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- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - In this edition: May Community Snapshot
Architecture Of The Future: DesignMind Explores Ideas That May Change The World
Online Networking To Connect Southern Africa’s Construction Industry. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Member Spotlight NCS Colour Course winners
DesignMind and KBB Design Magazine would like to congratulate our NCS Colour Course winners! Jessica Harrisberg and Michelle Fourie have won an NCS Colour Course to the value of R1600! Jessica Harrisberg is an interior design student from Greenside DesignCentre. You can read more about her on her profile here. Michelle Fourie is a student from Greenside DesignCentre. You can read more about her on her profile here. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - DesignMind investigates Gautrain design DesignMind investigate the design philosophies behind the Gautrain this month! Interested to find out how the Gautrain uses South African design? Read about it here and don’t forget to give us your feedback here!
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- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - To all our valued DesignMind members The winter chill is setting in- but things on DesignMind have been heating up this May! We are proud to announce that we are now a community of 4300 members – with 41 new members this week! Our photo collection is growing steadily. Elmo Swart has posted the most photo’s this month – thanks Elmo! The photo of the Peter Mokaba Stadium was our most viewed photo in May. DesignMind has a collection of helpful videos – the Autodesk Impression is the most popular video to date and Revit Architecture was our main contributor to the Video Library this month. We now have 81 freely available videos for you to watch. Our podcasts can keep you up to date on the latest industry news – our most popular podcast is Architecture Talk. The DesignMind forum has been exceptionally busy this month, with a range of topics being discussed and debated in our Marketplace. We have 532 different forum topics – go and have your say here. Blogs on DesignMind are a way for members to voice opinion, a place where news can be reported and discussed and a way for you to keep up with the latest trends and technologies. DesignMind now has a comprehensive collection of 405 blog posts. Our most popular blog post to date is The Invitation To SACAP. Go and browse the May 2009 DesignMind blogs here. Do you have a special architectural interest? Do you want to learn more about a specific niche or topic? Would you like to network with likeminded individuals? Join one of our Groups on DesignMind – browse them here. We now have 62 Groups – the most popular group is Photorealistic Rendering. Still not a member of DesignMind? Don’t miss out! Go to www.DesignMind.co.za and join the community of thousands! Nicole Hijbeek and the DesignMind team. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Online Networking To Connect Southern Africa’s Construction Industry. www.BuildMind.net, a newly launched online business network, now puts everyone in Southern Africa’s construction industry in one room – virtually. Powered by The Virtual Works and award-winning Web 2.0 technology, BuildMind offers material suppliers, specification professionals, developers and contractors a quick, easy and low cost way to network, communicate, source opportunities- and share information and knowledge with industry stakeholders across SADAC territories. BuildMind, will incorporate DesignMind, the well established design and specification professional’s network – giving BuildMind members an immediate ability to interact with thousands of architects, engineers, quantity surveyors and designers that already interact daily on the DesignMind network. BuildMind, free to individuals in any construction sector, gives each member the on-line tools that make it easy to: Given that the toughening market conditions are forcing most construction industry businesses to find more innovative and efficient ways to market and operate, the BuildMind network launch comes at the right time. To sign-up go to www.buildmind.net BuildMind is another brainchild of The Virtual Works, a Technology Top 100 accredited firm specializing in the supply and management of community engagement systems and programmes. The Virtual Works is an Innovator of the Year finalist. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Architecture Of The Future: DesignMind Explores Ideas That May Change The World The importance of sustainability has become paramount. Conscious that natural resources are rapidly diminishing- humans are predominantly more aware of our effects on the environment and the need to preserve it. The relationship between nature and architecture is one of re-construction, a balance – and architects carry enormous responsibility to achieve these crucial objectives. There are some who are preparing for the future, who are calculating our needs in years to come and have conceptualised and designed the future of architecture. DesignMind uncovers some of these forward-thinking architectural ideas and shares with you the possible architecture of the future. When The Tides Begin To Rise: The Lilypad By Vincent Callebaut
“It is a true amphibian half aquatic and half terrestrial city, able to accommodate 50,000 inhabitants and inviting the biodiversity to develop its fauna and flora around a central lagoon of soft water collecting and purifying the rain waters. This artificial lagoon is entirely immersed ballasting thus the city. It enables to live in the heart of the subaquatic depths. The multifunctional programming is based on three marinas and three mountains dedicated respectively to the work, the shops and the entertainments. The whole set is covered by a stratum of planted housing in suspended gardens and crossed by a network of streets and alleyways with organic outline. The goal is to create a harmonious coexistence of the couple Human / Nature and to explore new modes of living the sea by building with fluidity collective spaces in proximity, overwhelming spaces of social inclusion suitable to the meeting of all the inhabitants – denizen or foreign-born, recent or old, young or aged people. “ Not only is the Lilypad a zero-emission city – it produces it’s own energy and can process C02 in the atmosphere, absorbing it into it’s titanium dioxide skin. Read the full article here and
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Vincent Callebaut has devised a plan to address housing the inevitable tide of displaced people as Oceans begin to swell – The Lilypad. His 
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