Monday, August 1, 2011

Futuristic Concept Bike Designs

The Suzuki G-Strider was first seen during the 2003 Tokyo Motorshow. This concept motorbike is best described as half scooter half cruiser motorcycle as it shares atributes with both


The Renovatio concept motorbike from Confederate Motorcycles based in America is a radical concept bike designed by Confederate’s lead designer Ed Jacobs. It is extremely minimalistic with all the mechanical elements of the bike on show.




The Yamaha Tesseract Concept Bike was unveiled at the Yamaha 2008 Tokyo Auto Show. Yamaha has made this concept a hybrid, boasting both a V-Twin engine of undisclosed size along with an electric motor.

Thursday, December 30, 2010

Facebook’s New Cool Office!




Studio o+a was responsible for redesigning Facebook’s new 150,000-square-foot office at Palo Alto, California, USA. During the design process, the design firm consulted employees to find out their expectations about the work environment and they designed the space for each department with a different twist. There is another interesting point here. Some of the walls have been left white and some places look as though they still might need some work. According to Facebook employee Everett Katigbak, this has been done on purpose as he notes on his blog:

The Dream House





This could give the Iron Man’s house a run for its money. Approximately 40 miles north of Auckland, New Zealand is the perfect perch for a proposed dream house. Though only an architectural visualization at this point, this is the kind of house you would normally expect a Bond movie villain to own!

Mahina, Maori for moon, designed by Weber Consulting was originally slated to be placed on the relatively uninhabited Kawau Island. However the island’s residents are torn over whether or not to allow it to be built. The controversy has led to international interest, and according to the New Zealand Herald News, the official website for the Mahina says that the moon-shaped house can be built anywhere on the planet.

The website literature states, “A predominantly modern residence with a ‘Bondesque’ suggestion of times past; the glamorous age of martinis and tuxedos.”

“Dispel the misconception that white is starck (sic) or austere. Here it is lavish, sumptuous, opulent.”

The house is 827 square feet and is set to have a plant room, deck, swimming pool and “thermal mass” to regulate internal temperatures.

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

the most beautiful botanical gardens in the world.




10. Versailles, France

Versailles Garden in France is 101 hectares garden that riddled with paths that lead to flower beds, quiet corners decorated with classical statuary, ornamental lakes.

Monday, January 25, 2010

Gyratory Urban Agency , United States









‘Structure’ implies the flow of forces, and forces affect to the movement of people and vice versa. The helix shape of structure keeps the continuity of flow of space where people occupy. The combined loop with gentle-slope art gallery and stairway allows two-way flows of access. The building has several duplicated moments where the movement could ‘intersect’ and ‘intervene’ in order to give the opportunity to transfer directions both in physical movement and programmatic configuration. The basic assignment of program is based on the helix structure, which is docking on the core of the helix in accordance with the viewers circulation, likewise the splitting gesture of blending solid and void, program extends from the basic structure of helix. Moreover the interior net structure which supports the cantilever helix provides the flexibility in floor usage, moreover in intersection between spaces. The basic response to the urban context is initiated from the concept of direction of force. The each flank of the building has the direct contact to the street, so helical shape provides the open space periodically towards both orientations to the streets. The second thing what this drawing center has relationship with the context is ‘platform’ between the gallery loops, this complex points of crossing passages are obviously extended to the city, also two intersections are heading to the main and second approaches. The situation of the site that is squeezed in regular urban blocks which affects to shape the relation with the existing building on north side, so that the new emerging building with extending manner that deals with the existing wall and the ground prevents from being remained the building either isolated or alienated in the urban fabric, rather encourages the cultural building to be intertwined and correlated in the urban context through both programmatic allocation and formal intervention to the city.



Special thanks ____Hyunchang Cho

Sunday, January 24, 2010

rethinking courtyeard







The contemporary urban residences of Dhaka City is said to be the outcome of a series of “transformation” and “adaptation” that are still continuous. Various urban forces generated at different times and in phases, have over the years played an important role in shaping up the urban residences. The beginning of urbanization started with the migration of rural people. Even today many people in cities have rural roots and there is thus the continuity of many rural behavioral and cultural patterns in the urban context. The similarity in layout and use of space between the rural homestead and urban apartments is an example of that. The element which is inseparable from both the context is “the courtyard” which has undergone transformation from the beginning of urbanization, till now. Up till a few decades back the ‘courtyard’ was reduced to a ‘court’ due to limitation of land and an increasing demand to provide accommodation for the ever increasing population. As a result, the space was losing its essence, its purpose- socially, climatically and physically. Thus an attempt was made to revive its features by introducing another phase of transformation that this may have undergone- its free-flowing characteristics i.e. the outdoor becoming the indoor, its linkages with the surrounding landscape, spaces, a living space where the family members can interact with each other at leisure with neighbors as well as among themselves. At present, since all the residential buildings are multi-storied so the vertical relationship along with the horizontal relationship, the semiotic and not to mention the climatic aspects were taken in to consideration

design by _rabeya rahman ....

eye hospital_rafiq azam.

special thanks to _RAFIQ AZAM.