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Carlo Ratti Associati

  • The Feel the Peel juice kiosk will be travelling across Italy over the next few months
    Good Thinking
    Juice kiosk creates cups from its own orange peels
    A new juice kiosk recycles its own orange peels into the cups used by the customers.
  • Each drone was equipped with a paint tank and a spray nozzle
    Drones
    Swarm of drones spray-paints crowdsourced graffiti mural
    ​A couple of years ago, design firm Carlo Ratti Associati (CRA) unveiled Paint By Drone, a system that utilizes quadcopters to spray-paint artistic graffiti onto outdoor walls. Well, the tech has now been used to create a crowdsourced work of art, applied to a wall by multiple drones simultaneously.
  • Construction of Vitae will begin later this year
    Architecture
    Mixed-use office building brings a little countryside to the city
    Carlo Ratti Associati (CRA) is planning to bring something of the Italian countryside to inner-city Milan with its Vitae project. The eye-catching building will host research facilities, offices and a restaurant, and will be covered in greenery, including a vineyard.
  • Users will be able to hail the Guido vehicle, and order their drinks, using an app
    Robotics
    Robotic bar could soon be hailed like a drink-making cab
    ​It was six years ago that we first heard about Makr Shakr, a robotic bar that can reportedly mix one Googol (the digit 1 followed by 100 zeroes) drink combinations. Now, its designers are planning on installing the tech in an autonomous vehicle that users can hail whenever they want a bevvy.
  • Scribit will be the subject of an upcoming crowdfunding campaign
    Robotics
    Scribit robot could soon be drawing on your walls
    ​A couple of years ago, design firm Carlo Ratti Associati showcased a system in which drones were used to draw images on walls. It was very clever, but perhaps not something that could become a commercial product. The company's Scribit wall-drawing robot, however, is intended to be just that.
  • The unnamed skyscraper will rise to a height of 280 m (918 ft)
    Architecture
    Singapore skyscraper will burst at the seams with greenery
    Italy's Carlo Ratti Associates (CRA) and Danish firm Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) have collaborated on an interesting new skyscraper currently under construction in Singapore. Rising to 280 m (918 ft) the building will be jam-packed with greenery, and feature trees jutting out of its facade.
  • Construction is expected to begin next year, with completion slated for 2023
    Architecture
    Tomato factory to feature walls made from glass tomato sauce jars
    Carlo Ratti Associati has taken a novel approach to designing a new factory for Italian tomato firm Mutti. It features a visitor's center with walls made from glass tomato sauce jars – tomatotecture, if you will – as well as a terrace allowing the public to watch the tomatoes being processed.
  • These app-controlled graffiti drones are designed to add color to the many bare walls across cities
    Drones
    Swarms of graffiti drones to be unleashed on blank walls
    ​Artists and vandals have been attaching spray-paint cans to drones with varying degrees of success for several years now but what if whole swarms of drones could be controlled in a coordinated way to paint colorful designs on the many bare construction facades that fill our cities?
  • The Currie Park floating plaza will be mounted on a system of responsive air chambers that will take in and expel air based on the number of people walking on the platform
    Architecture
    Floating plaza to make a splash in Florida
    Visitors to West Palm Beach's Currie Park in Florida will soon be able to stroll around a plaza that's home to a restaurant, an auditorium, decorative water pools and hydroponically-grown greenery. What makes it unique, though, is that it will be floating off the coast using submarine technology.