Comments on: Eco-pods by Howeler + Yoon Architectureand Squared Design Lab

By: trimtab21

trimtab21 — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 01:10:47 +0000

this would make eviction sooooo easy for landlords – just grab the pod and chuck it in the river – bye bye.

By: Bassem S.

Bassem S. — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:51:30 +0000

no disrespect to the people that dont like this idea but… this project is genius it seems like some cities would need this just to keep the air clean. think of all the cars that pass by one intersection a day!! this isn’t just a good design, but also a functional one!! think about it!

B.S.

By: Moll

Moll — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:26:37 +0000

… it’s not a cartoon … it is a real building !..

… it will be a terrible sight i think …

By: yrag

yrag — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:06:34 +0000

I have to be honest, I really like this site and others like it, but I think I’ve learned that since these sites are by their very nature looking for visually compelling content, the site author(s)/editor(s) tend to present works of broad ranges of feasibility with unrealistically equal weight.

My case in point was a studio had done a great number of rather highly rendered and detail images accompanied with impressive text for a proposed project. The effect when viewed on a few different architectural sites was that this studio had really thought the premise through as something of a deeply considered solution of environmentally sound and positive megastructures.

The images were breathtaking, and I was excited by their vision. But the more I looked at the work and did some very rough calculations in my head, I began to realize this thing was insanely more expensive and ecologically damaging than any number of other approaches.

Since the studio’s website was given by one site, I wrote the lead author with my concerns. His response (and I really do appreciate it by the way) was to say I was taking his fun pie-in-the-sky visual fantasy way to seriously— he had never bothered himself with all the considerations that I had raised, and further, that he had never intended for those megastructures to ACTUALLY be built. It was just a blue sky conjectural exercise.

My point here is that the excellence of architectural and 3D rendering software has gotten SO GOOD, and frankly designers and architects are so skilled in writing grandiose proposals prose that it has lead architectural sites and viewers to gobble up (I certainly include myself here) practically anything that’s well rendered and rationalized as practical and doable.

We would do well to apply a grain of salt here since no disclaimers are proffered.

By: archilocus

archilocus — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 07:36:43 +0000

That would probably be the most expensive biofuel ! Building such a complex and technological structure neither seem to match any basic sustainability requirement…
Nor for biofuel nor for public park or any other reason I would reasonably go for such a solution. And I won’t even talk about how few people will climb 20 meters to go to a park smelling like old seafood… Oops too late !
I like very much the idea of requalifying our lovely construction sites hit by recession, but who does seriously think that this is the solution ? At least the architects seem to have had lot of fun doing this one.

By: hassona3d

hassona3d — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 00:03:05 +0000

now this is insane !!!!!!
lool

By: KONG

KONG — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 23:00:13 +0000

The capsule tower was nice and futuristic in the sixties, now it is just retro chic plus biofuel has a bad CO2 rating and the photosynthesis process does not nearly make up for it .

And the whole “nomade” architecture is 90 `s academics chic.

And the name ECO-POD sounds like some bad 2005 students project ( why does everybody have to attach an i or pod to his project isn t apple already using the names more than enough ?)

And that robot arm cant lift nothing if you build it like it is rendered.

I might sound too negative about this project , but i am just tired of dreamworld projects that pretend to be able to do so much and in the end are superficial , generic (and in the worst case apple inspired ) design .

By: miki

miki — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 20:41:06 +0000

I meant that the concept was already there and somebody already build in 1950th-1960th. The model looks good but I do not see that is really new and amazing.

By: miki

miki — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 20:35:37 +0000

This reminds me Kisyo Kurokawa’s NAKAGIN Capsule Tower Building and lots of Archigram’s drawings.

By: pacman

pacman — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 17:32:04 +0000

“The Matrix” according to Kisho Kurokawa…

naive and nice…