The shoes feature rubber soles moulded in a single piece, which are designed to fit comfortably against bike pedals.
Fern grey reflective
The range includes Fern laced ankle boots, with small heels and a reflective strip stitched up the back for cycling in the dark.
Geek camel reflective
Geek shoes also have reflective detailing on the back and are available in black or camel. “Perfect for cycling or walking the city,” said Neuls.
Geek black reflective
The shoes are available from Tokyobike, 87-89 Tabernacle Street, and Tracey Neuls East, 73 Redchurch Street, until the end of the design festival on Sunday.
Paper-thin shutters fold out from the walls of this narrow timber house in Tokyo by Japanese firm Unemori Architects (+ slideshow).
Unemori Architects clad the entire exterior with timber boards, then added matching shutters across the large windows.
“At the second and third floor there is a large hinged door in each room. If it’s opened, the inside of the room is enveloped in light and wind as if you are outside,” explained architect Hiroyuki Unemori.
Unemori positioned windows to offer the best views of the building’s surroundings. “The window is so big against the small rooms that every time a window opens or closes the view inside dramatically changes,” he added.
Small House accommodates a couple with a small child and is located within a densely populated suburban area of the city.
An entrance slotted into the corner of the building leads through to a circular white staircase, which spirals up to three storeys above and down to one below. Each floor contains one room, including two bedrooms, a dining room and a kitchen.
A glass-fronted bathroom is positioned on the roof and faces out onto the surrounding rooftops across a triangular roof terrace.
The architects used single layers of timber to construct the floors, which match furniture, surfaces and cupboards in the dining room and kitchen.
The compact site also includes a small driveway and a narrow space to park bicycles.
Here’s some project description from the architects:
Small House
The small house which the married couple and their child live stands in the densely populated area in Tokyo. Though the neighbouring houses is very close, I aimed to design the house which exceed the physical narrowness living at the city.
I laid out the 4m×4m building as small as I could at the centre of site area 34m2 and made some space for flowing of light and wind around it. And by making the space, it’s possible to avoid setback regulation and it has the 9m high volume like a tower.
The inside is simple structure what is separated by the 4 floor boards and is jointed by spiral stairway.
Especially, by making some extremely thin floor boards (thickness 70mm) , the up and down floor boards got close and connected the whole space of the house without a break.
The space of around the house is useful to let light and wind in. The wall of the rooms borders the outside, so I put windows in the best position that harmonising with its surroundings.
Especially, at the second and third floor there is a large hinged door each room, if it is opened, the inside of the room is enveloped in light and wind as if you are outside.
By making the thin floor boards for connecting with their life and making the large windows what are opened toward the city, I aimed to exceed the segmentation, for example the upstairs and the downstairs, the inside and the outside, a building and the town, etc. to broaden the whole image of a house.
London Design Festival 2013: London designer Adam Nathaniel Furman has created multi-coloured 3D-printed ceramic objects for his Designers in Residence commission at the Design Museum (+ slideshow).
Identity Parade by Adam Nathaniel Furman consists of 3D-printed and ceramic vases and ornaments, painted in luminous colours and busy psychedelic patterns.
The objects were created in response to this year’s Designers in Residence showcase at London’s Design Museum, which challenged four designers to develop a project in response to the theme of identity.
Furman told Dezeen that his response was to create artefacts about the life of a fictional designer. The final ornaments intend to capture the imaginary character’s need for belonging and their fascination for new media and digital fabrication technologies.
“I believe very strongly in the power of character and scenario to tell complex truths about our contemporary state,” said Furman.
Meme Totem
The objects were created using a number of production methods including 3D printing laser-sintered nylon in bright colours, 3D-printing ceramics and spray painting.
Kitsch pot
“I’d always felt that identity was such a protean, gaseous, changeable thing,” the designer said. “It terrified me really. I mean, how inconstant we are, how fluid our identities are and how we change from year to year.”
For the project, Furman also produced a film that he said “compresses all the visual influences and theoretical explorations embedded in the project, in a non-didactic and fun way.” Watch it here:
Here’s a short movie about the designer, produced by Alice Masters for the Design Museum:
Designers in Residence 2013 4 Sept 2013 – 12 Jan 2014 Adam Nathaniel Furman
This year’s Designers in Residence were invited by the Museum to respond to the theme of Identity, to explore how design can be used to convey, create or reflect a sense of identity through an object or experience.
Glued to his laptop, locked in his flat, emailing, DM’ing, posting, stressing and Skyping, what sort of a collection could a characterful designer produce in 3 months?
Furman’s project explores the potential of now ubiquitous rapid fabrication techniques to free designers from commercial exigencies, and to instead prodigiously create any number of objects whose delineations are guided by and embody intensely personal narratives. The role of collector and designer collapse into one.
Yantraments
Through a blog he created a character, a fictional tool, who existed for three months in a fever of rumination and production. Each post was a lived scenario which brought together a wider issue such as generalised anxiety or Facebook envy, with a fabrication technique such as 3d printed ceramic, or plaster, or plastic. The character fused these into a dizzying array of designs, each contributing to a collection which tells the story of a search for identity told through the design of objects. A journey which, thanks to technology, any one of us could embark upon in the near future.
Swirl and Stepwell
Furman terminated the character, and the tripartite display of his project consists of a table on which all the various objects are collected, a miniature museum of the said designer, as well as the blog through which the stories behind each of the objects is relayed, and a film which compresses and conveys in a non-didactic manner, all the various influences and themes embedded in the overall project.
Adam Nathaniel Furman
Adam Nathaniel Furman is a writer, designer, teacher and artist. He graduated from the Architectural Association in 2009 and is currently working at Ron Arad Associates. He also co-directs the Saturated Space Research cluster at the AA, and is co-director of the Architecture design practice Madam Studio.
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Dezeen and MINI World Tour: architect Alex de Rijke of dRMM talks to Dezeen about his practice’s Escher-inspired installation of staircases in this movie filmed outside Tate Modern in London.
Alex de Rijke of dRMM
The Endless Stair installation, constructed on the bank of the River Thames as part of this years London Design Festival, comprises 15 interlocking staircases demonstrating a new cross-laminated timber material.
“Endless Stair is a prototype,” explains de Rijke, who is co-founder of architects de Rijke Marsh Morgan and dean of architecture at the Royal College of Art. “It’s a research project into making a new material, or a new version of a material, namely a hard wood version of laminated timber, which is generally soft wood.”
dRMM chose to create an installation of stairs to demonstrate the material because of the sculptural quality of staircases, de Rijke says.
“Stairs are one of the nicest things about architecture,” he explains. “Somebody once said sculpture’s gift to architecture is the staircase.”
He continues: “My team were interested in Escher’s endless stair as a conceptual conceit. We thought we would make a very simple version of Escher’s sophisticated ideas.”
To recreate one of Escher’s drawings in 3D would be impossible, and de Rijke admits that the installation is not literally endless.
“Endless Stair is obviously a real staircase with a real end,” he says. “The idea of Endless Stair is that it can be endlessly reconfigured; it’s something that can be recycled and reused. There are 15 flights in this example, and they can be reconfigured with more or less in many different contexts.”
De Rijke says that the sculpture is meant to be fun, but forms part of a serious research project.
“All useful architecture has its origins in some kind of experiment,” he says. “We wanted to make a new material and we wanted to apply it and we did so with a kind of sculpture, but actually there’s a serious intent behind it, which is the application at the scale of buildings and larger structures.”
We drove to Tate Modern in our MINI Cooper S Paceman. The music featured in the movie is a track called Temple by London band Dead Red Sun.
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