Une excellente démonstration par le studio Mnono de ces motos entièrement personnalisées en Pologne et filmé pour le programme de TV Cruiser, le tout diffusé sur TVN Turbo. Des très beaux plans sur l’excellente bande son de “Kavinsky – Nightcall (Drivepilot Remix)”.
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Polish architects Mateusz Adamczyk and Marcin Kwietowicz have inserted three gabled huts inside a Warsaw clothes store.
Garments for clothing retailer Fiu Fiu hang on railings inside each hut, while shoes are arranged on shelves that fill the windows.
The cash desk is located inside the first structure and abuts one of these openings.
A fitting room, storage and a staff kitchen are all concealed in the spaces surrounding the huts.
Adamczyk also designed a perfume shop on the same street back in 2009 – see our earlier story here.
Photography is by Jan Smaga.
Here is some more text from the architects:
Fiu Fiu concept store
Young architects dream about designing and building big houses. However, the reality is quite the opposite – they work on small scale commissions. FiuFiu boutique is one of those petite spaces and its concept is based on yearning for making homes even of paper-mache.
Bright forms on frigid blue background recall enchanted atmosphere of Scanidinavian landscape (or its imaginary archetype), because all the shop items originate from there.
Extra long gable house, looking like being freehand drawn by a child, is cut in three with red steel blades and slightly shifted to create complementary space for a cash desk, a fitting room and storage space.
Each of acquired spaces is furnished with same simple items such as rails, ledges and lamps.
Steel coulisses optically shorten long, enlighten only from one side room and encourage a passer-by to enter the shop and indulge in scandinavian atmosphere.
When looking at the small houses from the outside, it is finally possible to see their genuine nature- solid and beautiful wooden structure. Raw carpentry is emphasised by the use of snow white interiors of the volumes.
This nordic fairy tale cottage was put ‘ad hoc’ in an existing space, where the only inference was painting the walls and ceiling in one colour. The light reflected from these plains enters the houses, making the shop interior even lighter and more spacious. Nordic bonbon.
Koszykowa Street, Warsaw, Poland
Client: Fiu Fiu Concept Magdalena Wołosz
Architects: Mateusz Adamczyk, Marcin Kwietowicz
Total floor area: 31 m2
Usable floor area: 28 m2
Volume: 105 m3
Design: 2011
Construction: 2011
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The timber stalactites of an undulating cave-like ceiling bear down around the bar of a coffee shop in Łódź, Poland.
Light bulbs dangle from between the curved plywood ribs of the Zmianatematu cafe, which was designed by Polish architects xm3.
Shelves are slotted between ridges in the wall, behind a bar that is also made from the ribbed timber.
Patches of plaster are visible on walls, which are intentionally left unfinished. See our archive feature on unfinished interiors here.
Planes of glass atop wavy plywood grids provide coffee tables.
Other interiors on Dezeen featuring slatted timber ceilings include a restaurant with a fanning tree-like canopy and a ski resort cafe with timber lattice partitions.
Photography is by Paulina Sasinowska.
Here are some more details from xm3:
Restaurant: “zmianatematu.”, Piotrkowska 144, Łódź
The city of Łódź located in the centre of Poland is one of three biggest cities in the country. Before the II World War a highly prospering city with lots of industries, now is troubled with poverty and social problems. Although it has high aspirations to be a cultural oriented city of artist and students. Aiming to be a design, fashion and film capital of the country, it acquires the concern from many great architects and artists who are willing to create concept designs for a delayed rebirth of the city i.e.: Daniel Libeskind, Frank Ghery, David Lynch to name a few.
The restaurant is located in the very centre of Łódź – on the most important street in the city – Piotrkowska. The street – once a symbol of wealth of the one of the richest cities in this region of Europe is now an axis of mostly poor and degenerated district with monumental architecture from before the II World War.
With a very small budget we created an outstanding space to host the artistic and culture parties for the creative youth of the city. The owners of the restaurant want to propose a space for happenings, art-exhibitions, and various art-oriented venues.
As young architects from the Capital City Warsaw with the local Łódź art-oriented youth investors we tried to aim at city’s condition and aspirations and create a reminiscent of the cutting-edge environment which has a connection with the city identity. The city’s name translates literally as “a Boat”. Inspired by a Boston BanQ restaurant we tried to create a blobish form similar to the boat roof form which eats in the old monument-building’s space.
The building itself dates to the end of XIX century. The elevation is a typical Neo-classical style. During the years the ground floor has changed function several times. Now being empty and unfinished the inside offered us the space to take and adjust. We decided to leave it as raw as it was possible. The proposal was to make the floor from the epoxy mass, leave the walls in raw roughcast and take the electrical installation out and leave it on the walls covered in steel, black tubes.
The only element added is this alien form, a “hub” that creeps to the volume from the inside of the building, which then creates the bar and divides the space in to several functional areas.
We can also see another division. This what is new and touches with the recently renovated external elevation of the building (the outside classical world) is new and white. The internal: dividing and construction walls as well as ceiling are in raw roughcast.
The “hub” itself is cnc cut plywood. It is designed by sectioning the form, generated by adjusting to the space and to all installations hidden by it. The sectioning and preparing for fabrication was done in Rhino/Grasshopper software. During the prototyping phase we decided to do some additional furniture for the restaurant as the mock-up for the real structure.
The furniture designed for the interior are the coffee tables, made of sectioned grid plywood and the bench which morphs from the bar counter.
Author: xm3
Project team: Maciej Kurkowski, Julian Nieciecki, Mateusz Wójcicki
Location: Łódź, Poland
Client: Eudezet S.C.
Total Area: 104 m2
Usable Area: 62 m2
Volume: 369 m3
Design: 2010
Construction: 2011
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Mirrors lining the ceilings and walls of a tiny pop-up clothing shop in Warsaw create the illusion of endless rails of garments.
Polish architects Super Super and Inside/Outside collaborated to design the temporary pavilion inside a mobile office container for clothing retailer Zuo Corp.
Lengths of LED lighting surrounding the edges of the walls are reflected in the mirrors and appear to be part of an infinite illuminated grid.
To one side of the sales floor are a storage cupboard and dressing room, which ironically has no mirrors inside at all.
The pavilion occupied the city centre site for three months earlier this year.
Another clothes store by Super Super published on Dezeen uses cheap materials from a builders’ merchant – see our earlier story here.
Photography is Jacek Majewski.
Here are some more details from Super Super:
Zuo corp. Pop-up shop, Bracka 20, Warsaw.
A temporary Pop-up shop for an independent clothing brand Zuo corp. was planned initially for the gardens of the Warsaw University Library during the summer. The building of the project however was postponed to the winter and relocated to the city center, opposite the popular Warsaw café ‘Między Namiʼ address Bracka 20. Zuo Corp. Pop-up shop opened on the 18th of December and was open for a limited time of just 3 months.
The designers were given the use of a small sidewalk space, which would normally be allocated to café ‘Między Namiʼ in the summer as a garden café. A major requirement for the project was to use two interconnected office containers (dimensions 4.65 x 5.60 x 2.31m) that the investor had at their disposal. The metal insulated structure of the container was supposed to provide protection from the difficult weather conditions: heavy rain, snow and strong frosts (up to -20 ° C) occurring at this time of the year in Warsaw.
The aim was to achieve maximum effect with minimum means, having a small budget and the use of the base structure of the containers. Another important task was to create a surprise effect when entering the pop-up shop. Small, inconspicuous object, as it seemed from the outside, was creating an “Alice in Wonderland” effect, to introduce the viewer to another world. The outer facade of the black cube did not announce what happened inside the pavilion. The containers were tightly “packed” in black canvas evoking an association with a magic box of a prestidigitator.
A space of 27 square meters was divided in 3 different functions: a main exhibition room with dimensions of 4.5 x 4.5 m, and a small facilities area with storage and dressing room. The ceiling height of the space was very low, only 2.2 meters. To avoid the impression of being in a confined space, we decided to visually enlarge the main room to infinity by lining the walls and ceiling with mirrors. The floor was covered with black linoleum. The doors to the back and into the dressing room were also hidden behind mirrors. The changing room was lined with black cloth. The customers had to go outside the dressing room to see their own reflection.
All edges of the interior walls were accentuated with stripes of LED lighting. This being the only source of the light to the room combined with the mirrors strongly emphasized the illusion of boundless space. The impression of the space having a low ceiling – gone: The clothing, light, people and floor all reflected in the
mirrors to infinity became the only heroes of the interior space. From every angle attention was focused purely on the new styling of the customer.
The project is a joint work of two design studios: Super Super (Hanna Kokczyńska, Jacek Majewski) and Inside/Outside (Agnieszka Kuczyńska). We all live and work in Warsaw.
Name project: Zuo Corp
Used materials: office container, mirrors, LED lighting, black canvas
Construction methods: office containers, interior wooden structure
Furniture manufacturer: custom made
Lighting manufacturer: custom made, stripes of LED lighting
Floor area (m2): 27 m2
Costs (€): 10 000 €
Date of completion: December 2010
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One piece of plywood furniture inside this Polish apartment encompasses a bed, bookshelf, nightstand and wardrobe.
The hotel apartment in Poznań was designed by architects Mode:lina and provides temporary accommodation throughout the year for trade fair visitors.
Named Quotel, a combination of the words quote and hotel, the apartment has different messages written on the walls of each room.
The architects have furnished the whole apartment using combinations of furniture from Ikea.
Other hotel interiors recently featured on Dezeen include a boutique gay hotel with a life-size polar bear statue and a Paris hotel filled with touchscreens.
Photography is by Marcin Ratajczak.
Here’s some more information from the architects:
Quotel – accomodation for fair visitors in Poznań, Poland
Quotel (combination of words: “quote” and “hotel”).
Architects of mode:lina have completed an apartment designed for guests visiting the Poznań International Fair.
This specific customer defines the nature of this apartment – at the crossroads of hotel features and relaxed homely atmosphere.
The challenge was to use easily replaceable parts (here: IKEA) and create a space that definitely stands out among other similar offers on the market.
Designers faithful to the principle of crossing-over combined catalogue elements with these custom-made to create an affordable and durable design giving the impression of tailored interior.
We wish you a pleasant stay in Poznań!
Interior design: Jerzy Woźniak, Paweł Garus of mode:lina architektura & consulting
Completion date: February 2011
Net area: 100,1 m2
Photos by: Marcin Ratajczak
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Each bullet-sized hole piercing the skin of this museum by architects WXCA in Palmiry, Poland, represents a Polish civilian murdered there during the holocaust.
The punctured panels surrounding the exterior of the Palmiry Museum are made of rusted steel.
The museum showcases photographs, documents and memorabilia connected with victims of Nazi executions during World War II.
A glass wall at the rear of the building overlooks a cemetery where each of the 2252 memorialised victims are buried.
More stories about museums on Dezeen »
Photography is by Rafał Kłos.
The following text is from WXCA:
Museum – A Place of Memory Palmiry
The Palmiry Museum Place of Memory lies in a pine-birch forest surrounding the cemetery.
The building is a part of the Kampinos National Park, with glass and steel walls, and a green roof.
The exhibition space lies among trees – witnesses of past tragedies.
During the Second World War, in Palmir woods, Nazis murdered over two thousand Polish civilians including intellectual elite.
The building, ascetic in form and materials, tells a story, and forms a background for the exhibition.
The exhibition part is surrounded by a wall with holes symbolizing bullets.
The relation between the building and the surroundings is stressed by greenery inside the building and the patios.
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The facility opens to the cemetery and three crosses.
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The idea was to create an architecture of remembrance.
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Architects: WXCA
Location: Palmiry, Poland
Design: 2009-2010
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Site area: 8738 sqm
Total area: 1133 sqm
Usable floor area: 998,30 sqm
Volume: 4400 m3
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This house outside Warsaw by Polish architect Robert Konieczny transforms from a villa by day to a fortress by night.
Called Safe House, the residence shuts down to a safe central core with a drawbridge, a shutter that drops down to cover an entire facade and massive wall panels that block out all the windows.
The thick courtyard walls slide back into the house.
The drawbridge leads to the roof of an adjacent building that houses a swimming pool.
Photography is by Aleksander Rutkowski.
More stories about projects in Poland on Dezeen »
Here is some more information from Robert Konieczny:
Safe House
Location
The house is situated in a small village at the outskirts of Warsaw. The surroundings are dominated with usual “polish cubes” from the sixties and old wooden barns.
Idea
The clients’ top priority was to gain the feeling of maximum security in their future house, which determined the building’s outlook and performance. The house took the form of a cuboid in which parts of the exterior walls are movable.
When the house opens up to the garden, eastern and western side walls move towards the exterior fence creating a courtyard.
After crossing the gate one has to wait in this safety zone before being let inside the house. In the same time, there is no risk of children escaping to the street area in an uncontrolled way while playing in the garden.
Movable elements interfering with the site layout
The innovation of this idea consists in the interference of the movable walls with the urban structure of the plot. Consequently, when the house is closed (at night for example) the safe zone is limited to the house’s outline.
In the daytime, as a result of the walls opening, it extends to the garden surrounding the house.
New type of building
The sliding walls are not dependent on the form of the building.
That is why this patent can be applied to both modern and traditional, single- and multi – storeyed houses covered with roofs of different geometry.
This universal solution we came up with gives a new type of building where not the form but the way of functioning is the most important. The name: “safe house” gains a new meaning now.
Mechanic…
Accomplishment of this idea required the use of technically complex solutions.
The most significant are the sliding walls (both 2,2 m high, 22 and 15 m long), which allow to interfere with the urban structure and determine the safe zone of the plot.
They are not the only mobile elements of the building.
Apart from these, there are large shutters (all 2,8 m high, with a width ranging up to 3,5 m, opening up to 180 degrees) and a drawbridge leading to the roof terrace above the swimming pool.
The southern elevation is closed by an enormous roll-down gate of 14 and 6 m manufactured by a company normally supplying shipyards and air companies.
It is made with white anodized aluminum which makes it possible to function as a movie projection screen.
All the movable elements are based on built-in electronic engines, that guarantee safe operation.
The whole building is a concrete monolith, while it’s mobile parts – for the sake of considerable size – are light steel trusses filled with mineral wool.
As a result, the building is perfectly insulated when closed.
The whole house as well as the mobile elements are clad with cement-bonded particleboards – Cetris and waterproof alder plywood fixed to a steel construction and painted with dark wood stain, which resembles the wood widely found on the surrounding houses and barns, and makes it fit well into the rural landscape.
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… to Organic
Once the house opens, it’s bright and spacious interior merges extensively with the garden.
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Wide glazings behind the movable walls let the building acquire energy during the day (winter) or prevent the sun’s heat from going into the house (summer).
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At night, when the house is closed, the thick outer layer helps the building to accumulate the gained energy.
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Such a solution together with the hybrid heat system (most of the energy is gained from renewable sources – heat pump and solar systems supported with gas heating) and mechanical ventilation with heat recovery makes the house become an intelligent passive building.
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Every day the house acts in a similar way – it wakes up every morning to close up after the dusk. This routine reminds of the processes occurring in nature – the house resembles a plant in its day and night cycle.
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architect: Robert Konieczny
collaboration: Marcin Jojko, Łukasz Zadrzyński
interior design: Magdalena Radałowicz-Zadrzyńska
site area: 2500 m2
usable floor area: 567m2
volume: 1719m3
design: 2004-2005
construction: 2005-2009
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Transforming their dormitory building into a light show extravaganza, the students at Poland’s Wroclaw University of Technology demonstrated their tech-savvy skills with this large-scale installation of pixel-like flashes set to an equally animated soundtrack.
Called “Projekt P.I.W.O.,” (the acronym means “beer” in Polish), it’s simultaneously humorous and beautiful—particularly the Michael Jackson tribute about seven minutes in.
Part of an impressive series that shows off the school’s technological virtuosity, this video depicts a spectrum of influences and creates a dynamic landscape within the solid world of dorm buildings. Recently highlighted on Good Magazine, the spectacle brings to mind other light-infused architectural feats such as Aukland’s “Night Lights” demonstration.
Un musée moderne conçu par les architectes Migliore + Servetto et consacré à l’oeuvre de Frédéric Chopin. Il propose un dispositif technologique audiovisuel et interactif. L’inauguration a eu lieu cette semaine à Varsovie à l’occasion du bicentenaire de la naissance du compositeur.
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