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Weekly Photography Challenge – Spiral Staircases

14 May

Fibonacci sequence, the golden mean, the golden ratio – a series of numbers recognized and named after an Italian mathematician. If you look around it’s everywhere, in nature and man-made things.

Mark Strozier

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Roger Jones

By Roger Jones

In this week’s challenge we’re going to concentrate on the latter, specifically spiral staircases.

Weekly Photography Challenge – Spiral Staircases

As you go about your daily life be on the lookout for spiral staircases. Got an appointment – take the stairs instead of the elevator and see what you can find. Look in historic buildings, museums, churches, on fire escapes, industrial buildings, and architecturally interesting structures.

Cleber Mori

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Mack444

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Cornelli2010

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Read: Divine Composition With Fibonacci’s Ratio (The Rule of Thirds on Steroids)

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Simply upload your shot into the comment field (look for the little camera icon in the Disqus comments section) and they’ll get embedded for us all to see or if you’d prefer upload them to your favourite photo sharing site and leave the link to them. Show me your best images in this week’s challenge. Sometimes it takes a while for an image to appear so be patient and try not to post the same image twice.

Vincent Ferron

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If you can’t find one – build your own!

Katie Walker

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32 Dizzying Images of Spiral Staircases

13 May

Composition is an important part of photography. You may have heard of the Rule of Thirds, or even the Fibonacci sequence (aka the golden mean). It is something that appears in nature often (think spiral sea shells) and which man imitates almost instinctively.

Check out some of these images of grand spiral staircases and see if you can’t see similarities. The symmetry, and unique properties, the math!

Howard Ignatius

By Howard Ignatius

Christopher Chan

By Christopher Chan

Shawn Harquail

By Shawn Harquail

Don McCullough

By Don McCullough

Riccardo Cuppini

By Riccardo Cuppini

Capture99

By Capture99

János Korom Dr.

By János Korom Dr.

Thomas Hawk

By Thomas Hawk

Jeremy Brooks

By Jeremy Brooks

Roger Jones

By Roger Jones

Frank Kehren

By Frank Kehren

Robin Jaffray

By Robin Jaffray

Artur Salisz

By Artur Salisz

Simon Holliday

By Simon Holliday

Gert Swillens

By Gert Swillens

VanessaC (EY)

By VanessaC (EY)

ReflectedSerendipity

By ReflectedSerendipity

Craig Wilkinson

By Craig Wilkinson

Freaktography

By Freaktography

Timothy Neesam

By Timothy Neesam

Garen M.

By Garen M.

Scott Schiller

By Scott Schiller

Jeff Oliver

By Jeff Oliver

Dustin Gaffke

By Dustin Gaffke

Gabriel Caparó

By Gabriel Caparó

Thomas Hawk

By Thomas Hawk

Bernd Thaller

By Bernd Thaller

Lhongchou's Photography

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Jeremy Brooks

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Kosala Bandara

By Kosala Bandara

Pim Stouten

By Pim Stouten

Thomas Hawk

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Branch Up: Modular Spiral Staircase Wraps Trees for Climbing

01 Jul

[ By WebUrbanist in Design & Fixtures & Interiors. ]

canopy tree staircase addition

Providing an elegant, robust, accessible and tree-friendly alternative to ladders or branches for climbing trunks, this spiral step solution lets you scale trees without harming them.

canopy spiral staircase desgin

Developed by Thor ter Kulve and Robert McIntyre, the CanopyStair uses lightweight birch plywood, adjustable ratchet straps for leveling on uneven trunks and neoprene padding for soft contact points with the tree itself.

canopy stairs from above

As the creators of this system point out, tree canopies are some of the least-explored places on Earth, in some ways as mysterious as the deep oceans or outer space.

canopy steps from below

canopy steps closeup

The design was inspired in part by a stay off the coast of Portugal in a place with high walls blocking views. The designers found themselves turned into tree climbers in an effort to get a better look at the surrounding vista, then trying to figure out a way to take that approach to the next level, so to speak.

tree canopy staircase context

A curved top tread, wooden poles and plastic guidelines all help make the experience smooth and straightforward, letting those who may not normally be able to scale trees still climb them. The team also consulted arboriculturalists to make sure their approach would not damage or harm the trees being employed. The system takes a few hours to set up and as little as 30 minutes to deconstruct.

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Seabed City: Chinese Company Designs Underwater Ocean Spiral

01 Dec

[ By WebUrbanist in Conceptual & Futuristic & Technology. ]

ocean city side view

Slated to cost over $ 25 billion and take 5 years to complete, this incredible proposal starts a with a living sphere that spans over 1,500 feet below the surface of the ocean.

ocean city surface view

ocean city spherical center

Designed by the Shimizu Corp’s, the spherical portion of the so-called Ocean Spiral forms a residential and commercial core from which a winding path spirals 9 further miles into the deep, ultimately terminating at the ocean floor.

ocean city sketchi dea

ocean spiral earth factory

Occupants would live and work both in triangular neighborhoods along the periphery as well as within a tapering, hourglass-shaped, skyscraper-like segment stretching up from the bottom to the top of the sphere’s center.

ocean city section diagram

ocean city core rendering

The ‘Earth Factory’ portion of the project below is set to use generate eco-friendly energy from temperature differentials and organically-driven chemical conversion processes.

ocean spiral underwater city

ocean spiral concept drawings copy

ocean thumbnail

For anyone wondering just when they can expect this marvel to materialize: its would-be creators concede the technology is just not in place yet to make it a reality, but hope and presume it will be soon.

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Spiral Architecture: 12 Swirling Building & Bridge Designs

06 Feb

[ By Steph in Architecture & Offices & Commercial. ]

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Ubiquitous in nature and mathematics, spirals are beautiful to look at and provide a structure that’s strong and stable, so it’s no surprise that they turn up so often in architecture, too. Spiraling forms offer uninterrupted panoramas on observation towers, remove the obstacles of walls and floors in a creative interior, and enable unusual stacked configurations of living spaces in skyscrapers.

Evolver by Alice Studio

Spiral Architecture Evolver

The spiraling viewing platform in Zermatt, Switzerland by Alice Studio fuses beautiful design with a function that enables uninterrupted panoramas of the surrounding landscape. It was constructed by a group of students from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and is made up of 24 wooden frames, with a tubular path offering a continuous 720-degree route to the top.

Arganzuela Footbridge

Spiral Architecture Arganzuela

A spiraling footbridge in Madrid’s Parque de la Arganzuela by Dominique Perrault Architecture links neighborhoods on the right and left banks of the Manzanares River, opening up in the center to allow access to a new urban green space. Built for both pedestrians and cyclists, the bridge is made up of two interlocking metal spirals ‘wrapped by a metallic ribbon.’

Mobius Buddhist Temple

Spiral Architecture Buddhist 2

Spiral Architecture buddhist 1

Based on a mobius strip, this Buddhist temple in Taichang, China integrates visual symbolism representing reincarnation with the basic design of the architecture interpreted as a path. Digital design and fabrication techniques enabled a building in which the entire shape is made up of two intertwined spirals, an ‘unstable’ configuration that places the beginning and ending of the worshipper’s path at the same point.

Mangal City Spiraling Skyscraper Pod

Spiral Architecture  Mangal City

Envisioned as an ‘urban ecological system,’ Mangal City is a concept that explores spiraling towers made up of individual pods. taking its design cues from systems in nature, such as mangrove roots. Of the project, Chimera says “The mangrove plant and its collective the mangal, provide examples of social associative principles as well as structural capacities and hybrid responses to environmental and contextual conditions.”

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Living Staircase: Spiral Stairs Wrapped in Organic Greenery

21 Nov

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living stairs viewing platform

Boldly curved and cantilevered into midair, these plant-wrapped stairs are designed to provide more than just a means of moving from one floor to another.

living steps atrium view

Stepping onto them takes occupants temporarily away from concrete floors and columns, then into and through a unique miniature ecosystem of warm and living materials.

living staircase concrete floors

This staircase by Paul Cocksedge for the Ampersand building in London is punctuated by platforms overlooking a central atrium.

living steps top floor

These circular areas act as impromptu self-contained break and gathering spaces removed from the bustle of each main office floor.

living hand rail supports

Standing out not just physically but also materially, the lively-grained wooden curves are bedecked with thin stem-like strands of white metal. In turn, these support planters that supplant the role of traditional hand rails while still providing physical and psychological safety and support.

living stairs axon drawing

Each set of stairs is supported by the floors themselves, thus rendered structurally independent of a more ordinary central-column approach.

living steps design diagram

living steps upper level

Further interactivity is woven into the biological side of the design in the form of herbs that employees can nurture, grow and ultimately pluck from the rails, facilitating a sort of in-office garden and adding a bit of mint to their tea or spice to their lunch.

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Spiral Out of Control: Guggenheim Museum Extension Idea

25 Feb

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guggenheim addition

The Guggenheim Museum in New York may be the most iconic work of American architect Frank Lloyd Wright – as such, any addition to it will invariably be the center of much debate … but this one (despite being more concept than call for change) could stir more discussion than most.

guggenheim artistic extension concept

A typical disjunctive approach to adding to or around classic architecture would involve setting the new elements apart from the old, to make the distinction clear. This conjunctive one by OIIO Architecture embraces the existing form, and builds dramatically upon it.

guggenheim floor plan addition

The design involves tripling the existing floor space by winding the outward-wrapping spiral that forms of gallery core up even higher and wider. The existing roof would be removed and re-added to the new top.

guggenheim current versus proposed

Critics will be quick to point out that though the form is maintained, the proportions are thrown for a loop, so to speak – and tapers the inner cone down to a small point. For all kinds of reasons, it is unlikely such a proposal would ever make its way into reality – still, as an experiment, it is quite beautiful.

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Godsmack – Spiral

30 Oct

nasa 3d space and planetary animation with “Spiral”(Acoustic) a song by Godsmack.
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3D Video Spiral – Stereo 3D After Effects Tutorial PART 2

14 Jul

3D Video Spiral – Stereo 3D After Effects Tutorial PART 2 In this tutorial Enhanced Dimensions’ Andrew Murchie introduces you to the technique of creating stereoscopic 3D images and animation using Adobe After Effects and displacement maps. The videos can then be deployed as Anaglyph (Red-Blue glasses) and YouTube side-by-side yt3d formats. The source files for this project are available to download from www.enhanced-dimensions.com Get your FREE Stereoscopic 3D Birthday Cards, Desktops and other 3D goodies now from enhanced-dimensions.com/wordpress For more info on Enhanced Dimensions: Contact us on 3d@enhanced-dimensions.com Visit our website enhanced-dimensions.com/wordpress Built and tested in Adobe After Effects.
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