Let's twist again

It’s not hard to get impressed with this new building. Imagine if the sight you have in your apartment changed every hour. Also the building possibilities are great; just place the central tube and add the floors that are already made. This concept can improve the constructing speed to every new building, just adding the floors, it should be used everywhere.
Other important fact is the energy generation. Nowadays the lack of oil and prices of electricity plus the global warming effect make this kind of construction necessary for the future of energy generation. When every floor start to spin, it generates part of the energy it already uses as it was a wind turbine , so it would be a big step forward if next generation buildings help to make part of his energy consumption. This kind of green buildings is what we need for the future.

Favourite designer: Luigi Colani

It’s hard to say who’s the best designer ever because every famous designer has a philosophy behind his creations, so it’s only a matter of tastes. In my opinion, one very important designer (even if he is not famous as other ones) is Luigi Colani. He is a German designer born in Berlin. He studied industrial design in Germany and then moved to Paris to study aerodynamics. I like him as a designer because of his point of view about what means to design and how he translates the shapes of nature to objects that are simple and full of beauty. He says that the world is round shaped, everything in nature has curves so why does he has to use straight lines. He designed everything, cars, furniture, planes, boats, etc. The core of his work are cars and everything that has something to do with aerodynamics. He don’t use the normal shapes we are used to see in cars and planes, instead he creates animal shaped objects. He says nature has much more efficient designs than man, so he takes that to make some speed record cars, or efficient fuel savers trucks.
The concept of his work is called “Biodynamic” it means to take the nature as a source of inspiration and work.
Luigi Colani tries to picture future trough design. He also designed models of planes and trains for near future. He started to work in levitation trains even before they were invented, and also in planes that can carry more than 4 thousand people.
He was also invited to help in the creation of space shuttle cockpits due to his knowledge in ergonomics.

OH MY BLOG!

Even though I was familiar with blogs and i used to read many of them i actually never tried to make my own one. Nowadays almost the whole Internet is based on the blog structure where one can publish content in a very easy way, without having to redesign the whole website again so it was good to start my own blog so I can learn about the blogging experience. The nice thing about blogging is visiting others people blogs. It can be found a lot of different opinions and points of view in about almost everything you wan to read of. I use blogs to read about technology news and often about design and designers around the world and is a fast way to know what’s happening in other places, things that you never see on the local media.
About my blogs, it was helpful to write in English again, since i haven’t used English since I finished school and there aren’t many English native speakers to talk with. So my only English exercise was watching movies.

It helped me to remember a lot of words and expressions that I already knew but I completely forgot because of the lack of practice and now that I come to the class I notice a little improvement in my English. Now when I’m watching a TV show I change the language to English and I can understand much more than when I started the year. It showed me how a little practice can be so useful.
The blogging part of the class also helps to relax and read new things outside the FAU and forget about models, blueprints and things that usually overwhelm us. The only thing that I miss is to know if our writing was good or not, just to know what things can we improve or what are we failing at.