The Third and the Seven

Videomaking is all in the way a camera captures that angle when all the surroundings are in perfect sync with the light, the colors, reflections and sometimes floating pieces of unreal beauty.

This short film represents the beauty of architecture through the eyes of Alex Roman. In the first moments of the video, you will not believe the photography skills this guy possess. Later, you will not believe what you are seeing.

Pure awesomeness.

If you found the latter video amazing along with the color, composition, DoF (depth of field), you will likely revel with this video depicting the compositional breakdown used in "The Third and the Seven" 

Dynamic Architecture

In Dubai where, apparently, money isn't a problem will be home to a new kind of skyscraper. A rotating tower about 80 stories high, and each floor can rotate independently or as a whole fast enough to be noticeable during the day and slow enough so the resident won't get moving sickness.

The rotation will be powered by wind turbines located between floors that could provide electricity no only to the whole tower, but five more towers of similar size than the Dubai Tower.


Each floor can contract or extend as the user's will, creating an interesting array as it turns. This is one tower but physically, it will never be the same form twice (well, maybe it will but you get the idea, don't you?).

Each floor will be prefabricated elsewhere and put together around the central core, reducing costs and construction time. But this by no means each "villa", as they name each floor, will be cheap. The architect David Fischer, head of Dynamic Architecture, estimates a pricely cost of US$3,000.00 per square foot, leaving the largest Villa (12,900 sq-ft/1,198.44 m2) in for US$38.7 million and the more "modest" villa (1,330 sq-ft/123.56 m2) in for the low low price of US$3.99 million.

This is expensive even for Dubai standards, but hey, if you've got the money you better get over there and get in line because they're selling out like hot-cakes. That is if the project is approved, and if it is, then you would be moving into your own rotating villa by 2010. You can even park your cheap Ferrari in your apartment with the automobile elevator that will be available so you will not carry your bags of groceries all the way from the basement to your crappy Villa, huh? sounds nice, right?

If you had the money, would you spend it on something like this?

From Render to Reality

I received this past Monday a picture, taken by Hugo Gutierrez, of a group of houses that were built from a project I was involved in since its very beginning. The project was full of changes, adaptations and tweaks. I even made a couple of renders, one of which I'll be posting here besides the one with the actual houses.

It's rewarding to know that such a project, specially one you worked in very hard gets materialized.

...The Real Deal...

...The Renders...
I want to thank Hugo for the opportunity he gave me in working with him. I gathered a lot of experience in project development. ThNX!!

PD.- By the way, I added a link to Molko's Blog in the Sharp Minded Link Center, my (and GVS) new doggie!