International environmental watchdogs, such as Greenpeace and the United Nations Environment Programme have become more vocal on large scale sporting events trying to get the respective organizing committees to think about all issues that encompass an event from pre-event planning to post-event reuse and recycling. Greenpeace has created Olympic Environmental Guidelines that outline 34 guidelines […]
This is a video made in 2009 during a walkthrough of the Berlin Olympic Village in 1936, including some footage of abandoned venues and the Olympic pool. Though it is not as telling as physical experience, it is still a haunting video to watch, as you get a sense of what these places once were, […]
The existitng stadium in Porto Alegre is getting renovated for the upcoming games. A new roof structure is planned to be built off site and then pieced together. Within the roof, box seats will have clear views of the field. Facilities are also being modernized and on the riverfront side, restaurants […]
This is a great website that shows you were many of the summer Olympic sites are and has images that relate to that site in many cases. Look to the left hand margin for the different Olympic host cities. http://www.stadiumatlas.com/
Daniel Piker has a few interesting experiments in Grasshopper that deal with self-organization of geometries and forms. One in particular is his sketch of surface tension. Link to his blog post
Link here. “Piccolo is a pocket-sized stand-alone CNC platform. For under $70, you will be able to assemble your personal Arduino-compatible kit for tinkering, and playing with basic CNC output. Be it plotting a quick graffiti, printing a one-off business card on the fly, or multiple Piccolos working together to create a large mural, this […]
