Category Archives: Design

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Bliss Mobile Expedition vehicles – custom steel frame units from 3.5 to 6m in length added to a range of 4×4, 6×6 and 8×8 workhorse utility workhorses with bedroom, toilet, workstations, cooking areas and whatever you’re having yourself added to order.

The units are detachable and can be shipped as container boxes to the wilderness destination of your choice.

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An award-winning, two storey, 4.6m diameter helical staircase designed and built by UK based Webb Yates Engineers and The Stonemasonry Company.

Under construction at a house at Formby, Merseyside, each step of the apparently floating helix (secured by two post-tensioned, 12.9-millimeter steel cables running through the centre of the stairs) is formed from a single block of stone.

MORE: See The Engineering Behind This Floating, Award-Winning Stone Helical Stair (Archdaily)

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Ferrolic: a ferromagnetic fluid clock (still in development) by Zelf Koelman – biomimetic forms driven by an internal system available via a web browser. To wit:

Because the fluid behaves in a unpredictable way, it is possible to give the bodies perceived in the Ferrolic display a strong reference to living creatures. It is this lively hood that enables Ferrolic to show a meaning-full narrative like for instance having the creatures play tag. In addition the natural flow of the material, it can be used to form recognisable shapes and characters. Ferrolic uses these both layers in parallel in order to display scenes and transitions in an poetic, almost dance like, choreographed way.

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