[p2p-research] open structures

[Michel Bauwens]

thanks eric!

On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 4:01 AM, Eric Hunting <erichunting at gmail.com> wrote:

> Open Structures is a design group similar in nature to N55 in Denmark (
> http://www.n55.dk/), though not quite yet dealing in as sophisticated a
> level of fabrication. (N55 has recently gotten into some major engineering
> with things like their walking house concept) It's one of a series of
> programs of the Intrastructures design studio. (
> http://www.intrastructures.net/Intrastructures/Concepts.html) They seem to
> be somewhat influenced by the work of Ken Isaacs, some of the old Urban
> Nomad scratch-built furniture, as well as Box Beam. Their blog has
> references to all of these. They have some similar ideas to the Cube Spawn
> program, though I believe their program is older, and they are focused more
> on the low-tech domestic application of modular systems. They have basically
> set out a modular furniture standard with potential to build into a simple
> housing system -and are focused more on its geometric standards than any
> particular building system. They seem to have been experimenting with a
> number of them, though haven't yet discovered T-slot profile or some of the
> more high-tech building systems. There's more on that on the blog than on
> their main web site which isn't maintained as often. They are doing a lot of
> fun experiments and there's much of Maker interest with their projects. I
> also like the EBOY style graphics some of their artists are using.
>
> Eric Hunting
> erichunting at gmail.com
>
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> On Mar 18, 2010, at 11:42 PM, Michel Bauwens wrote:
>
> > hi chris, it's in the wiki, but I have few details,
> >
> > eric hunting is our architecture expert, he should know more,
> >
> > Michel
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 4:44 AM, chris at cataspanglish.com <
> chris at cataspanglish.com> wrote:
> > Hi Michel,
> >
> > do you know this project?
> > http://openstructures.net/pages/2#vraag-1a
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> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Chris
> >
> > Chris Pinchen
> > http://cataspanglish.com
> > http://twitter.com/cataspanglish
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