Folded to Make a Perfect Home
Someone shared this video of how a tiny apartment in Hong Kong transforms into 24 rooms! This is a challenge faced by designers world over;…
Architecture
Take Whats There and Make Energy
One of the greatest things you can do as an industrial designer with earth-saving aspirations is to find a source of free or nearly-free energy….
Tree House Camping
The Tree House (awarded with honorable mention by Susdesign and a subsequent exhibition at Centro Cultural de Belém) is a project created under the premise…
Spiral Garden System Fit for Urbanites
Another awesome concept from IIDA, the Spiral Garden System is a proposal for a sustainable public garden that’s totally self-sufficient. The architecture adds interest to…
Floating City ala Haiti
So when you think of Haiti, what do you think about? Probably some sort of… disaster area? Well how about this instead – Tangram 3DS…
House by House, Piece by Piece
Welcome to SmartHouse! This is a completely modular system for putting together your brand new house, all of it made with pure, sweet, German craftsmanship…
Providing of Garden Access
Who loves alterations? We love alterations. Especially when they turn a Victorian house in a conservative area with access to the backyard garden only through…
Nairobi Complex Deluxe
Most of the projects we post here at Yanko Design are posted due to both their excellence and their status as a conceptual project (aka,…
3D Projections for Airplane Learning
Winner of the 2011 Gold Design Award of Germany (aka the country’s highest distinction for design, aka the “Design Oscar”) is the following project: Lufthansa…
Emergency Exits of Splendor
Many gigantic cities in this modern wonderful world of ours have underground transit. Under the ground you’ll find tunnels with trains galore, traveling all around…
Architectural Finger Bands
This is a bit of jewelry from the school of thought that revolves away from the stacked minds inside the stuck in the mud world…
For Coats, Not Zapping!
Our ol’ pal Michael Sholk is back, this time with something so simple, something so neat you wish you’d thought of it, that we’ll go…