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Soft Curves UNStudio’s Ben van Berkel takes time from a busy
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Calendar Must-see events and exhibitionsfrom around the
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Boldface Movers, shakers, winners andgreen do-gooders
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in Umbria a new life
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restaurant,and a brasserie where advanced students can honetheir
skills with paying customers. Bridges linkthis building to a
four-storey structure, entered viaan arch at the rear, which houses
classrooms,offices, an exhibition space and a canteen.
Linearcourtyards separate these blocks, as well as three
↑ The school’sshotcrete shell is cladin Alucobond panelsand
windowpanes inthousands of size andcontour variations.
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BY MICHAEL WEBB
In Montpellier, France, a state-of-the-art school byMassimiliano
and Doriana Fuksas takes the culinaryand hotel arts to another
level
← Occupying mostof the complex’s
. hectares, the twomain buildings weavearound each
other,connected by bridgesand topped withsolar panels.↙ A detail
view ofthe connectivetissue between thetwo main blocks.↓ Triangular
win dowbring natural light intothe minimal interiorsand makes
dynamicpatterns on the walls.
satellites containing a gym, student rooms andstaff
apartments.
Despite its complexity, the finished projectconforms exactly to
the physical and parametricmodels. “We always realize our original
conceptswithout any subsequent changes, even thoughthe contractor
may have difficulty in mastering allthe details,” says Massimiliano
Fuksas. The entireensemble is wrapped in a taut, geometrically
pat-terned skin, a hallmark of recent Fuksas buildings,
from the Milan fairgrounds to the new terminal inprogress for
the international airport in Shenzhen,China. The firm specified
triangular panels in ,size and contour variations, made of
Alucobond,aluminum thermo-bonded to a polyethylene core.These were
stamped with bar codes and assem-bled like a jigsaw puzzle on the
shotcrete shell,along with flush-fitting triangular windows of
high-performance glass. As Fuksas observes, “Thisprovided a uniform
finish that is easy to clean and
changes colour with the light, while ensuringgood thermal and
acoustic insulation.”
A thousand students attend the school, buteven with the heavy
demands of kitchen equip-ment Fuksas managed to achieve a high
levelof sustainability, reducing the carbon footprintthrough
orientation and rooftop photovoltaicpanels. And the firm stayed on
budget, despitethe complex design and custom fabrication.
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JUST IN
BY JUSTIN RIDGEWAY
i creates a multi-hued interior inthe least likely of spaces: an
employeetraining facility in Delft
COLOURWORKS
“WE TRY TO LOOK for the best story that can be told.”This is how
i principals Jeroen Dellensen andJasper Jansen, based in
Duivendrecht, the Nether-lands, describe their approach. For the
CombiwerkDelft building, designed by VMX Architects, i explored the
narrative theme of the CombinationWork initiative, a training and
employment programthat helps citizens with disabilities
reintegrateinto the workforce. The firm’s colour-coded interiorputs
a positive spin on the metaphorical boxespeople with perceived
limitations can be placed in,and speaks to the nuances and vibrancy
of indiv-iduals and their unique stories.
In the new building, in centrally located produc-
tion halls, Combiwerk’s employees and traineesperform packaging,
assembly, housekeeping andpostal service jobs. For its part, i
created theopen concept office areas, as well as a restaurantand
other public spaces. The spatial arrangementis made visible and
intelligible through strategiccolour typography, a minimalist
implementation ofbright, bold colour blocks. The layout was
informedby how the office would best serve the differentend users.
The colour choices, however, wereultimately intuitive, taking the
shape of islands inbright shades of blue, green, orange and
red,surrounded by grey carpeting and walls.
All of the furniture in the office areas, includingthe desks,
cabinetry and file drawers, were boughtsecond-hand and refurbished;
the chairs wererefashioned in collaboration with Weder,
anothersocial works company. This “recycled office” con-cept
originated with i ’s design for the Gummoadvertising agency in
Amsterdam, with its grey-painted used furnishings, and has recently
led tothe firm’s AsGoodAsNew line of vintage furnishingsand
accessories. In Combiwerk, the furnituremelds into the colour
scheme with a trompe l’oeil effect. “In an almost fairy tale–like
way,” say thedesigners, “the building contains secret gardensfull
of vitality, which could be read as a reference tothe contrast
between external appearances andinner richness.”
→ Interior design firm i repurposed andrepainted the furnishings
in the work areasaccording to colour-coded themes.
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THE GAMECHANGER
Brooklyn’s new basketball arena,by SHoP Architects, scores
majorpoints for a massive development
BY TIM M KEOUGH
JUST BUILT
THE SAGA OF THE ATLANTIC YARDS’ fitful starts and stops is
wellknown. The . -hectare development in Brooklyn began withFrank
Gehry’s master plan; but in a money-saving moveduring the financial
crisis, developer Bruce Ratner handed overthe design of the site’s
main attraction – the Barclays Center,an arena for the Brooklyn
Nets (and, in , the New YorkIslanders) – to Ellerbe Becket. The
firm, a sports architecturegiant, delivered a faceless,
off-the-shelf box that furtherenraged community groups already
incensed by the size of thedevelopment and the expropriation of
private property thatstood in its way. That’s when Ratner turned to
SH oP Architects,asking the New York studio to devise a different
exterior shapeand facade for the venue, and to design the interiors
of itsclubs, restaurants and corridors. Immediately, SHoP saw
anopportunity to do more than contribute a showy wrapper.
“Thisproject wasn’t just about designing an entertainment
venue,”says partner Christopher Sharples. “It was about creating a
newneighbourhood.”
Now complete, the , -square-metre centrepiece of
thestill-nascent Atlantic Yards directly links to the intense
urbanenvironment that surrounds it. The low-lying coiled structure
flowsseamlessly into the city sidewalk, connecting to the
green-roofed
entrance of a transit hub with nine subway lines and
commuterrail service. “The building has a remarkable repose, and it
isn’tvery vertical,” says Sharples. Because Ellerbe Becket sank
thebasketball court below grade, “we wanted to stretch the
energyout and create civic gestures, like the canopy.” This
expansiveand outstanding oculus, wrapped in video screens,
cantilevers
metres over an entrance plaza, making the building’s
biggest,boldest gesture. Glass walls at street level allow
passersby topeer in at the scoreboard above the court during
games.
To combat the sense of a looming mass amid a neighbourhoodof
smaller buildings, SHoP broke down the exterior cladding into
, pieces of water jet–cut steel, each with a different sizeand
shape, and weathered them with collected rainwater so theylooked
several years old, even before installation. “This createsa scaled
intimacy that plays with the colours and fenestration ofwindows in
the neighbourhood,” says Sharples. The armoured,unabashedly raw
building doesn’t exactly blend in, which hasattracted the attention
of both detractors and admirers. However,for such an imposing
structure it succeeds surprisingly well,as a welcoming new
destination and transit hub, and as an iconthat reflects Brooklyn’s
newly elevated status. It’s an encouragingstart for this
controversial development.
↑ The facadeconsists of , weathered steelpanels that
wereelectronically taggedand assembled usingan iPhone app.
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BY NINA BOCCIA
The envelope-pushing graphicdesigner puts on The Happy Showat
Toronto’s Design Exchange
Q&A: STEFANSAGMEISTER
EVERY SEVEN YEARS, Stefan Sagmeister shutsdown his New York
office for an entire year tore-energize. After a sabbatical in Bali
in , thegraphic designer immersed himself in
meditation,psychotropic drugs and therapy and began to planThe
Happy Show, informed by his decade-longexploration of happiness.
Taking over Toronto’sDesign Exchange in January, after debuting
atPhiladelphia’s Institute of Contemporary Art,the exhibit (and
future film) presents thought-provoking installations –
glass-encased stacks ofmoney identifying “The Ideal Salary,” and
gum ballmachines numbered from to , with the levelsof gum dispensed
illustrating showgoers’ averagelevel of happiness – all tied
together by his own
maxims in various typography, from handwrittento neon lit.
How did you weave together the variouselements of the Happy
Show?There are a lot of spaces, some connected, somedisconnected,
so I decided to put our old trick ofhandwriting into the show, and
that made every-thing easier. It was necessary to have some sort
ofcommon thread to move the people through. Andit gives them an
opportunity to linger.
You use unlikely areas, such as bathrooms andwheelchair ramps,
as exhibition space. Why?We do stuff in the bathrooms, in the
hallways, inall of the little non-spaces that museums neverdo
anything with. But they are there, and if youtreat them correctly
you can make little nookswhere you can speak more closely to a
visitor.Information is always beautifully communicatedif you can
open up people’s attention with a littlesurprise. From a spatial
point of view, that iseasier if you hide something in a space that
usedto be the janitor’s closet.
Do you edit the content of your maxims to suittheir typographic
treatments?I wrote sentences extremely fast, as a list in mydiary,
“Things I Have Learned in My Life So Far”
↑ Visitors can indicate their happiness levelsat the gum ball
machines.← A provocative, pedal-powered neon sign.
[ published by Abrams Books, ]. The nextbunch were written more
consciously and probablymore carefully, but I might have had
versionsof them. We’re doing a new one now for the film,and it has
several versions; one is “Achieve ElasticTenacity,” the other “Be
More Flexible.” We’re goingwith the latter because it expresses the
samething much more clearly. If the sentence is as clearas
possible, we can be more opaque formally. Ifthe form expresses the
content, the viewer doesn’thave a chance to interpret it.
How do you resolve the treatment of a maxim?There are some
projects where we deliberatelyhave no idea what the outcome will
be, and thatgoes against my natural instincts. I’m
comfortableknowing where we are going, but it has the advan-tage of
being fairly safe, and the disadvantageof losing spontaneity. The
reason I don’t do it moreoften is because it’s scary, but the
results arealways good. Some of our better-known pieces,including
the “Trying to Look Good Limits My Life”billboards, were done using
that approach.
The ideas can come out of the sentence or agut feeling, or
sometimes I have a desire to go ina certain direction and it just
opens a completely
new world or new meaning for that sentence. It’sall over the
place.
What’s the story behind the neon sign that lightsup when people
pedal the stationary bicycle? “Actually doing the things I set out
to do increasesmy overall level of satisfaction.” That’s just it.
Ifound that whenever I think I should do somethingand I don’t make
a note and forget about it, itleaves a kernel of dissatisfaction
with me. I alsodiscovered that exercising for minutes in themorning
played a more discernible role in my daythan meditating for
minutes, so I wanted tohave an element of exercise. I worked with
Kevin T.O’Callaghan of the School of Visual Arts; he knowsthe guy
on Long Island who made the neon sign.
What inspired the Step Up to It sugar sculpture?Sugar is highly
related to happiness. The cubes arewhite, so we could project on
them. It’s a silverscreen kind of thing, and I think it’s pretty.
It wasn’tmeant to be interactive, but the programmers, RedPaper
Heart, brought that element in. Face recog-nition software allows
the visitor to interact bysmiling, lighting up the sculpture with a
burst ofcolour. It changes the way the audience looks at it.
→ The Happy Show takes place from January toMarch at the Design
Exchange in Toronto.
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A FINEBALANCE
An earthquake-ravaged medievaltower in Umbria, Italy, is
reimaginedwith a dramatic steel spine
BY BARRY CHONG
FRESH TAKE
ON SEPTEMBER , , a magnitude . earthquake struck the Italian
region ofUmbria, killing people and leaving severalmedieval
structures in ruin. Among themwas the Tower of Triponzo, which
became asymbol of local grief. After hearing of thedisaster, German
architect Martin Stubenrauchset out to restore the tower, as a
tributeto the earthquake victims. But his goodwillproject would be
fraught with controversyand logistical nightmares.
After he received state funding and theblessing of several
bureaucratic authorities,his design drew outrage from the
locals.Instead of demolishing and rebuilding thetower, he kept the
ruins, planning to supporttheir weight via a spine-like steel
structurewith exterior Corten bracing, which wouldclimb what used
to be the tower’s centralshaft – an elegant, functional design,
withoutornament. “People hated me for i t,” saysStubenrauch. “No
tower of the fifty that once
existed ever got funding for revitalization.And I had decided to
leave the ruin, monu-mentalizing their tragedy.”
There was also danger in stabilizing thecrumbling structure.
Using cranes withbaskets, the crew had to secure each of theloose
stones – some the size of boulders –from top to bottom, tying the
walls togetherwith nylon ropes. “We were terrorized,”
saidStubenrauch. “When the first major tremor hit,we had
consolidated the walls but had notplaced the steel support. Four
workers wereup on the scaffolding when the entire thing wasmoving
like a swing.” They then drilled eightholes metres deep into the
tower’s solidrock foundation, enabling them to install the
-kilogram Corten brace.With the work now complete,
Stubenrauch
looks on his -year passion project withpride. “It’s beautiful to
see that people havestarted to understand the inner logic of
thework,” he says. From its inception, the towerrevitalization has
represented humanity’sresolve against nature’s destructive
forces.One can now say that it also symbolizes theresolve of an
uncompromising architect.
←The -kilogram Corten brace holds themonumental tower’s ruins
together.
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JANUARY TO HEIMTEXTIL, FRANKFURTThe ultimate contract and
residential textilefair. heimtextil.messefrankfurt.com
JANUARY TO DOMOTEX, HANOVER, GERMANY An international showcase
of floor coverings,
from handwoven rugs to ceramic tiles.domotex.de
JANUARY TO MAISON&OBJET, PARISParisian-flavoured decor for
the home.maison-objet.com
JANUARY TO MACEF, MILANItaly’s largest home accessories and
decorshow. macef.it
FEBRUARY TO STOCKHOLM FURNITURE AND LIGHT FAIRThe latest in
Nordic interior design.stockholmfurniturelightfair.se
FEBRUARY TO AMBIENTE, FRANKFURTChic home accessories and
giftware.ambiente.messefrankfurt.com
APRIL TO SALONE DEL MOBILE, MILANThe design mecca, with hundreds
of off-siteattractions, this year coincides with
Euroluce.cosmit.it
APRIL TO MAY COVERINGS, ATLANTAAisles of tile and stone floor
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UPCOMING FAIRS
It’s fitting that before the San Francisco Museum of Modern
Arthunkers down for its Snøhetta-designed facelift, it is showinga
survey of works by the late, visionary American architect,whose
conceptual drawings and models often grafted spec-tacular new
structures onto the existing urban fabric. His wildlyimaginative –
and undeniably human-centred – unbuilt worksventured beneath the
earth’s core, examined seismic design andcritiqued postwar
development. In a concept for earthquake-prone San Francisco, a
cluster of buildings creates a bridge. Inwar-ravaged Bosnia, a
protective wall encloses the country whilestill letting people in.
And in his foreboding Lower Manhattanillustration from , he
depicted the city, where he died just asHurricane Sandy was on its
way out, as sitting atop exposedrock, all its rivers dammed and
excavated. sfmoma.org
JANUARY TO
IMM COLOGNECOLOGNE, GERMANY
FEBRUARY TO JUNE
LEBBEUS WOODS, ARCHITECTSAN FRANCISCO
JANUARY TO
At the first international furniture fair of the year, where
manyEuropean manufacturers launch hundreds of products, payclose
attention to the German furniture giants. Vitra, Eand Walter Knoll
shine, displaying their latest and greatest,including the last’s
new soft seating by architect Ben van
Berkel. Inspired by the natural smoothness of geologicalforms,
Seating Stones (shown) drew crowds at Orgatec inOctober and are
sure to impress showgoers in Cologne.Italy’s Luca Nichetto creates
this year’s Das Haus installation,furnishing the space with his
works for Foscarini, De Padovaand Venini. imm-cologne.com
↖ BoConcept shows off Carmo,Anders Nørgaard’s modular sofathat
features exaggerated pipingand comes in fabrics includingfelt
(shown) and leather.↑ Marian Bantjes transformsBlu Dot’s Real Good
Chair into agraphic display of a film synopsis.
TORONTO IN JANUARY may be freezing, but IDS heatsthings up at
the Metro Toronto Convention Centrewith vibrant new furniture and
installations from exhibitors. BoConcept presents a finely crafted
modularsofa by Anders Nørgaard, while Wetstyle launches acollection
of ultra-minimalist bathroom fixtures. Theshow’s two main features,
Prototype and Studio North,return with experimental and bespoke
pieces, such asa brushed brass stool by Lori Harrison. And an
auction
of boldly customized Blu Dot chairs displays the wildlyunique
talents of designers around the country, includingillustrators
Marian Bantjes and Gary Taxali. On Janu ary
, the Azure Trade Talks welcome Berlin industrialdesigner Jerszy
Seymour; and architect Jürgen Mayer H.,the man behind the
waffle-like, all-timber Metropol Parasolin Seville as well as a
slew of mould- breaking culturalbuildings in the Republic of
Georgia.interiordesignshow.com
INTERIORDESIGN SHOWTORONTO
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THONET BIKE BY ANDY MARTIN
For $ , , one can own thisbrakeless beech ride by
Australianarchitect Andy Martin. It is madeusing CNC cutting and
Thonet’ssteam- bending process, originallyfrom .
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SCHLUMP ONE BY J. MAYER H.
German architect Jürgen Mayer H.,known for his amoebic forms,
shookup a Hamburg neighbourhood withthis renovation of a ’ s
building.Named after a nearby subway sta-tion, Schlump houses
offices and aprivate university. jmayerh.de
THOMAS BAYRLE FOR
MAHARAM
Visitors to London’s Frieze Art Fairmight have noticed some
impressiveentryways and rest stops en routeto the various shows and
events. Thewall treatments were courtesy ofMaharam, with U.K.
company Rutterssupplying the carpeting. Maharamresurrected patterns
based onGerman pop artist Thomas Bayrle’sart pieces from the ’ s,
digitallyprinting them on a non-woven solidsubstrate. The motif is
now part ofMaharam’s Digital Projects collection.maharam.com
OSCAR NIEMEYER FOR
CONVERSE
Architect Oscar Niemeyer never shiesfrom embracing the new.
Rather thana building, his latest project is a lineof Converse
sneakers, this one witha bold red tongue that references
theentrance to his Ibirapuera Auditoriumin São Paulo. The canvas
upper isdecorated with the text of his famousquote: “It is not the
right angle thatattracts me, nor the straight line. It isthe
sensual curve I find in the moun-tains of my country, in the
sinuouscourse of its rivers, in the body ofthe be loved woman.”
niemeyer.org.br
THE CAVE BY BENJAMIN
GRAINDORGE
For the French furniture com panyMoustache, Benjamin
Graindorgedevised a sculptural mood lamp,illuminated from within a
hollow core.moustache.fr
BEEHIVE BY JOHANSON DESIGN
To install this felt sound absorber,each hextagonal piece fits
togetherand mounts to the wall with magnets.Designed by Johanson
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Fontana Arte’s exciting new art directorcarries on with his own
line of vibrant,innovative furnishings
BY JOANN PLOCKOVA
GIORGIOBISCARO
DESIGNING BEFORE KNOWING DESIGNWhen I was a child, my father
used to bring homeelectronics, lamps, furniture – things I could
study,break, dismantle and reassemble. This affectedmy
understanding of how things are made, and howdifferent element
combinations could affect thefinal object and the way I interacted
with it. Whenyou begin to question your surroundings and findout
how to solve the problems you see, you startto become a
designer.
THE UNIVERSITY OF VENICETo be honest, I learned very little
about how designactually works. The school had only been foundeda
few years earlier, and it was not yet equippedto teach properly.
But we soaked in every type ofdesign, from graphic and interior
design to ergo-nomics. This was the biggest lesson: never
stoplearning, because things always change.
THE SCHOOL OF FOSCARINIAs I finished my first three years at
IUAV, a pro-
fessor told me about a young, dynamic lightingcompany that was
hiring. I asked for an interviewand took some works with me – ugly
works – thatI had made the previous year. Incredibly, they hiredme.
I was in the engineering department, becausethere was no R&D
department at the time, andeverything was beautifully unstructured;
there wereso many things to learn. I worked, for example, on[Marc]
Sadler’s Mite floor lamp, and I was one ofthe first to see the
concept for Caboche [by PatriciaUrquiola and Eliana Gerotto].
Foscarini shaped theway I see a project, and design in general.
THE FREELANCE DANCEI quit Foscarini after less than a year to
try afreelance career. What a fool I was, and how muchI still
needed to understand. My first job wascreating a prototype for an
external alarm horn.I spent two weeks collecting all the
information Icould about sirens, then started designing, thenmade a
Styrofoam prototype. I sold the result tothe company that gave me
the brief, without
↑ The Sable LED lamp has a monobloc form
with a small, space-saving head, designed byBiscaro for
Something Good, the productionworkshop he co-founded in .→Magritte,
a lemon/lime squeezer in injection-moulded plastic.
BornVercelli, Italy,
LocationMilan and Treviso, Italy
Education Bachelor of industrial design,
IUAV University of Venice
OccupationFurniture designer, art director
Selected exhibits Edition of Nine, Ventura
Lambrate, Milan Design Week New Italian Design, traveling
exhibit by the Triennale di Milano Represented Italian design
at
th-anniversary celebrations ofItaly’s unification, Turin
Edition of Six, VenturaLambrate, Milan Design Week
Salone Satellite, Salone delMobile, Milan
Selected clientsBosa, Birex, CB , Doimo, Maison
, Mizar, Nuovostudio, Slide
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getting a royalty. Today that alarm is one of themost sold in
Europe, and I don’t get a buck forit – another good lesson about
design.
Later I taught in the synthesis lab of Poli tec nicodi Milano,
while working as a freelancer at Nuovo-studio and learning how to
devise the communica-tion strategy around a product. I was also
employedas art director at Disenia, which gave me controlover the
creative process, because it was the kindof high-quality,
small-sized Italian company whereyou could learn by doing
everything. Freelancing inItaly is anything but easy – almost half
of yourearnings go to taxes – but I decided to start my ownstudio
in , because I truly believe in my joband all of its different
aspects.
FIRST MAJOR SUCCESSESMy Offset stool for Maison was built
aroundthe idea of redesigning a process more than anobject. Even
before it was on sale, it was featured
in almost every Italian magazine and many blogs.Two works I made
with craftsmen in andthe Sable lamp and the Torii chair, are also
amongmy most important pieces. They speak to a futurewhere we will
produce less, but better.
Sometimes I feel as if I have worked too muchin companies,
because I’m a perfectionist andalways see too many problems in a
product I havein mind. My design process tends to be very longand
articulated, because I see production,com mer cial or even supply
chain issues. Besidesthis, I always try to put something more into
myprojects, something that sets them apart in termsof production
methods, materials, behaviours,and relationships with the user.
FONTANA ARTEIn , I took on the artistic direction of
FontanaArte, which was founded in . It has a greathistory, yet in
the past years, instead ofpro moting the original values of
innovation andmodernity, the company became conformist,sticking
with mono-material, monochrome prod-ucts. My goal is to innovate
again, contactinggood designers, no matter if they just graduatedor
are world famous, and working closely withthem to build the product
together.
In the next collection, I will use nearly differematerials:
fibres, expanded foams, fabrics, plastics,glass. I want to push
this, because I feel the crisishas brought about the worst thing
for a designer:a lack of experimentation. A dramatic changeis the
best thing for Fontana Arte, and I am luckyenough to be one of the
main players in it. Manypeople will criticize us for turning our
backs on thepast, but we can’t live in the past forever.
INTO THE FUTUREI’m also working with other design brands to
pro-duce some of my projects – a low table, a bookshelfand a clock
for French and Italian companies –which I hope will be produced in
. This workbetween a freelance career and the company lifeis the
best job a designer could desire. I will keepdoing what I’m doing
now – just better.
↗ This prototype chair is named Pollo (Italianfor “chicken”).
The painted metal frame remindsBiscaro of a cartoonish roasted
bird.↗↗ Perfect for a single bloom, Flynn consistsof a ‑D-printed
lattice set in a purple glass vase.←The Offset stool, for Maison ,
is made ofplywood sheets bent and cut into chevrons andscrewed onto
three legs.↓ To create his wood-capped Yalog vessels,Biscaro used
rough branches to form the mouldsinto which the glass is blown.
←The Bundled light fixture, indevelopment for a French brand,is
made with cotton fibreboard.↓ Constructed from birch andoak plywood
topped in iron, theReprouvé stool, for CB , payshomage to Jean
Prouvé.
↑ Lariviera, an armchair for the outdoors, ismade with a minimal
metal frame and vibrant,gradated PVC cushions.
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Ben van Berkel brings his love oftwists, bends and all-white
walls to hislatest residential project in GermanyBY MAIRI
BEAUTYMANPHOTOGRAPHY BY IWAN BAAN
PROJECT: HAUS AM WEINBERGFIRM: UNSTUDIO, AMSTERDAM
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IT’S NOT OFTEN YOU FIND A FUNCTIONING HISTORICAL VINEYARD in a
suburb, butthat’s what adjoins one new family house located on a
craggy hillside on theoutskirts of Stuttgart. Well-cultivated rows
of grapevines ll the nearbylot, while in another direction the site
offers sweeping views of rooftops anddistant city lights. The newly
built, 920 -square-metre cast concrete home,designed by UNS tudio,
ts into the landscape like a glove, with both volumeand rooine
responding to the rising terrain.
“We studied endlessly how to capture views of the mountaintop,”
says
Located next to a vineyard, the three-
storey house is perched on a terracedhillside. It takes on
remarkably differentappearances from every angle.
principal Ben van Berkel, who credits his love for high terrain
as a responseto his own native country’s lack of elevation.
“Perhaps because I’m a Dutch-man, I’m happy to see any mountain,”
he says wi th a laugh, “even if it’s onlya metre high.”
For the client, retaining the big-name Amsterdam rm to
dedicatetime and attention to a private residence was a major coup.
UNS tudio hascompleted such high-prole projects as the
Mercedes-Benz Museum (alsoin Stuttgart), the dramatic Erasmus
Bridge in Rotterdam, and a luxury
HOUSE PROFILE
LOCATION: STUTTGART,GERMANY
BUILDING SIZE: SQUARE METRES
LOT SIZE: , SQUAREMETRESSTRUCTURAL MATERIALS:
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↑ The most striking feature, visuallyand structurally, is a
load-bearingS -shaped stairway that connects allthree levels and
guides the organi-zation of the house.← To maintain the drama of
thestaircase, UNS tudio used cables asa discreet protective
barrier.↗↗ A large fireplace fills part of awall near the entrance;
its facade ismake of one piece of locally sourcedstone called
Jurakalk.↗ A library provides a solitaryalcove, though not an
enclosedone. The house is designed to blurboundaries between
private andpublic space.→ →UNS tudio custom-built a whiteCorian
kitchen table that extendsoutdoors, its form mimicking thecurves of
the house.
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FLOOR PLANS
Master bedroom Walk-in closet Bathroom Gallery/library Sauna
Wellness area Elevator Terrace Lap pool Dining area Kitchen Dog
shower Living area Music room Technical room Storage Wine cellar
Wine tasting area Bedroom Garage Entrance
↑ The third floor wellness area, withits egg-shaped bathtub and
woodensauna, offers a sensual experience.
A glass opening on the secondlevel looks down into the wine
cellarone floor below.
department store in South Korea. “I’m excited to do house
projects, butat the same time careful; they can absorb an enormous
amount of timeand money,” van Berkel says. However, when the
clients contacted himafter spotting one his best-known houses in a
magazine (the Villa NM inNew York, which has since burned down), he
was intrigued.
“On the one hand, they wanted a beautiful house, but they also
have akeen interest in architecture,” he says. Their specications
outlined thenumber of square metres for each room – an attention to
detail virtuallyunheard of. Like Villa NM , Haus am Weinberg is
dened by a central twist,a dramatic departure from traditional
construction in which the three-
storey house literally twists from within, following a series of
diagonalmovements that allow for just four support elements: an
elevator shaft, twopillars and one inner column. In turn,
minimizing structural reinforce-ment allowed for glazing on all
four corners.
Interior circulation is organized around an S-shaped stair that
beginsat the southern facade of the lowest level, just inside the
main entrance.Partially integrated into the hill, this oor includes
a two-bedroomapartment for guests and the owners’ college-age
children, and a climate-controlled wine cellar. The stair curves up
to the second level’s living areaand open kitchen-dining spaces,
where the coveted mountaintop is promi-nently viewed through
double-height glass. In good weather, glazed walls ontwo sides of
the dining area open fully, completely blurring the
boundariesbetween inside and out. The stair concludes on the third
oor with a galleryspace, a master bedroom, an ensuite bathroom and
a wellness area withsauna and terrace.
White surfaces are everywhere, with oors alternating between
pale oakand slabs of light grey local stone. The kitchen cabinets
are lacquered white,and muted white clay stucco walls unexpectedly
sparkle when daylight hitsembedded reective stone. “I’m so against
normal stucco, especially in sucha special house, so we made it a
little shiny,” van Berkel explains.
Further interior accents reveal what he calls the client’s
“secret life.” Above the four-metre-long solid oak dining table,
LED lighting circles amounted stag head between two ram heads. The
wild game theme carriesthrough to the music room, where surfaces
suddenly turn dark and brood-ing and stuffed hunting trophies –
including a cheetah, a bear, and theheads of a boar and several
deer – loom from the walls. “It’s like steppinginto another world
of their life,” says van Berkel, “the way a good dreamcan also turn
into a bit of a nightmare.” In contrast, a room adjacent to
thekitchen houses a 20 -square-metre shower – for the dogs.
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The three-storey house is cladin Ramp Armor, a
paper-basedphenolic resin panel used inskateboarding ramp
construction.SFOSL installed a catwalk foraccess to the new top
floor fromthe back garden.
ARTISTS FEAR THE BLANK CANVAS. Writers dread the empty page.So
it comes as no surprise that architects often consider a
carteblanche commission, coupled with unlimited resources,
ananxiety- inducing, head- spinning proposition. Sometimes, thebest
assignments come with restrictive parameters – budget,zoning, an
existing structure – established at the outset. Indeed,if you’re
Casper Mork-Ulnes and Andreas Tingulstad of SFOSL , working on a
tricky renovation in San Francisco’s Potrero Hillneighbourhood, you
might even nd that these limitations yieldbrilliant solutions you
would otherwise have overlooked.
“Twentieth Street is a great example of a project where
wemanaged to play within the constraints,” says Tingulstad of
theresidential remodel in question, which began with a
Britishsoftware salesman looking to expand his two-storey home
(theground oor was entirely garage). The two principals – who
have
collaborated since 2008 and took the name SFOSL in 2012 –
char-acterized the house as a bachelor pad: cramped, old and
poorlylaid out. “The place hadn’t been touched in 40 years, and
even theclient, Mike, would tell you it was pretty much a
disaster,” saysMork-Ulnes.
Two main obstacles to revitalization emerged. The rst was
thecity’s planning department, whose residential design
guidelinesfor Potrero Hill mandated that the facade be preserved.
Althoughthe building was not historically listed, the ci ty permit
officestipulated that because this was one of eight uniform
houseson the street, all built by one developer in the ’ 20 s, the
designhad to t within the existing block fabric.
The best solution was to build upward. Following
zoningrestrictions that forced a setback of the third oor, to
maintainthe streetscape’s visual height, the architects managed to
increasethe oor space from 150 to 210 square metres. This move also
ledthem to relocate the house’s public functions – kitchen,
living,dining – to a single space on the top oor. What had been a
diningroom and kitchen on the second oor became a fourth bedroomand
a master ensuite bathroom.
An engineered steel catwalk installed off the rear of the
newthird oor facilitated access to the back garden. This satised
theprimary objective of two important stakeholders: Mike’s
dogs,Merv and Roxy, who have heartily welcomed additional access
tothe terraced green space that was transformed by local gardenguru
Flora Grubb.
The second big challenge was the tight budget. “While $170
persquare foot is easy to achieve in other places, it sure isn’t in
SanFrancisco,” says Mork-Ulnes (the rm has twin headquarters,
in
HOUSE PROFILE
LOCATION: SAN FRANCISCO
ORIGINAL BUILDING SIZE: SQUARE METRES
CURRENT BUILDING SIZE: SQUARE METRES
LOT SIZE: SQUARE METRES
STRUCTURAL MATERIALS:
RAMP ARMOR CLADDING,ORIENTED STRANDBOARD FLOORING
SFOSL takes on San Francisco’s tightbuilding restrictions and
adds an entirefloor to a s row houseBY ANDREW
BRAITHWAITEPHOTOGRAPHY BY BRUCE DAMONTE
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20TH STREERESIDENCEFIRM: SFOSL,SAN FRANCISC
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San Francisco and Oslo). Fortunately, the client brought his own
interest inlow-cost materials to the process. The house is clad in
Ramp Armor Deluxe, apaper-based phenolic resin panel used in
skateboarding ramp construction.The new oors are oriented strand
board plywood nished with a heavy-duty urethane coating by Top
Secret that withstands scratchy dog paws. Thestaircase connecting
the two oors features the rough texture of parallelstrand lumber
beams laminated in place.
These material choices helped to keep the budget down, while
giving theinterior and exterior spaces a feeling of honesty and
freshness. Even theoriginal Douglas r ceiling beams, which were not
substantial enough to beretained as oor beams, were repurposed by a
local furniture maker into adining table and a custom shelving
unit.
Nowhere is the ingenuity driven by regulation and budget better
illus-trated than with the sunshade that shields the third oor’s
south- facingglass wall. Large panels, also made from Ramp Armor
Deluxe, are mountedatop a custom-built, crank-operated bifold lift.
The shade is deployed tocontrol light and ventilation, eliminating
the need for air conditioning; in anod to the planning department,
it is perforated in a pattern that replicatesthe historical block’s
geometry. “The planning department told us theyreally liked that
touch,” says Mork-Ulnes
The client worked overtime with project manager Greg Ladigin to
hand-drill the sunshade’s 21,756 holes, using a simple paper
stencil as a guide. After the project’s completion, Mike – now
married to Kathryn, who movedin to complete the property’s
transformation from bachelor pad to familyhomestead – gave Ladigin
a suitable wedding gift: two Makita power drills.“Everyone is
pulling in the same direction,” says Tingulstad.
To maintain the continuity of theexisting street facades, the
newroofline is set back.
A crank-operated bifold panelopens to create an overhangabove
the third-floor patio.
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holes, the sunshadeblocks out heat andglare in the kitchenand
living areas.
The central stair-case uses parallelstrand lumber beamsglued
into place.
→ Original beamswere repurposed intocustom shelving anda new
dining table.
On the second floor,the master bedroom andensuite bathroom
lookout onto the terracedback garden.
THIRD FLOOR
Living area Bifold panel Dining area
Kitchen Living area Bathroom Gangway
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PROJECT:
COURTYARD HOUSEFIRM: SANJAY PURIARCHITECTS, MUMBAI, INHOUSE
PROFILE
LOCATION: RAJASTHAN,INDIA
BUILDING SIZE: , SQUARE METRES
LOT SIZE: , SQUAREMETRES
STRUCTURAL MATERIAL:CONCRETE
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TO DESIGN A CUTTING EDGE HOME IN THE SCORCHING DESERT of
Rajasthan,India, Mumbai architect Sanjay Puri looked as much to
traditional Indianarchitecture as he did to 21st-century forms.
With daytime temperaturesroutinely soaring to 50 degrees, he says
the concept for the CourtyardHouse grew out of a simple question:
“How do you battle this crazy amountof heat?” Fortunately, history
provided some tried-and-true strategies.“When you look at Indian
architecture, which dates back 700 years, peoplemade houses based
on an internal courtyard,” says Puri, noting that whenrooms are
arranged around a common outdoor space it provides protectionfrom
direct sun while helping the interior rooms unload hot air.
He twisted the courtyard idea to his needs by breaking the
individualrooms into 19 unique modules that he embedded in the
landscape arounda series of courtyards. “We didn’t want to make
simple boxes,” he says.“Every room has its own identi ty, and each
one looks out in a differentdirection.” The loose arrangement was
inspi red by the haphazard waytraditional village huts are placed,
he says, so the house looks more likea collage of spaces than a
single volume.
In addition to orienting the main living areas around one
massive court-yard and the guest quarters around another, Puri gave
almost every rooma separate, smaller terrace on the periphery of
the 3,500 -square-metrebuilding. No room faces south, and all of
the windows are deeply recessedunder angled rooines, to avoid
direct sun.
The decision to use concrete as the main building material was
never inquestion. The house sits at the edge of a large cement
plant, and the owneris the company’s chairman. Luckily, the dense
material’s natural thermalqualities help regulate the comfort of
the living spaces as temperatures riseduring the day and plummet at
night. In such an extreme climate, air con-ditioning is still
essential. “You have to have it,” says Puri. “But the
energyrequirements go down tremendously.”
Inspired by the ad hoc arrangement oftraditional settlements,
Sanjay Puri buildsa house in India made up of many rooms,with
courtyard access at every turnBY TIM M KEOUGHPHOTOGRAPHY BY VINESH
GANDHI
IT TAKESA VILLAGE
← “Each room has its own identity,”says the architect, “and each
one looksout in a different direction.”↖ Various peaked volumes jut
out wardat one end, and at the other link to oneof two central
courtyards.
↑ Concrete surfaces, inside andout, provide natural thermal
controlin the extreme heat.
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PROJECT: SOUTH PASADENARESIDENCE FIRM: KONING
EIZENBERGARCHITECTURESANTA MONICA, CALIFORNIA
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PASADENA FLOURISHED AS A WINTER RESORT for rich Midwesterners
back in the’40 s, before it was swallowed by the burgeoning
metropolis of Los Angeles.Yet it still retains its distinctive
character as a tranquil community seeded with architectural
innovations, from the rst California bungalows toMorphosis’
fractured addition to Caltech. The latest surprise is well
con-cealed from the street, on a 2,700 -square-metre lot surrounded
by trees.There, Koning Eizenberg Architecture has created a family
compound of white stucco cubes that enclose a grassy courtyard and
an outdoor pool.Each contains a single living or sleeping area, and
each opens up throughsliding or pivoting doors that lead to the
next room or to gardens on eitherside. An edgy yellow-green accent
denes the door frames.
It’s an exemplary model of southern California indoor-outdoor
living,even though the architects say that inspiration rst came
from the white-cube shape of Chinese takeout containers. The uneven
roof lines, which tiltat varying degrees, channel rain to one
corner and maximize the exposure ofsolar panels. Between the four
main boxes lie four elongated volumes that
HOUSE PROFILE
LOCATION: PASADENA,CALIFORNIA
BUILDING SIZE:
SQUARE METRES
LOT SIZE: , SQUAREMETRES
STRUCTURAL MATERIALS:
WOOD, CONCRETE, CEDAR
CLADDING
←↑ Sliding glass doors open tothe main garden from every
room.The bright green frames arepainted with Benjamin Moore’sYew
Green - .↑ The uneven rooftops add visualdrama, with steep angles
thatallow for effective rain drainage.
BOX SETInspired by Chinese takeout containers, KoningEizenberg
Architecture creates a unique familyhome that embraces
indoor-outdoor livingBY MICHAEL WEBBPHOTOGRAPHY BY ERIC
STANDENMAIER
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↖ Radiant concrete flooringis among the house’s energy-saving
features.← ← ← The hub of activityconcentrates in the living,dining
and kitchen area.Burnside pendants byRejuvenation.← ← Stairs lead
to a loftoffice, the only upper floorof the single-level dwelling.←
Like most of the rooms,the master bedroom looksout onto the
garden.
↑↑An impressive chandeliermade from a giant tumble-weed, by Kyla
Hansen, hangsabove the dining table.↑ “The house pulls youthrough
with glimpses ofwhat lies beyond,” says theowner. “It feels
generousbut intimate.”
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← Various outdoorfeatures, such asa brick pizza ovenand rooftop
decks,take advantage ofPasadena’s mildtemperatures.
At night, movies areprojected onto a whitewall with
outdoorspeakers embeddednearby.
→ The pool house isclad in a translucentpolycarbonate thatglows
at night.
link the varying forms as one, and internally serve as spaces
for bath-rooms and storage. Each is topped with a roof garden and a
wooden deck,and each is clad in planes of cedar boards lightly
charred to a strikingblack nish.
The owners rst came to this lot from a dysfunctional spec
house,seeking a sense of freedom for themselves and their teenage
sons. She’sa painter; he has been a chef, a gallerist and a stock
trader, and is nowembarking on a law career. “We had admired Koning
Eizenberg’s workfor a long time, and we gave them a f ree hand,”
says one of the owners.“I had seen Frank Gehry’s Schnabel house,
and I thought it was a coolidea to have separate pavilions where we
could work at home, the boyscould hang out with friends, and my
family could visit.”
Simple shapes and the inventive use of off-the-shelf materials
arekey elements for Hank Koning and Julie Eizenberg, who still
championthe frugality and earthiness of their native Australia, 30
years aftermoving to L.A. “The house pulls you through with
glimpses of what liesbeyond,” says the owner, “and the spaces feel
generous but intimate,”
The kitchen and family areas are the hub of social activity,
spillingonto the lawn, where movies are projected onto a white wall
withembedded speakers nearby. The varied angles of the folded roofs
giveeach room its own character. Edison bulbs are casually strung
fromthe ceilings or suspended from a trapeze of knotted cords. One
of theowners grew up in a traditional house and so they indulged in
a formaldining room, and a powder room decorated with
Chinese-inspiredoral wallpaper. The kitchen is woodsy, with a
ceiling of Douglasr plywood, a massive oak table that doubles as an
eating counter, anda stair of wooden treads leading up to an offi
ce – the only upper level ofthe otherwise single-storey house.
As local temperatures rise to 40 degrees during the summer,
cross- ventilation and warm air are drawn in by fans at the edge of
the lawn andchilled in tubes, buried several metres below ground,
to cool the interiors.The concrete oors have radiant heating, and
solar collectors supplyhot water and heat the pool. Sustainable,
adaptable and free owing, thehouse is a perfect t for this family.
“Julie loves the element of surprise,and she wanted the house to
have layers of experience,” says one ofthe owners. “The
architecture is almost invisible, because everything works so
well.”
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Bedrooms
Pool
Diningarea Kitchen
Existingbuilding
Livingarea
BathandstorageStudio
Poolhouse
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Teeple Architects’ latest residentialproject in southern Ontario
celebrates allthat surrounds it: fields, trees and waterBY DANIEL
BAIRDPHOTOGRAPHY BY BOB GUNDU ANDSCOTT NORSWORTHY
THE LONG EMBRACE
IN LATE FALL, THE FARMLAND on the lakefront road into Port Hope,
Ontario, ispristine, even idyllic: golden elds rolling toward a
shimmering horizon of water, here and there clutches of tall trees,
their leaves a brittle yellow orblazing red. As the main road turns
into a gravel lane that winds through anopen eld, there is still
little evidence that a newly built house, by Teeple Architects,
lies straight ahead. Not, at any rate, until one catches a
glimpseof the muted green, zinc-clad structure rising and curving
up from thescrub and aring toward the lake.
Set on 30 hectares, the two-storey dwelling at its highest point
overlooksa rocky bluff that drops precipitously to the lake. But
this unusually nar-row, low-lying house really begins sunken in the
region’s compact earth atits north end, with a rectangular lap pool
and a whirlpool surrounded bya wooden deck and radiant-heated
limestone. The pool is kept warm yearround because the Danish owner
prefers to swim in the dead of winter.
From there, the house ramps upward. On one side, an exterior
staircaseleads to a deck that traces the entire length of the
house. Part of the top willeventually become a green roof, further
connecting the structure with itssurroundings. “This is one of the
few houses that actually has a concept,”says principal Stephen
Teeple as we wander around the periphery withproject architect Luc
Bouliane. From a distance, the house appears to risefrom the ground
like a cresting wave. “It’s about organic growth; it beginsin the
earth and gradually opens, blossoms, up toward the light,”
Teeplecontinues. “Most houses are just nice boxes. This one
connects to every-thing that surrounds it: elds, woods, water.”
HOUSE PROFILE
LOCATION:PORT HOPE,ONTARIO
BUILDING SIZE:
SQUARE METRES
LOT SIZE: HECTARES
STRUCTURAL MATERIALS: CONCRETE, ZINC, STEEL,LAMINATED WOOD
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The pool is keptwarm year roundusing geo thermalheating. Inside,
theentrance leads toa media room anda sauna.
Clad in zinc, the house risesfrom ground level and twiststoward
the lake. A mortar-freeretaining wall made of hand-cutmarble frames
the driveway.
PROJECT:PORT HOPE HOUSEFIRM: TEEPLE ARCHITECTS,TORONTO
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↖ The focal point ofthe house is the sunkenliving and dining
area,which faces onto treesand the edge of LakeOntario.↑ A
wood-burning fire-place divides the kitchenand living areas. To
theright is a breakfastnook for quick meals.The owners plan to
builda deck off the kitchenfor direct access to thelakefront.→ The
top floor curves
more generously thanthe ground level, allow-ing for a narrow
deckthat leads to the poolout back.→ → The deck canalso be reached
frominside via a dedicatedstairway.
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L E F T P H O T O B Y B O B G U N D U
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The main entrance is at its midpoint. A media room, a fully
equippedsauna, a mud room, and bedrooms for the owners’ two teenage
boys arelocated along a narrow corridor dened by a radiant concrete
oor tinteda deep grey. But the house’s real drama reveals itself as
the foyer morphsinto a sunken dining and living room with vein-cut
Eramosa limestoneoors that run all the way to a fully glazed wall.
Next to the living room isan elevated kitchen and a breakfast nook
with warm walnut panelling andraw concrete features. The view, from
both the kitchen and living areas, isdirectly through the trees to
the lake, by turns complicated and cinematic. A V-shaped skylight
lets light seep in from above, giving the main oor afull-bodied
glow.
The stairway to the second oor is steep and narrow, the steps
clad in thesame warm, striated walnut as the kitchen. Tall windows
in the stairwellcreate the sensation of climbing upward directly
from the elds. Both thespacious master bedroom and the ensuite bath
are framed by full-height,curtain-free windows that are open to the
lake; yet these are intimatespaces, private by virtue of the
property’s size and the position of the house,
that fully embrace the sublimity of the natural world. Behind
the bedroomis a small offi ce and an entrance to the deck that
leads all the way back tothe pool.
While the house incorporates such energy-effi cient elements as
rain- water harvesting, geothermal heating, radiant oors, and
windows thatprovide ample opportunities for passive heating and
cooling, it makesno attempt to discreetly meld into the
surroundings; rather, it providesa dynamic, symbiotic addition to
nature. Although expansive in sizeand form, it also contains small,
elegant touches: a retaining wall at theentrance, made from
hand-chipped, mortar-free marble, curves along thedriveway; and a
young birch, rooted within a small courtyard, is now grow-ing up
through the roof.
The only major addition the owners’ plan is an extended bridge
from thekitchen to the cliff above the lake. “Inside the house, you
can’t hear the water,so looking at it can be a bit like watching a
movie,” the owner notes. “Buton the other side, you can hear waves
crashing on the shore. With the deck,there will be a more direct
connection between the house and the lake.”
← With no neighboursaround, the masterbedroom and ensuitebath
are unabashedlyglazed and surroundedby treetops. Thecast-concrete
basin iscustom made.
SECOND FLOOR
Roof deck Master bedroom Master bathroom Office Walk-in closet
Exterior stairs
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SECOND FLOOR
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Future deck Living area Breakfast nook Kitchen Dining area Main
entrance Laundry Vestibule and
side entry Bedroom Media room Sauna Pool Car port
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WORKSAT LONDON’S BIGGEST DESIGN EVENT, BRITISHTALENTS PROVE,
ONCE AGAIN, THEY’RE WILDABOUT RETRO AND REFINED ARTISTRYBY CRAILLE
MAGUIRE GILLIES
LONDONDESIGN
FESTIVAL
NOT LONG AFTER LONDON WOWED the world with its2012 Olympic
extravaganza, it marked anotherachievement: the 10th anniversary of
the DesignFestival, which, according to organizers, had 350,000
visitors lling their itineraries day and night for 10event-packed
days in September. There was nostanding on ceremony, with emerging
talents at TentLondon, top-tier manufacturers at 100% Design,and a
consortium of hot designers and companies atDesignjunction all
reinforcing the British love formixing originality with artisanal
craftsmanship.
Such up-and-comers as Gareth Batowski (whodisplayed his
arresting sycamore furniture) and LolaLely (showing her captivating
marble Potluck stool,an ink- pigmented wooden cylinder with a
useful han-dle) were just two of the budding practitioners who
devoted themselves to bespoke. Lee Broom, a masterat embedding
sar tor ial charm into reclaimed antiques,set up a vintage-y
pop-up, replete with old fruit crates,grocery scales, and a
sawdust-strewn oor. On show were over 200 Crystal Bulbs, a line of
screw-in LEDsetched with a dazzling crystal-cut pattern.
For even more English charm, it’s worth exploringthe newly
minted FAO (Fashion Art Object) onlineconcept shop. Launched at the
festival, the site( fao-shop.com ) offers a well-curated selection
fromsuch leading local brands as Another Country; andBethan Gray,
whose spare wooden stool with broguedetailing on a leather top
makes a nod to Savile Row.
As in previous years, the Victoria and Albert Museumserved as
the festival hub, lling its galleries withcrowd- pleasing displays,
including Keiichi Matsuda’sgiant Prism, which had one corner
pointing down- ward into the museum’s cupola; the installation
waspowered by crowd- sourced data culled from Londonnews, weather
and traffic reports. While visitors couldpartially see the piece
from within the museum bylooking up, they were encouraged to view
it in detail byascending a narrow staircase to the top of the
dome,a space usually only accessed by maintenance crews.
If a trend could be spotted among so much inno- vation and
diversity, it would be a modern take oncountry style that eschews
ornamentation for cleanlines and nishes in natural woods, lifted
right f romthe U.K.’s great outdoors.
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Keiichi Matsuda ’s Prism, made ofwashi paper with projections
ofdigital data gathered from across
London, was a showstopper. Theinstallation was placed in the
V&A Museum cupola, so visitors hadto ascend a steep, narrow
staircaseto reach it. keiichimatsuda.com
NATURE MEETS NURTURE
Ginger & Jagger ’s Earth to Earthseries mixes opulent
materials withnatural motifs. Case in point: theFig Tree Console,
by Pedro Sousa,with tree branch legs, shown herein brass.
gingerandjagger.com
EAST MEETS EAST
East London design darling JasperMorrison launched a line of
castiron kitchenware for Oigen Japan, a
perfect marriage of Morrison’s mod-ern minimalism and the
-year-oldfoundry’s classic simplicity. jaspermorrison.com
SPACE MAKER
London’s Truman Brewery was thesite where young designers
showedtheir wares. Spotted at the showwere self-taught artisan
GarethBatowski ’s multi- functional furnish-ings made from locally
sourcedwood. garethbatowski.co.uk
TASK MASTER
Inspired by th- century mininglamps used in northern
England,designer D
