The Design Gazette

The Design Gazette

The Design Gazette featuring great design, architecture, fashion, graphics and innovation from across the globe.

 

Karst

Karst, a modular staircase designed for Governors Island in New York, is like a solutional cave for people to see and hear the flowing water, with a water filtering system that brings the sensation of nature into the house, connecting the community of humans and water. Each module has a pocket for placing a bag of crushed oyster shells. The shells composed of calcium carbonate can react with acid rain to help neutralize acidified ocean by absorbing carbon dioxide. In the end, it is a filter system that can blur the boundary between humans and nature on Governors Island.

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NAVE

Nave is a terracotta tile system combined with water flow, used to cool indoor spaces in desertic environments. The cooling method is based on a local traditional cooling solution, and answers a local need. In the project, the tile transforms form a generic product, back into a local, tailored to place product. The system operates on minimal energy and water consumption and is used for green building. The system has three variations: wall tiles, partition and a totem vertical cooling body.

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KNX Waltz Touch Pad

KNX intelligent control with integrated screen and buttons, the first G-link configuration mode in KNX; users can DIY the functions and colors of buttons, and the button can be freely replaced to adapt to different architectural styles. The independent metal bar design at the bottom with built-in electronic components makes the panel thinner and also enhance the brand recognition.

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Marble Hexagon Tile

Marble hexagon tiles are traditionally cut with waterjets; however, it is an extremely slow and expensive process. After a long research period, R&D department of Ionic Stone has been able to develop a new technique that now enables them to cut rectangle tiles into hexagon and chevron formats with utmost precision in dimensions with a much lower cost. Currently, the company is producing marble hexagon tiles at affordable prices. Thanks to this new technique they have become the world's first mass-producer of innovative formats, such as hexagons, trapezoids and chevrons.

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Intelligent Innovation

Featuring intelligence, intelligent doors can make the outdoor space more transparent, and the indoor space more closely to the outdoors's. In addition to the basic functions such as fingerprint recognition and electronic door viewer, the intelligent door adopts the modular integration design concept. Extended modules and structure interfaces are reserved in the door frame and door body, through which different functional modules can be installed according to the needs.

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GLASSWAVE

The GLASSWAVE multiaxial curtain wall system opens the door to greater flexibility in designing glass walls for mass production. This new concept in curtain walls is based on the principle of vertical mullions with cylindrical rather than rectangular profiles. This definitively innovative approach means that structures with multidirectional connections can be created, increasing tenfold the possible geometric combinations in glass wall assembly. GLASSWAVE is a low-rise system intended for the market of distinctive buildings of three floors or less (majestics halls, showrooms, atriums etc.)

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