Monday, 2 April 2012
Sunday, 1 April 2012
Number 987
Architects of portugese office Cerejeira Fontes executed a project of a chapel for a clergy school in the historical town of Braga in northern Portugal. The main idea was to connect the chapel with spaces of the St. Jacob’s centre. The volume of the chapel was integrated into the vestibule of the centre, whose neutral concrete walls allowed the new element to stand out. The mass of the chapel is made of wooden beams stacked onto each other, creating gaps that may also serve as storage compartments.
Transparency of the mass optically expands the interior of the chapel and allows bypassers to peer inside. Entrance to the chapel is found in one of its corners, where it opens up a complex shaped inner space. The wooden construction necks down with rising height and the top is left unsealed. This allows the visitors in the mezzanine above, to see into the chapel.
It is a great inspiration to see how a simple sequence of wood boards can be assembled at an angle to give the impression of a terraced mountain side!
Saturday, 31 March 2012
Number 610
Sweet, beautiful, brave, colourful everyday plants hanging upside down in my interior: goodbye gravity!
http://www.boskke.com/products/skyplanter/
http://www.boskke.com/products/skyplanter/
Friday, 30 March 2012
Number 377
Terraces rising out from a sloping mountain= chair rising from wooden sticks.
The Rising Chair was created by Dutch designer Robert Van Embricqs. Its sculptural shape rises from a simple wooden plank to form a unique and versatile chair design. This chair looks nothing like the other chairs designed throughout the years. The idea behind this chair’s conceptual construction was created starting with the flat surface used for sitting. The designer started cutting beam-like strands that would eventually shape the chair as an organic seating unit.
The Rising Chair was created by Dutch designer Robert Van Embricqs. Its sculptural shape rises from a simple wooden plank to form a unique and versatile chair design. This chair looks nothing like the other chairs designed throughout the years. The idea behind this chair’s conceptual construction was created starting with the flat surface used for sitting. The designer started cutting beam-like strands that would eventually shape the chair as an organic seating unit.
Tuesday, 27 March 2012
Number 233
Visit at the Malthouse Design Centre, Dublin.
Today we went to visit the Malthouse Design Centre in Dublin. http://www.themalthousedesigncentre.com/
It was a great inspiration to see how a creative collective of designers work together in a shared space.
Co-working spaces is the way to go for the future, they're starting to appear everywhere in the world and I believe it's a great encouragement for young designers who want to start their own business to know that there are places like the Malthouse where you can share your knowledge and creativity in the most beautiful and motivating brainstorming environment! Their focus is to get you started with your design and prototype of your product and they will then help you branding yourself and sell your products, get your name on the market by organising events and advertisements. There are a number of rooms availabale, including "clean" studios where to develop your sketches and design, then there are a couple of manufacturing labs where to cut wood, fabrics and work with actual tools; also, there is a meeting room for clients meetings and an exhibition space. We were challenged today to produce a packaging for cutlery under 30 mins. We all came up with very different designs and intents. This is what my friends and I designed:
Today we went to visit the Malthouse Design Centre in Dublin. http://www.themalthousedesigncentre.com/
It was a great inspiration to see how a creative collective of designers work together in a shared space.
Co-working spaces is the way to go for the future, they're starting to appear everywhere in the world and I believe it's a great encouragement for young designers who want to start their own business to know that there are places like the Malthouse where you can share your knowledge and creativity in the most beautiful and motivating brainstorming environment! Their focus is to get you started with your design and prototype of your product and they will then help you branding yourself and sell your products, get your name on the market by organising events and advertisements. There are a number of rooms availabale, including "clean" studios where to develop your sketches and design, then there are a couple of manufacturing labs where to cut wood, fabrics and work with actual tools; also, there is a meeting room for clients meetings and an exhibition space. We were challenged today to produce a packaging for cutlery under 30 mins. We all came up with very different designs and intents. This is what my friends and I designed:
We were inspired by the hand that holds the cutlery and we decided to go with an oven mitten to reinforce the concept of cooking: from a selling point of view, the mitten would be included in the cutlery package to add value to the product. For the aesthetics we went for "grandma's cutlery" with a very retro/vintage/50's/feminine design that would bring on the concept of slow cooking as opposed to fast food.
It was a very interesting exercise and all "prototypes" were great! We worked in the exhibition room which showcased a lot of products by new Irish designers who worked in collaboration with the Malthouse.
I particularly liked this lamp: "Hex Lamp" by Kooyong design.
Monday, 6 February 2012
Sunday, 29 January 2012
Number 89
Back to college tomorrow!
Hope all of you had a lovely Christmas and a good start of 2012!
Working on the next stage for my studio project. the concept chosen for my school of interior landscaping is terrace agriculture; in an attempt to see it as a metaphore I would say that: the sloping mountain represents nature/ the terraces represents the school/ the harvest represents the learning. I have built three concept models so far, and I want to try to incorporate more of the first model into my next one because there was where the concept was at its strongest. I am pretty happy with my block plans, only need to re-arrange the ground floor to try and attract as much external visitors as possible. We have been filmed during our last crit so we will be able to see ourselves while presenting, which is a great way to understand what to improve.
Hope all of you had a lovely Christmas and a good start of 2012!
Working on the next stage for my studio project. the concept chosen for my school of interior landscaping is terrace agriculture; in an attempt to see it as a metaphore I would say that: the sloping mountain represents nature/ the terraces represents the school/ the harvest represents the learning. I have built three concept models so far, and I want to try to incorporate more of the first model into my next one because there was where the concept was at its strongest. I am pretty happy with my block plans, only need to re-arrange the ground floor to try and attract as much external visitors as possible. We have been filmed during our last crit so we will be able to see ourselves while presenting, which is a great way to understand what to improve.
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