Gardening in the age of tooling

3d Grass Printer

Tools for implementing ideas

http://creatingminds.org/tools/tools_implementing.htm

The Creative Idea Implementation Plan

http://www.jpb.com/creative/ciip.php

- The Idea
- Benefits and Risks
- Stumbling Blocks
- People
- Authorizations
- Money
- Milestones
- Escape Plan
- Communication Plan
- Action Plan

Ideas are a Dime a Dozen. People Who Implement Them are Priceless.

"I realize that implementing an idea can be intimidating, but taking that first step forward is the most important thing you can do to get your idea off the ground. Analyzing an idea is an important pre-step, but one of the biggest stumbling blocks people face is the temptation to over-analyze in an attempt to solve for every potential problem they might face, even if it only has a .03 percent likelihood of ever happening. Recognize that in the beginning stage of your idea there is no possible way to truly predict exactly what the future will hold because it is impossible to have every future fact you need to know. In the process of moving toward implementing your idea, variables around you will begin to change, and as they do, new facts will always be coming to light, which will help you to pivot your ideas in the right direction. Go into it knowing that your idea is going to morph and change drastically before it reaches its true fulfillment. All great ideas do, and that is what you want."

 

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"Great ideas are born by the minute. At some point you have to decide to stop talking about your ideas and take the first step with enough confidence to carry you through to the next step. With each step forward new doors will open and your idea will expand. Keep your eyes and ears open and never be afraid to share your idea with others to get feedback. Ideas grow best when they are exposed to a lot of other people’s ideas and input on a regular basis. Never forget to stay passionate about your ideas. It’s that passion that will carry you through the difficult times that inevitably come along the path of implementation. Your passion will be contagious and it will draw others to you that can help you on your journey to becoming one of those priceless few who don’t just talk about it, they do it!"

 

by Amy Rees Anderson

from : http://www.forbes.com/sites/amyanderson/2013/03/14/ideas-are-a-dime-a-dozen-people-who-implement-them-are-priceless/

Building Bytes 3D printed bricks by Brian Peters

"I've been working with desktop 3D printers for the past couple of years and wanted to transform the machine to build something on a larger, more architectural scale," Peters told Dezeen.

A 6-week residency at the European Ceramic Work Centre in the south of the Netherlands provided him with the opportunity to experiment with printing ceramics from a liquid earthenware recipe normally used in mould-making.

from: http://www.dezeen.com/2012/10/31/building-bytes-3d-printed-bricks-brian-peters/

"In the future we might print not only buildings, but entire urban sections"

"Prior to the industrial revolution, hand-production methods were abundant," she says. "Craft defined everything. The craftsman had an almost phenomenological knowledge of materials and intuited how to vary their properties according to their structural and environmental characteristics."

But the coming of the industrial revolution saw the triumph of the machine over the hand. "The machine was used to standardise everything. And the things we built – our products, our buildings – were defined by these industrial standards."

Now, however, digital technologies such as additive manufacturing allow craft and industry to merge. "Craft meets the machine in rapid fabrication," says Oxman. "We can generate craft with the help of technology."

from : http://www.dezeen.com/2013/05/21/3d-printing-architecture-print-shift/

Text-Tile Tectonic (Kenneth Frampton)

"My choice of work is the Alice Millard house, La Miniatura, Pasadena, California, 1923. The architect is Frank Lloyd Wright. Here we have a project where FLW for the first time utilizes his idea of the textile block system with full implementation, an idea which he has pursued for the last 15 years. This quite ingenious system of building is based on a light-weight prefabricated concrete block measuring 40x40x8.75 centimeters having indented joints along its four edges, a hollowed backside for low weight/ low material usage and a decorated/ designed front side with signs/ text cast into the surface of the concrete. Thin reinforcing steel wires are vertically set and horizontally laid in the edge-joints of the concrete tiles. Two wall-membranes with air between and a free choice of internal distance are thus erected and closely knit together with steel wires which also are interlaced with the steel wires inserted in the tile-joints. The hollowed tile-joints are filled with concrete as construction progresses and finally we have a two-slab reinforced concrete double-wall. What we actually have here is a systematic building process utilizing prefabricated concrete construction components with no need for a large building-site crane. The concrete block houses designed by FLW would normally have a load-bearing stabilizing skeleton structure consisting of reinforced concrete columns, beams and floor slabs. The skeleton structure was in fact essential for the overall stability of the described double-wall concrete block system. We could argue that the presence of an in-situ concrete skeleton structure somewhat diminishes the ingeniousness of the prefabricated building system but we must bear in mind the evolutionary state of construction technology in the 1920s. Frampton points out that FLW visually suppressed this skeleton structure so as not to interfere with the concept of the textile block system. These textile concrete blocks can be described as text-tiles that is tiles with text applied to them which Frampton would seem to imply in his chapter heading: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Text-Tile Tectonic."

"At this point we shall turn to a manifesto presented by FLW in the Architectural Record, 1929:

Aesthetically concrete has neither song nor any story. Nor is it easy to see in this conglomerate, in this mud pie, a high aesthetic property, because in itself it is amalgam, aggregate, compound. And cement, the binding medium, is characterless...

I finally had found simple mechanical means to produce a complete building that looks the way the machine made it, as much at least as any fabric need look. Tough, light, but not ”thin”; imperishable; plastic; no unnecessary lie about it anywhere and yet machine-made, mechanically perfect. Standardization as the soul of the machine here for the first time may be seen in the hand of the architect, put squarely up to imagination, the limitations of imagination the only limitation of building. (extract).

FLW writes in 1932 about the economic/ tectonic advantages of a system of building with concrete blocks in Frank Lloyd Wright: Writings and Buildings, Horizon Press, New York, 1960:

We would take that despised outcast of the building industry - the concrete block - out from underfoot or from the gutter - find a hitherto unsuspected soul in it - make it live as a thing of beauty - textured like the trees. Yes, the building would be made of the ”blocks” as a kind of tree itself standing at home among the other trees in its own native land. All we would have to do would be to educate the concrete block, refine it and knit it together with steel in the joints and so construct the joints that they could be poured full of concrete after they were set up and a steel strand laid in them. The walls would thus become thin but solid reinforced slabs and yield to any desire for form imaginable. And common labor could do it all. We would make the walls double of course, one wall facing inside and the other wall facing outside, thus getting continuous hollow spaces between, so the house would be cool in summer, warm in winter and dry always. (extract).

In this poetic text one can sense a dedicated commitment and a refreshing stand-alone stance in respect to building-industry methods and standards at that time."

from: http://archway1.blogspot.com/2009/01/reflecting-on-kenneth-framptons-studies.html