Interior Design Sense

The WallFlower Wall Office by Jonas & Jonas is a great solution for small studios, dorm rooms and converted closet desks. Made from high pressure Laminate, the simple and compact structure can withstand pretty rough treatment and plenty of pressure, features plenty of stylish space is easy to put together without the use of bolts and screws. Since it only has 2 “legs”, those four elastic buffer keep it static and you can always use add-ons to prep up the stuff around. If you like to keep a lot of things on your table this might not be something for you, but if you live in a tiny apartment and need something small for short-term work this wallflower wall office by jonas and jonas seems perfect. – Via

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Small Space Office Table by Jonas & Jonas

Architects: Takao Shiotsuka Atelier
Location: Oita, Japan
Client: Private
Project year: 2006-2007
Site area: 419 sqm
Constructed area: 132.6 sqm
Contractor: Hokoku Co. Ltd
Photographs: Toshiyuki YANO (Nacasa & Partners Inc.,)

The house is built on a hill looking down at a town area. The site’s shape has an irregular form. There is a height difference of 2m in the site. The north side is adjacent to a neighbor with this height difference. In the west and the south sides trees grow thick right next to the neighbors. And to the East, you can see the town area.

Walking to the site through a path that goes side by side, causes the scenery to change as we walk, and feels very  attractive. We arranged the building parallel to the path and saved the height difference inside the volume placed across the site.

We wanted to give the building the same variety as the complex surroundings of the site and its irregular shape, causing disorder but not confusion, on a single operation. The angle of the walls is slightly changed to add more dynamism to the spaces as the user moves. Even the relation with the surroundings, that control and distances views and light, became complex.

The outside walls and the roof have a rough concrete finish, and the openings express the thickness of the concrete that form the volume. We wanted to continue with the characteristic silence of the place, given by the surrounding concrete wall, the ancient burial mounds park and the dense trees. We thought that the appearance of a hard static concrete volume responded to the surroundings of this location.

Architects: Takao Shiotsuka Atelier
Location: Saiki-city, Oita, Japan
Client: Private
Project year: 2008
Constructed area: 81.94 sqm
Photographs: Toshiyuki YANO (Nacasa & Partners Inc.,)

The cottage in the silent village between mountains. We wished to make the silence a space. It seemed to me that the concrete block is a silent material compared with concrete. Silence is made by the thing being alive It becomes coldness if there is no breath of a life there.

The block fit this place nicely. There are no fittings in the opening of the outside wall. Brock was just merely stacked, and the hole was merely vacant there. Quiet scenery exists.

A few days ago architect Asad Firdosy sent us a few pieces of furniture to take a look, and from these pieces we selected the Fish Tail Chair, and here are a few words about this product from Asad : “When I designed this chair all I wanted to create a statement in wood and upholstery. I took small pieces of wood and started putting it together as we take words and put them together to form a sentence. Every sentence depicts a thought, we remove one word and the meaning of the sentence changes. Likewise is this chair that resembles the tail of a fish but is a sentence written in wood & upholstery emanating the purity of form and the simplicity of the language it’s made in.”

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The Fish Tail Chair by Asad Firdosy

What is it that you expect from new residences or from newly built hotels? High class, isn’t it? Well, in Downtown New York on 123 Washington Street, a 57-storey tower designed by Gwathmey Siegel Architects is going to be built and should most likely meet the above criteria. Dubbed the W Hotel & Residences and with the help of interior designers from GRAFT, the hotel rooms and the flats are really astonishing. With Great large windows that offer great views over the city, extremely modern furniture and top notch furnishings. I just can’t choose the best picture of the ones you’ll see below, but that’d definitely be the apartment of my dreams if I were to buy one. Wonder what the prices will be over there. Expensive, huh? – via Contemporist

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W Hotel & Residences in New York

span style=”font-weight: bold;”My weekly page update:/spanbr /img src=”http://www.archidose.org/Nov08/03/image02sm.jpg” alt=”image02sm.jpg” /br /a href=”http://www.archidose.org/Nov08/03/dose.html”Hotel Lone/a in Rovinj, Croatia by 3LHD.br /br /This week’s book review is span style=”font-style: italic;”a href=”http://www.archidose.org/books/zagreb.html”Project Zagreb: Transition as Conditions, Strategy, Practice/a/span, by Eve Blau amp; Ivan Rupnik.br /br /span style=”font-weight: bold;”Some unrelated links for your enjoyment:/span blockquotea href=”http://www.pritzkerprize.com/”Pritzker Prize/abr /A much-improved (and much-needed) redesign of the page is now online.br /br /a href=”http://brkt.org/”[bracket]/abr /”A collaboration of a href=”http://www.archinect.com/”Archinect/a and a href=”http://infranetlab.org/”InfraNet Lab/a…an annual publication documenting issues overlooked yet central to our cultural milieu that have evolved out of the new disciplinary territory at the intersection of architecture, landscape, urbanism and, now, the internet.” (added to sidebar under architectural links::online journals)br /br /a href=”http://vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com/”Jeremiah’s Vanishing New York/abr /”spana.k.a. The Book of Lamentations: a bitterly nostalgic look at a city in the process of going extinct/span” (added to sidebar under blogs::urban)/blockquote

Architects: Wiebenson & Dorman Architects PC
Location: Cleveland Park, Washington DC, USA
Project year: 2001
Contractor: Enterprise 6
Structural Engineer: JGK Structural Engineers
Photographs: Wiebenson & Dorman Architects

An addition and renovation to this pseudo-colonial house utilizes modern forms and materials, improves circulation, allows for abundant natural light and includes complete living facilities on one level.

We believe that our efforts, in most projects, should result in a design that is appropriate to the property, to the users, to the existing amenities, to the neighborhood and especially to the times in which we live. In order to achieve such designs, we consider opportunities to take advantage of the Owner’s goals, the site and its views and its features, light (natural and artificial), circulation (vertical and horizontal), energy efficiency (including passive solar) and other factors that we believe create dynamic, enjoyable, comfortable and responsible architecture.

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Architects: Takao Shiotsuka Atelier
Location: Japan
Client: Private
Project year: 2008
Constructed area: 237 sqm
Photographs: Toshiyuki YANO (Nacasa & Partners Inc.,)

The site faces the sea and has deep depth. And it inclines toward the sea by the vertical interval like 2M. We arranged the house in the center of the site. The plane shape of the house is wedge to spread towards the sea.

We planned the first floor as a place to enjoy a garden. The part facing the garden of the half underground is a glass window. By it, a slope of the ground just appears as form of the openings. The exterior floor covered with the white gravel. Since it is surrounded by the outside wall, outside can also be felt like the interior of a room. By place to stay and movement at that time, relations with a person and the ground surface change.

The second floor enabled it to set up a sense of distance with the sea variously in the inside of a building. The both ends of cylindrical space long in the direction of marine are glass windows. An indoor partition wall is also glass. We can look at sea side and the location of the other side at the same time from the room. Even if the sojourner is in any place, he can see or feel the sea.

The first floor that enjoys the yard, the second floor that enjoys the sea, and 2 space were divided clearly. Owner enabled it to spend the time of non-every day by going back and forth mutual space with the different feature appropriate for the cottage.

My weekly page update:

Universita Luigi Bocconi in Milan, Italy by Grafton Architects.

This week’s book review is Global Housing Projects: 25 buildings since 1980, edited by Josep Lluís Mateo & Ramias Steinemann.

Some unrelated links for your enjoyment:

Die Gläserne Kette
A new blog on architectural theory, in Spanish. (added to sidebar under blogs::architecture)

Esto
“Images of Architecture & the Built Environment.” (thanks to Damian for the head’s up; added to sidebar under architectural links::photography)

LEAP
“Landscape Environment Architecture Progress, connecting audiences.” (added to sidebar under blogs::landscape)