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Furniture design described through various thematic lenses in a new book from the Brazilian design duo

by Felipe Meres São Paulo design duo Luciana Martins and Gerson de Oliveira of Ovo have recently released Mobiliário_OVO, a book about their furniture design, iconic objects and art projects. For more than a decade the designers have developed an array of exquisite and clever pieces that are at once…

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This conceptual skyscraper by Brazilian architects Projeto Coletivo would be constructed using rubbish in the city of São Paulo.

The architects imagine a series of the buildings beside the rivers Tietê and Pinheiros, with recycling centres in the lower levels and modular apartments for homeless people upstairs.

Residents would be required to work in the recycling centres, cleaning and sorting their own rubbish for use in further construction and repairs.

More waste could also be transported to the buildings by boat from the city centre.

The architects designed the project for this year’s eVolo Skyscraper Competition, which asks entrants to come up with inventive and futuristic skyscraper proposals.

Another conceptual skyscraper we’ve recently featured is a thatched housing block.

See all our stories about skyscrapers »

Here’s some information from Projeto Coletivo:

Scrap Skyscraper

The main idea is about being a cultural landmark in changing the mindset of people, where the future is the use of garbage, the view that the waste we generate has value both as an agent of social change and as a physical element of construction. Nowadays people usually do not bother with the garbage they generate, see it as a problem of others. Changing this thinking is crucial to change the course of evolution of the planet to a sustainable path.

The building works on the issues of a specific city, in this case São Paulo, beginning a transition point that tries to achieve a better life quality for the population by the use of the trash that its inhabitants generate.

The buildings will be placed alongside the rivers Tietê and Pinheiros, those rivers will be used as waterways to transport the trash from the city to the upcycling centers. Using the rivers as waterways to transport the waste improves the traffic in the city, enabling garbage trucks travel over shorter distances, and leverages the power of the center of upcycling, that receives more material. In the basement of the building, located on the banks of the Tiete River, there is an upcycling and recycling center, giving rise to the building and taking advantage of its strategic location which enhances the transport of waste through the city. The idea is that the residents will work on the bottom of the building, as a factory, recycling, cleaning and selecting waste, previously taught by experts in the field. This material will be used on the building’s construction and also for crafts, urging creativity of the own workers. The opportunity for a social revolution that gives homeless people the chance to learn a trade and have a place to live.

Autors: PROJETO COLETIVO – Guilherme de Macedo, Giovanni Medeiros, João Gabriel Kuster, Rafael Ferraz, Rodolfo Parolin e Thiago Augustus.
Local: Curitiba – Brazil

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The two rehearsal rooms of this Brazilian music school are covered with chalkboards on the outside and oriented strand board on the inside.

Designed by architects 0E1, the Eclética Centro De Música centres around an informal foyer where students and teachers are able to make notes on the walls.

This space separates the two practice rooms and leads into a recital room beyond.

OSB was also used to make stools and tables for every room plus some bookshelves slotted into one corner.

You can see more stories about music-related design on Dezeen here.

Photography is by Marcelo Donadussi.

Here’s some more information from 0E1:

The design for this music school is based upon the creation of two hermetic chambers to house rehearsals inside a large space in a historic building located in Nova Prata, Brasil. The configuration of such boxes turns the residual space into two ambients that, even though are continuous, configure different spaces for different activities.

The proposal aims to enrich the user’s experience while using the as little compositive elements as possible.

When entering the school, one arrives at a foyer located between two chambers, where the administration and reception are; going further inside the school, a new space emerges, where students can practice before and after class, interacting and sharing knowledge.

The interior of the chambers was designed in order to optimize the acoustics and the comfort of the users. The lighting solution maintains the 3,4-meter-high ceiling and creates a lower light surface, increasing the comfort without losing the acoustic properties of the original building.

A series of furniture were designed to meet the overall resource economy of the project. The material used in the furnishing is the same OSB that covers the interior of the chambers, assuring unity to the design. The different models satisfy the different users’ needs, from instrument practice to administrative functions.

Sur la musique Ommadawn de Mike Oldfield, le réalisateur connu sous le nom de BabaBC nous propose une vidéo retraçant son été qu’il a pu passer en Amérique du Sud, du Pérou au Brésil. De belles images filmées avec un Canon 550D à découvrir dans la suite.

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British architects Marks Barfield have designed a research centre for the Amazon Jungle with a bulging bamboo observation tower and over six miles of treetop bridges.

The centre would allow both researchers and tourists to survey the rainforest canopy from above.

Local bamboo would be used to construct the tower, which is designed as a series of off-centre circular decks that are linked by a spiralling central staircase.

Single-storey bamboo pavilions on the forest floor would house computer workstations.

This isn’t the first treetop walkway the architects have designed – see their elevated walkway in London’s Kew Gardens here.

Here’s a description of the project from Marks Barfield Architects:

Pioneering science centre in the heart of the Amazon

A pioneering science centre in the heart of the Amazon with more than six miles of walkways and an observation tower above the rainforest canopy is being planned by the Amazon Charitable Trust, a British charity.

The $10m (£6.4m) project in Roraima, a remote province of northeast Brazil, is being designed by Marks Barfield Architects who created the London Eye and designed the treetop walkway in the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew.

The centre, in the village of Xixuau, will bring together scientists from the Brazilian Amazon Research Institute and the Royal Botanic Gardens, universities and other organisations, and is also intended to provide jobs for Brazilian tribes and attract eco-tourists.

The site is intended to appeal equally to serious research scientists and to visitors. The walkway, high above the jungle floor, will be used by researchers to study the canopy and by tourists to experience spectacular views.

Robert Pasley-Tyler, managing partner of the Amazon Charitable Trust, said: “This will be the first scientific research centre to be built in the jungle proper. It will employ the local river tribe, giving them a way of making a living without destroying the forest, and also boost awareness around the world.”

David Marks, of Marks Barfield Architects, said that the design and construction of the centre would pose extraordinary challenges because of the delicate ecosystem and its remote location.

“You have to be very careful about what you bring in to avoid damaging the eco-system. Because it is so remote it also has to be self-sufficient.” he said.

Marks added that much of the centre could be constructed from bamboo grown on the site. The centre would take two years to construct.

The Amazon Charitable Trust is waiting to discover if funding for the centre will be granted by the Amazon Fund, which is backed by donations from Norway.

Members of the Amazon Charitable Trust’s board include Bianca Jagger and John Hemming.