Jun Aoki

Part good neighbour and part recluse, N is a house with a split personality. The latest from Tokyo architect Jun Aoki, this two-story block adorned with a pitched roof, brick chimney and mullioned windows greets the street amiably. But the heart of the house is a cavernous, underground box completely sequestered from view. While the iconographic upstairs contains just bedrooms, the buried inner sanctum downstairs holds the combined kitchen, dining and living room.

The 63.02° apartment

63.02°, built in a densely residential area in Nakano, Tokyo, is a small building of a SOHO and an apartment for rent. The front road is really narrow, but the next apartment has a big open space between the road and the building. In order to this situation, the facade of 63.02° is inclined 63.02 degrees toward the front road, so that a wide and deep view is acquired. From the large windows that are opened on the inclined facade, you can see neighbour’s cherry tree and the cityscape.

Yael Mer’s volume

There were some interesting ideas and structures in terms of seating at IMM. Yael Mer’s Volume, which is a paper chair shell that is filled with expanding foam that reveals a unique shaped chair was one that grab our attention. Although there wasn’t a lot information about the chair, it was one of our favorites.

Yael Mer is an exciting and humanitarian designer, who is always keeping function on the forefront of all her designs. For more of her work

Florian Kräutli curtain design

young designer Florian Kräutli developed a curtain which you can shape to any form, magnets embedded in the curtain fabric allow the user to shape the curtain innumerable ways, both open and closed.

Molo design for space

Molo studio captures space with a distinctive flexible honeycomb structure to fan open into stools, benches and lounges. The geometry of the honeycomb structure allows for a modest amount of paper to take on surprisingly impressive strength.

paper soft seating structure is not intended to be disposable, or thought of for short term use – the paper in fact, gets better with age, as the surface texture of the paper edges softens with use over time into a pleasing natural patina. As the paper stools and lounges are used, the edges of the paper gently soften and crush, creating irregular facets that catch the light and form a unique organic pattern within the crisp honeycomb geometry of the structure. Although the surface of the paper softens, the stools and loungers maintain their structural integrity.

lite2go No Packaging Required

Lite2go is an all in one lighting solution where the packaging becomes the product. An energy efficient light bulb and an electric cord are included, allowing you to setup straight from the shelf to light your home.

The design is a components are either biodegradable or recyclable. No adhesives or extra packaging is utilized so the lamp is non toxic. The light bulb included with the package is a compact, fluorescent bulb that uses less energy and lasts longer than a comparable incandescent light bulb.

VilLA NM house

In the design for this single family house the sloping site is used as a device for programmatic and volumetric organization. A box-like volume bifurcates into two separate volumes; one seamlessly following the northern slope; the other lifted above the hill creating a covered parking space and generating a split-level internal organization. The volumetric transition is generated by a set of five parallel walls that rotate along a horizontal axis from vertical to horizontal. The ruled surface maintaining this transition is repeated five times in the building. From inside the huge window strips from floor to ceiling allow a fluid continuity between interior and landscape. From the exterior the reflective glass seams to become one with its surroundings.

6 positions

The „Sitscape“ is a seating zone with a length of six meters. The form transforms the usual use of a couch. The design is based on specific seating positions and smooth transformations between them. Based on the preferred relaxing positions of the client we generated six basic positions and formed a perfect fit for them in the “Sitscape”. Consequently, the “Sitscape” provides familiar possibilities for relaxing. The transitional areas between these positions are undetermined in their use.Design Page