Mes: octubre 2011

Fredrik Sjölander

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House on Gotland – Visualization of a bookshelf

courtesy of Fredrik Sjölander

The project is totally hypothetical. There was a competition to visualise a bookshelf of the swiss manufacturer Aandres and I needed a setting.I started to think about how the bookshelf would be the heart of a building and create a space around it that would not compromise the bookshelf. At the time I was on the island Gotland, east of Sweden and it was very bad weather all day long so it got me thinking of a hideout situated in the varied landscape. The hideout would use the bookshelf for all its needs of storage so you would not need anything else. Its only the bookshelf and the amazing landscapes of Gotland. Seguir leyendo «Fredrik Sjölander» →

Fredrik Sjölander

Adamczyk . Kwietowicz

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FIU FIU STORE . Warsaw

courtesy of Mateusz Adamczyk -BudCud- . Marcin Kwietowicz . photos: Jan Smaga

Young architects dream about designing and building big houses.
However, the reality is quite the opposite – they work on small scale commissions.
FiuFiu boutique is one of those petite spaces and its concept is based on yearning for making homes even of paper-mache.

Bright forms on frigid blue background recall enchanted atmosphere of Scanidinavian landscape (or its imaginary archetype), because all the shop items originate from there.

Extra long gable house, looking like being freehand drawn by a child, is cut in three with red steel blades and slightly shifted to create complementary space for a cash desk, a fitting room and storage space.

Each of acquired spaces is furnished with same simple items such as rails, ledges and lamps.

Steel coulisses optically shorten long, enlighten only from one side room and encourage a passer-by to enter the shop and indulge in scandinavian atmsphere.

When looking at the small houses from the outside, it is finally possible to see their genuine nature- solid and beautiful wooden structure. Raw carpentry is emphasized by the use of snowwhite interiors of the volumes.

This nordic fairy tale cottage was put ‘ad hoc’ in an existing space, where the only inference was painting the walls and ceiling in one colour. The light reflected from these plains enters the houses, making the shop interior even lighter and more spacious. Nordic bonbon.

Mateusz Adamczyk, Marcin Kwietowicz Seguir leyendo «Adamczyk . Kwietowicz» →

Adamczyk . Kwietowicz

Aranguren & Gallegos Arquitectos

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New Drawing and Illustration Centre of ABC . MADRID

Aranguren & Gallegos Arquitectos . photos courtesy of João Pereira de Sousa . + archello

“Architecture is a mixture of NOSTALGIA and ANTICIPATION, the co-existence of history and vanguard”.
(JEAN BAUDRILLARD)

The new Drawing and Illustration Centre of ABC appears with the will to become an artistic reference at an international level and also a symbol of the cultural offer in Madrid.

Its installation in the building of the old factory in Calle Amaniel, must respond to an intervention that is appropriate for a historical building, without renouncing to express its contemporanean centre nature with a wide cultural and artistic offer linked to the most avant-garde institutions within our context.

The current building provides access from two streets, connecting these with an internal patio.

One of these accesses is currently offered under a one-floor high, longitudinal building body closing the internal patio towards the street.
The main doors for access to the new ABC Centre are considered on this front. The aforementioned longitudinal body is restructured for this, as a large translucent glass “beam” that works as the lintel of a gap for passage to the internal patio. The cafeteria will be housed inside this, with the basement floor of the new centre receiving light through a glass floor for access to the patio. Seguir leyendo «Aranguren & Gallegos Arquitectos» →

Aranguren & Gallegos Arquitectos