Le studio Makkink & Bey conçoit une collection de meubles pour un avenir nomade, dans le cadre d’une exposition sur les textiles. Un scénario futur dans lequel l’individu,qui se déplace au quotidien, reste confortable. Différentes œuvres à la fois pratiques et esthétiques sont à découvrir dans la suite de l’article.
Rotterdam-based Studio Makkink & Bey has added an industrial playground with a decorative perimeter fence to a Mecanoo-designed housing complex in Reimerswaal, the Netherlands.
Studio Makkink & Bey was asked by social housing provider Ymere to come up with a design for the courtyards of the brick-built Reimerswaalhof housing complex designed by Dutch architecture firm Mecanoo, which opened in 2011.
The designers responded by creating an adventure playground, where climbing frames and tubular steel slides are combined to create a single complex structure for children to play on and around.
The playground is accessible both to the residents of the new apartments and to students from the neighbouring elementary school.
“The play sculpture was designed to invite the schoolchildren of Sint Lukas elementary school to share their domain with the children who live there,” said the designers.
The dark tones of the adventure playground are mirrored by the surrounding fencing, which is made up of vertical steel rods sculpted to create cartoon-like outlines in the shapes of domestic furniture.
“Fences and sculptures show kinship with the architecture of the surrounding buildings; they form a family together,” added the designers.
Here’s a project description from Studio Makkink & Bey:
Defining the private spaces in the courtyards of Reimerswaal
Studio Makkink & Bey was asked by Ymere to develop a concept to define the private spaces in the courtyards of Reimerswaal. Both the play sculpture, and courtyard fence are fused together – combining the private and public functions of street furniture. The buildings around the ‘Reimerswaalhof’ courtyard were designed by Mecanoo architects. The buildings include social housing, private sector housing, wheelchair accessible housing, apartments, an office space and an elementary school.
The fence marks a transition between the private features that are typical for an enclosed yard and the public character of the space around it. The play sculpture by Studio Makkink & Bey was designed to invite the schoolchildren of Sint Lukas elementary school to share their domain with the children who live there. The children can easily slide back and forth over the borderline between private and public domain. By doing so, they playfully soften and smudge the boundaries of ownership.
Fences and sculptures show kinship with the architecture of the surrounding buildings, they form a family together. Individually, the railings each maintain their own character and depict their own story, while the line drawings in steel rods create perspective and a spatial effect. Domestic elements were used to make the public space feel safe and comfortable.
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Dutch firm Studio Makkink & Bey has created a collection of furniture for a nomadic future including a backpack that becomes a sofa bed, a carrycot that becomes a table and a walking cane that turns into an illuminated screen (+ slideshow).
Conceptroom Huisraad by Makkink & Bey is a range of objects that examines the concept of domestic interiors that are no longer attached to any one physical space.
The items form part of Living Spaces, an exhibition exploring textiles in Dutch interiors at the TextielMuseum in Tilburg, the Netherlands. The pieces “depict a future scenario in which the individual travels light and stays comfortable,” said the team.
As part of the display, Makkink & Bey created three objects that utilise natural materials and animal fibres combined with multiple uses.
WarmteWeefsels, meaning “heat tissues”, is a carrycot that turns into a table. In its former state, the cot comes with a pair of adjustable handles and blanket.
To convert it into a table, users remove the blanket, slide the handles to their widest setting and flip the whole thing upside down. The blanket can then be used as either a rug or table cloth.
VouwPlaats, or “fold place”, is a knitted mattress and chair you can carry around as you would a backpack.
The user wears a woollen jacket attached to the frame to carry the VouwPlaats around.
By placing it on the floor, the rolled up mattress acts as a seat and the frame acts as a backrest.
To convert the piece into a bed, the user simply unclasps the two straps holding it together and rolls out the mattress.
The VensterLicht, or “window light”, is a portable room divider and a cane. When closed, the VensterLicht is a chunky walking stick. Inside however, is a four-legged stand and strip-light with a piece of silk cloth attached. When unravelled, it creates a full-length screen.
Each piece provides individuals with, “expandable, foldable and lightweight furniture to travel with, as they traverse boundless interiors – our shrinking world,” said the designers.
This isn’t the first time Studio Makkink & Bey has created multifunctional furniture; last year they created SideSeat, a mash-up of a desk, shelves and swivel chair in one.
Living Spaces continues at the TextielMuseum until 11 May.
Photography is by Rene van der Hulst, commissioned by the TextielMuseum.
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Product news: Dutch designers Studio Makkink & Bey have combined a desk, shelves and swivel chair to create a flexible workspace in a single item of furniture.
Designed for Dutch Brand PROOFF, the chair can be spun ninety degrees so the arm can be used as a side table and partition while reading, or a surface for desk-based work.
The seat is raised above the chunky base so it can move independently from the rest of the piece.
A shelving unit propped on two feet sit at one end and extends out past the seat so legs can fit underneath. Surfaces can be mixed and matched with shades of beige and bright blue.
The product was first shown at last year’s Super Brands London event during London Design Festival and has since gone into production.
Other designs by Studio Makkink & Bey on Dezeen include a shoe store full of seemingly infinite staircases and a house built from scaffolding.
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Interieur 2012: Studio Makkink & Bey built a house of scaffolding and stairs to represent the transient, roaming lifestyle of the future as their contribution to the Future Primitives series at last month’s Interieur design biennale in Kortrijk, Belgium.
Studio Makkink & Bey created the installation, called Lost in Translation, to reflect a future in which we are constantly moving and travelling, spending less time in one place and more time passing through infrastructure like roads and airports.
As we increasingly work on trains, sleep on aeroplanes and keep our belongings in storage, being in motion has become more like being at home, the designers explained. ”What happens if we say that being on the road does not exist anymore and lost in translation is our new existence?” Bey said to Dezeen. “If being on the road is our new interior, what will then be called exterior? What will be thought of as home and property?”
“Maybe the stairs will be the new living room, on which you can store and sit but also watch a movie or the internet with 50 shared friends,” he added.
Positing that future living will be take place in moving landscapes, the designers chose to project a series of one-minute movies inside the structure. “One minute, because that is the best timespan for moving viewers,” said Bey. The selected movies were first presented at The World One Minutes exhibition in Beijing in 2008.
Lost in Translation was one of several installations in the Future Primitives series at Interieur this year – we reported on a mechanical installation that ripples like water and an illusory arcade of gothic arches produced by beams of light.
We also reported on Ross Lovegrove’s concept car designed to provoke an instinctive response and Greg Lynn’s prototype vehicle for compact living, as well as Muller Van Severen’s collection of furniture with leather deckchair seats.
Other projects by Studio Makkink & Bey we’ve featured on Dezeen include household appliances built into wooden packing crates and an installation of pieces made from sugar and silver.
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Here’s some more information from the designers:
Future Primitives, Interieur Kortrijk, 2012
Lost in Translation, Studio Makkink & Bey
The exhibition design Lost In Translation shows industrial materials that become the frame of a house, and self-build becomes the norm. Domesticity is detached from brick and mortar or the value of a mortgage, but now deals with the social relations between members of temporary groups and nomadic aspects of mobility.
What if in transit no longer exists and on the way is a place itself? We would reside in our well developed infrastructures that perform as our living. We might get lost in translation, while living privately in public. In this future primitive, how would we dwell, what would we store? We work while blurred landscapes pass by, we sleep at 12,000 metres in flight and the attic moved into big yellow self-storage boxes along the highway. Home is where the heart is.
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Dutch designers Studio Makkink & Bey have completed a store for shoe brand Camper in Lyon with staircases that seem to go on forever.
The stairs form display stands for shoes and are outlined in bright red to merge with graphics printed onto the walls as though the steps continue.
More shoes are displayed on recessed shelving and the highest shelves can be reached using mobile blocks of yet more steps.
Camper often commission well-known designers to create the interiors for their stores, such as Nendo, Jaime Hayon, and Doshi Levien. See all our stories about Camper here.
Photography is by Sanchez y Montoro.
Here’s some more information from Studio Makkink & Bey:
Camper Shoe Store
Studio Makkink & Bey were inspired by basic walking movements for the design of a new concept store for Camper in Lyon.
Movements forward, upward and downward are shaped in staircase pedestals, stools or stepladders and outlined in bright red lines on the stairs, walls and floors.
The stairs represent the conjunction of separate places.
While performing as a place to meet, sit on or pass through, they expand places and establish rhythm, depth and infinity of spaces.
This is the studio’s first cooperation with Camper as part of the Together Project.
Camper Shoe Store
Rue de la Republique 58
69002 Lyon, France
Dutch designers Studio Makkink & Bey present furniture and household appliances combined with packing crates at Spring Projects in London.
Called the Crate Series, the designs were inspired by mobile shops and workspaces made from crates in India.
Every model has a specific function combined with objects like a vacuum cleaner, cabinets and sink, bath or bed.
The show will run from 5 November until 16 December.
Here’s more information from Spring Projects:
Spring Projects presents The Crate Series by Studio Makkink & Bey
5 November to 16 December 2010.
The Crate Series re-defines functional, ordinary objects by infusing them with new narratives.
Shipping crates usually used for temporary storage and freight are transformed into containers for living, domestic cabinets rich in detail.
The result plays with our ideas of value; the container becomes the content, a by-product is metamorphosed into the product.
Re-interpreting the container, Studio Makkink & Bey engage our perceptions of what a product’s purpose is. These shipping crates, normally used to temporarily house goods, take on a more solitary role as sized down household units.
The Crate Series was inspired by a trip to India, where Rianne Makkink noticed how people used crates to make mobile shops and workspaces.
At that time Studio Makkink & Bey were housed in an enormous industrial warehouse, the seemingly endless space in the high-ceilinged hall was the incentive to create workspaces on a more human scale.
The first crate dwelling was conceived. A crate cupboard placed on an old desk, its doors shielding the user from sights and sounds, allowing greater concentration, in a space solely providing room for the absolute essentials.
In its original guise as freight packaging, the crate protects its contents, but as furniture it also becomes a means of personal autonomy. These wooden retreats can be used to seclude oneself from the outside world, but when unfolded they can become furnishings inside an already furnished room.
Whilst travelling, they form familiar spaces within unknown spaces. The various models encompass a specific function, concentrated inside the crate and in the material finish.
The leather wrapping of the Bed Crate can be folded up as a wall panel or a headboard making it possible to adjust the furniture to varying personal needs for privacy.
The Bath Crate transforms into a sauna or dry cleaning room when closed off.
The Sink Crate is a wash unit for personal hygiene for enormous spaces, when bathing facilities are not close at hand.
The crates change in status from commercial to domestic is further emphasized by the striking decorative motifs on their exteriors.
The Vacuum Cleaner Crate wears its dusty content seemingly on the outside.
This crate is covered with a layer of grey fibres flocked onto the surface of the crate.
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Vienna Design Week 2010: Dutch designers Studio Makkink & Bey present an installation combining sugar and silver at the Liechtenstein museum in Vienna.
Called Silver Sugar Spoon, the project involved delving into the history of sugar in Vienna, where its value was equal to that of silver during the Habsburg family’s reign.
The studio’s research is piped in icing on and around 42 square meters of fabric, laid out on the floor representing the 42 kilograms of sugar consumed by each Austrian in a year, while felt models of sugar beet plants help to tell the story of sugar’s manufacture.
Distorted drawings of cakes placed on a central tablecloth appear correctly when reflected in the surface of a silver vase filled with sugar flowers, which is surrounded by plates and cutlery modelled in icing and cast in silver.
Studio Makkink & Bey collaborated with Viennese bakery K.U.K. Demel and silversmiths Jarosinski & Vaugoin throughout the project.
The installation remains in place until 15 November.
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The following information is from Studio Makkink & Bey:
Studio Makkink & Bey invites you and your friends to the Silver Sugar Spoon exhibition at the Liechtentein museum in Vienna.
30th of september – 15th of november, Grand Opening of the Vienna design week, Thursday, 30th september 2010.
Studio Makkink & Bey are proposing to design tableware and products in answer to the Habsburg valuables found in the Imperial Silver Collection. To start the project our designers delved into the history of sugar and silver, Imperial conduct and pastry cooking. Sugar used to be equally valuable to silver and many affluent citizens were eager to display their wealth by presenting centerpieces entirely made of sugar and treat their guests to extravagant desserts. Studio Makkink and Bey will partner with two highly specialised companies, with roots dating back to the Habsburg era; Sugar Bakery K.U.K. Demel and silversmith company Jarosinski & Vaugoin. Both of which used to serve the Habsburg family during their reign, they will join us to build on the rich history of the Austrian legacy.
The studio has been a temporary sugar laboratory to test and sketch out objects before casting them in silver. A collection of six sugar spoons are transformed into silverware. A tablecloth serves as a chronicle of the sugar history, stories being embroidered or drawn on the textile cloth. A carpet of forty-two square meters lays around the tablecloth and represents the production process of sugar in correlation to the forty-two kilos of sugar consumed per person in Austria every year. Each kilo of sugar cubes requiring one square meter in order to be produced. The centerpiece is a big vase, containing a flower arrangement made of sugar.
The vase is a beautifull demonstration of the Silver making by its size, fifty centimeters high. Its shape has been drawn by the silhouette of a dessert spoon. Both vase and imagery, work together to create an optical illusion. The image on the tablecloth is deformed in such a way that the bulged reflection on the vase restores it back into original, coherent version (an optical illusion known as anamorphy). The Silver Sugar Spoon is a frozen scenery of a dessert ceremony in a sugar beet field.
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Here are some photographs by Edmund Sumner of the completed Balancing Barn holiday home in Suffolk, UK, by MVRDV and Mole Architects, including a swing under the 15 metre cantilever.
The project is the first of five in Alain de Botton’s Living Architecture project and available for rent from 22 October.
The building is clad in reflective panels and the interior was created by Dutch designers Studio Makkink & Bey.
More about the project here.
Photographs are by Edmund Sumner.
The information below is from MVRDV:
Balancing Barn, a cantilevered holiday home near the village of Thorington in Suffolk, England, was completed last Tuesday. The Barn is 30 meters long, with a 15 meters cantilever over a slope, plunging the house headlong into nature. Living Architecture, an organization devoted to the experience of modern architecture, commissioned MVRDV in 2008. Mole Architects from Cambridge were executive architects and Studio Makkink & Bey from Amsterdam collaborated on the interior. The Barn is now available for holiday rentals.
Balancing Barn is situated on a beautiful site by a small lake in the English countryside near Thorington in Suffolk. The Barn responds through its architecture and engineering to the site condition and natural setting. The traditional barn shape and reflective metal sheeting take their references from the local building vernacular. In this sense the Balancing Barn aims to live up to its educational goal in re-evaluating the countryside and making modern architecture accessible. Additionally, it is both a restful and exciting holiday home. Furnished to a high standard of comfort and elegance, set in a quintessentially English landscape, it engages its temporary inhabitants in an experience.
Approaching along the 300 meter driveway, Balancing Barn looks like a small, two-person house. It is only when visitors reach the end of the track that they suddenly experience the full length of the volume and the cantilever. The Barn is 30 meters long, with a 15 meters cantilever over a slope, plunging the house headlong into nature. The reason for this spectacular setting is the linear experience of nature. As the site slopes, and the landscape with it, the visitor experiences nature first at ground level and ultimately at tree height. The linear structure provides the stage for a changing outdoor experience.
At the midpoint the Barn starts to cantilever over the descending slope, a balancing act made possible by the rigid structure of the building, resulting in 50% of the barn being in free space. The structure balances on a central concrete core, with the section that sits on the ground constructed from heavier materials than the cantilevered section. The long sides of the structure are well concealed by trees, offering privacy inside and around the Barn.
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The exterior is covered in reflective metal sheeting, which, like the pitched roof, takes its references from the local building vernacular and reflects the surrounding nature and changing seasons.
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On entering the Barn, one steps into a kitchen and a large dining room. A series of four double bedrooms follows, each with separate bathroom and toilet. In the very centre of the barn the bedroom sequence is interrupted by a hidden staircase providing access to the garden beneath. In the far, cantilevered end of the barn, there is a large living space with windows in three of its walls, floor and ceiling.
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The addition of a fireplace makes it possible to experience all four elements on a rainy day. Full height sliding windows and roof lights throughout the house ensure continuous views of, access to and connectivity with nature.
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The interior is based on two main objectives:
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The rooms are themed. Partly pixilated and enlarged cloud studies by John Constable and country scenes by Thomas Gainsborough are used as connecting elements between the past and contemporary Britain, as carpets, wall papers and mounted textile wall-elements.
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The crockery is made up of a set of English classics for two, and a modern series for a further six guests, making an endless series of combinations possible and adding the character of a private residence to the home.
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The Barn is highly insulated, ventilated by a heat recovery system, warmed by a ground source heat pump, resulting in a high energy efficient building.
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