La Iniala Beach House a été construite en Thaïlande, dans la ville de Phuket, par le studio A-cero, Rafael Llamazares et Joaquin Torres Arquitectos. Cette belle maison est constituée de plusieurs villas et sa forme s’inspire du mouvement des vagues avec des lignes ondulantes verticales et horizontales.
Competition: we’ve teamed up with London designers PostlerFerguson to give away four pairs of wooden model buoys to Dezeen readers.
Created for London and Hong Kong-based toy maker Papafoxtrot, the buoys form part of two wooden toy series called Sea and Space.
The collection includes four types of marine buoy: the tsunami warning buoy, weather buoy, the starboard buoy and the port side buoy.
Each one comes with interchangeable solid wooden parts, a solid silicone base and 2mm polypropylene signal sheets.
Other products in the Papafoxtrot range include a toy-sized version of the world’s largest ship and satellites used by NASA, which can be built as part of a set using a wooden base and individual parts.
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Competition closes on 17 July 2014. Four winners will be selected at random and notified by email. Winners’ names will be published in a future edition of our Dezeen Mail newsletter and at the top of this page. Dezeen competitions are international and entries are accepted from readers in any country.
Here’s more information from PostlerFerguson:
Wooden toys with a colourful, reduced aesthetic imbue Papafoxtrot products with an engaging tactility and playful optimism.
The same global systems that inspire these toys allow the designers to utilise the best craftsmen and material suppliers in order to create products of the highest quality.
About PostlerFerguson
PostlerFerguson was founded in 2007 by designers Martin Postler and Ian Ferguson.
The studio works on products, spaces and design strategy for clients, using its expertise in design and technology to solve problems.
Each individual project is researched and viewed in its broadest context to maximize potential. The resulting solutions always combine an immediate sensory appeal with an underlying conceptual nuance.
The approach is collaborative and multidisciplinary: a small team of in-house professionals with an excellent international network.
Experience and knowledge of manufacturing and production allows the whole ecosystem of a product to be managed, from initial concepts, materials and processes to impeccable finish.
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Today’s World Cup ticket design (left) versus the design from 1930 (right)
You don’t have to go very far to find evidence that the World Cup is making headlines at just about every media outlet out there, ourselves included. It’s easy to find yourself caught up with footie fever, packed into a tiny bar with fifty other screaming fans pushing you away from the bar (and television). While 100 Chileans recently demonstrated otherwise, tickets are coveted enough to make for a keepsake or even a prized possession, should your team prevail. Here’s a look at the ever-evolving ticket designs from 1930, when FIFA started distributing them, to present day.
1930
1950
The ticket from the inaugural World Cup games in Uruguay may look pretty basic, but used ones go for close to $1,700 on collector sites nowadays. The outbreak of World War II meant a 12-year hiatus, which returned to Brazil in 1950 with a new design feature: the stub.
1954’s World Cup ticket
The stub was overall shortlived, it seems. In 1954—the first year the Cup was televised, by the way—tickets came in different shapes/sizes depending on which round it was, incorporating the stub only in tickets for the final.
Given the quality of air in urbanscapes, indoors are as bad as outdoors. Air purifiers are no longer a fancy gadget but a device that is essential to keep the breeding of viruses, bacteria, fungi etc. at bay. The Lotus is an air purifier is a different breed simply because it features portable units that you can carry from room to room.
Lotus purifies via the main unit and its three portable air balls. The main unit focuses on general purification, the balls are handy and rechargeable. Ther are classified as Pure Ball, Odor Ball and Humid Ball and are designed to serve a specific purpose.
Pure Ball eliminates biological contaminations and sterilizes; Odor Ball eliminates the bad odors and diffuses perfume; and Humid Ball adjusts the humidity. Each ball has a unique icon on it representing its function, which helps to choose the application. Both Lotus main unit and the air balls can be controlled easily by a smart phone app. The project is a part of the 2014 Electrolux Design Lab competition.
Designer: Fulden Dehneli
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Focus sur le travail de Daniel Coves : un artiste peintre vivant à Berlin et qui nous propose des représentations ultra réalistes de différentes personnes de dos. Un travail impressionnant sur la lumière, les cheveux et les textures réuni sous le nom de « Back Portraits » à découvrir dans la suite en images.
Melanie Yugo is the creative director of Spins & Needles, a record label and screenprinting studio in Ottawa. She and her partner Jason Pelletier have an multi-disciplinary event happening this weekend that sounds interesting. I’ll let Melanie do the talking:
“We’ve been subscribers of UPPERCASE Magazine for a couple years now and have discovered the work of lots of emerging and established artists in print and design because of it. Also love that you’re a Canadian bringing your perspective to the print world!
Prints & Inks is a new celebration of the diverse field of print and graphic arts in Canada’s capital. This weekend-long show will feature the work of exciting Canadian talent in print, illustration and design, alongside a pop-up shop, hands-on print activities, and a late-night art party. It takes place from June 20-22, 2014.
It’ll be like art + design show meets DJ party meets interactive print workshop.
Our motivation was to bring together the work of amazing Canadian talent from across the country in the capital. Many are showing here for the first time. It’s also a space for people to learn more about these artists as well as creative processes like printmaking and illustration. This is our second instalment, and we are aiming to make it an annual event.
More about us: We’re a music + making duo who produce events, including DIY + DJ parties, workshops, art shows, installations, and also run an indie record label. We’re based in Ottawa but travel to different cities during the year for events.”
Check out the Spins & Needles blog for studio tours and interviews with printmakers like Jenn Kitagawa, an Alberta College of Art & Design graduate whose work has appeared in UPPERCASE.
And, while we’re on the topic, I’m working on printmaking as a theme for a forthcoming issue of UPPERCASE magazine, so if you’d like to share your work with me, please submit here.
Trees grow on top of five concrete boxes, like oversized pot plants, at this house in Ho Chi Minh City by Vietnamese studio Vo Trong Nghia Architects (+ slideshow).
House for Trees by Vo Trong Nghia Architects is a two-bedroom home for a family of three. It is built on vacant land hemmed in by buildings on all sides, in one of the most densely populated areas of Ho Chi Minh City, which has just 0.25 percent of its area covered in greenery, according to the architects.
“The aim of this project is to bring green space back into the city, accommodating high-density dwelling with big tropical trees. Five concrete boxes are designed as ‘pots’ to plant trees on their tops,” said the architects, whose previous projects include a spiral-shaped house covered in grass, and a cafe with huge bamboo columns.
Banyan trees were chosen for the roofs because they have above-ground roots. “This tree has aerial roots, and fewer underground roots, so we think it is suitable to plant on top of the boxes,” the architects told Dezeen.
Related story: Low Cost House by Vo Trong Nghia Architects
The roofs are also designed to retain storm water in order to prevent flooding, with soil more than 1.5 metres deep, which required significant structural support beneath.
“In order to support the weight of the soil, water and trees, we built a load-bearing wall structure, which is not very common for Vietnamese houses,” said the architects.
The buildings are arranged around a central courtyard, with few windows at the back to maintain privacy, and large glass doors and windows at the front to maximise daylight and ventilation.
“The courtyard and gardens, shaded by trees above, become part of the ground floor living space,” said the architects. “Blurring the border between inside and outside, the house offers a tropical lifestyle that co-exists with nature.”
The smallest box by the entrance is single-storey and houses an altar room. The other four boxes are all two-storey, with communal areas on the ground floor, and more private spaces on the top floor.
The first of the two-storey boxes contains a library and bedroom above. The next box houses a kitchen, and storage on the floor above. The box next to this has the dining room and a bedroom above. The final box, set furthest into the plan, has bathrooms on both levels.
Metal bridges connect the upper levels of the different buildings and create shaded corridors beneath them to connect the ground floors.
The exterior walls are made of in-situ concrete with bamboo formwork, while the locally sourced bricks have been left exposed inside. A ventilated cavity between the internal brick and exterior concrete walls prevents heat transfer, to maintain comfortable indoor temperatures.
Local and natural materials were chosen to reduce the home’s carbon footprint and keep costs down.
“Considering the unique structure, it was a tight budget, so we minimised the finishing materials,” said the architects. “The ceilings are exposed concrete and the interior walls are exposed brick, which is one of the cheapest materials in Vietnam.”
House for Trees recently won first prize in the AR House 2014 awards. Previous winners include a self-sufficient Chinese house with terraces for growing food and a sustainable house covered in rubber.
Photography is by Hiroyuki Oki.
Here is some more text from the studio:
House for Trees, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Under rapid urbanisation, cities in Vietnam have diverged far from their origins as sprawling tropical forests. In Ho Chi Minh City, for example, only 0.25% area of the entire city is covered with greenery. An over-abundance of motorbikes causes daily traffic congestion as well as serious air pollution. As a result, new generations in urban areas are losing their connection with nature.
House for Trees, a prototypical house within a tight budget of 156,000 USD, is an effort to change this situation. The aim of the project is to bring green space back into the city, accommodating high-density dwelling with big tropical trees. Five concrete boxes are designed as “pots” to plant trees on their tops. With thick soil layer, these pots also function as storm-water basins for detention and retention, therefore contribute to reduce the risk of flooding in the city when the idea is multiplied to a large number of houses in the future.
The house is located in Tan Binh district, one of the most densely populated residential areas in Ho Chi Minh City, where many small houses are crowded together. The site is a remnant landlocked block within this suburb, accessed only by a small pedestrian lane. Resonating with this urban tissue, the house is designed as an accumulation of small fragments. Surrounded by typical Vietnamese row houses on all sides, House for Trees stands out like an oasis.
Fitting into the informal shape of the site, five boxes are positioned to create a central courtyard and small gardens in between. The boxes open to this central courtyard with large glass doors and operable windows to enhance natural lighting and ventilation, while remain relatively closed on the other sides for privacy and security. Common spaces such as the dining room and library are located on the ground floor. Upper floors accommodate private bedrooms and bathrooms, which are connected through bridge-cum-eaves made of steel. The courtyard and gardens, shaded by trees above, become part of the ground floor living space. Blurring the border between inside and outside, the house offers a tropical lifestyle that coexists with nature.
Local and natural materials are utilised to reduce cost and carbon footprint. The external walls are made of in-situ concrete with bamboo formwork, while locally-sourced bricks are exposed on the internal walls as finishing. A ventilated cavity separates the concrete and brick walls to protect interior space from heat transfer.
Architect: Vo Trong Nghia Architects
Principal architects: Vo Trong Nghia, Masaaki Iwamoto, Kosuke Nishijima
Project architect: Nguyen Tat Dat
Location: Tan Binh, Ho Chi Minh City
Floor area: 226.5m2
Footprint: 111.7m2
Site area: 474.3m2
Maximum Height: 10.3m
Construction cost: US$156,000
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Eglė Stonkutė’s series of artfully designed mirrors are less about literal reflection and more about invoking the imagination. The first is an interpretation of circular waves of water held in static motion. The next is an extract from the legend of Narcissus with a swooping bottom that represents the river in the story. The last is a concave moving mirror that turns the mirrored image upside down similar to a view through a drop of water. Together, they encourage viewers to reflect not on the exterior, but within.
Designer: Eglė Stonkutė
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Constitué de David Tarcali, Pásztor Bence et Pongor Soma, le Studio Nomad a conçu une collection de 3 tables d’appoint appelée « 3Legs ». Une feuille d’acier de 3 millimètres d’épaisseur a été pliée pour réaliser chaque table afin qu’elle ne bascule pas. Ces tables existent en 3 couleurs et jouent avec la géométrie de l’architecture avec talent.
Copenhagen urban cycling company Biomega has launched two versions of a city bike by Danish design supergroup KiBiSi with a glow-in-the-dark front fork and a mudguard integrated into the down tube.
KiBiSi – the design group created by architect Bjarke Ingels, industrial designer Lars Larsen and design entrepreneur and Biomega founder Jens Martin Skibsted – based the NYC / New York city bike on Biomega‘s innovative CPH / Copenhagen design, but reengineered it to include functions that make commuting safer and more comfortable.
While the CPH design features an unusual drive-shaft instead of the typical chain, the NYC bike takes the chainless cycling concept in a different direction with its carbon fibre belt drive that transfers power to the rear wheel.
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Originally designed in 2010, the NYC model features intelligent details such as gear and brake cables hidden inside the frame, which are used on Biomega’s previous bikes and have helped establish the firm as a leading producer of functional and stylish city bikes.
It will be available to the public for the first time in two gear speed and eight gear speed versions this summer.
“The NYC / New York Biomega bicycle is thought of as the heir to my CPH / Copenhagen Biomega bicycle: no, chain, no frills diamond frame,” said Biomega founder and KiBiSi designer Jens Martin Skibsted.
“I can only think of a few classic bicycles where every detail has been so thoroughly designed. We simply put the bicycle back on the drawing board and detailed every bit of it all over again.”
Key features of the NYC design include an aluminium down tube with flanges on either side that create a built-in mudguard.
The front fork is treated with a glow-in-the-dark paint that absorbs light during the day and emits it at night to supplement standard bike lights and offer a supplementary safety measure.
The bike will be launched on 27 June at Copenhagen’s Designmuseum Danmark and presented at international cycling fairs Eurobike and Interbike in September.
KiBiSi has previously collaborated with Biomega on a radical bicycle concept for fashion brand Puma, featuring an extendable baggage rack.
The studio has also designed a magnetic bike light that turns on when the two halves are snapped together around the bicycle’s frame.
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