Dec 28
Dec 28
Remarkable Hobo Nickels Carved from Clad Coins by Paolo Curcio
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Barcelona-based artist Paolo Curcio craves tiny bas-relief sculptures into coins (known as the hobo..(Read…)
Dec 28
House in Normandy with blackened timber walls by Beckmann-N’Thépé Architectes
Posted in: Beckmann-N’Thépé, black houses, Blackened wood, French houses, slideshows, wooden buildingsBlack-painted timber contrasts with clean white window frames on the walls of this cube-shaped weekend home in Normandy, France, by Paris studio Beckmann-N’Thépé Architectes (+ slideshow).
Located on a quiet countryside plot in Bellavilliers, Beckmann-N’Thépé‘s House in Normandy is surrounded by little but woodland and fields.
The architects designed the house as a “minimalist object”, with a simple geometric shape and only one pronounced opening on each side.
Horizontal timber panels clad each wall and are painted black, giving the facade the appearance of charcoal.
“A line diagram cube with a 50 square-metre base on the ground, [the house’s] black-tinted wooden wall panelling responds to the woodland environment,” said the architects.
Small square windows puncture three elevations, while the fourth has glazed doors that lead out to a small terrace.
There’s also a fifth opening – a front door that is camouflaged within the cladding but revealed by a simple canopy.
A combined living room, dining area and kitchen takes up one half of the ground floor and features a double-height ceiling.
One bedroom is tucked away behind, alongside the bathroom, and a second occupies a mezzanine floor above.
The house was completed in 2009 and functions as the holiday home for a family of four.
Photography is by Stephan Lucas.
Read on for more information from Agence Beckmann-N’Thépé:
House in Normandy
Bellavilliers, France
The house is located in the Normandy Bocage, surrounded by hedgerows and looking out over Bellême Forest. Set on the first third of a plot of land 150 m long, it stands in an isolated residential area in the Perche countryside.
A minimalist object, a line diagram cube with 50 m2 base on the ground, its black tinted wooden wall panelling responds to the woodland environment. With just one opening on each side judiciously oriented and highlighted with white, the front is made up of a wooden frame lined with high performance thermal insulation.
The double height in the living-room, also lit through a large bay window opening onto the south side, tends to expand the space.
The strict comfort needed is provided – a living space comprising a living-room with fireplace, open-plan kitchen, bathroom and cupboard space; and a night-time area with two bedrooms, one treated as a large open loft space, and a bathroom.
A few trees decorate the driveway and create a filter between the house and the lane outside.
The dormant partners’ requirement, the desired originality in the response, and the €120,000 budget together defined this simple volume, combining a good floor surface area to frontage ratio. The qualitative approach to the project in terms of materials and energy performance was the key here.
Program: Secondary residence for 4 people
Architects: Agence Beckmann-N’Thépé (Paris)
Client: Private
Area: 80 m2 net floor area
Cost: EUR 120 000 excl. VAT
Project manager: Nicolas Gaudard
Architect: Laura Giovannetti
Assistant architects: Mathilde Billet, Arthur Billaut, Thimothée Kazmierczak
Masonry, wood structure: GUILLET S.A. Excavation : ZUNINO
Plastery: Nicobat
Electricity: Leon
Plumbing, ventilation: Chardel
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Dec 28
Wood Sculptures by Mario Dilitz
Posted in: Dilitz, marioCoup de coeur pour l’artiste autrichien Mario Dilitz qui imagine de superbes sculptures grandeur nature, entièrement en bois. Avec des représentations impressionnantes, l’artiste questionne la nature humaine et ses contradictions. A découvrir en images et détails dans la suite de l’article.
Dec 28
Ryo Matsui’s Hairdo salon has a transparent house-shaped facade
Posted in: Ryo Matsui Architects, Salons and spas, slideshowsIn our second story today from Japanese firm Ryo Matsui Architects, a glazed facade reveals the two-storey interior of a house-shaped hair salon in Chiba, Japan (+ slideshow).
Ryo Matsui Architects designed the Hairdo beauty salon with a simple interior of plain white walls and timber surfaces, leaving roof trusses and other structural elements exposed.
Located next to Chiba’s train station, the salon’s transparent frontage allows pedestrians to look straight through and see what’s happening on both floors of the building.
“The big glass facade viewed from the frontal road raises the internal aspect and contributes a sense of unity,” the architects explained.
Glass entrance doors lead into a reception and waiting area that occupies the front half of the ground floor.
A row of mirrors and chairs are fixed down the side of the far wall, while a shampoo and colour area is tucked away at the rear along with a small courtyard.
Upstairs, a styling area covers much of the large open-plan space, with a staff room and extra shampoo area towards the back.
Photography is by Daici Ano.
Here’s a project description from the architects:
Hairdo hair salon
This salon is located in the prefectural road in front of Chiba Station where a monorail comes and goes.
We planned the two-story hair salon. In a condition called the ten years fixed-term land leasehold, it is required the coexistence as an intelligent architecture and effective interior.
In the big roof covering the second floor as a main, it is made from a gabled roof-shaped by the warren truss with a light steel frame.
It is matched up steel materials as thin as possible, for example chord members of 60×60mm, lattices of 40×40mm, and roof purlins of 60×30mm.
The contrast of the structure painted white and sheathing boards, applying to the furniture and fixtures, let them fused their visual expression.
The facade of the big glass viewed from the frontal road, raises the internal aspect contributed a sense of unity.
In restrictive temporal axis, it is expected that the salon is integrated into as a picture frame of the city to contribute to local activation.
Building Site: Chiba-shi, Chiba
Principal Use: Hair salon
Architect: Ryo Matsui Architects Inc.
Structural Design: Ryo Kuwako
Construction: Nichinan Iron Corporation
Site Area: 141.99 m² Shampoo Area
Architectural Area: 106.7 m²
Total Floor Area: 220.8 m²
1st Floor Area: 113.41 m²
2nd Floor Area: 106.67 m²
Structure: Steel construction
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Dec 28
Oxymoron Desk by Anna Lotova stores stationery between cushioned layers
Posted in: UncategorizedRussian designer Anna Lotova slotted two layers of foam beneath the surface of this wooden desk to create squishy spaces for storing stationery and other objects.
Named Oxymoron Desk, the piece combines two contrasting materials for its tabletop; two thick layers of upholstered foam are sandwiched between a pair of plywood sheets with curved edges.
A sliced opening along the top plywood sheet exposes the soft layer underneath, creating a place where documents and stationery can be inserted.
“As an architect and designer I know how important it is to have a comfortable and enjoyable work table,” said Lotova. “Oxymoron Desk is a result of interaction between two contradictory materials that enhance each other and gain a new meaning.”
A side table can also be added by slipping an extra piece of plywood between the two cushioned layers on either side of the desk.
An accompanying lamp can also be inserted between the layers, or can be slotted into the top and positioned at different angles.
Here’s some more information from the designer:
Oxymoron Desk
In my projects I look for the lighthearted, hidden humour in every material that I work with.
As an architect and designer I know how important it is to have a comfortable and enjoyable work table. I was always interested in small details that make one like or dislike his own workplace.
We have to change our behaviour, plan and think of work with a different mindset: no matter where an office is situated, it has to have a space it can call its own, identifiable, alterable, on a human scale, with its own history and objects, an enjoyable environment. That’s why for my thesis project in master of product design I decided to choose this topic.
Oxymoron Desk is a result of interaction between two contradictory materials that enhance each other and gain a new meaning. Two layers of foam with an alcantara cloth are placed between plywood sheets to form a toolbox to store documents, objects and technical devices.
This work table includes a lamp and a side desk. Both of them can be inserted from different sides and positions, what gives freedom to the user.
Oxymoron workplace creates pleasant, fresh surroundings that hover between work and home environments.
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Dec 28
dori stool
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DORI is a stool which can be stacked with each other, and added the practicality and uniqueness.This design was inspired by a pinwheel that I played w..
Dec 28
Four-storey house with tree-lined balconies by Ryo Matsui Architects
Posted in: Japanese houses, Ryo Matsui Architects, slideshowsTrees line the protruding balconies of this concrete house in Nagoya, Japan, by Tokyo studio Ryo Matsui Architects (+ slideshow).
Named Balcony House, the four-storey dwelling was designed by Ryo Matsui Architects with three large balconies and a roof terrace that give views of the surrounding city, but are also screened behind planted trees.
“The two metre wide balcony becomes the buffer area with the road and takes on the function of eaves,” said the architect. “We suggest that the balconies have a beneficial influence, not only for the interior, but they become part of the new cityscape.”
Trees planted on the first and the second floor balconies can grow taller through openings in the floor slabs above.
A side entrance leads into the house and ascends directly upstairs, bypassing two parking spaces and a study on the ground floor.
A child’s playroom is located towards the rear of the first floor, while a glass wall exposes the stairwell and an en suite bedroom lined with wooden panels opens out onto the first balcony.
On the second floor, dark wooden panels cover the walls and ceilings of the kitchen and living room, contrasting with sections of exposed concrete that shows the marks of its timber formwork.
The third floor features a bathroom and a walk-in-wardrobe, accessed by a central corridor. An L-shaped balcony with timber decking wraps around the front bedroom.
A outdoor staircase lead up from the third balcony to the roof terrace, which features an al fresco dining area with plants built into the decking.
Photography is by Daici Ano.
Here is some more information from the architect:
The Balcony House
The balconies and new cityscape
In the residential area which have a low-rise building apartment complex and new houses with small balconies, we designed RC 4-floor house.
In Japan, especially the centre of Tokyo, the house next to each other extremely approaches the site boundary.
Although it is the place where we want to expect the openness to the frontal road necessarily, the site facing each other is the same condition.
There are small balconies, and the planters for blindfolds.
It is not exaggeration even if it is said that balconies influence the cityscape in the crowd place of the residential area. The two-metre wide balcony becomes the buffer area with the road and takes on the function of eaves.
Getting plants grown wild by keeping enough depth of the balconies, it is higher than an upper balcony and brought it up. We suggest that the balconies have a beneficial influence not only for the interior, but they become part of the new cityscape.
Project name: Balcony House
Building Site: Minato-ku
Tokyo Architect: Ryo Matsui Architects Inc.
Structure Design: Akira Suzuki / ASA
Principal use: Private house
Architectural Area: 118.58 m²
Total Floor Area: 202.6 m²
1st Floor Area: 113.41 m²
2nd Floor Area: 106.67 m²
3rd Floor Area: 113.41 m²
4th Floor Area: 106.67 m²
Main Structure: Reinforced Concrete
Design Period: 2011.7-2012.6
Construction Period: 2012.7-2013.2
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Dec 27
Realistic Burrito Cake
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It was made by Elizabeth Marek at Oregon’s Artisan Cake Company, and it looks good enough to..(Read…)
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