CLOUD Disassembly RPI

Similar Projects

• New Stadium in Porto Alegre

          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 […]

• Berlin 1936 Abandoned Olympic Village

  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, […]

• geo-blocking

  Beijing Olympics Broadcasting Report Lots of good stats on viewership and the media methods at the Beijing Olympics. Most interesting is the fact that YouTube was used to broadcast to countries who didn’t have a major service provider.  People from other countries were blocked from those channels.  This could mean in the future that information […]

• Urban Design Week 2011

  http://www.urbandesignweek.org/     Check the Competition “For the City/By the City” and other event along this week and next, including weekend.    

• Sports Journalism as Insight to Bias and Perspective in Event Coverage

  http://img.ezinemark.com/imagemanager2/files/30004252/2011/05/2011-05-27-16-35-56-10-tiger-woods-choked-up-after-winning-the-2006-briti.jpeg Sports journalism seems to be the journalism which accepts its story-telling roles and partnerships with advertising and entertainment. Yet it still suggest that cultural and moral values are alluded in sports reporting. The implication that sports reporting emphasizes storytelling and plot over impartial truth telling  isparticularly interesting in contrast to other forms of journalistic endeavors . For sports […]

• Self-organizing structures in Grasshopper

  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

• Dylan Cole Studio

  Link here. See “personal work”.

• Shanghai EXPO Demolition

  For the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai, the chosen site was located in the historic Bund and largely residential area.  Shanghai has been replacing the old for the new for the past two decades or so, but this project created a surge of demolition and has synthetically altered the fabric in one fell swoop.  This also created […]

• Broadcasting Fees

    As shown in the graph displaying the number of countries broadcasting the Olympics and the revenue received from it, the fees for broadcasting the Olympics in the U.S. as greatly increased.  Since the start of the broadcast of the Olympics in the 1960’s the fees that television networks were willing to pay for broadcasting […]

• Ecology takes back seat to Economy-Sydney’s Toxic Remediation

  Leading up to Sydney’s Olympic bid in 1993, they were faced with a difficult decision. What should they do with the potential Olympic park site?  They needed to address the toxic waste that was there from cement and brick making factories over the decades, but they didn’t want to invest too much money if they […]