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Vat Grown Home

By gavin | Published: August 18, 2007
Math and architecture go hand in hand. Scale, proportion and ratio turn into the shapes and spaces we inhabit. The orientation of your home to the sun, lots of math. The stretching & shrinking of the glass windows in your office building, loads of math. Even your stairs, the risers and treads calculated to best [...]
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Visual Learning

By gavin | Published: June 11, 2007
Gong’s post on designcanchange.org reminded me of another project, Visualizing Density. It’s a book, it’s a website, it’s a non-profit. The website requires a registration to see everything. And what will you be seeing? From the book abstract: […] an illustrated manual on planning and designing for “good” density, and a catalog of more than 250 [...]
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