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Unilever Office by Camenzind Evolution

Posted: 31 Jan 2012 12:58 PM PST

Camenzind Evolution designed a new office interior for Unilever headquarters in Switzerland.

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Visit the Camenzind Evolution website – here.

Photography by Soguel Fotograf

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F-Light by Paul Coudamy

Posted: 31 Jan 2012 09:11 AM PST

French designer Paul Coudamy has sent us images of his F-Light project, a ceiling/light made of discarded Airbus windows.

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Description from the designer:

After having spent 20 years flying at 1000 km/h 10 km high above the ground, liners at the end of their life-cycle are left rusting at the far end of airport runways. These marvels of engineering with their ultra functional curves resulting from uncompromising technical research, are diverted from their original function in order to be integrated in our daily lives, thus offering them a second life.

The F-Light project is a diversion of the inner walls and windows of an Airbus 300. Its curves, windows and silvery isolation recycle the vocabulary of aeronautics to transform it into an unusual and functional light structure.

These walls are fitted together to create a « luminous ceiling » forming a shell in levitation. This dome delineates the space and offers a special intimacy beneath it. The system can be adjusted and offers unlimited variations : the panels can be put together in a row to suit the desired dimension.

The windows lighting offers circles of light which stand out against the panels and diffuse the light on the whole surface. A second indirect lighting set on the structure is reflected by the original isolating silvery material and enhances the feeling of levitation of F-Light.

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Visit Paul Coudamy’s website – here.

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Moliner House by Alberto Campo Baeza

Posted: 31 Jan 2012 02:29 AM PST

Alberto Campo Baeza designed the Moliner house in Zaragoza, Spain.

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Description from the architects:

To build a house for a poet. To make a house for dreaming, living and dying. A house in which to read, to write and to think.

We raised high walls to create a box open to the sky, like a nude, metaphysical garden, with concrete walls and floor. To create an interior world. We dug into the ground to plant leafy trees.

And floating in the center, a box filled with the translucent light of the north. Three levels were established. The highest for dreaming. The garden level for living. The deepest level for sleeping.

For dreaming, we created a cloud at the highest point. A library constructed with high walls of light diffused through large translucent glass. With northern light for reading and writing, thinking and feeling.

For living, the garden with southern light, sunlight. A space that is all garden, with transparent walls that bring together inside and outside.

And for sleeping, perhaps dying, the deepest level. The bedrooms below, as if in a cave.

Once again, the cave and the cabin.

Dreaming, living, dying. The house of the poet.

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Visit the website of Alberto Campo Baeza – here.

Photography by Javier Callejas

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