Photobioreactors

Text: Jan Wurm / Project: Arup

Arup’s Materials Consulting and Building Physics Team in Berlin developed a façade system for integrating flat panel Photobioreactors (PBR) as external shading devices. The key innovation is the development of a multi-functional façade component and its full integration into the energy concept and the services design of an energy efficient building.

Invisible infrastructure

Text: Cosmin Caciuc / Photo: Jet-Vill

Jet-Ville Company in Hungary turns transformer stations invisible, with the help of underground electrical and telecom systems, releasing the urban landscape from those embarrassing and dangerous vicinities of technical annexes.

The Hub Bucharest

Text: Cosmin Caciuc, Dragos Scurtulescu / Design: Dragos Scurtulescu / Photo: Tiberiu Minzu

Designing smart affordable offices as a response to recent global challenges: The Hub Bucharest offers an integrated model of a breaking social collaboration in our country. It is a network of co-working offices founded in London, in 2005, and now successfully extended worldwide. In Romania, there are initiatives based on workspace rentals. However, The Hub provides a long-range integrated concept and three basic principles: a creative space, smart communication and professional content.

Backtalk

Text / Photos: MIT SENSEable City Lab

Backtalk literally shows the world through the lens of obsolte devices, mapping by geolocation the space of electronic waste, cassation and recycling of outdated electronic devices.

TrashTrack
Text / Photos: MIT SENSEable City Lab

Elaborated by the SENSEable City Lab, TrashTrack uses hundreds of small, smart, location aware tags, revealing the final journey of our everyday objects in a series of real time visualizations.

MatchingMarkets

Text: MIT SENSEable City Lab / Illustratiions: Jennifer Dunnam

As cities continue to grow in size and complexity with urban populations increasingly connected and mobile, there arises an opportunity to re-examine food distribution strategies and design the farmer’s market in a way that improves efficiency by enhancing communication between producers and consumers.
 

The Cophenhagen Wheel

Text: MIT SENSEable City / Photo: Max Tomasinelli

“The Copenhagen Wheel” is not only an engineering reinvention of the bicycle wheel, but it moreover involves new city cartographies and new forms of public interaction in the social networks.

MIT SENSEable City Lab & BMW Guggenheim Lab la Berlin

Intro: Cosmin Caciuc / Texts & projects: MIT SENSEable City Lab

The smart monitoring of public space is part of the cognitive mapping culture of urban space based on the research of Kevin Lynch, a town-planner from the ‘50-‘60s (essential for the academic tradition of MIT). Since now we have much more sophisticated environment data survey, interpretation and communication means, cartography can be developed in the much more complex context of urban information. Electronic sensors have become an extension of the observer, allowing for new insights into the way people come to appropriate or not the space they use. The permanent collection of data represents a first step in the more serious process of rethinking the city and taking decisions in order to transform public space.

The ghost city

Text: Cosmin Caciuc / Illustrations: Pegasus Global Holdings LLC

CITE – Center for Innovation, Testing and Evaluation is built in New Mexico, USA, reproducing at a scale of 1/1 a whole human settlement, but without its inhabitants.
 

BMW Guggenheim Lab in Berlin

Text: Cosmin Caciuc, Cosmina Goagea

After the BMW Guggenheim Lab New York cultural project was launched in New York last summer, the mobile lab came to Berlin where it ran from 15 June to 29 July. The open-air pavilion designed by Atelier Bow-Wow is hosted in one of the inner courtyards of a former 19th century beer factory: the Pfefferberg complex in the Prenzlauer Berg district.

Calup invites you to Caimatei 10 exhibit- party to experience three floors of installations, visual art and party in the darkness, through a game of light and sound. 

Taking the totalitarian city for a walk

An integrated platform with Google Maps, to help overlap the scaled plan of the 80s totalitarian operation “the Victory of Socialism” over a city you pick  (jumping from megalopolises to idyllic towns is truly something). A small bulldozer helps walk the unwanted guest anywhere on the territory of the selected town.

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Back to chaos

Text: Stefan Ghenciulescu

Two recent events leave us with a bitter taste regarding the situation and the perspectives of the Romanian urban realm. First, we have a new and sinister law for urbanism. (...)  Besides that, we have the authorities finally gave their blessing to the removal (actually, the destruction) of the protected Matache Market hall.

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CBT Mark 1: Cardboard bike

Izhar Gafni, an Israeli expert in the design of automated mass production lines discovered after years of research an opportunity to increase the structural performance of corrugated banal cardboard (usually used only in packaging) to make bicycles. Based on a mixture of organic materials (protected by international patents) combined with rubber reinforcement from recycled car tires, cardboard acquired an almost miraculous resistance to water and fire.

The Mission

The mission – is a project initiated by Eurodite and part of the DISC (Dutch Initiative for Sustainable Cities) activities. The top Romanian delegation met Vice Mayors and members of other ministries, their peers, and learned about projects already carried out and a way to manage. The mission worked out in these three days the targets of DISC platform, made to provide Dutch support to Romanian cities and their effort to build up initiatives meant to revive urban regions and areas ignored so far.

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Calup invites you to Caimatei 10 exhibit- party to experience three floors of installations, visual art and party in the darkness, through a game of light and sound.