Golfstromen is an Amsterdam-based studio whose focus is conceptual interventions in the city. Their work is so casual, and so temporary, it’s almost not there. The littlest movie theater (one seat), and Space-Inn (two surreal hotel rooms in an abandoned building) show an interest in some of the performance architecture that grew out of the Situationist International group. Their work is refreshingly free of any slickness, recognizable form, or even coherence. Their (tiny) blog, The Pop-Up City , combines these impulses perfectly: it pulls observations and projects from around the internet, and mixes them with some of their own observations. Which itself is intended to be an intervention.
Designer: Golfstromen
WatAir – Dew-Catching Pyramid by Joseph Cory & Eyal Malka
WaterAid and Arup’s drawing water challenge to find new ways to deal with water and sanitation issues has come up with some potentially winning ideas. The winning entry is ‘WatAir’ – a 96m, inverted pyramid array of panels that collects dew from the air and turns it into 48 litres of fresh water per day. Designed by a pair of architects, the implication of their scheme is that it could provide a constant supply of fresh water in polluted and remote areas in just about any climate.
Architect: Joseph Cory & Eyal Malka [ Via: TreeHugger ]
Safe Haven
The Safe Box is a safe haven or shelter intended for children and the older civilians who are caught in the crossfire of a war. It’s a protective shelter that hopes to keep safe the innocent, till they are able to evacuate to a neutral place. The boxes can be air dropped to specific areas and are bullet proof. A better alternate is to stop the war so that such boxes are not required!
Designers: So JaeEi and Lee Jae Hwa
