LESS IS MORE
It 's really hard to find a phrase more representative of the work of a person as a sentence by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe , a famous architect German.
At the same time it seems hardly possible that a sentence so absolute limit to the dogmatic, can fascinate as a someone like me, that the rules have always had big problems. As
want to distinguish between love and on every occasion, to be honest I just can not find fault with a phrase that I often think should guide the life of each one of us ... although I can not deny that sometimes the abundance has been able to create works really fascinating, because of their utter uselessness. There is an indescribable charm
however, the work of Mies van der Rohe: the charm of the archetype, the very essence of things brought to light. The soul of architecture, spaces and activities it houses.
OK, I know ... I speak as an architect and everything will be incomprehensible to most people, but now I'll try to be more clear, using the concept of LESS IS MORE to life every day.
We have the need to move to go and buy cigarettes or a coffee ... we say that we must travel 300-400 yards. What do we do? Most likely, if we have available, we will use the car ... This means that to move our ass about 70kg of 300-400 meters, instead of using the organs that nature has given us, we decide to move to 1000 kg, making it probably more than 500 (because then the car is parked ).
We have to walk 3-4 km, carrying a bag of a few kg ... we do not then no problem to use the car ... but it is always moving 1,000 kg of scrap metal for an activity for which a normal bike (as electricity) would be more than enough.
We chose that we should live at home with his undershirt in winter and summer shirt, we decided that it is our right to stay awake at night and sleep during the day, it seems a normal thing to see the showcase dell'autogrill full of fresh rolls at any time of day or night, knowing that this means throw away a good percentage.
We believe it right to spend the resources of this planet, preferring not to think that these resources belong to us, but also belong to our future generations. Not we do to hide problems under the rug tons and tons of waste and pollution, knowing that tomorrow will not disappear but will be back to visit us, torturing our consciousness and our children's lives.
Riappropriamoci common sense ... rethink our lifestyle is the only solution possible to trace a systemic crisis that has as its main reason for the depletion of natural resources .
Monday, July 19, 2010
Saturday, July 17, 2010
Do I Need A Sleeping Bag In European Hostels
turn on the power
Here is an interesting documentary on energy and the possibilities offered by renewable energy
Here is an interesting documentary on energy and the possibilities offered by renewable energy
Friday, July 16, 2010
Shoes Wear Light Blue Dress
Enginee: News from stone angel? Earthquake
We're back here again to talk of rotary engine with compressed air engineer stone angel, which is now the visitors of this blog know my passion. Passion
especially for the elegance of design and technical solutions used, as well as the high yield and simple construction of this engine ... rather than the real possibility of using a compressed air motor, because of all those limitations (specific power stored in the compressed air, energy loss during the air compression, etc...) Although everything is simply
extraordinary as a machine so small, simple and cost will start to have such great potential
However, for those like me who are fans of this stylish car, me quote here a video for new developments of this engine.
to hear from the video, it seems that Peter is now studying to install its engines on a forklift.
We're back here again to talk of rotary engine with compressed air engineer stone angel, which is now the visitors of this blog know my passion. Passion
especially for the elegance of design and technical solutions used, as well as the high yield and simple construction of this engine ... rather than the real possibility of using a compressed air motor, because of all those limitations (specific power stored in the compressed air, energy loss during the air compression, etc...) Although everything is simply
extraordinary as a machine so small, simple and cost will start to have such great potential
However, for those like me who are fans of this stylish car, me quote here a video for new developments of this engine.
to hear from the video, it seems that Peter is now studying to install its engines on a forklift.
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Bleeding From My Overies
KSU: Updates
Here we are here to talk about stem KiteGen , the new centrale elettrica che sfrutta i venti d'alta quota, purtroppo non con le notizie che in molti attendevamo.
Siamo ormai a quasi un anno, dalla data nel quale era previsto l'inizio del montaggio della centrale a Berzano San Pietro, da allora si sono succeduti molti avvenimenti e non tutti buoni.
Innanzi tutto sono arrivati i primi problemi legati alle autorizzazioni comunali, che hanno limitato l'altezza raggiungibile dagli aquiloni a 200 metri in luogo degli 800-1000 richiesti. Problema che però non sarebbe stato molto grave, visto che per i primi tempi lo stem sarebbe servito a collaudare i meccanismi di guida e controllo della posizione dei kites da terra... nell'attesa di un ampliamento dei permessi o della prossima disponibilità di nuovi sites.
Work parties then, almost immediately, but some neighbors have called on the forest on charges of opening a new path, completely unfounded accusation, given that the existing path was, but the s result is was the immediate stop of the yard.
solved the problem and clear the misunderstanding, the forest has returned attack, requiring the sequoia a series of permits and authorizations , which according to the municipality and the company carrying, were not necessary ... hence the drama, as the production of this document requires at least 90 days.
At present the site is then stopped, and despite the paradox that the machine is complete with all its parts and just waiting to be installed and operated: Berzano if it will prove impossible a place, there are already alternative sites ready to host it ... is just sad to see how the changes in Italy are forced to take place so slowly and with so many problems.
Here we are here to talk about stem KiteGen , the new centrale elettrica che sfrutta i venti d'alta quota, purtroppo non con le notizie che in molti attendevamo.
Siamo ormai a quasi un anno, dalla data nel quale era previsto l'inizio del montaggio della centrale a Berzano San Pietro, da allora si sono succeduti molti avvenimenti e non tutti buoni.
Innanzi tutto sono arrivati i primi problemi legati alle autorizzazioni comunali, che hanno limitato l'altezza raggiungibile dagli aquiloni a 200 metri in luogo degli 800-1000 richiesti. Problema che però non sarebbe stato molto grave, visto che per i primi tempi lo stem sarebbe servito a collaudare i meccanismi di guida e controllo della posizione dei kites da terra... nell'attesa di un ampliamento dei permessi o della prossima disponibilità di nuovi sites.
Work parties then, almost immediately, but some neighbors have called on the forest on charges of opening a new path, completely unfounded accusation, given that the existing path was, but the s result is was the immediate stop of the yard.
solved the problem and clear the misunderstanding, the forest has returned attack, requiring the sequoia a series of permits and authorizations , which according to the municipality and the company carrying, were not necessary ... hence the drama, as the production of this document requires at least 90 days.
At present the site is then stopped, and despite the paradox that the machine is complete with all its parts and just waiting to be installed and operated: Berzano if it will prove impossible a place, there are already alternative sites ready to host it ... is just sad to see how the changes in Italy are forced to take place so slowly and with so many problems.