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The latest addition to DesignYouEdit’s wide array of “editable” furnishings is the innovative Magnete shelving solution, a multipurpose system that revolutionizes the ability to organize space! Thanks to a simple combination of magnetic items and metal panels, users can rearrange the set of mirrors, cubed shelves, geometric panels, hangers, and angled shelves to their liking. Easily move or take away units to adapt the system to your changing needs.

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Perimeter skylights throw light across a grid of exposed wooden ceiling beams inside our second house this week from Japanese studio mA-style Architects (+ slideshow).

Positioned in a shady location between two neighbouring buildings in Aichi, Japan, the wooden house couldn’t have many windows, so mA-style Architects added skylights around each side of the flat roof.

Daylight disperses itself through the interior by bouncing off both the ceiling beams and the laminated wooden walls.

“The design intended to create a space with uniformly distributed light by adjusting the way of letting daylight in and the way of directing the light,” said the architects.

Bedrooms and storage spaces are contained within two-storey boxes scattered through the interior. Rectangular openings lead into the spaces, plus those at first-floor are accessed using wooden ladders.

“Considering each box as a house, the empty spaces in between can be seen as paths of plazas and remind us of a small town enclosed in light,” the architects added.

A bathroom, a study space, bookshelves and a kitchen with steel surfaces line the perimeter of the open-plan space.

White-painted wooden panels clad the exterior of the rectilinear structure, including a sliding door that gives the house a corner entrance.

Led by partners Atsushi and Mayumi Kawamoto, mA-style Architects has also completed a house with small attic spaces tucked into the triangular roof and an elevated house that points out like a giant rectangular telescope.

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Photography is by Kai Nakamura.

Here’s a project description from the architects:

Light Walls House

The site is in a shady location where a two-story neighbouring house closely stands on the south side, and even the shade and shadow on the path intensify the impression of darkness.

Therefore, the design intended to create a space with uniformly distributed light by adjusting the way of letting daylight in, and the way of directing the light.

By taking into consideration the space for the residents, the functions for living, and the relationship with the surrounding environment, creation of a diversity and richness in the house was intended by controlling the concept of light.

Along the edges of the 9.1m square roof, sky lights are made, as if creating an outline, in order to provide sunlight.

The roof beams narrow the sunlight, and the slightly angled clapboard interior walls with laminated wood reflect and diffuse the light.

As a result, soft and uniformly distributed light is created and surrounds the entire space.

Along the outline of lighting, work spaces such as a kitchen, bathroom, and study are arranged. Private spaces such as bedrooms and storage are allocated into four boxes.

The path-like spaces created between them are public spaces. Each box attempts to balance within a large spatial volume.

Light coupled with the rhythm of scale raises the possibilities of the living space for the residents.

Considering each box as a house, the empty spaces in between can be seen as paths or plazas, and remind us of a small town enclosed in light.

The empty spaces, which cause shortening or elongating of distances between people, are intermediate spaces for the residents, as well as intermediate spaces that are connected to the outside when the corridor is open, and these are the image of a social structure that includes a variety of individuals.

In terms of a natural component, in which light is softened by small manipulations, and of a social component, in which a town is created in the house, this house turned out to be a courtyard house of light where new values are discovered.

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New York designer Francis Bitonti worked with students to 3D-print this dress using commercially available MakerBot machines (+ movie).

Francis Bitonti created the dress while leading a three-week digital fashion workshop over the summer, which aimed to introduce students to computer software and additive manufacturing equipment.

“The project wasn’t to design a garment, the project was to design a method of making form on the computer that could be deployed across the body,” said Bitonti.

During the New Skins Workshop, students experimented with form-building software and created samples of their designs using the 3D printers.

“The MakerBot provided the students a direct link with the material world,” said Bitonti. “While they’re working on all these complex computer simulations they were able to get tactile, physical results through the MakerBot.”

Interim reviews of the groups’ work took place with guest critics, including designer Vito Acconci, who chose their favourite 3D-printed dress designs to develop.

Intricate patterning from one group and the silhouette from another were combined to create the final design, which was then printed in sections using a new flexible filament created by MakerBot.

“The idea was to create a landscape of geometric effects, things that would have different material behaviours in different parts of the body,” Bitonti said.

The result was a garment that referenced muscle fibres, veins and arteries to look like an inside-out body. It was named Verlan Dress after the French slang word for the reversal of syllables.

The workshop took place at the Digital Arts and Humanities Research Centre of the Pratt Institute in New York.

Bitonti previously worked with designer Michael Schmidt to create a dress for burlesque dancer Dita Von Teese using selective laser sintering. We’ve also featured 3D-printed clothing by Iris van Herpen and Catherine Wales.

Last month Microsoft began selling MakerBots in its US stores, while Makerbot unveiled a prototype of a desktop scanner earlier in the year. Read more about 3D printing in our one-off magazine Print Shift.

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