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A faceted concrete shell punctuated by openings of varying sizes wraps around this house in Kuala Lumpur, which contains pockets of interior landscaping that create private outdoor spaces.
Local studio Formzero designed The Window House for a hillside site on the edge of a forest overlooking the Malaysian capital.
The architects’ initial thoughts were to maximise the connection between the house and the adjacent forest, but the clients were more interested in the internal experience than the outward views.
The brief focused on optimising the house’s interior volume and achieving a sense of privacy within a building that is situated in close proximity to its neighbours.
The solution proposed by Formzero involves shrouding the house in a protective shell of concrete that wraps around the east and west facades to ensure the interior is not overlooked.
Carefully positioned apertures allow light and air to enter the building. Rather than relying on curtains to achieve privacy, the intention was to design these windows in such a way that they can be left uncovered.
“The design concept of The Window House departed with three tectonic approaches through the manipulation of the form and function of the window,” said the studio.
“By doing so, the ultimate aim of this project is to strengthen the house owner’s bond with the existing context without diluting the design brief.”
The concrete sheath is open at either end, allowing cross-ventilating breezes to flow through the house. Its faceted form responds to the building’s orientation and its relationship with the forest.
“The concrete shell is shaped in a telescoping form,” said the architects. “It is tapered at the front and widens towards the forest in both plan and section, like creating a giant window frame to look out to the forest.”
The tapered front facade is intended to give the entrance to the house a more human scale. It encloses a series of staggered cubic volumes that reflect the configuration of internal spaces.
In places, the outer layer separates from the facades, creating pockets of space that are filled with plants to mediate between the interior and the surrounding nature.
The number of openings and their positioning is determined by the functional requirements of each room. Each window frames a specific view, with deep reveals contributing to the sense of intermediary space.
The building’s slanted roof sections are punctured by openings including a private roof terrace and skylights that allow daylight to reach interior spaces including a stairwell leading to the upper floor.
A skeletal metal staircase with transparent glass treads ascends from a games room to the roof terrace. Its exposed frame complements the industrial feel of the interior, which features raw concrete and brick walls.
Photography is by Ronson Lee of Twins Photography.
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Parisian interior architect and designer Stéphane Parmentier has created a collection of ribbed, leather-wrapped furniture for Italian brand Giobagnara.
Called Scala, the collection includes two three-legged occasional tables, one three-legged stool and two different-sized cabinets each set on chubby solid wood legs.
The silhouettes all feature a ribbed form, which Parmentier based on a building he had seen in Milan.
“The base of this huge 19th-century building had a stacked shape in beautiful beige stone,” Parmentier told Dezeen. “I thought it would be interesting to have a line of furniture starting from this detail taken to another scale and material – leather.”
Parmentier, who also serves as creative director of Giobagnara – a Genoa-based leather furniture and accessories brand, said that the challenge was getting the leather to adhere to the curved wooden surfaces without wrinkling.
He also wanted the pieces to be as light as possible, while still using wood for the supporting structure.
“We have to humidify the leather, stretch it and then glue it to the wooden base,” explained Parmentier. “But on top of this it is the craftsman with his skills; only a few of them can meet this technical challenge. I like the idea of a furniture with an apparent simplicity but with lots of hand finishes.”
“The other challenge was not to have a too heavy wooden base,” he continued. “The inside of the furniture is very sophisticated.”
Parmentier began his career at fashion label Karl Lagerfeld, before setting up his own architectural studio in 2002. As well as producing his own label’s furniture collection, Parmentier’s projects include interiors for Hermès and Christofle and furniture and lighting for brands such as Astec and CTO Lighting.
He said his work is inspired by “classical Greco-Roman antiquity, the beauty of the Puglian landscape, the restraint of the Japanese aesthetic, and a desire to focus on the essential”.
Scandinavian brand Ferm Living employed a ribbed silhouette similar to Scala’s when designing its collection of circular and lozenge-shaped pouffes, launched last year.
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Zaha Hadid Architects vient de sortir de superbes images de Leeza Soho, leur dernier gratte-ciel à usage mixte, situé dans le quartier financier de Beijing. Ce magnifique projet est notamment impressionnant pour son atrium, qui sera le plus grand du monde, avec 190m de haut, soir l’intégralité de l’intérieur du bâtiment, faisant la liaison entre deux structures enroulées. Encore en construction, la livraison est prévue pour 2018. Un chef d’oeuvre.
We’ve updated our kitchens-focused Pinterest board with a variety of new projects, including an Ilse Crawford-designed community kitchen in London and a Sydney home with a kitchen that extends into the garden. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest ›
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Below you’ll find the most popular designs we’ve tracked over the last 30 days – an overview of designs you shouldn’t have missed in February 2018.
Made from polished precious minerals, the DeskSpace is your entire solar system (Sun excluded) on your desk, arranged in linear order, comprising every planet made from the appropriately selected gemstone. Buy now!
Integrated into the end of the pen, a finger fidget mechanism allows users to turn the wheels, press buttons and feel the intaglio to their subconscious heart’s content!
The @Table features a crank and loosely connected slats that can be rolled up or rolled out to save space or make room for more people!
Red is a semi-autonomous machine with a nearly unlimited number of heavy duty applications from forestry to construction thanks to its shape-shifting design.
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Built from reclaimed industrial files, the Kiridashi by OriginHG features a small pocket-friendly design and even a nice knurled grip, courtesy the industrial file’s abrasive surface.
Aptly named the Logitech Lapdesk, it explores the integration of a stylus/tablet combination directly into the laptop body. It’s a perfect portable solution for graphic designers, artists, architects and anyone else who works with creative software.
Completely 3D printed from steel, the matte black Torq cracks walnuts with ease. Just place them in the concavity marked by the design detail and twist the key down.
Designed to maximize your last-mile commute, the Praxis bicycle is both aptly named for the axis on which it conveniently folds down to half its normal size.
Simple, sensible, and small, the FOCX Smart Wallet ticks all the correct boxes.
Designed as a peripheral attachment to your IOS or Android smartphone, it snaps on in an instant and works by translating thermal energy (infrared light) into a visible image on your phone.
I hate the notch. I see it as a necessity, and I acknowledge its presence (with red-hot hatred), and I’m sure you do too, but I promise you from this moment onward, you’ll look at it differently. Very differently. Not a single radius was a true radius, and the notch you look at was in fact, an inverted trapezoid.
The Sensor Controlled Swimming Safety Device sits around your neck, and will trigger when it comes in contact with water, but even comes with a manual trigger.
The Energy Tape concept pushes the limits of portable solar power by offering a reusable strip that works a lot like a roll of tape!
As if the Scandinavian landscape couldn’t get any prettier, imagine experiencing it from a cozy little pod on the back of your 4×4.
This awe-inspiring design comes with a pretty nifty looking cam mechanism that allows the blade to rotate on a completely different axis as compared to switchblades/folding-blades.
The collection consists of a flexible magnetic healing pad that can be placed around any limb or muscle, a massaging wrap for soothing aches, and pressure clips for restoring qi energy.
The Method 143 is the first concept production motorcycle featuring a carbon fiber mono-cell chassis.
Just when we thought Wool & Oak’s iconic 6-in-1 modular bag couldn’t get better, this happened. Our favorite shape shifting Duffle Backpack returns in a water and weather resistant avatar… and at half the price! Buy now!
The Honey Strip lets you plug individual points into one another to create an extension board.
This scooter with oversized front tire and itty bitty back tire deliver a cool, contrasting aesthetic but they’re also functional as the compact back tire fits into the frame when folded.
The Apple Glasses are a conceptual pair of AR glasses that marry AR technology (an area Apple is a pioneer in now) along with product design that’s truly representative of what Apple stands for.
The Volt takes portable charging to the next level. In fact, I can’t recall ever seeing a mobile car charger let alone one that flies.
From the mode dial to the power button, its controls are oversized and intuitive to use. Its fluid form looks robust and less delicate, inspiring confidence in the user’s grip.
The Muul harnesses water’s ability to bend light, creating a caustic network of beautiful light patterns that sway and change with the water’s ripples.
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L’artiste Rikato Nagashima a conçu l’installation intitulée « Human Nature », réalisée en hommage à Anish Kapoor, un plasticien britannique. Cette oeuvre a d’abord été exposée à la galerie Eye of Gyre, basée à Tokyo, puis, elle a été transférée dans une ancienne clinique de la ville transformée en une galerie d’art. Et il faut dire que l’oeuvre est bluffante. Le travail de Rikato est à découvrir sur son site.
British architect Guy Hollaway has transformed an 18th-century cottage in the Kent countryside into a modern home featuring a concrete and glass extension.
Hollaway, whose eponymous studio has offices in London and Kent, designed the house for his own family over the course of several years, and wanted it to encapsulate many of the ideas he explores with his firm.
The traditional house, which is not heritage listed, is set in grounds that include a classical cottage garden. The completed project comprises two distinct parts – the refurbished historic cottage and its modern extension.
The cottage’s quintessential front facade contrasts with the contemporary lines and materiality of the extension, which more than doubles the overall size of the house and ensures it suits the lifestyle of Hollaway and his family.
“The key to this transformation was to challenge conventional living and blur the boundaries between old and new, where the two work coherently to create a whole that responds to new modern living with the comfort of the old,” said Guy Hollaway Architects.
“These two sides have required many different design and construction skills in respecting the traditional construction methods and in creating the new.”
The project involved reconfiguring the interior of the existing cottage to create more liveable spaces that flow into the new areas at the rear of the building.
The formal entrance leads straight into a living room featuring a restored inglenook fireplace and original beams that retain some of the heritage and character of the old cottage.
Sliding doors connect this room with another smaller lounge at one end, and with an open-plan kitchen and dining space that opens onto the modern rear garden.
Reconstructed internal brick walls with traditional lime mortar introduce another historical detail that contrasts with the clean white walls used throughout the extension.
Full-height glazing lining the rear facade of the extension incorporates sliding sections that can retract to create a seamless connection between this space and an outdoor living area.
The concrete-lined outdoor space features a monolithic concrete dining table flanked by cantilevered bench seating and a separate zig-zag-shaped chair that emerges from the concrete floor.
The stepped flooring merges with the cast-concrete furniture and forms a continuous surface that connects with a lap pool lined on one side with a pane of reinforced glass.
The extension intersects with the cottage’s brick rear facade, while a glazed volume accommodating a new staircase and first-floor landing projects vertically from the sloping tiled roof.
The flat roof of the new ground-floor spaces is covered with sedum and extends to shelter a car port and second entrance. This structure also connects to an annex containing spaces that are used as a gym and cinema room.
The annex is clad in black shot-blasted larch and features interiors lined with contrasting light plywood. The joinery incorporates storage and conceals pull-down beds that can transform it into guest accommodation if required.
Fanciful details such as a spiral staircase enclosed behind a curved glass wall that leads down to a utility space in the basement epitomise the expressive and unfettered approach Hollaway was able to adopt with this deeply personal project.
“Without the usual constraints of client, contractor, budget or programme, this project has allowed for each specific item to be considered and developed to its most beautiful, practical and ultimately seemingly simple resolution,” added the studio.
Other buildings completed by the practice include a group of seaside houses on the English coast designed to resemble traditional beach huts, and a holiday home on a pebble beach that is clad in rusty steel mesh and timber.
Photography is by Charles Hosea.
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New York architecture studio Dash Marshall has turned two Tribeca residences into one home connected by a hanging, blackened steel spiral staircase.
Raft Loft combines two single-storey apartments on the ground and first floor of an industrial building in the Lower Manhattan neighbourhood.
Dash Marshall renovated, reconfigured and merged the two existing residences to create one big home for a growing family.
A hole in the upper floor makes way for the new staircase, which connects a living area, small kitchen and dining room on the lower level with the main kitchen and dining room, and two bedrooms on the storey above.
“We renovated the entirety of the ground floor, executed limited interventions to the second floor, and inserted a new staircase to connect the two spaces with a series of intermediate levels,” said Dash Marshall.
As a prominent element of Dash Marshall’s project, the staircase comprises a mix of materials and two distinct elements.
Brickwork forms the lower half, with its sides painted white to match the finish of the residence’s existing walls. The steps are distinguished by pink paint and accompanied by a brass handrail.
The blackened steel structure extends out in a spiral from the top of brickwork portion, twisting up to meet the first floor at the top. It is held up by delicate stainless steel slats that are suspended from the ceiling.
These supports form a cage-like structure around the stairway, while further protection is provided by a brass banister that wraps around the void on the first floor.
Dash Marshall’s other main intervention is a raised wooden platform, built in the middle ground floor to break the long and thin plan into three distinct areas.
A living area is placed on one side of the platform at the front of the residence, where two large windows bring in plenty of natural light. Deep and dark wooden frames create nooks for reading.
Plants in terracotta pots of various sizes are arranged across the floor and on top of the wooden console, informing the pink and green tones of the space’s large rug and sofa.
Steps lead from here to the raised level in the centre of the floor, which is occupied by a dining table. The platform houses a small kitchenette and wine rack, which the studio says is “just enough infrastructure for a game of cards or a round of drinks”.
These facilities are built into a cube that houses a bathroom, accessed by a pair of wooden doors. Inside, the walls and floors are lined with speckled tiles and the ceiling curves up around light fittings.
“Ceilings in the bathroom and powder room are designed as abstracted cloud formations,” said the studio.
On the outside, a large wooden door can be pulled out from the middle of this volume to create a private area at the rear for guests.
When not in use by visitors, this portion of the floor provides the residents with a study and reading area, featuring built-in wooden bookshelves with a ladder to access the highest levels.
Sliding translucent glass doors open into a piano room topped by a slanted glazed roof. A large red rug and plenty of plants add touches of colour against the white brickwork walls.
The firm chose a more stripped-back material palette for the first floor, complementing the existing wooden ceiling beams and columns with dark wood flooring and white walls.
Built in white cabinetry runs along the rear wall of the kitchen facing a central island with a concrete top. A dining area is placed around the corner near to the windows.
Raft Loft is the second project we’ve featured that merges two existing residences in Tribeca into one home. New York firm Raad Studio designed the other, using a central arched wall as a focal point.
Other renovation projects that have recently completed in the trendy neighbourhood include a loft with exposed steel pillars, a white-walled duplex designed around storage by Space4Architecture, and home topped with a glazed angular rooftop unit.
Photography is by Mark Wickens.
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The first edition of 21st-century design fair Collectible is taking place this week in Brussels. Dezeen’s Natashah Hitti reveals her pick of the best works on show, from tables made of inflated brass cushions to brick-wall punching bags.
Exclusively dedicated to contemporary design, the new fair is the first of its kind, according to creators Liv Vaisberg and Clélie Debehault.
The duo wanted Collectible to differ from other shows that, according to the pair, often categorise and put each individual in a box.
The exhibit aims to encourage “the freedom of hybrid choices,” showcasing objects that are not made for shops or the mass market.
Co-founders Vaisberg and Debehault drew on their backgrounds in art direction and curation when deciding on the show’s format, which is more similar to that of an art museum than a design fair.
“We curated it so that there wasn’t just an alley and then an alignment of booths. We wanted to take the rules of the conventional fair and turn them upside down,” Vaisberg told Dezeen.
“We wanted to challenge visitors by changing the typical configuration, creating a layout that forces people to cross everything – like in IKEA showrooms, for instance: even though you don’t want a kitchen, you will have to go visit and look at the kitchens,” she added.
Unique and limited edition contemporary pieces are being exhibited inside the industrial Vanderborght building, located in the centre of Brussels.
Each exhibitors’ pieces are dotted around each of the building’s five stories, taking visitors on a fluid journey around the space, and encouraging them to interact with all works.
“We don’t want visitors to take the map and choose where they want to go and what they want to see, and ignore the rest. Often at fairs, things have to be particularly eye-catching to make people stop and look, but here at Collectible we can have delicate things, details, because everyone is going through all booths,” Vaisberg said.
Collectible takes place in Brussels’ Vanderborght building from 8 till 11 March this year. Read on for our pick of the best 10 pieces on display:
Space Frames by Studio Mieke Meijer
Dutch designers Mieke Meijer and Roy Letterlé based this collection of cubic, tubular lights – called Space Frames – on archetypal architectural elements such as arcs, columns, trusses and plates.
Each lightweight plywood structure is filled with tubes of LED lights and covered in a polyester fabric. According to the studio, each light is “an experimental research into physical and visual lightness, balance and stability.”
InHale tables by Ben Storms
A 200-kilogram slab of marble sat atop of an air-filled brass cushion make up these coffee tables by Belgian designer Ben Storms.
The designer wanted to emphasise the contrast between materials and masses in the collection and used inflated volumes of air encased in metal, which he likens to “soft skins”, to support large bulks of rock.
Dawn lights by Sabine Marcelis
Rotterdam-based designer Sabine Marcelis explored the relationship between light and colour in her Dawn lights, which were inspired by the colours of the sky at the time just before sunrise.
The main surface of her light sculpture, which was exhibited by Victor Hunt Gallery at Collective, is formed of cast polyester resin that has been coloured in a gradient of reds and oranges. These colours vary in hue depending on their distance from the circular neon light embedded on its underside – similar to a sunrise.
Steel Angle Chair n°1 by Rei Kawakubo
Comme des Garçons founder Rei Kawakubo exhibited this chair last year at Galerie A1043 in Paris, alongside another 14 pieces of tables, chairs and stools designed for the brand’s stores.
Initially designed as an extension of the shop fixtures, the futuristic steel chair is now being displayed by Maniera Gallery in the Vanderborght building for Collectible.
Delfin ceramics by Delphine Bekaert
Each of these “perfectly imperfect” ceramic tableware pieces by Delphine Bekaert is unique. Comprised of minimal bowls, plates, cups and spoons, the collection features three simple colours of white, pale pink or yellow, and is designed to be “used frequently and built to last.”
The collection is being exhibited inside a deli counter at Collectible as a reflection of their handmade nature.
Tubular by Lucas Muñoz
Core Studio curated an exhibition at Collectible, called Hyper Ordinary, from objects built using industrial materials that are normally perceived as commonplace or merely functional, like reinforced glass or concrete.
Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Lucas Muñoz used materials that belong behind and in between our walls to make his Tubular chair for the display, which is constructed using galvanised steel pipes, with a seat made from a sheet of copper.
Kasséna Soul by Louis Bos
This collection of wooden tables by Netherlands designer Louis Bos was inspired by the handmade patterns found on the facades of Kasséna homes found south of Burkina Faso in West Africa.
Bos translated these patterns into contemporary designs, mixing the traditional design with western styles – specifically Dutch and Scandinavian. The table surfaces have been cut to create rows of pyramidal shapes. Accompanying each table are several moveable elements made from blocks of wood, which slot in between the pyramids to be used as resting surfaces.
Punch a Wall by Studio Job
Design duo Job Smeets and Nynke Tynagel from Studio Job offered a series of cartoon-like objects for Collectible, exhibited by Gufram‘s spin-off company, SuperGufram.
A punching bag patterned with bricks was among the collection, which also included a giant plastic cactus and a room divider that has been textured and coloured to look like a wooden fence.
Baracche by Paolo Gonzato
Milan-based designer Paolo Gonzato took inspiration from corrugated iron roofs and industrial irons when designing this collection of sculptural glass lights for Collectible.
Displayed by Camp Design Gallery, the Baracche collection – meaning “shacks” in Italian – was created using float glass, tropicalised iron and LED lights.
Wall of Suitcases by Maarten De Ceulaer
Belgian designer Maarten De Ceulaer was inspired by his passion for travelling for this collection of drawers, which have been constructed using leather suitcases and briefcases stacked on top of one another.
Coloured in pastel tones of mint green and light blue, the suitcases represent the “modern nomads” who travel through cities and continents without restrictions or boundaries, says the designer.
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