Expandable summer cabin. When Maartje Lammers and Boris Zeisser, principals of the Rotterdam-based practice 24H Architecture,
bought an 18th-century fisherman's cottage in Sweden, they were told
that, because of local bylaws, they could only extend the cabin by 30
square metres, to prevent over-development in a sensitive area. So they
built an "accordion" house that
grows in summer and retreats into its shell in winter. They designed a
320-square-foot addition to house the dining area, kitchen, and living
area. One end of the addition's shell is constructed like a matchbox,
with a drawer that slides in and out.
The original cabin is the bedroom, and the turtle-like extension can
be expanded using pulleys and a retracting steel frame mounted on
roller-bearings, so that the living room is projected over the stream
without breaking building laws because this part of the house has no
foundations and stands clear of the ground.
When the family returns south in the winter, they pull the head back in.
Via The Guardian. [we make money not art]
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Yahoo!
has licensed their name to a company called Diamond Electronics to
produce these rather ghastly bits of co-branded consumer
electronics[~]two home theater systems and three DVD players. On the
upside, most of the products are very cheap[~]on the downside, most of
the products look like they were designed by someone who spent their
entire life watching a black-and-white version of Yellow Submarine.
It's high-falootin' brand dilution! My money says that Google will not
be answering Yahoo!'s foray into consumer electronics with products of
their own.
