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In this edition:
May Community Snapshot
Architecture Of The Future: DesignMind Explores Ideas That May
Change The World
The importance of sustainability has become paramount. Conscious
that natural resources are rapidly diminishing- humans are
predominantly more aware of our effects on the environment and the
need to preserve it. The relationship between nature and
architecture is one of re-construction, a balance – and architects
carry enormous responsibility to achieve these crucial
objectives.
Online Networking To Connect Southern Africa’s Construction
Industry.
www.BuildMind.net, a
newly launched online business network, now puts everyone in
Southern Africa’s construction industry in one room –
virtually.
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Member Spotlight
NCS Colour Course winners
DesignMind and KBB Design Magazine would like to congratulate our
NCS Colour Course winners! Jessica Harrisberg and Michelle Fourie
have won an NCS Colour Course to the value of R1600!
Jessica Harrisberg
Jessica Harrisberg is an interior design student from Greenside
DesignCentre. You can read more about her on her profile
here.
Michelle Fourie
Michelle Fourie is a student from Greenside DesignCentre. You can
read more about her on her profile
here.
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DesignMind investigates Gautrain design
DesignMind investigate the design philosophies behind the Gautrain
this month! Interested to find out how the Gautrain uses South
African design? Read about it here and don’t forget to give us your
feedback
here!
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Members! Are you busy with, or do you have completed projects
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world! Or, perhaps there are some thorny, controversial issues
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Please mail us your thoughts - positive and negative, encouraging
or outrageous to our team on info@designmind.co.za and we'll work
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To all our valued DesignMind members
The winter chill is setting in- but things on DesignMind have been
heating up this May! We are proud to announce that we are now a
community of 4300 members – with 41 new members this week!
Our photo
collection is growing steadily. Elmo Swart has posted the
most photo’s this month – thanks Elmo! The photo of the Peter
Mokaba Stadium was our most viewed photo in May.
DesignMind has a collection of helpful videos – the
Master Bed is the most popular video to date and Revit Architecture
was our main contributor to the Video Library this month. We now
have 81 freely available videos for you to watch.
Our podcasts can keep you up to date on the latest industry news –
our most popular podcast is Architecture Talk.
The DesignMind forum
has been exceptionally busy this month, with a range of topics
being discussed and debated in our Marketplace. We have 535
different forum topics – go and have your say here.
Blogs
on DesignMind are a way for members to voice opinion, a place where
news can be reported and discussed and a way for you to keep up
with the latest trends and technologies. DesignMind now has a
comprehensive collection of 411 blog posts. Our most popular blog
post to date is The Invitation To SACAP. Go and browse the May 2009
DesignMind blogs here.
Do you have a special architectural interest? Do you want to learn
more about a specific niche or topic? Would you like to network
with likeminded individuals? Join one of our Groups on
DesignMind – browse them here. We now have
62 Groups – the most popular group is Photorealistic Rendering.
Still not a member of DesignMind? Don’t miss out! Go to www.DesignMind.co.za
and join the community of thousands!
Nicole
Hijbeek and the DesignMind team.
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Online Networking To Connect Southern Africa’s Construction
Industry.
www.BuildMind.net,
a newly launched online business network, now puts everyone in
Southern Africa’s construction industry in one room – virtually.
Powered by The Virtual
Works and award-winning Web 2.0 technology, BuildMind
offers material suppliers, specification professionals, developers
and contractors a quick, easy and low cost way to network,
communicate, source opportunities- and share information and
knowledge with industry stakeholders across SADAC territories.
BuildMind, will incorporate DesignMind, the well established design
and specification professional's network - giving BuildMind members
an immediate ability to interact with thousands of design and
specification professionals that already interact daily on the
DesignMind network. DesignMind members - go and sign up for
BuildMind now and don't miss out!
BuildMind, free to individuals in any construction sector, gives
each member the on-line tools that make it easy to:
• Create and self- manage a personal profile.
• Form and interact with customer and supplier networks.
• Share and source opportunities, opinions, information, news and
events.
• Find products, services and resources.
• Collaborate in industry groups and forums.
• Recruit.
Given that the toughening market conditions are forcing most
construction industry businesses to find more innovative and
efficient ways to market and operate, the BuildMind network launch
comes at the right time. To sign-up go to www.buildmind.net
BuildMind is another brainchild of The Virtual
Works, a Technology Top 100 accredited firm specializing in
the supply and management of community engagement systems and
programmes. The Virtual Works is an Innovator of the Year
finalist.
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Architecture Of The Future: DesignMind Explores Ideas That May
Change The World
The importance of sustainability has become paramount. Conscious
that natural resources are rapidly diminishing- humans are
predominantly more aware of our effects on the environment and the
need to preserve it. The relationship between nature and
architecture is one of re-construction, a balance – and architects
carry enormous responsibility to achieve these crucial objectives.
There are some who are preparing for the future, who are
calculating our needs in years to come and have conceptualised and
designed the future of architecture. DesignMind uncovers some of
these forward-thinking architectural ideas and shares with you the
possible architecture of the future.
When The Tides Begin To Rise: The Lilypad By Vincent
Callebaut
One of the major disasters we face is the rising of the sea level.
Global warming is slowly melting ice caps around the globe and
unlike ice in a glass of water – our sea level is rising. New
research shows that by the year 2100 the sea level rise could be up
by more than 1m. This will result in displacement of people, and
destruction of coastal regions.
 Vincent Callebaut has devised a plan to address
housing the inevitable tide of displaced people as Oceans begin to
swell – The Lilypad. His website explains
the concept behind this futuristic floating city:
“It is a true amphibian half aquatic and half terrestrial city,
able to accommodate 50,000 inhabitants and inviting the
biodiversity to develop its fauna and flora around a central lagoon
of soft water collecting and purifying the rain waters. This
artificial lagoon is entirely immersed ballasting thus the city. It
enables to live in the heart of the subaquatic depths. The
multifunctional programming is based on three marinas and three
mountains dedicated respectively to the work, the shops and the
entertainments. The whole set is covered by a stratum of planted
housing in suspended gardens and crossed by a network of streets
and alleyways with organic outline. The goal is to create a
harmonious coexistence of the couple Human / Nature and to explore
new modes of living the sea by building with fluidity collective
spaces in proximity, overwhelming spaces of social inclusion
suitable to the meeting of all the inhabitants – denizen or
foreign-born, recent or old, young or aged people. “
Not only is the Lilypad a zero-emission city – it produces it’s own
energy and can process C02 in the atmosphere, absorbing it into
it’s titanium dioxide skin.
Read the full article here and
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