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Sanaa - J terrace cafe, Okayama 2014. Via, 2 (scans), photos © Hisao Suzuki, Daisuke-Aochi.
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Junya Ishigami - Tables for a restaurant, Yamaguchi 2008. An early project out of Ishigami’s office that signaled his interest in the perceivable scales of architectural space. The client for this restaurant project wished to seat 5 pairs of people (10 total) privately within a small existing space. Rather than cordon off the room with walls to create these separations, the furniture itself is designed as a series of small structures to generate a spatial configuration. Each table is over-sized for just two people, and features a carefully selected and placed array of potted plants located in the areas adjacent to the areas for table settings. While large in plan, these tables are built at only 4.5mm thick at the top, ensuring they do not overburden the space. By not just becoming objects in space, but rather generating the space themselves, the furniture becomes a micro-architecture; a planning exercise at the scale of a room, a garden at the scale of a table top, a study in the threshold of tectonic borders.
All images personal scans from here.
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Junya Ishigami - Table, 2006. Similarly to the project for a restaurant, this rigorous and fascinating exploration of a single table unveils the varying scales at which we perceive space, structure, and arrangement. Located in a large gallery space, the table at first appears to be an ordinary object, covered in an ordinary mix of plants, food, and tableware. Upon further inspection, the table actual reveals itself to be impossibly thin. Appropriately named the “magic table”, it is over 31ft (9.5M) long, 8ft (2,6m) wide, but is less than 1/8″ thick (3mm). To achieve this, the table is fabricated as a single, large prestressed steel sheet. Out of the press, it is completely bent and curled like a pig’s tail (last two images). Once set, the table’s own weight combined with the loads of the various objects on it slowly bend it to a flat surface. The exact weight of every object was precisely calculated (3 loaves of bread in a wire basket, one pot of tea in a porcelain vessel), the exact location dimensioned (the fork 3 inches to the left of the plate, the vase 6″ to the rear of the kettle), to ensure structural stability. Touching the table top by hand creates gentle ripples in the surface, further exaggerating the immateriality of the object. By treating this seemingly mundane piece of furniture with the same rigor and detail of a large building, the complexities of structural forces and creation of spatial relationships is achieved at the scale of household objects. Scans via.
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Luigi Snozzi & Gustavo Groisman - Stable Administrative III (headquarters of the Department of Territories), Bellinzona 2013. A design that won a competition in 1993 and laid dormant for over 10 years until begun again in 2004 by the Department of Finance and Economy. Photos © Filippo Simonetti, Arnout Fonck, Marcelo Villada.
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Claude Parent 1923-2016
“It is with profound sadness that we announce that Claude Parent has passed away yesterday, on February 27th, just one day after his 93rd birthday.”
Source: Facebook
Auhaus Architecture and Interiors. Concrete House 2. Bellarine Peninsula, Victoria. Australia. photos: Auhaus Architecture and Interiors
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This week will be dedicated to Estonian cuisine, today’s special - spiced sprat sandwiches
Spiced sprat sandwiches - estonian black bread, butter, spiced sprats, boiled eggs, green onion / oven-baked buckwheat with garlic and onion / roasted beetroot
Head isu! (Bon appetit in estonian)
