Après la série colorée sur les ailes et les plumes de perroquets, nous avons choisi de vous présenter un nouveau projet du photographeSølve Sundsbø. Dans cette série nommée « Point à la ligne », des projections d’ombres et de lumières formant des rayures et des petits pois plus ou moins larges recouvrent le corps ou le visage du modèle tout entier. À découvrir.
This row of timber-clad boxes projecting from an artificial grassy slope in France contains the teaching facilities of an apprentice training centre by architects Marjan Hessamfar and Joe Vérons (+ slideshow).
Located in a forest in the Aquitaine region, the Mont-de-Marsan education centre was designed by Marjan Hessamfar and Joe Vérons to accommodate 600 students training in disciplines including catering, beauty and floristry.
Previously located in the centre of the nearby town, the old facility had become run down, leading local trade association Chambre des Métiers to create a new building close to the existing sports and educational amenities of an existing high school.
The plot is surrounded by oak and pine trees, so the architects chose to partially submerge the structure beneath a turfed ramp that ascends over gaps between the wooden volumes, and used locally sourced pine to echo the tonality of the trees.
“Our intention was to drag the building under a green coat to encourage a perfect fusion between the construction and the nature,” the architects told Dezeen.
“Split into individual blocks, the broken facade promotes a fairly low scaled building,” they added. “Landscaping of the site has a continuous flowing feel as it incorporates the building into the actual forest.”
The artificial slope, which covers the building’s ground level and merges with the forest floor, provides protection from prevailing winds as well as from the sun’s heat during summer.
A horizontal aperture in the side of the grassy bank allows daylight to reach the subterranean spaces, while louvered sections in the timber slats that front the first floor spaces allow indirect light to enter these rooms.
The timber used in the project was jointed and glued while still green to ensure its resistance to twisting and warping. The technique was developed by a team architects, engineers and manufacturers at a research centre supported by French timber industry promoter Xylofutur.
The largest of the wooden volumes, located at the centre of the building, cantilevers over an entrance path. This leads into the reception area and then through to a playground at the rear that can be viewed through glass doors on either side.
The ground floor accommodates offices and facilities for teaching floristry, catering and furniture making, while the upper storey houses computer rooms and resource spaces, as well as classrooms and dedicated areas for teaching hairdressing, beauty treatments and sales.
Interiors are white and minimally decorated to make the most of the natural light and emphasise the functionality of the spaces. Pebble-shaped openings in the plywood-clad wall of the reception were a final addition, designed to offer “natural” details.
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We don’t usually post much about fashion but when it comes to prints.. it’s universal, doesn’t matter whether it’s cushions or pants, we have a fondness for prints. Matter has the same focus on prints, as well as comfort. They are so much more than a clothing company.. Matter has a story behind every print they produce.
We were lucky enough to try out 3 of their lovely and super super comfy pants … their tag line is “pants to see the world in” .. and I can totally see myself traveling in such pants. Each print has a story that comes along with it and each pair of pants comes in a lovely cotton drawstring bag. All their pants are block printed to create the beautiful details and patterns.
All images by Bloesem, last image via Matter
.. Matter
C in our A-Zdvent calendar is for the Cabbage Chair by Japanese design studio Nendo, made using layers of waste paper from the fabric-pleating industry.
Nendo founder Oki Sato first created the chair in 2008 for an exhibition curated by fashion designer Issey Miyake, titled XXIst Century Man.
Dezeen Book of Interviews: Oki Sato features in our new book, which is on sale now
Miyake asked Sato and his Tokyo-based team to come up with a design for a seat using paper wasted during the process of forming pleats in garments, which are a signature of the fashion designer’s work.
The paper is used to cover the fabric on both sides while it is put through an industrial pleating machine and comes out folded in the same way as the textile.
To create the Cabbage Chair, the crinkled paper was rolled into a cylinder and cut from the central point on top to halfway down its length.
Layers of the material were then peeled back one by one and left to rest on top of each other until they are all unfurled.
This results in an indented centre and raised portion behind, creating the seat and back of the chair.
Resins added to the paper during its original production make the material stronger and help it to keep its shape once unfolded.
As it requires no nails or screws for assembly, Nendo imagined that it could be shipped as a roll then sliced and peeled by the user.
Miyake named the chair for the resemblance that its layers have to the leaves of a cabbage.
Despite sustainable credentials of recycled material and minimal packaging requirements, the chair never made it into production. Some later versions were created as limited editions using unwoven fabric.
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Sherri Lynn Wood of Daintytime will be spending two intensive days teaching a small group to quilt with curves, April 30 and May 1, using the extensive facilities of AGOS. Wood’s first book, The Improv Handbook for Modern Quilters will be published by STC Craft in March of 2015.
In July, Amy Butler and Heather Jones will lead a small group through their colour stories, and how to translate them into quilts. This exclusive retreat will take place at the luxurious Point Lookout resort in Northport, Maine.
The dynamic trio of Carolyn Friedlander, Chawne Kimber and Rebecca Ringquist take up residence at the Medomak Retreat centre in Washington, ME, in August, for a long Slow Stitching weekend. Slow down and connect to needle and thread or floss in a summer camp setting with a small community of stitchers.
For the garment sewists, Lauren Taylor of LLADYBIRD will spend four days exploring the joys of making clothing at AGOS. Start the Fall with new skills for creating your very own handmade wardrobe at this September workshop.
Thank you to Samantha Lindgren for her support of UPPERCASE magazine through the purchase of this Calling Card ad.
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This week, Pratt Institute is hiring an associate director of project management, while Fusion needs an art director. Levine/Leavitt is looking for a studio manager, and Columbia College Chicago is on the hunt for a media center technician. Get the scoop on these openings and more below, and find additional just-posted gigs on Mediabistro.
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« Wanderers » est un court-métrage animé conçu par le vidéaste suédois Erik Wernquist qui a imaginé à quoi ressemblerait la colonisation de l’espace par l’homme. Il a réussi à recréer notre système solaire à l’identique grâce à de vraies photos de l’espace et des documents de la NASA. Un voyage dans notre galaxie pour l’unique plaisir des yeux et des images, à regarder.
Credits :
VISUALS – Erik Wernquist.
MUSIC – Cristian Sandquist.
WORDS AND VOICE – Carl Sagan.
COLOR GRADE – Caj Müller/Beckholmen Film.
LIVE ACTION PHOTOGRAPHY – Mikael Hall/Vidiotism.
LIVE ACTION PERFORMANCE – Anna Nerman, Camilla Hammarström, Hanna Mellin.
VOCALIST – Nina Fylkegård.
THANK YOU – Johan Persson, Calle Herdenberg, Micke Lindgren, Satrio J. Studt, Tomas Axelsson, Christian Lundqvist, Micke Lindell, Sigfrid Söderberg, Fredrik Strage, Johan Antoni, Henrik Johansson, Michael Uvnäs, Hanna Mellin.
THIS FILM WAS MADE WITH USE OF PHOTOS AND TEXTURES FROM:
NASA/JPL, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, ESA, John Van Vliet, Björn Jonsson.
JDS Architects used staggered balconies to create a cascade of cubes across the facade of this Seoul officetel – a kind of housing and workplace hybrid typical in South Korea (+ slideshow).
Julien De Smedt‘s firm recently completed the 10-storey Gwell Residential building in the city’s developing Gangnam Bogeumjari District, creating a row of shops and 700 single-resident homes.
Described by the Belgian architect as “a new dimension for the officetel typology”, the design aims to rethink the typical layout of the common South Korean building, which commonly consists of small units that allow occupants to live and work in the same place.
The starting point for the design was the orientation of the site, which wraps around a corner at the base of a hill. In its current configuration, over 30 per cent of the residences would face north, and a handful would overlook their neighbours.
The architect avoided this by shifting the floor plans so that many of the 25-square-metre apartments sit at an angle. This helped to direct windows towards the west or east, offering more natural light.
To complicate the facade even further, De Smedt staggered the apartments across different floors and added balconies across the front of each one, creating a pattern of tessellating cubes.
“This shifted facade creates a special identity for the whole complex – a lively and exclusive appearance that becomes the trademark for this unique building,” he said.
The building is located at the base of a hill. Its volume has been split into two and it frames a large communal courtyard that opens out to the landscape at the rear.
Each residence consists of a simple rectilinear unit with a self-contained bathroom, a small kitchenette and a combing living and sleeping space, as well as the decked balcony.
Zigzagging paving in front of the building mimics the pattern of the facade, forming a new public space overlooked by residents.
Glazed shopfronts surround the ground floor, while a drive-through entrance leads down to five levels of underground parking, offering enough space for each resident to park a car.
Project credits:
Architect: JDS, Junglim Architects
Creative authorship: Julien De Smedt
Project leader: Heechan Park, Henning Stüben
Project team: Amanda Ripoll, Byeongmoo Moo, Chris Zhongtian Yuan, Francisco Villeda, Marvin Philipp, Mathilde Claus
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