Cultural units involve a center of urban creation and experimental economies, based on the transformation of a vandalized construction.
The intervention proposes to confront the need for collective spaces, as a result of the evidence of huge gaps and precarious structures, common in the center of the city. Betting to occupy a building violated during street protests, for its rescue as cultural infrastructure, articulating a series of initiatives driven by groups of artists and local communities.
The project consist of the remodel of an apartment located in an old building in Barcelona’s Gracia district. The former 90 m2 apartment, was heavily partitioned with up to 6 rooms and gave off a dark appearance with almost no connection with the outdoor space.
The new owners, a Norwegian couple in love with design and with the city of Barcelona, had understood the potential of its sunny inner courtyard covered with ivy vines, and chose to buy it as their holiday residence. They wanted to transform it in a bright and open space and create a semi-exterior garden to overcome the lack of an outdoor space.
When one of the most exclusive hotels in Southern Africa gave OKHA an open brief to redesign its Cellar bar, lead designer Adam Court combined Japanese reductionist minimalism and post-war Italian Baroque, two seemingly opposing visual styles to execute a complete transformation using what he refers to as “Naked Maximalism”.
Ellerman House is a family run hotel comprising several freestanding villas, a wellness spa, extensive art gallery, wine gallery and terraced gardens which surround the central house, an Edwardian Villa dating back to 1906. Each of these spaces has been given a unique design treatment which is why, when it came to the new bar it was important for the hotel to partner with a design studio they had not previously worked with; bringing fresh eyes to continue and explore the dialogue between contemporary and classical.
Moschino is opening a new flagship store in the heart of the French capital on rue Saint-Honoré. Creative Director Jeremy Scott wanted to transform the magnificent late-18th-century building in pierre de Paris into an exhibit-like space inspired by modern art galleries.
The new store concept, which was conceived and curated by architect Fabio Ferrillo in respect of the original essence of the interior, covers 270 square meters divided on two levels between the ground and first floors, which are visually connected through a two-story space and imposing curved staircase that becomes the focus of the architectural perspective.
ATMOZ 71 sale gallery is a sale gallery displaying mock-up units, located at Soi Ladprao71, Bangkok. The planes are arranged in different angles in order to randomly control directions of sunlight into the glass building behind and also, the space in-between.
During the days, natural light from outside and artificial light from inside casts on these angled surfaces in various direction. The ordinary materials turn alive through time of the day, as well as the interior space.
Sale gallery for Brown Condo Huai Khwang is located on Pracha Uthit Road, a neighborhood road. The program is for displaying 2 mock-up units of BROWN condominium.
Folding industrial expanded metal is introduced on main façade. The material is to create delicate elegant façade and, at the same time, being sunshade for the glass panel behind.
The expanded metal itself has delicate pattern while it is not rigid surface. In this project, the expanded is vertically folded to, not only increase the strength of material, but also create the depth within the linear façade. By applying 2 shades of color, copper and silver, on each of the folding planes, it creates the illusion of light, colors and pattern when one passes by and when the angle of sunlight is change.
Unlike the conventional image from the brand of MISSHA, the bold and confident transition to provide new and exotic experiences from the powerful identity of “Gallery M” flagship-concept store within Gangnam of Seoul is open to appeal to the Millennial Generation.
The house is located on a plot of 730 m2 in El Maitén, suburban residential neighborhood of the city of Bahia Blanca. It was financed with a PROCREAR loan granted by the Argentine state. At the request of the owner, its realization was planned two construction stages: made, a house with an area of 70 sqm plus the gallery, which meets the needs of basic use for single user, and a second stage with two bedrooms and a bathroom for future growth.
Marginepresents Bettino, the new pavilion dedicated to the sale of the merchandising products of the Meyer Foundation, located inside the homonymous Pediatric Hospital of Florence. The project, which owes its name to the first patient of the internationally-renowned university hospital structure, is part of the gallery that was recently constructed between the east and west body of the original building.
The pavilion is presented as a laminated wood structure, surmounted by a continuous steel and glass façade in visual connection with the four hectares of the garden, which surrounds the hospital. The interior is characterized by the rhythmic repetition of a wooden structural system, composed of main and secondary ogival arches that reach a height of over 10 meters.
A tendency of today‘s art creation is to work again in large formats and space consuming.
Two new large studios in the historic monuments of the trooper barracks of the 19th century on the Campus of Culture in Münster/Germany were created for this requirement. To enable these two large volumes of space the simple roof trusses of the towers were deconstructed and built above the new ateliers cantilever prefabricated wood rib elements.
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