Jamie Tomkins was challenged to create non-emission vehicle for this high and increasing populated country that meets the needs of urbanites as well as complying with Chinese government policy. After a research trip to China, Jamie developed vehicles based on a future concept of the city – the Beijing Boom Tower which is designed into three tiers or social classes. On the top tier live the wealthiest residents, in the center are the middle-classes, and at the bottom live the working class. A vehicle for each level was designed.
Jamie Tomkins took on the bottom level and looked at the ubiquitous Chinese bicycle as a starting point for his design. His hybrid bicycle has a metal and plastic frame with plastic detachable parts that can be changed to create a unique style. The use of plastic means the hybrid is lighter and with interchangeable parts it is more aesthetically pleasing to the eye.
Designer : Jamie Tomkins
Now this is what I call a very cool wall, water walls, designed by MIT and was unveiled on Thursday at the opening of the Zaragoza World Expo in Spain. This is the first kind of Digital Water Pavilion that creates spaces and dynamically adjust to people and conditions. The idea of this water pavilion is based on the challenge of how to make fluid reconfigurable architecture, and MIT is trying to answer that question with its water walls.
Source : MIT via Core77
Car manufacturers have always been interested to explore how the vehicles of the future would be like, but the key remains as to how prepared are we to face the challenge of presenting newer options. We know that BMW always introduces jaw-dropping car concept such as the last post in this blog BMW M1 Homage, but even in our wildest dream we don’t expect to see BMW latest car concept would be made of cloth. BMW Group Design has come up with GINA or Geometry and Functions in “N” Adaptations. BMW Gina Light car concept promotes innovative thinking and allows maximum freedom of creativity. Also BMW has explored the creative options that can be provided rather than probing how the future cars will look like. This car can change shape and surface at the flick of a switch, and the ‘GINA’ principles it espouses have been used to craft today’s BMW design language.
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Most people, these days, live in automobile cities. Cars are essential for getting around; they mediate the experience of the city; they occupy huge amounts of real estate; they make a lot of noise and they clutter up the streets. Yet architects and urban designers mostly take them as given, and are content to design streets and public spaces around whatever the world’s few remaining automobile manufacturers happen to provide. Here Dr. Mitchell Joachim tries to challenge and reverse this well-worn assumption.
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As they say” beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder”, maybe that’s the reason why the inventions designed for the visually challenged, never had that visually appeal. However Matthew Wagerfield’s revolutionary time keeping device which he calls Sentio- seems to carry the sentiments for the ones for whom its been designed. A combination of the old and the new it uses a tactile display, with each segment arises by 1 mm above the watch face thus enabling the users to read the time just by touching the face of the watch. Available in various colors, making it quite fashionable.
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