L’artiste Mathew Borrett créer ces labyrinthes magnifiquement complexes de chambres minuscules qui semblent être sculptés dans une pleine page blanche. De nombreuses chambres défient toute idée de logique. De magnifiques illustrations à découvrir dans la suite de l’article.
This metal-clad house in Chiba, Japan, was designed by architect Yuji Kimura to fill its site, meaning a car-parking space and balcony had to be slotted within its boxy volume (+ slideshow).
Yuji Kimura gave House in Chiba a galvanised steel exterior, punctuated by an assortment of square windows. A mesh door slides open to reveal the parking space in one corner, while a secluded balcony is located directly above.
The balcony is enclosed on all sides, but open to the sky. It also has a mesh floor, which allows light to enter both of the house’s two storeys.
“[The house] was planned to be a shape that surrounds the entire site, provided that the balcony and parking lot also serve as lighting,” said Kimura.
Residents enter the house through the garage, which leads through to bedroom and bathroom spaces on the ground floor. According to Kimura, these spaces require the least natural light.
Living, dining and kitchen areas occupy one double-height space on the level above so they can receive the most sunlight. Glass screens slide back to open this space out to the balcony.
The kitchen features a stainless steel counter, while the living space is filled with furniture on wheels that allows the occupants to easily change the layout.
A ladder provides access to a mezzanine loft that, like the rest of the house, features wooden flooring. The architect expects this to be used for storage.
Photography is by Takumi Ota.
Here’s a description from Yuji Kimura Design:
House in Chiba
This house has the appearance of a simple box, shaped like a factory, where large and small square holes create a visual rhythm that opens at random. The site is located in a corner lot where the two roads of a quiet residential area of Chiba Prefecture where suburbs cross.
The request from the owner when planning:
1. Bright and Large Living
2. Balcony with Privacy
3. Simple and appearance like a factory
In order to secure privacy, the house takes in light from the road side with no obstacles. It was planned to be a shape that surrounds the entire site, provided that the balcony and parking lot also serves as a lighting.
Since the whole is a simple big box-shaped, by setting the bare dare joints such as bolts and rail, a garage gate and gate is prevented from too much minimal. Moreover, the arrangement of square holes of various sizes, such as are open to random, the opening is making a visual rhythm.
A bedroom being only the sleeping purpose and spending most of time in living and dining room, a bedroom and a bathroom were placed in the first floor, a dining room and a living room were placed in the sunniest place of the second floor. Provided with a large opening in the living room, so that is out on the balcony.
There is also a sliding door with storage space in the kitchen back side, refrigerator, washing machine, household goods are placed in it.
The atrium part, by providing a loft that can be up and down the ladder, and in consideration for storage.
Location: Chiba, Japan
Design: Yuji Kimura Design
Site area: 84.10 sqm
Building area: 41.13 sqm
Total area: 82.26 sqm
Structure: timber
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Cachaça—the national spirit of Brazil, made from distilled sugarcane juice—has a curious reputation outside of its home country. Often misclassified as a rum, the spirit is best known as the base ingredient in Brazil’s trademark simple yet…
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La firme australienne Adrian Amore Architects a transformé une usine à beurre en un très bel appartement blanc et minimaliste plein de courbes et de noeuds. Le rendu des escaliers donne l’impression de sculpture. Des photographies de Fraser Marsden qui sont à découvrir dans la suite de l’article.
With an elegant silhouette that doesn’t scream “DIY,” the Zeta Aluminium lamp is a welcome addition to the realm of hardware-free, flat-pack, assemble-it-yourself housewares. Designed by the Florence, Italy-based ZPSTUDIO, the lamp uses a narrow template design to wring maximum utility out of a minimal amount of material—resulting in low cost and little environmental impact.
Zeta Aluminium is actually the second iteration of this project. The original Zeta, released in 2011, was created from sheets of laser-cut poplar. ZPSTUIO’S founders, Eva Parigi and Matteo Zetti, sold the prototype to another design company, but they have now taken back the patent to redevelop the concept into Zeta Aluminium. “We wanted to further extend the early idea to achieve a more advanced, tech-like version,” Parigi says.
Zeta Aluminium shares the same principles and silhouette of its predecessor, but instead of wood it uses Dibond, an industrial aluminum composite made of two pre-painted sheets of 0.012-inch-thick aluminum that sandwich a polyethylene core. This is a big upgrade from poplar: Dibond is lighter weight and more durable, and it will not warp or bow the way a sheet of wood might. Plus, the polyethylene core adds an additional layer of friction to hold the pieces together.
Assembling the original poplar version of the Zeta lamp
Artists have been inspired by the sky since the dawn of time; from the clouds and birds soaring, to human ascent and even the outer reaches of what we know—and can further imagine. Gravity-defying limitlessness propels the imagination, and it’s no different within the watch world. The following three pieces…
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Milan 2014: the fourth iteration of British designer Faye Toogood‘s Assemblage collection will launch at the Project B Gallery in Milan on Tuesday.
Faye Toogood has continued to use the geometric elements typical of her Assemblage range for this collection. But in contrast to the angular feel of Assemblage 3, the feet on these pieces are rounded, drawing influence from her experiences of pregnancy and motherhood.
“I’ve got fat,” Toogood told Dezeen. “Gone are the angles, hard lines and dark colour schemes of previous collections in favour of voluptuousness and creaminess.”
Assemblage 4, titled Roly-Poly, includes a low four-legged chair, a higher dining chair and table, a sculptural daybed, and a reinterpretation of Toogood’s Element table.
Each piece is developed from a clay maquette and then crafted from fibreglass, more commonly used in boat production.
Soft tones of cream, beige and white are reminiscent of faded injection-moulded Eames chairs.
Accompanying the furniture, the hand-woven Play tapestry and yarn throws designed for the chair and day bed explore the collection’s geometric themes in a different material.
“My new collection reflects my journey of becoming a mother and seeing the world through the eyes of a child,” said Toogood.
Toogood will show the furniture at Project B Gallery, Via Maroncelli 7, in Milan from 8 to 13 April.
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The phrase “balloon chair” could mean any number of things, really, so h220430’s take fits the bill as well as any of the possibilities (according to their website, the company takes its name from its birthday). If I understand the description correctly, the chair is mounted to the wall, as is its canopy of airless FRP (i.e. non-deflating) balloons, but this scarcely detracts from its visual effect. According to the Tokyo-based design studio, “if you sit in this chair, you’ll be able to think positive thoughts even if you are feeling down.”
And while the “Balloon Chair” might evoke a certain Disney/Pixar film for many of us, it was actually inspired by Albert Lamorisse’s classic featurette Le Ballon Rouge from over half a century prior. The critically acclaimed 1956 fantasy is viewable in full on YouTube, and if you haven’t seen it (as I had not), I highly recommend it:
The “Balloon Chair” will be on view in Milan next week, at the Ventura Hive group exhibition, where we’ll find out exactly how h220430 achieved the floating effect.
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