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Issue 22 of UPPERCASE magazine is inspired by colour. With such a broad topic, I had to find a way to tackle it within one issue.

Like many graphic designers, I thrive on constraints. So I gave myself some rules to follow: 1) The issue would be organized Roy-G-Biv-style, going from red at the front of the book through to violet at the last page. 2) The arrangement of the content and structure of the magazine would stay the same as any other issue of UPPERCASE. For example, the Beginnings column is the first few pages of the magazine and would therefore feature predominantly red imagery. I set out to find an artist whose work uses a lot of red: Canadian painter Janet Hill has been in my inspiration file for years and her paintings are punctuated with ruby accents. At the other end of the spectrum, I described the concept to longtime contributor Andrea Jenkins, who wrote a musing on her love/hate relationship with the colour purple. With these guidelines in place, I assigned and curated content—sharing my art-directed rainbow concept with our contributors and featured artists along the way.

I am so grateful to all the amazing contributors and featured artists who shared my colourful vision for this summer issue and turned in some spectacular work. UPPERCASE issue #22 will be released July 1. 

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Sorry for the title, but I just don’t know what else to call this assemblage of objects. Tasked with designing the interior of a small apartment, Russian architecture firm Ruetemple came up with this “mobile solution for recreational areas.” Ruetemple’s website is so sparse that the principals’ last names are not even give—all we know is the firm consists of “Alexander” and “Daria”—and the project pages offer little in the way of description, so we’ll have to let the photos do the talking here.

What they came up with is three separate, wheeled components that can be assembled in a seemingly infinite variety of ways:

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This year’s Visual Communication jury has worked on the staffs of numerous consumer publications—from InStyle and Creative Review to Vancouver Magazine and Azure—to which we say, what better group to introduce this year’s program honorees? Listen in as Marian Bantjes (Jury Captain), Dr. Shelley Gruendler and Vancouver Magazine‘s Mark Mushet and Paul Roelofs report on the 2014 Core77 Design Awards winners from Vancouver, Canada:

Professional
Winner: Valentina D’Efilippo – The Infographic History of the World
Runners-up:
» Studio Matthews – Bezos Center for Innovation
» Hello Design – Herman Miller Collection
Notables:
» aruliden – AM, A Movement Against Screen Schmutz
» Gustavo Piqueira – Memória Militante Collection
» Gustavo Piqueira – Brazilian Clichés (Clichês Brasileiros)
» The Center for Urban Pedagogy and IntraCollaborative – Rent Regulation Rights
» Melcher Media and Headcase Design – S.
» Pentagram – New York City Beaches
» Nick Adam / Matthew Wizinsky – Archive13: Ritual Posters
» Elizabeth Ward – EXP CAL YYYY Calendar Poster
» SapientNitro – Hatch 53: Datastronomy

Student
Winner: Young JooTak – LAXART MUSEUM
Runner-up: 512stew – 512stew
Notables:
» Chloe Scheffe – Oded Ezer Lecture Posters
» Justin Bechard – Gauthier & Nolet Architects Identity
» Valentine Mayuran Emmanuel – 1daywaste
» Youngeun Sohn – Christopher’s Room

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Colourful painted patterns frame windows scattered across the bright red facade of this primary school in the Italian town of Chiarano by Treviso office C+S Architects (+ slideshow).

Chiarano Primary School was designed by C+S Architects to accommodate 250 students in ten classrooms with glazed walls that allow light to permeate throughout the interior.

Interior spaces are arranged around a large entrance hall featuring a double-height atrium containing a glazed box that intersects the main building.

Windows along all sides of the central structure allow natural light to flood the entrance foyer and provide views of a garden used for teaching that is constructed within the glazed walls of the inner cube.

The garden is raised on columns to ensure views across the ground floor are maintained and the glass walls permit views between the floors and from one side of the first floor balcony to the other.

“The building is porous,” said the architects. “It allows the territory and the light to flow inside the spaces.”

Light tubes with transparent domed caps embedded in the structure supporting the garden reflect light downwards into a library underneath.

The library is positioned at the heart of the building and is intended to be a publicly accessible space, open to the rest of the community after the pupils have left.

“School buildings are in fact the places where a multi-ethnic and multi-cultural experience happens naturally through the children,” said the architects. “This is why we have started to enhance the more public spaces in order to open them up to the whole community after the school hours.”

Circulation areas around the edges of the foyer and a balcony on the first floor negate the need for enclosed corridors which would obstruct sight lines across the space.

The southwest facade of the two-story building is fully glazed and provides views of the surrounding countryside from the classrooms within.

Walls separating the classrooms from the public spaces feature glazing between the ceilings and horizontal plywood storage units that reach a height of 120 centimetres.

The glass sections offer a visual connection to the rest of the building, while the shelving can be used to store pupils’ belongings and block views when seated that could distract them when working.

As a manifestation of the architects’ belief that schools can provide “punctual coloured events in the grey urban sprawl”, one of the building’s facades is painted red and features geometric shapes in contrasting colours around the window openings.

Here’s some information from C+S Architects:

Chiarano Primary School

CPS. Chiarano Primary School is divided into two sections, hosting 10 classrooms for 250 students.

The building is porous. It allows the territory and the light to flow inside the spaces.

A glazed facade, facing the South-West side, opens the view on the surrounding countryside. The walls which separate the classrooms from the corridors are opaque only for the first 120cm and glazed on the upper parts. This condition enhances the intervisibility from the outside space and among the inner spaces.

No corridors are used for the school layout as all the classrooms’ access happens on the main entrance hall on the ground level and thanks to a suspended balcony on the first floor. This solution maximises the visibility among the spaces.

The intervisibility is also emphasised by the visual connections between the different levels, thanks to the double hight designed for the main entrance and to the design of a glazed ‘lantern of light’ that is suspended over the library, which gives character to the school entrance hall. The suspended lantern houses a ‘botanic garden’ for outdoor experimentations.

The library is the core of the project, and it has been thought as a new urban node for the community, since it is kept open after the school hours.

The community has been involved in the project with a special theatre play, in which architects, working with the children of Chiarano’s primary schools, a drama teacher and a musician interacted together to shape the design and the construction of the future school. No didactic purpose was that assigned to the theatre project, but the idea of introducing the new construction to the community through a strong shared and enjoyable experience.

Architects: C+S, Carlo Cappai, Maria Alessandra Segantini
Management, structures, MEP and security: Favero & Milan Ingegneria s.r.l.
Client: Chiarano Municipality

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