Have you ever visited a worksite and thought, "Wow, this contractor knows a lot more about construction than I do"? Have you had to change your...
Materials As much as possible I try to use recyclable materials for construction art lessons. I source these from Recreate or ask the children to bring things in from home. Recyclable materials Bottles Caps Cardboard boxes (cereal/shoeboxes etc.) Wrapping paper Scrap paper Containers (yoghurt pots/egg cartons) Other materials Tin foil Scissors Foam sheets Stickers Crepe paper Pipe
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the musgum, an ethnic group in far north province in cameroon, created their homes from compressed sun-dried mud.
Amber Court hotel, Malaysia
Soft Cabinets from Studio Dewi van de Klomp rethink the typical bookshelf or cabinet by constructing them out of foam rubber with slots to hold objects.
Adam Fuss’ photograms encourage you to think about photography, in different ways and much more broadly. His life-sized camera-less photograms represent one man’s attempt to work with, explore, and see subjects, media, and perception more directly. By making camera-less images, Fuss eliminates many distortions inherent...
It was built using leftover materials from a nearby construction site.
We humans often build roads and bridges, canals and ports, even entire cities at the expense of the environment. But nature isn't planning on giving up. On the contrary, it is determined to persevere, showing just how fragile our creations are.
The life-size sculptures are the work of Birmingham-based master craftsman James Doran-Webb, 46, who spent six months assembling them for celebrations to mark the Chinese 'Year of the Wooden Horse' in Singapore.
Constructed in 1899 - Shingle-style Queen Anne.
DECATUR — As a young girl, Edwardsville resident Snail Scott liked to play with her crayons, but in a way as unconventional as her own name. Instead of seeing them
Colonel, this is “hot off the press” as of last night- posted here only for brief instructional purposes. I’m going to take it down tomorrow. This is a high-level “remote-vi…
The Tithe Barn was built in the early 14th century as part of the medieval farmstead belonging to Shaftesbury Abbey. Its function was to store the produce of the farm, and of the farms of the manor. Tenant farms contributed a tithe, meaning a tenth of their produce. King Ethelred gave the Manor of Bradford, including the monastery founded by St Aldhelm, to the Abbess of Shaftesbury in 1001. The barn is now owned and maintained by English Heritage.
The Clemson Clay Nest was a public land art installation by Bavarian artist Nils-Udo that was constructed in the botanical gardens at Clemson University in South Carolina in 2005. The nest was built with the assistance of numerous students and other volunteers using 80 tons of pine logs harvested from the local Oconee County pine plantation and hundreds of bamboo stocks that were carefully organized into a circular structure dug in gardens rich red clay. More
A straw bale house is an eco-friendly building you will fall in love with. Light, sustainable, resistant and featuring a rustic flavor, the construction ha
Grades: Middle Level 6-8 Includes: 500-piece jigsaw puzzle (15" x 20.5"), 11" x 17" full-color poster and a 3 to 4 day station lesson download. Your science students will enjoy digging through time with the Geologic Time Scale standards-based jigsaw puzzle. Aligned with Next Generation Science Standards for the middle grades (6 – 8), this beautifully detailed puzzle provides a visual construct of fossils and rock strata, as well as life scenarios from the Paleozoic, Mesozoic and Cenozoic eras. The Geologic Time Scale puzzle includes a free 20-page lesson download. Its 6 station activities feature an interactive web-based puzzle, critical thinking questions, and academic vocabulary.
At first glance, this simplistic cube stool looks rigid and inflexible... perhaps, even uncomfortable. Take a seat, however, and you'll find its cleverly constr
Students will have fun while learning how to cooperate and communicate.
Near the village of Llanycefn, in Pembrokeshire, in south-west Wales, stands a small stone cottage. Legend has it that the cottage was built...
Ruth Asawa (b. January 24, 1926) had no ordinary childhood. During World War II, at the age of 16, Asawa and the rest of her family were taken from their home and sent to the Santa Anita race track for six months, along with hundreds of other Japanese-American families.
Completed in 2009 in Vals, Switzerland. Images by Iwan Baan . Shouldn’t it be possible to conceal a house in an Alpine slope while still exploiting the wonderful views and allowing light to enter the building? ...
Working on a miniature scale, Japanese artist Takanori Aiba creates bonzai tree houses that tower at impossible heights. The artist uses resin, epoxy, plastics, acrylic paint and a multitude of other materials to craft these multi-level sculptures. His works invite the viewer to imagine the potential inhabitants of these strange dwellings. Take a look at some photos of Takanori Aiba's works after the jump, all images copyright TOKYO GOOD IDEA Development Institute Co., Ltd.
Bridges are amazing feats of engineering and a great logic challenge for your children designers. Here are some resources to help teach them more about bridges and how they work. Lesson Plans Bridge Lesson on Forces, Arch Bridges, & Truss Bridges – a detailed hands-on unit study designed for a homeschool co-op. Bridge Lesson on […]
a sculptural staircase designed by london-based atmos studio recreates the structural flow of a home's living spaces through curving steps and guardrails.
