Après 14 années de construction, Horace Burgess a réussi à réaliser son rêve de construire une maison gigantesque dans les arbres. Dans le même esprit que Tree House, ce projet mesure environ 30 mètres de haut. Des visuels impressionnants dans la suite sur ce projet complexe.
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Il designer Fort Standard ha disegnato questa serie di blocchi in legno che permette di costruire forme facendoli semplicemente stare in equilibrio tra di loro. Ogni set contiene 10 pezzi e lo trovate qui.
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A family business turns New England’s deteriorating barns into incredible custom furniture and more
After The Barn is a father-and-son team in upstate New York that scours the rolling country of the Hudson Valley and Catskills Mountains for barns that are no longer sound. The woodworkers painstakingly dismantle what are often 200-year-old barns, and rework them into furniture, custom cabinetry, birdhouses and customized designs. Their desire is that no barn goes to waste. For our holiday pop up shop we did with the Gap in 2010, the team behind ByKenyan worked with After The Barn to create one-off paneling and shelves, bringing the barn ambiance to midtown Manhattan.
After The Barn is based in the small town of Campbell Hall in rural Orange County, NY where they remain connected with the farming community and can help dismantle barns that are on the verge of collapse. Founder Bob Staab explains, “We believe it is better to recycle the wood from old structures, transforming and redefining their role and enhancing their value rather than to relegating the old beams, walls and floors to a landfill.”
As preservationists who care about the region’s disappearing colonial Dutch heritage, the Staabs are committed to creating compelling pieces that really show off the wood’s raw beauty. A constantly updated stocklist shows gorgeous hardwood tables crafted from mahogany and chestnut as well as cabinetry from reclaimed lumber that has hardened over the years.
After The Barn has two showrooms that house some of their latest works. To see more of what they do, check out their website.
Lead Graffiti ha sviluppato una collection di type in legno basati sul Bradley.
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Milan 2011: London studio Doshi Levien will present this injection-moulded wooden chair for Italian brand Moroso at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan next week.
Called Impossible Wood, the piece is made of a thermoplastic composite comprising 80% wood fibre and 20% polypropylene.
Perched on metal legs, the seat shell appears to be made from strips of wood but in fact the shape can only be formed by injection moulding.
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The information below is from Doshi Levien:
Impossible wood
A chair designed by Doshi Levien for Moroso.
We found a mouldable wood material that has very distinct visual and tactile properties. It is a thermoplastic composite made using 80% wood fibre and 20% polypropylene and it can be processed using conventional injection moulding machines. The pressure and heat from the mould releases moisture from the wood fibre which in turn burns on the surface of the aluminium tool, creating a random, leather-like tarnished effect.
Inspired by the characteristics of this material, we decided to create a chair that references the genre of light, graceful, bent wood frame chairs but would be impossible to make in any other way than by injection moulding, hence the name “impossible wood”. We were intrigued by the depth and texture of the material that is the opposite of slick, homogenous, surface perfect plastic, currently used for most moulded chairs.
‘Impossible wood’ chair has a used, worn, raw and earthy quality that is timeless and natural. It also smells of wood. We looked at the work of Martin Puryear, an African American sculptor who made a piece called Cedar Lodge in 1977. This installation is constructed using thin, overlapping parallel strips of timber, bound together with horizontal rings. This informed the way we made our first prototypes for “Impossible wood”. We adopted an improvised and constructed language to escape the controlled and fluid process usually applied to generating plastic forms.
The prototype for Impossible wood will be launched Salone and can be found at the Moroso stand. (Hall 16 Stand C23/D22)
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Milan 2011: French designers Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec will present this chair for Magis in Milan next week.
Called Baguette, design features a plywood seat and back attached to four solid ash legs by an aluminium frame.
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Baguette
Magis – With Baguettes, our intention was to design a chair that would be brought down to its minimum, using the least quantity of material and assembling items. The ply wood seat and back parts of the chair are supported by four very thin sticks in solid wood which are maintained together by a structure in injected aluminium that is almost invisible. The back of the chair, like the blade of a knife, subtly comes into the main frame while guaranteeing high support resistance. As the Baguette table that we designed for Magis in 2010, we wanted this chair to be as light as possible, to almost float in the space as if it would stay on its feet by magic.
This chair comes in natural and stained ash.
Baguette chair by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec for Magis
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Kaspar Hamacher’s burnt stools (above, left) was one of our most popular stories over the last month so here’s a selection of stories from the Dezeen archives all about wood. See all the stories »
French designers Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec will present this wooden chair for for Italian brand Mattiazzi in Milan next month.
Called Osso, the design has four sculpted wooden pads making up the seat and backrest.
The chairs are made from oak, maple or ash sourced close to Mattiazzi’s factory.
Each one is manufactured with a mixture of CNC tooling and handcraft.
The collection will include a chair, armchair and child’s chair plus high and low stools.
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Osso, Mattiazzi
Working with Mattiazzi is comparable to work with an organic farm. While being a small, family-owned company that has been manufacturing chairs for others since about forty years, Mattiazzi decided to do less yet better. By using sophisticated CNC set of tools and at the same time a greatly refined manual know-how, Mattiazzi has a hybrid way to consider furniture production.
We were particularly interested by the fact that all the equipment is powered by solar energy and that the wood is coming from the surrounding areas to be carefully selected without the use of any chemical treatments. They came back to the basics and this is precisely what piqued our interest and our fascination for the Mattiazzi family’s endeavour. As designers, we feel involved in supporting such valiant microstructures that are always on the edge as they try to adjust to a constantly changing market.
That said, the Osso chair had to be the illustration of what Mattiazzi is in its roots. We designed an object in plain wood but not in regular plain wood, the quality of the wood literally makes the object, like the best piece of meat would make the refinement of a dish. Our intention was to let the sensuality of the wood material – from oak to maple to ash – express itself.
The Osso chair invites to be touched, even caressed as it is extremely sculpted and polished thanks to the use of highly sophisticated digital control equipment. The high-tech assembling system of geometrical wood panels allows a quite singular strength while preserving a design balance of the object. The Osso collection will include a chair, an armchair, a children chair as well as high and low stools.
MATTIAZZI Salone del Mobile Hall 6 Booth F32B + Fuorisalone Kaleidoscope, Gallery Corso Buenos Aires 10, entrance Via Giovanni Masera
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The walls, floor and ceiling of this store in Paris by Melbourne practice March Studio are covered by 3,500 pieces of wood.
Created for skincare brand Aesop inside an eighteenth-century building, the interior was inspired by parquet flooring.
Products are displayed on planks jutting from the walls.
The ash timber was sourced from managed forests in Victoria, Australia, then cut and hand-worked on the outskirts of Melbourne before being labelled and shipped to Paris for assembly on site.
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Aesop Saint-Honoré
La boutique Aesop rue Saint-Honoré se situe dans un immeuble du dix-huitième siècle au cœur du quartier historique de Paris, proche du Palais Royal.
L’architecture intérieure a été conçue par Rodney Eggleston (March Studio, Melbourne), en collaboration avec Dennis Paphitis, le fondateur d’Aesop. Eggleston a réfléchi aux matériaux qui selon lui étaient le plus emblématiques de Paris. “Nous avons d’abord en envisagé d’utiliser du plâtre, mais nous avons vite été intrigués par les sols en parquets que l’on trouve un peu partout à Paris,” dit-il. “Nous sommes partis de l’idée d’utiliser un seul et unique matériau pour tout l’espace. Nous avons donc imaginé un agencement entièrement en bois découpé et posé de manière à recouvrir intégralement le sol, les murs et le plafond et permettant de créer une atmosphère à la fois chaleureuse et homogène.”
Le bois choisi pour la boutique est le frêne de Victoria, issu de forêts renouvelables australiennes. Environ 3500 pièces de bois ont été découpées et travaillées à la main dans un atelier situé à Richmond, un quartier de la périphérie de Melbourne, avant d’être soigneusement numérotées, rangées dans un container et expédiées à Paris par bateau.
Aesop Saint-Honoré
256, rue Saint-Honoré
Paris 75001
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Danish architects Bjarke Ingels Group have won a competition to design multistorey, prefabricated wooden housing for Kouvola, Finland.
The E2 (Ecology + Economy) Timber Competition aims to prototype and showcase large-scale sustainable wooden construction that can be replicated worldwide.
Entitled PUU-BO, BIG’s design comprises prefabricated modules that could be reconfigured to make different building typologies in different environments, from townhouses to skyscrapers.
BIG won the competition in collaboration with Pirmin Jung Engineers for Wood Constructions, AOA Anttinen Oiva Architects, Vahanen Engineers and Stora Enso.
The information below is from BIG:
BIG WINS THE INTERNATIONAL E2 (ECOLOGY + ECONOMY) TIMBER COMPETITION IN FINLAND
BIG (DK) + Pirmin Jung Engineers for Wood Constructions (CH) + AOA Anttinen Oiva Architects Ltd (FI) + Vahanen Engineers (FI) + Stora Enso (FI) is the winning team to design a prototype wooden construction system for a pilot project in Kouvola, Finland that will serve as a showcase for the sustainable use of timber construction worldwide.
To meet the increasingly stringent environmental requirements of Finnish industrialized construction, the E2 Ecology & Economy timber development competition aims to find a conceptual design solution for large-scale production of wooden multi-story buildings. A 15.000 m2 prefabricated wooden development in Kouvola, Finland will serve as a showcase for replicable and locally adaptable cost- and energy efficient housing. BIG’s proposal PUU-BO is today announced as one of two winning entries of the two-staged invited competition totaling 26 international proposals, which included wood construction specialists Hermann Kaufmann from Austria and wood producer Finnforest among many others.
“PUU-BO was the only proposal to truly acknowledge the aspiration of the E2 Competition: to look at the surroundings of the buildings and the spaces in between as potential opportunities for green development”, Jury, E2 (Ecology + Economy).
Wood as construction material brings a double benefit: remarkably reduced emissions in its production and fabrication and im proved energy efficiency of the buildings where it is used. Currently, only a fragment of multi-story buildings utilize timber construction in Finland, a country known for its timber production. BIG’s PUU-BO is a comprehensive prefab solution designed to be both extremely flexible and materially efficient. PUU-BO’s conception as a system based on best practices and not predefined standard elements, gives it an embodied intelligence and ensures its viability for the future. The system’s easy adaptability to a variety of building typologies and uses, opens up new possibilities for prefabricated wood systems beyond the residential market – the very same elements in the residential pilot project could be used in an office building or even a wood skyscraper with no loss in material efficiency.
“BIG’s point of direction was to design an innovative system that can fit any built environment for any type of use. Rather than developing a system based on current market demands, we wanted to make a system so flexible it can embrace as many building typologies and functionalities as possible. Instead of making the most carbon neutral system at present; we develop a system that evolves into the future. This way the system respects the ever increasing key drivers for sustainability while being competitive with other building systems”, Thomas Christoffersen, Partner-in-Charge, BIG.
A site with generous views towards public green areas and the city’s river has been specifically selected for this pilot project by the city of Kouvola. The location allows the volume of the proposed building to push from one side to the other side to integrate the park and parking along the development. BIG’s proposal follows the contours of the landscape creating semi-private pockets directly connected to the park while the height of the building is manipulated to peak towards the open areas. The pockets are surrounded by lower housing creating an intimate space where all units are connected to the ground. The areas with the best views have the most floors and the most apartments while all roofs are partially accessed by the penthouse apartments and all units at ground floor have access to private gardens to both sides.
“Le Corbusier’s DOMI-NO system was developed to industrialize construction with the new technologies of concrete structures, and improve living conditions for the many. Decades later concrete housing has become synonymous with boxy and boring. By crossbreeding state of the art building technology and wood construction PUU-BO provides endless variability with infinite renewability” Bjarke Ingels, Founder and Partner, BIG.
BIG’s E2 proposal combines a variety of housing typologies – from 8-story apartment buildings to low townhouses with a shared courtyard space. Along both sides of the building a pedestrian path connects the private gardens to parking and park. The path blends with the existing network, integrating the building with the park, river and city. Playgrounds, sports fields, and a community sauna in the river are strategically placed in order to activate the site. All activities are available to both the PUU-BO inhabitants as well as the citizens of Kouvola.
About E2
The city of Kouvola in cooperation with the Finnish Forest Industries association, the Finnish Forest Foundation, the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation SITRA, KSS-Energia Oy and the Regional Council of Kymenlaakso aims at fostering new solu tions for industrial production of wooden multi-story buildings through the launch of E2 Timber Development Competition and a future Centre of Competence in Timber Construction, “Wood-Inno”. The concept competition is expected to offer energy efficient solutions which reduce the carbon foot print, and could help Finland to take leadership in the field of timber construction worldwide.
About BIG
BIG, founded in 2005 by Bjarke Ingels, is an architectural office currently involved in a large number of projects throughout Europe, Asia and North America. Based in Copenhagen, Denmark and with a newly opened office in New York, USA the office is led by six Design Partners, including Bjarke Ingels, Andreas Klok Pedersen, Finn Norkjaer, Thomas Christoffersen, Jakob Lange, David Zahle and two Management Associate Partners, Sheela Maini Sogaard and Kai-Uwe Bergmann. BIG’s architecture emerges out of a careful analysis of how contemporary life constantly evolves and changes, not least due to the influence of multicultural exchange, global economic flows and communication technologies that together require new ways of architectural and urban organization.
About Pirmin Jung
PIRMIN JUNG Ingenieure für Holzbau AG is a leading engineering specialist for multiple-storey timber constructions. For the past 15 years, Pirmin has worked closely with designers and architects, creating efficient sustainable and long-lasting wooden solutions worldwide.
E2 INFORMATION
Name: E2 Ecology and Economy
Program: Housing
Type: Prequalified Competition
Size: 15,000m2, 8 storey prefabricated wood construction
Client: City of Kouvola, Finland
Collaborators: AOA, Pirmin Jung Holzbauingenieur, Vahanen, Stora Enso
Location: Kouvola, Finland
Partner in Charge: Bjarke Ingels, Thomas Christoffersen
Project Leader: Brian Yang
Team: Krista Meskanen, Jelena Vucic, Alina Tamosiunaite, Alessandro Ronfini, Cecilia Ho, Elisha Nathoo, Sunming Lee, Long Zhuo, Mads Bjorn Christiansen
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