IK NEWS | IAAKUZA is 86th

Iaakuza gained two positions in the world top blogs about architecture and design. Thanks to visit Iaakuza!

http://www.wikio.com/blogs/top/architecture_and_design?start=80

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iK Green | McDonald's Touts 'Green' Image in Europe

BERLIN - McDonald's will change its logo from red to green to promote a new environment-friendly image in Europe. According to a Chicago Tribune report, about 100 German McDonald’s restaurants will make the change by the end of 2009. The fast-food chain has recently initiated practices such as using environment-friendly refrigeration and converting used oil into biodiesel fuel.

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MADRID—The Cabinet of Spain on Monday passed a law to establish minimum and maximum temperatures for public buildings. Buildings such as shops, bars, airports, cinemas, railway stations and airports cannot be cooled below 26°C (79°F) in summer. During winter, thermostats cannot be set higher than 21°C (70°F). The Economic Sustainability Law is designed to reduce Spain’s reliance on imported energy and to save money.

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IK DRL-DIARY | MY ESSAY IDEA

(IMG | Thecompasspoint.files.wordpress.com)

I haven't done any essay/article writing since last December 2008 while I was working in Bangkok. So right now it's quite awkward when I have to start to write a 3,000-word essay for a seminar class here, ran by Theodore Spyropoulos. My first inspiration came out by watching TED Talk | Bjarke Ingels: 3 warp-speed architecture tales who claims to use a playful approach towards an architectural design. Later on I came up with a bunch of question while I have a fun and suffering starter period for the Workshop I at AA.

'Can play lead us the way to the creativity?'
'Can we gain more idea which is not conventional by play'
'How we control the play in more purposive way?'
'Does BIG - Bjearke Ingels lie about it? or it's just his way of commercial advertisement?'
and Finally, 'How can I have fun for this one and a half year at Drl? Because Life should be beautiful rather than suffocating as Alfonso , my blog editor always said'.

So.. If I have so much pain from the school , it would be nice if I can find the way to enjoy my life more and also finish the homework at the same time :-) Not that bad at all , right?

Let's Play >>>

(IMG | Getty Image by Dariio Mitidieri)

External Source | (1) Serious Play, The Art Design Center Conference 2008, CA (2)TED TALKS | Tim Brown, On Creativity and PLAY

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IK DRL-DIARY | A PICTURE FROM THE BUS

A picture of Grimshaw's office, taken from the bus... on the way to AA...


8:30 is early... if you go back home at 11:30 p.m.

London life: gloomy sky and a lot of things to do.

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IK DRL-DIARY | TESTING TESTING TESTING...

(the concept)

Thanks to all the readers for the nice feeedback we have got until now.
Iaakuza has received many emails from students asking for more details about Architectural Association.
I'll try for sure, though I work really hard, every day (weekend included).
Tuesday is the toughest day in the week cos i have 3 classes of seminar starting since 10 and finishes at 5-6 pm

"The concept of the workshop is the whole is greater than the sum" and a move of the part creates the move of the whole field. My group doesn't want to create a flower, or a decorative skin.. we want a structure.
Here is some testing model of the structure that expands when it gets in contact with water.
It's hard to control the behaviour of the structure but we still have a couple of days before the final presentation.

(testing the structure - initial condition)

(testing the structure)

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