17th Street and London Avenue canals were both breached while Orleans Avenue’s levees held. A high majority of the city’s drainage basins utilize one of these three pump stations for rainwater removal. My plan is to present the relationship between the drainage at these sites and the levee system of the areas.