by | Nov 3, 2010 | argentina, cooperatives, design, partners, technology
The first few days of our core team’s implementation visit have been incredibly busy, yet rewarding and so far successful. Having secured working keys to our apartment building and a guia (tiny book to help us navigate the labyrinthine Buenos Aires bus system)...
by efeinblatt | May 13, 2010 | engineering, partners, technology
The UWA hotpress is not exactly in action yet – lacking the electrical work and some minor tweaking – but enough is there to see what changes Derek Goad has made to Darko’s original design. Take a look specifically at the counterweight that allows...
by efeinblatt | Apr 27, 2010 | engineering, partners, technology
In conjunction with a winter semester 2010 course being taught by Joshua Pearce at Queens University, MECH 425 – Engineering for Sustainable Development, senior Nate Preston is reviewing, evaluating, and illustrating the Kingston Hotpress design via a public...
by | Feb 8, 2010 | design, partners, technology
Students at RISD have done a significant amount of material investigation many of which are collected in a set on the RISD-Waste4Life Flickr site. And attached are recipes of some of the most salient experiments. RISD-W4L Recipes [flickr-gallery...
by teach12 | Nov 6, 2009 | engineering, technology
Making the composite step-by-step
by efeinblatt | Dec 12, 2008 | argentina, technology
We worked most of Tuesday with university electricians to rewire the hotpress so that it wouldn’t continually shut down the electrical circuits in the FADU basement, outside of the CEP, where it is now located. By Wednesday morning the electrical work was...
by efeinblatt | Dec 10, 2008 | argentina, technology
About 2 weeks before arriving in Buenos Aires, we arranged with Carlos Levinton to move the hotpress from INTI, where it had languished this past year, to his Center for Experimental Production (CEP) at the University of Bs.As. We wanted to maximize the short time we...
by cbaillie | Oct 13, 2007 | argentina, technology
We recently developed links with Patricia Eisenberg’s group at the Plastics Department of INTI. Initially we hoped to be able to use the hotpress at INTI to try out some of the local materials but today we met Patricia and she was keen to move beyond this and to work...
by efeinblatt | Oct 10, 2007 | argentina, cooperatives, technology
Yesterday, accompanied by Rhiannon, our amazing friend and translator, we visited the Cooperativa de trabajo “19 de diciembre.” We learned about this ‘recuperated’ metallurgic factory shortly after arriving in BA, and it’s name kept...
by cbaillie | Sep 27, 2007 | argentina, technology
Whilst our partner Darko works away in Canada to try to get funding for future work (to build more hot presses in Africa), here in Buenos Aires I try to understand his design and interpret it for the potential hot press manufacturers that I have been speaking to. Its...
