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Spanish studio CrystalZoo have renovated this former school in Novelda, Spain, to create a youth centre for the area.
Top photograph is by David Frutos
Called Casal de la Juventud de Novelda, the upper part of the building has been wrapped with a skin of polycarbonate panels, causing it to overhang the lower part.
The architects have created a new plaza at the entrance of the building, featuring little grassy mounds and a zig-zag pattern on the paving that creeps up onto the wall of the centre.
The windows are slightly recessed in the façade and highlighted in bright colours.
Photographs are by Rafael Galán unless otherwise stated.
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Above photograph is by David Frutos
The following information is from the architects:
Casal de la Juventud de Novelda
This building is placed in Novelda, a small town near Alicante (Spain).
It consists in a renovation of an old school building ant its yard to allow new public uses.
This proposal is a work about the reuse of old buildings and their adaptation to contemporary needs.
In this sense the Casal de la Juventud reinvents itself and establishes a dialogue between each stage of its evolution.
Above photograph is by David Frutos
Life opens up, in this case, creating a new wrapper able to equip the building and the plaza with new technologies and services.
Above photograph is by David Frutos
The plaza is raised as a hub of social activity in Novelda.
Above: existing building
This system consists in connecting paths that also define soft areas that can adapt and establish links with what is happening inside the building.
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Working with an old school offers the opportunity to have the yard, which is a valuable open space within the dense urban fabric.
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This courtyard is a place that complements and makes possible the use of this new building.
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Materiality and lighting are the way this proposal establishes new links and relationships between the building and the public space.
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We try to provide complete and sophisticated equipment to this building and its plaza, through the installation of a new structure that surrounds the old school, with its own program, and also the support for the new activities.
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This structure provides lighting, energy and information systems, that define the specific environments for all the different situations that may happen.
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Seu University of La Nucia by CrystalZoo | Educational Centre by Alejandro Muñoz Miranda | Residential extension by dB_dubail begert architectes |
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London designer Tomás Alonso used ceramic tiles to create optical illusions in this store he designed for Spanish shoe brand Camper in London.
The interior is lined with a grid of white 10 by 10cm tiles, but this pattern is broken in places by coloured geometric tiles to create the illusion of recesses or volumes looming out from the walls.
The space is furnished with benches and counters made of oak and bent steel tubes in Alonso’s studio, plus ceramic lamps he designed specially for the project.
Called Camper Together, the shop is the brand’s fifth in London and is located in Covent Garden.
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The information that follows is from Camper:
CAMPER
TOMÁS ALONSO
LONDON
Camper opens a new shop in the city of London, on the corner of Shelton Street and Neal Street.
The store’s image was conceived by Tomás Alonso, a young Spanish designer of Galician origin now based in London, who practises “slow design” and has a knack for working with simple gestures.
With this new venue, the British capital now boasts a total of five Camper Together shops.
Since the great masters of the Modernist movement, no designer has been noted for his ability to bend a steel tube. This apparently simple feat is actually quite difficult to perform with a natural flair, as Tomás Alonso does.
Tubes, wood and colour were all he needed to craft the furnishings for this new Camper store. Another simple flourish in the tile pattern creates an illusory three-dimensional effect on the walls.
“All of the furniture was designed and built specifically for the shop as part of a personal project I’ve been working on for some time now, which is based on the formal and structural language that two materials as dissimilar as lacquer tubing and natural wood – in this case, white oak – can create together.
This language also extends to the stairs and the cash desk unit. The pieces were handcrafted at my studio in London. Perhaps the most striking element is the large table with its accompanying chairs and benches, which take up most of the space. The ceramic lamps are also original designs.
The wall cladding is a simple twist on the standard 10 x 10 cm square tile. If it is combined with three additional shapes, you can create all kinds of geometric patterns and designs in isometric perspective.” TOMÁS ALONSO
Tomás Alonso (Vigo, 1974) is the prototypical young nomadic designer who, like so many others, roams the earth searching for ideas to make his work more original. He is not in any hurry; he practises his own version of “slow design”, which consists in doing things leisurely and carefully so that no detail is overlooked.
He wandered through the USA, Italy and Australia before moving to London to study at the Royal College of Art. Alonso graduated in 2006 and teamed up with five classmates of different nationalities to found OKAYstudio.
He currently combines his research work with commercial design commissions. His personal creations have been exhibited at galleries such as NextLevel (where he presented the show Variations on a Tube in 2009), Whitechapel and Aram, whose doors are always open to up-and-coming talent.
Tomás is a rising star, and this is his first interior design project. The concept—which, like every Together shop, is a limited edition—made its first appearance in Genoa, and the London store will soon be followed by another in Glasgow.
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Camper store in Malmö by TAF | Camper store in London by Tokujin Yoshioka | Camper store in Tokyo by Jaime Hayón |