Today with lot of environmental developments happening world over like global warming, energy crisis, lifestyle changes, it’s become even more difficult to design houses meeting all these requirements. More and more architectural designs are using digital technologies with respect to modeling, simulation, evaluation and fabrication resulting in complex shaped buildings which incorporates the above challenges. One such project is coming up in Tel Aviv whose primary resources are sun, wind, and land and these are fairly distributed amongst these complex structures thus making an optimum utilization of all. It’s of course high quality housing complete with latest gadgets but run on the natural resources. Architect Yiftach Ben Meir, the designer, is a recent graduate from The Faculty Of Architecture and Town Planning at Technion, Israel Institute of Technology (IIT). His final project SeaO2 was conceived under the framework of Tecnion Computer Oriented Design Studio, T_Code with the instruction of dr. Yasha j. Grobman.
Text from Yiftach :
SeaO2 is an experimental ecological housing project. The project poses an alternative to current plans for Tel Aviv North West coastal district. SeaO2 demonstrates vast use of cutting edge computer software, some being used in the aerospace industry, in order to improve building performance and to ensure the existence of a sustainable urban environment with a minimal ecological footprint. The project final form is a consequence of a scientific approach that calculates numerous of elements: the sun orbit, wind conditions, maximum open scenic views, very high density and more, all in a free-form organic manner.
Advanced Computer Simulations ensure the project’s credibility. The project’s unique morphology enables: optimized solar reception for heating at winter time, self-shadowing and solar reception for electricity generation at summer time, natural lighting, optimized natural ventilation, open looks to the natural coastal environment, public green spaces, rain collection and more. Various passive mechanical systems complement the basic morphology, enable better performance and create an energy efficient, environmentally friendly housing project
Designer : Yiftach Ben Meir
As the good things comes in small packages, the new orbit MP3 speaker system is surely a nice way to share with the regular music devices like MP3, CD Player, music enabled phones etc. All one needs to do is to slip it out of the storage space and the broadcast starts. The clarity and the range are immensely amazing which gets a boost by the 360 degree surround sound. It’s a good company when one is looking for a break after a hard day’s night! Add to this the long battery life all one can say is let the music play!
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How does it feel when you are new to a place and cannot find a destination easily? This is definitely an embarrassing situation and the GPS systems were invented to solve these sorts of problems. GPS or Global Positioning systems are used to map the location of the vehicles and it also directs the vehicles to find the correct locations. It uses the signals sent by the satellites revolving around the earth in specific orbit and the inbuilt GPS receiver catches the signal and transforms it into understandable directions. The GPS satellite generally transmits two different types of signals- L1 and L2.
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This is the first look for all fellow space-geeks who want see some unique and amazing spacecraft. This spacecraft can carry four people be it cosmonauts or astronauts to moon and then again back to earth. According to some Russians, this spacecraft will be launched in 2018 or may be sooner than that and it is presently available for modification. It is absolutely safe and perfect for everyone because of its two-stage orbiter and lander design which seems same as American lunar missions.
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You might wear any color dress and the matching accessories to go with it but your watch still remains the same. Though there have been many watches in which we can only change the dial of a watch but the main body remains the same, standing out in all of your accessories. So now to avoid this embarrassing situation in your parties we have brought to you an excellent bracelet cum watch known as the Time Orbit Watch.
The most interesting thing in this is that it has display lines all over which shows the current time. There are three lines one shows the hours, second shows the minutes and the third one shows the seconds. It has been made with high technology keeping in mind the simplicity of the bracelet, it has the shine and gloss with an attitude and is also available in different colors.
So now, show off your accessories in a cool and modern manner with a touch of attitude!
Designer : Djordje Zivanovic
