You might call up our previous mail on Chris Bangle, working together with Harvard in a projection based on the BMW GINA LightVision Concept: low-costing housing. For a semester, he was pedagogy an architecture course at the famous Harvard University and one of the topics was the technology behind the GINA Concept beingness applied in the existent world.

As some of you might call up, Chris Bangle has e'er been very proud of his concept and spoke about it many times.

So, let'due south run across what these 13 students have accomplished in the "GINA Studio" course offered last fall:

All photos courtesy Harvard University and Boston Globe

CoilHaus

The Target of the future? This residential and commercial edifice past Megan Panzano has stretchy walls should more space be needed.

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Gina Teleburb

Kent Gould designed this spider web of homes to withstand harsh ecology conditions "such as lava fields, barren areas, and inundation plains." They're continued past enclosed roads that collapse and expand.

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Cloud Bourgeoisie

From Justin Chen: "Some time in the next 50 years, when suburbs run out of places to sprawl and need to colonize the air space to a higher place the freeways. The firm is fabricated from materials still to exist developed, such as stretchable ETFE, elastic structural frames, and flexible tensile skins."

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Playing Architecture

Ignacio Gonzalez Galan's suburban complex has roofs that extend upward during the day and shrink at nighttime to conserve heat.

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I am certainly non an Fine art major, but if I were, I would be the first in line to sign-up for ane of these classes. Information technology seems similar it'south true what anybody says nearly Chris Bangle that he brings out the best in people, stimulates creativity and supports innovation.

[Source: Boston.com ]