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Hakan Gürsu
Post Disaster Shelter
Friday, 16 February 2024

Shelter Pack

ShelterPack is a flat pack, easy to transport shelter which is 12 square meter and easy to assemble- can be built in just few hours. It can sustain a family of four for months following a disaster. Every unit features 4 single beds, bathroom, fully equipped kitchen, and foldable dining table and storage spaces. Since the system is out of touch with ground, heat loss from the floor and blowing in wind are avoided. With its angle adjustable legs, system can be installed in sloping lands as well.

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Jonathan Rasmussen
Flexible Urinal
Thursday, 15 February 2024

PeeFence

Every year festivals and outdoor events alike are plagued by the intense stench that visitors leave behind when they pass water in the fence as a consequence of lacking toilet facilities. PeeFence is a flexible urinal which is easily set up in great quantities. It consists of a 1 mm tough and lightweight plastic membrane which is foldable for efficient storage and effortless setup. PeeFence is folded on site to establish the trough where the urine can flow and then mounted on fence by only four plastic strips. With PeeFence, it has never been easier to implement sanitation at outdoor events!

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Viktor Puzur
Cloth Hanger
Wednesday, 14 February 2024

Trempel

Cloth hangers "Trempel" are made of recycled materials. Cardboard tubes are very good for manufacturing, often this lightweight material is used as a packaging product. Trempel's main idea - is its ease of fabrication and replication of all used feedstocks. The essential idea of hanger's shaping lies in established angle of a cardboard tube cutting.

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Albert Burzon
Heritage VideoMapping
Tuesday, 13 February 2024

Taüll 1123

The authentic romanesque paintings of Sant Climent de Taüll declared world heritage site by UNESCO are missing from the church that they belong to. The genuine frescoes currenly placed in the MNAC museum are now projected in the apse through a video mapping. The video mapping is a permanent installation inside the church that not only recreates digitally the frescoes through an animation, it also explain the pictoric process that the artist used in the XII B.C century to create the piece.

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Leung Jia Jun
Orange handbag
Monday, 12 February 2024

Cultiver

In the beverage industry, orange peels are disposed at a massive rate. This by-product generated from the process of fruit juice extraction is innately pliable and durable, thus presenting itself as a great leather alternative for handbag. The unique property of orange is that it produced a pleasant aroma. Hence the challenge is to find ways to preserve the material. It was concluded that mechanical dehydration removed all the moisture, and eliminated the process of decomposition. The production process was separated in four main stages – dehydration, cutting, assembling and stitching.

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Guilherme Torres
MELHORAMENTOS COMPANY HEADQUARTERS
Sunday, 11 February 2024

RETROFIT MELHORAMENTOS COMPANY SAO PAULO

Organized around the current central atrium the project aims to reconfigure the entire building respecting it’s structural grid. A rational the study of its structural systems, four hydraulic cores were created to attend all floors. On the ground floor, curved walls and soft ramps protect the interior from the street, creating a smooth transition to a large area open atrium. The Atrium is organized around a water mirror that allows all the functions of the building to communicate in harmony.

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