NY Times: Parking as a Destination

February 25, 2007 Design Parking as a Destination By PHIL PATTON New York Times, Sunday The Smart Cities project of the Media Lab of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has suggested a variety of possible visions of future parking. Smart parking places could signal their availability electronically to passing motorists. Ryan Chin, Mitchell Joachim and other researchers at the Media Lab propose to redesign vehicles to make them easier to park — the spatial demands of parking could be reduced by six to eight times, they argue, with small cars that nest together like grocery carts. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/25/automobiles/25PARK.html?pagewanted=all

Pamphlet Architecture 29 Honorable Mention

Please see all Pamphlet Architecture 29 winners: http://www.papress.com/pamphletarchitecture/PA29winnersannounced.html

MIT + Ferrari at Maranello, Italy

Interior Design Magazine w/ Fab Tree Hab

Tree/House
Soon, it may take just seeds and water to expand a house. Architects Mitchell Joachim and Javier Arbona, engineer Lara Greden, and horticulture company Plantware make up the green-thinking team that's experimenting with self-grafting trees such as elms to weave the Fab Tree Hab concept, with a lattice of woody vines forming exterior walls. Growing a two-story, water-recycling eco retreat should take five years.
by Craig Kellogg
Interior Design, p. 48, January 1, 2007
http://www.interiordesign.net/id_article/CA6411116/id?stt=001

Climate Commons at The Institute of Contemporary Art

Climate Commons is a conversation. Fourteen people from a wide range of fields post weekly about their work on climate change, sustainability and/or the Arctic. Its a collective interdisciplinary look at what our environment is facing today. Climate Commons is part of Jane D. Marsching’s project: Arctic Listening Post Currently on view at The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Boston

Auto-Free NY Talk

Tuesday, January 30, 2007, 6 to 8pm: "Soft Cars and Transology" Mitchell Joachim, Executive Director, Terreform Terreform is a Manhattan-based nonprofit design collaborative concerned with ecological principles in the urban environment. Auto-Free 104 Washington St., Manhattan Alliance for Downtown New York

Discovery Channel series FutureCar

Four episodes: The Extremes, The Body, The Fuel, and The Brain, will on Discovery Channel -February 7, 14, 21 and 28 at 8 pm ET/PT. An interview with Mitchell Joachim is featured in 3 shows: Brain, Body, and Extremes. Footage of the cars are in all episodes. Please visit the website at: FutureCar

Archiworld: Architecture Competition Annual VIII

PeristalCity Architecture Competition Annual VIII 2007 pp. 120-123 Lily Choi ARCHIWORLD Co.,Ltd http://archiworld-pa.com/main.htm

Transmaterial 2 with Super Cilia Skin

Transmaterial 2 out soon with Super Cilia Skin by Mitchell Joachim, Hayes Raffle, James Tichenor http://www.archinode.com/medialab3.html + see also http://transstudio.com/tm2/

Frank Gehry Building in New York City

Dr. Axel Kilian and Dr. Mitchell Joachim check out the geometry and bullet holes at Barry Diller's IAC/InterActiveCorp building by Frank O. Gehry and Partners.

Dwell Magazine: Fab Tree Hab

James Nestor, "Branching Out," Dwell, pp. 96-98, Vol. 7 No. 3. Feb. 2007. dwell.com Richard Reams + Fab Tree Hab

Smart Materials: MATscape & RiverGym projects

Smart Materials: Types, Products, Architecture by Axel Ritter Features: MATscape project with Wind Quills to generate power using piezoelectric cells and The NY River Gyms, pp. 10-11, 142, 160, Birkhauser, 2006.

Time to Grow Home, The Sunday Times

Fab Tree Hab in: "Time to grow home" by Dara Flynn The Sunday Times, UK December 03, 2006 ...But perhaps the most innovative take on the living home concept is the Fab Tree Hab, devised by a human ecology design team at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. For now it exists only on paper, but if it ever takes root, it could become a viable way to help save the planet. Mitchell Joachim, one of the masterminds of the project, describes the project as “extremely realistic”. The Fab Tree Hab would be indistinct from its environment and fit symbiotically into the ecosystem. A version incorporating half of its projected technology is about to be built in California... http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2098-2480020,00.html

SuperCilia Skin on Interactive Architecture dot Org

Kinesthetic Informatic Interface http://www.interactivearchitecture.org/kinesthetic-informatic-interface.html Mitchell Joachim, Hayes Raffle, James Tichenor

YouTube Tree House

Inside the Ultimate Treehouse See Fab Tree Hab + Popular Science

Terreform Nonprofit Org

Terreform is a Nonprofit Organization for Philanthropic Architecture, Urban and Ecological Design  
by Mitchell Joachim  http://www.terreform.org/ more soon...

Fab Tree Hab in POPULAR SCIENCE

Gregory Mone, "Grow Your Second Home," Popular Science, pp. 38-9, Nov. 2006. image: Graham Murdoch http://www.popsci.com/popsci/treehouse

The Herald reports on: Fab Tree Hab

The Herald, UK "I wish I could grow my own house" by JAMES MORGAN Oct 2, 2006. http://www.theherald.co.uk/features/71205.html

MIT plants seeds of a new kind of house

The Boston Globe: "MIT plants seeds of a new kind of house" By Carolyn Johnson, p.C1, Mon. Sept. 25th, 2006. http://www.boston.com/news/globe/health_science/ articles/2006/09/25/mit_plants_seeds_of_a_new_kind_of_house/

Thresholds Journal Published

"River Gyms," and "PeristalCity," Thresholds Journal #32 ACCESS, MIT, 2006. http://architecture.mit.edu/thresholds/

Soft Car in Frieze

Ronald Jones, “The Art Market,” Frieze, September Issue 101, p.39 2006. http://www.frieze.com/

Super Soft Future Trans

See more at: http://www.archinode.com/mitcar1oz.html

We Moved to Williamsburg!

222 Bushwick Ave #4R Brooklyn, NY 11206

Fab Tree Hab on MIT Web Spotlight

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2006/house.html

MIT Vehicle Design Summit (VDS)

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2006/vehicle-summit-0614.html http://www.vehicledesignsummit.org/ http://www.greencarcongress.com/2006/06/mit_vehicle_des.html

Fab Tree Hab at CAC

Contemporary Arts Center (CAC) Cincinnati Exhibition: The HOME House Project Fab Tree Hab May 06, 2006 - August 06, 2006 http://www.contemporaryartscenter.org/

L'Arca PersitalCity

Agora / Dreams and Visions eVolo Skyscraper 06 Competition by Mario Antonio Arnaboldi June 2006 No. 215 pp. 48-49. PersitalCity project design images.

Technology Review article

Fab Tree Hab story "House and Garden Architects design a living home" By Tracy Staedter Technology Review June/July pp. m2-m9. http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?id=17102

Great WorldChanging article

Grow Your Own Treehouse and other thoughts on Ecological Architecture Sarah Rich http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/004559.html

Stackable City Car

New Stackable MIT Car

Media Lab Smart Cities Group: New Stackable Car for the City http://www.archinode.com/mitcar1e.html TEAM: Mitchell Joachim & William Lark Chee Xu, James Chao-Ming Teng.

Kendall Sq. MiTREE Design

KENDALL SQUARE INTERACTIVE MEDIA DESIGN COMPETITION WINNER

Holland Herald Design Issue

Holland Herald for KLM Royal Dutch Airlines Fab Tree Hab in the May 2006 issue.

1st PLACE Kendall Square Design COMPETITION

WE WON! KENDALL SQUARE INTERACTIVE MEDIA DESIGN COMPETITION sponsored by Lyme Properties www.lymeproperties.com + MIT Design Laboratory http://design.mit.edu/

CNR revista

Fab Tree Hab inside:

"Asi seran las viviendas en 2010"

by Toni Sarria

http://www.revistacnr.com/

Fab Tree Hab in Specifier Magazine

"Treehouse Turns Into House of Trees" by Meredith Wall Specifier, Issue 68, 2006. http://www.specifier.com.au/

Human-Powered River Gym Podcast

Strength Radio podcast: http://www.strengthradio.com/articles.php?a=read&aid=36 New York Magazine, Original Gym Concept Competition WINNER. Doug Joachim http://www.joachimstraining.com

Fab Hab in XLSemanal & La Tercera

Juan José Esteban, "Esta casa esta muy viva," XLSemanal, pp.54-55, No. 960, Mar. 19, 2006. http://www.xlsemanal.com/web/home.php http://www.xlsemanal.com/web/articulo.php?id=5540&id_edicion=847 + Makarena Estrella, "Ecologistas planean construir casas en el sur de Chile usando árboles," La Tercera, p.29, Mar. 17, 2006. http://www.tercera.cl/ see FAB TREE HAB www.archinode.com

BBC Interview

BBC special series on modern architecture w/ presenter: Dan Cruickshank, airs May 30th 2006. Featured Projects: FAB TREE HAB + PERISTALCITY http://www.pfd.co.uk/clients/cruickd/f-ftr.html

Scholastic News: Fab Tree Hab

Living in the Trees By Gail Hennessey Scholastic News: http://teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews/news/archive.asp?archive=031006

Intersection Magazine Story

MIT & Frank Gehry Car "A Sheep at the Wheel" by Geeta Dayal Issue 03 page 78 http://www.intersectionmagazine.com/

eVolo Competition Winners

PERISTALCITY eVolo Skyscraper Competition WINNERS: http://www.evolo-arch.com/

Discovery on Fab Tree Hab

Houses Woven Out of Trees Proposed By Tracy Staedter, Discovery News: http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20060116/treehouse_tec.html

Skyscraper: Peristalcity

Our New Project - PERISTALCITY: A Circulatory Habitat Cluster for Manhattan http://www.archinode.com/peristalcity