Casa Tecnológica

La casa tecnológica tiene como función general el facilitar la vida diaria de los habitantes.

Dentro de la arquitectura el facilitar la vida de las personas es algo en lo que se busca mejorar e innovar ya que es lo que la gente busca conforme pasa el tiempo.

Junto con la tecnología se pueden crear estructuras inteligentes y tecnológicas que faciliten todo el manejo de una habitación hasta el de una casa.

La arquitectura siempre ha buscado maneras de innovar utilizando los avances tecnológicos que se van presentando cada día por lo que este tema de una casa tecnológica se encuentra directamente relacionado con la arquitectura moderna.

Arquitectura del Siglo XX

Este artículo trata sobre la arquitectura del sigloo XX que define como una arquitectura dominada por el funcionalismo la cual no trata sobre un movimiento artístico, sino de un movimiento racionalista. Se define con la frase de Louis Sullivan: "La forma siempre sigue a la función."

La forma se se basa en los volúmenes fundamentales que son el cubo, el cilindro, el cono y la esfera, de la forma logística por encima de la evasión ornamental.

La escuela de Bauhaus desarrollo el funcionalismo vinculándolo a una estética al mismo tiempo. Se puede decir que debemos la arquitectura y el diseño del siglo XX a los diseños por parte de Bauhaus.

AC/DC

Electric Charge: A form of charge, positive, negative or zero that make up all known matter.
Electric Circuit: electric device that provides a path for electrical current to flow.
Voltage: representation of the electric potential energy per unit charge.
Power: the energy or motive force by which a physical machine is operated.
Types of voltage Sources:
*DC: voltage source that has a constant voltage across its terminal. EX:batteries
*AC: voltage source that has voltage across its output the shape of sine wave with constant amplitudes. EX: AC generator.
Protoboard: is a construction base for an electronic circuit, a prototype.
Ohm's Law: states that the current through a conductor between two points is directly proportional to the potential difference or voltage across the two points and inversely proportional to the resistance between them, provided that the temperature remains constant.

Arqui

I decided to study this career because it includes all the subjects that I like, it also includes the need of creativity and the ability to draw, which are both part of what I got.
Arquitecture is a complex career but I like it because of that, by being complex it teach us a lot of new concepts that prepare us in a better way and make this career a complete one.

Chair design

Pre-Production Design

· Presentation: The design I decided to accomplish is with furniture, most specific with a chair.

We all know that chairs are rarely comfortable for people, everyone have different manners of feeling comfort, so each chair would have to be comfortable for each of us and that is difficult cause we all are different. The answer for this dilemma comes along with this chair, a chair not made in a position that adjusts to the human back; it comes with no position but the position that you want it to have.

· Design: This chair is made up of two materials: rubber and plastic. Why rubber? The rubber is a manageable material which can adjust the way you want but it also is strong and resistant. The idea of this material is that it would cover the part of the chair were the back goes, so you can adjust it the way you like it.

The plastic would cover the part of the chair in where you sit, so the chair would be completely resistant and soft.

· Analysis: The goal of this project would be reaching the comfort of the people that prove this design and this design would be used by everybody because it can be managed by the people the way they want.

· Research: In the market there are a lot of chairs made up for human health, for solving back problems (http://www.healthyback.com/). A few examples are the ¨Tempur Pedic¨, ¨Herman Miller¨, ¨Human Touch¨ and more. The difference from this chair and the previously presented is that none of these chairs can adjust the way people want, they are sold in a way already established and all of them are made in a certain model.

· Specification: The requirements for this design to work out are principally the medical ones. Designs made for the human health and comfort must be proved by medical associations that approve this kind of products and that eliminate the ones that don’t have benefits for the people’s health and approve that ones that are good for people and that really work and accomplish what they propose.

· Problem Solving: The problem here is the back problems, most of the people of all ages suffer these problems and not all of the chair models are healthy or helpful for people suffering this problem, so the answer here is the adjustable chair that can be manageable in any way the people want, until they feel comfortable and good. This chair can be used by children, pregnant women and people of the third age so there is no danger when using this type of product, cause it is made up for you to make it the way you wish.

Design

*Dresses

*Lamps

*Shoes

*Hats

*Hand bag

This are the areas that I am interested on for designing a new product.

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Concentration Camps, Auswitch

The remains from the concentration camps in Auswitch make an impression on me because of the lives from the jews that were living in the deplorable conditions in the camps. In the remains of such a terrible place, the impression is big and also makes me want to know more about the story of the concentration camps and the people that die there.

Solar Umbrella House

This house at Venice California is an intelligetn construction that helps a lot the environment and provides also economic solutions for diferent climates.
The house was inspired by Paul Rudolph's Umbrella House of 1953 that provides thermal protection to climates with extense exposures.
The house has panels that protect the body of the building from thermal heat. Instead of deflecting sunlight, this solar skin absorbs and transforms this resource into useable energy providing the residence 100% of its electricity.
This kind of skin that tranforms the thermal heat form the sun into energy is a helpful way of taking care of the environment by reducing the use of electricity and toxic wastes from artificial heaters.
The projects that are similar to this one are the ones that would be used and needed by future generations, so right now we have to innovate in our ideas and transform them into ideas that not also help people, but also help the environment and our health.

Taiyuan Museum of Art

The museum's design is a respond to modern technologies for the control of both artificial and natural light. The building's forms create ample opportunities for exploring the relationship of light and shade and the architecs employ multiple strategies to coreograph the interplay. In doing so, they generate a form that flies in the face of conventions of museum designs that promises to redefine the visitor experience.

The building's dynamic footprint creates vignettes so that a visitor in one gallery can look to another and into a exterior green space simultaneously.

Pabellón inflable en Washington

Richard Koshalekent entró como nuevo director del Museo y Jardín de Esculturas Hirshhorn de Washington.
El nuevo director se planteó el reto de atraer público y despertar su interés por el arte para poder hace frente a una crisis que ha pegado a las instituciones museísticas en los Estados Unidos.
Para esto ha creado un burbuja de más de 50 metros de altura que fue diseñada por el neoyorquino Diller Scodfidio.
El proyecto costará cinco millones de dólares y se instalará dos veces al año, en mayo y octubre, y dará al museo un programa más accesible a todos los públicos.
Contará con un auditorio para mil personas en la zona central y la instalación ofrecerá una gran variedad de eventos de carácter artístico y educativo.

Robot Commands

paintWhite()

forward(2)

right()

backward(2)

left()

backward(2)

backward(2)

right()

backward(2)

left()

backward(2)

stopPainting()

paintBlack()

forward(3)

right()

forward(4)

right()

backward(2)

Poka-Yoke

The term Poka-Yoke is a japanese term that means fail-safing or mistake-proofing.

This term is any mechanism in Lean Manifacturing process that helps an equipment operator to avoid mistakes.

This concept was formalized by Shingeo Shingo in 1960, as a part of the Toyota Production System and it was described as fool-proofing.

Later, the fool-proofing concept was changed to mistake-proofing by the complain of a worker.

An exmaple of a Poka-Yoke is the car key, which you can't remove from the switch until the transmission is on Park position.

Another example are the usb's memories, which have only one mode to connect to the computer.

Burj Dubai inauguration

The Burj Dubai tower is considered the tallest tower in the world, measuring 828mts of height and being visible from a distance of 95kms.

This tower was inaugurated the past January the 4th after five years of construction.

This article mentioned the economical problems that Dubai faced the past years, almost to the point of the financial crisis. Dubai has got into debt to build great projects, as this tower, and right nowDubai is facing a crisis in the real-estate sector.

Adrian Smith is the one that designed this project, as he said, he was inspired by a desert flower and his project was designed to be the tallest tower in the world, and it has accomplished this goal.

Preventive announcements

In all companies we know we can see some big announcements in bright colors...well this announcements are there to order something like a way of dressing for preventing accidents.

This announcement shown here represents the need to wear a dressing-gown, glasses and rubber boots, for the protection of the workers.

I show this announcement to a friend, and what he told me was that the announcement was very clear of what is needed to wear and it is also very showy so all can notice it.

3S's

Sort, set, sweep.
My room is a complete mess, in there I keep stuff that I don't use anymore like my ex's gifts and exams from first year of highschool and so on...here are the 3 S "process" to follow for cleaning an specific area and that is used for lean manufacturing.

*Sort: I must throw away and recycle all the papers that I don't use anymore and clear the spaces that are full of them to using them in a better way.
*Set: In this step, I must find a place for each thing I wan to organize, for example a place for reusable papers and notebooks, a place for books, a place for personal stuff etc.
*Sweep: In this step all the things that I would not use anymore would have to be thrown away directly to the trash and the mess will go away.

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